I see these devices as an excellent thing at any large factory or plant.
Many times there's a control room to which all the data is sent. The mechanic looks at the diagnostics, on screen, and goes to the device that malfunctions. If he makes changes, he has to rely on flashing lights and broken screens. Then he has to call or go back to see what's changed, only to make some other adjustments. And so on.
With one of these or similar devices (the aquapad as presented wouldn't stand a chance in an industrial environment), he could enter the machine he's working on (or better, ID it with IR) and get the data realtime. This would save money, as there's no need to have someone answering the phone and telling the mechanic what appears on the screen, or saves time (==money) if the mechanic doesn't need to go to the control room the whole time.
This mechanism would also allow the diagnostics to evolve even further, as the data would become easily available in such an environment, making it worthwhile.
They don't check on normal transactions, only in special cases (very large/unusual transactions or account transfers).
I remember as a student that we had a bank account that was in name of the dorm. One of us, the house-elder was in charge of it. This is a pretty common construction in dorms in the Netherlands.
In our dorm we had this one guy who did the finances. He had lived in there for almost 12 years. He had paid the phone bills and the beer bills all from our account. When he moved out, we wanted to transfer the account to another dorm member. Only then we found out that the account was still under control from someone who moved out 12 years ago. In the course of the 12 years, all payments (about 40 every month) had been made with an illegal signature!
So I'm pretty sure that most signatures are never checked. <grin>
This is no joke. Make sure there's enough space in the tubing, and put sturdy strings in them. That way, you can tie a string to a new cable and insert it into the wall without hassle, in a few minutes.
Cabling needs change. A few years back, there would have been coax, now it's cat5 or optic. What's next. Who knows. Maybe wireless....
FWIW. I've yet to get any spam from joker.com
I've one domain with them, and on that domain I haven't received a single piece of spam yet.
Furthermore I haven't received any mails from joker, apart from confirmations of changes I made to my DNS.
I am not in any way affiliated with them. But the parent looks more like a commercial post to me, slandering a few large registars to draw to some small ones. Cheap promotion.
In our company, which is in rough waters at the moment, the situation is pretty tense at the moment. The result of that is that the programmers are sticking together against management. Thus, people are doing something together out of free will. There the friendships are born.
Before, everything was a lot of fun. Everybody was happy _at_ work, so there was no _need_ to do something together.
Danger, or unfavorable situations, seem to encourage friendships. You have to trust your coworkers, and thus, it seems, are much more likely to get friends.
This actually gives you a great opportunity. Someone 'recognizes' you, thus implicitly trusts you:
<possible answer>
... Please postpone it for half an hour. Someone stole my laptop, and I'm on my way to the police to report it. By the way, can I use someone's account and a computer to have the presentation e-mailed to? It was on my laptop too...
<\possible answer>
In such a way you can use the situation to gain access to their network, maybe even get a 'temporary' laptop.
Of course people don't want to do that. Because of that, many of us will start looking on the net for a good copy. Thus new peer to peer networks will gain popularity, and reach critical mass much easier than before.
Which will hurt the record companies again: people (geeks) will bother even less with buying the CD's, as they cannot play them on their devices anymore.
What do you think of the fragile core? Putting a fan on a P4 is easy, and risk free. Putting it on an Athlon takes care and you run the risk of breaking it.
In an assembly line there's no such thing as time. If it takes two or three times as long to put on a fan on the AMD CPU, with a higher risk of breaking it, the AMD cpu won't be much cheaper anymore.
I was considering buying an Athlon, but after the reports about the fragility, I'm not so sure. Both are fast, so price counts. But breaking an AMD, and having to buy a replacement, drives the price of a new computer up quite steeply.
Audio data looks random. MP3 data looks random. What's to stop someone from recording an analogue message in the high or low frequency range of a music recording, then bladeenc it to mp3 and transmit it in the clear? Still looks random.
Bad example. MP3 is lossy encryption. That means the source data is altered, to sound alike, but isn't binary identical. This goes esp in the ranges where you would typically hide a message, as these are the least audible.
For your scheme to work, it would have to be binary equal, for only a 1 bit alteration in a block would make it, and depending on the algorithm used the whole message, unreadable.
Thus, while MP3 can probably be used to hide a message, it can only work if it's added after compression, and not before.
But, during the (10 second) interval it took between when I clicked "post comment" and when the textbox finally appeared, I rethought. Provide to whom? As a gov't service they can't discriminate. Which is great for us Linux users--no more crappy DHCP/VPN-disabled junk. But pretty sucky for the administrators who have to have configs available for everything from Win98 to VMS to OS2 to BeOS.
How is that? Why can't they just put a box in your home which has a 10.x.x.x ip address, and do some nat later down the line?
Of course, there will be people whining they cannot run servers off that, or other other limitations. Those people should realize, that, as with all public services there'll be a certain service level for a certain price. If you want/need anything other, you'll have to pay for it yourself.
In that respect, one can compare it to public roads or sewers. You pay for 'em by taxes. If they're not what you want, you still have to pay. You're free to build your own besides, but you will have to pay for those as well, by yourself.
Still, most people think public roads and sewers, while not perfect, are better than dirtroads, and dumping everything in the street. YMMV.
Thus, if internet access is to become a public service, it has to be determined what the service level will be, for what price, and then we'll talk again.
... they just don't offer the service anymore. Please consider that offering the alt.binaries newsgroups costs a lot of money: it's a lot of data, which has to be stored, and there's a lot of possible legal implications, which costs a lot of money too, in the US of A.
As far as I see it, everybody is free to go to another news server, with all the binaries you could want. They're not about to block that. They just won't offer it anymore.
eg. Sybase. MS SQL server is a branch of the Sybase database server. (MSSQL6.5 is almost equal to Sybase 10.5) The codebase was developed by Sybase.They partnered with MS and starting developing it together. The day their two year agreement ran out, MS took off, leaving sybase int the cold, having legally, but unethically, copied their DB.
This is all about money. MS isn't worse than most companies. There's people in there that will step on anybody to make 'em look good.
I think redundant isn't worth it. Who cares if the same point is made by several people? It's even rude to use it. I do not believe that so called redundant posts are done deliberately, 99% of the time. They're on topic, and someone just didn't see another comment already made (or even being made while he/she was browsing).
Accordingly, I always metamod redundant as unjust.
I mean the Turing definition: something is intelligent when another intelligent being (i.e. a human) cannot tell if it's a machine he's communicating with, or another human
I wonder what will happen if you let one of these entries loose on slashdot? Would you get intelligent posts, or intelligent trolls? Imagine such a program accumulating more karma than Jon Katz. That would be a boost:)
But seriously. How can one consider this contest artificial intelligence? It's not like the entries have to be intelligent. They just have to be logical and well designed, and good at pattern recognition.
Look at chess as an example. This is like having a chess computer that has to learn the rules. Compared to playing chess (which is computable), learning the moves is relatively easy.
I'm going to be very arrogant here: I'm one of those programmers who can pull his own weight, and several of my coworkers', technologically. And I know several other people who are too. I'm talking about my personal experience here, but I think it goes for the majority of skilled IT personnel
Any of us likes a good salary. I sure don't want to be paid less than any of my coworkers, esp. those with less skills than me. I expect to be paid fairly, yet that is not my main reason do the work that I do. I can already live from what I make.
The secret is that I like my job. I like computers, and I like technology in general. I'm good at programming, because I find it enjoyable, and thus am more motivated. I easily learn new techniques when they interest me, or enable me to create things (software or other). Not because it gets me paid.
If you want to offer me a job, better make sure the job is great, and have guarantees. I've had job offers that promised me 4 times what I make now, and not all of those were from flimsy dotcoms. I don't switch jobs for money, I switch jobs when I'm bored, and then I go looking for an interesting job.
I cannot think of a way to do that, legally. It would be equivalent to declaring a hammer a tool to break into your house. You can, of course, use the hammer to break into it, but that is not what is was made for or what it was for.
The same goes for cdparanoia. It's used for extracting music tracks of cds. It's useful for rescueing damaged cds by making a copy of them, which is legal. If the copy protection can be circumvented by this tool, then they have to prove the tool was made to be a circumvention device. As the tool existed before the protection existed, they will have a hard time doing so.
If, still they succeed, the beast will be loose. What will there be to prevent other software being from accused of being circumvention devices (eg linux or windows)? It's easy enough to think of applications for which that is true.
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I see these devices as an excellent thing at any large factory or plant.
Many times there's a control room to which all the data is sent. The mechanic looks at the diagnostics, on screen, and goes to the device that malfunctions. If he makes changes, he has to rely on flashing lights and broken screens. Then he has to call or go back to see what's changed, only to make some other adjustments. And so on.
With one of these or similar devices (the aquapad as presented wouldn't stand a chance in an industrial environment), he could enter the machine he's working on (or better, ID it with IR) and get the data realtime. This would save money, as there's no need to have someone answering the phone and telling the mechanic what appears on the screen, or saves time (==money) if the mechanic doesn't need to go to the control room the whole time.
This mechanism would also allow the diagnostics to evolve even further, as the data would become easily available in such an environment, making it worthwhile.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term 'power user'. Lame again, I admit
They don't check on normal transactions, only in special cases (very large/unusual transactions or account transfers).
I remember as a student that we had a bank account that was in name of the dorm. One of us, the house-elder was in charge of it. This is a pretty common construction in dorms in the Netherlands.
In our dorm we had this one guy who did the finances. He had lived in there for almost 12 years. He had paid the phone bills and the beer bills all from our account. When he moved out, we wanted to transfer the account to another dorm member. Only then we found out that the account was still under control from someone who moved out 12 years ago. In the course of the 12 years, all payments (about 40 every month) had been made with an illegal signature!
So I'm pretty sure that most signatures are never checked. <grin>
... is this BBC article from over a year ago about the same.
My submission about it was rejected 2001/01/16. Geesh. News.
But it is really bad for FreeBSD Mall as they are now slashdotted. With only 20 comments yet
it didn't take 3 years. It was already discussed here
This is no joke. Make sure there's enough space in the tubing, and put sturdy strings in them. That way, you can tie a string to a new cable and insert it into the wall without hassle, in a few minutes.
Cabling needs change. A few years back, there would have been coax, now it's cat5 or optic. What's next. Who knows. Maybe wireless....
FWIW. I've yet to get any spam from joker.com
I've one domain with them, and on that domain I haven't received a single piece of spam yet.
Furthermore I haven't received any mails from joker, apart from confirmations of changes I made to my DNS.
I am not in any way affiliated with them. But the parent looks more like a commercial post to me, slandering a few large registars to draw to some small ones. Cheap promotion.
Some thoughts that struck me:
In our company, which is in rough waters at the moment, the situation is pretty tense at the moment. The result of that is that the programmers are sticking together against management. Thus, people are doing something together out of free will. There the friendships are born.
Before, everything was a lot of fun. Everybody was happy _at_ work, so there was no _need_ to do something together.
Danger, or unfavorable situations, seem to encourage friendships. You have to trust your coworkers, and thus, it seems, are much more likely to get friends.
The company's url is:
http://www.eink.com
This actually gives you a great opportunity. Someone 'recognizes' you, thus implicitly trusts you:
<possible answer>
... Please postpone it for half an hour. Someone stole my laptop, and I'm on my way to the police to report it. By the way, can I use someone's account and a computer to have the presentation e-mailed to? It was on my laptop too...
<\possible answer>
In such a way you can use the situation to gain access to their network, maybe even get a 'temporary' laptop.
Better get paranoid!
Of course people don't want to do that. Because of that, many of us will start looking on the net for a good copy. Thus new peer to peer networks will gain popularity, and reach critical mass much easier than before.
Which will hurt the record companies again: people (geeks) will bother even less with buying the CD's, as they cannot play them on their devices anymore.
What do you think of the fragile core? Putting a fan on a P4 is easy, and risk free. Putting it on an Athlon takes care and you run the risk of breaking it.
In an assembly line there's no such thing as time. If it takes two or three times as long to put on a fan on the AMD CPU, with a higher risk of breaking it, the AMD cpu won't be much cheaper anymore.
I was considering buying an Athlon, but after the reports about the fragility, I'm not so sure. Both are fast, so price counts. But breaking an AMD, and having to buy a replacement, drives the price of a new computer up quite steeply.
Audio data looks random. MP3 data looks random. What's to stop someone from recording an analogue message in the high or low frequency range of a music recording, then bladeenc it to mp3 and transmit it in the clear? Still looks random.
Bad example. MP3 is lossy encryption. That means the source data is altered, to sound alike, but isn't binary identical. This goes esp in the ranges where you would typically hide a message, as these are the least audible.
For your scheme to work, it would have to be binary equal, for only a 1 bit alteration in a block would make it, and depending on the algorithm used the whole message, unreadable.
Thus, while MP3 can probably be used to hide a message, it can only work if it's added after compression, and not before.
But, during the (10 second) interval it took between when I clicked "post comment" and when the textbox finally appeared, I rethought. Provide to whom? As a gov't service they can't discriminate. Which is great for us Linux users--no more crappy DHCP/VPN-disabled junk. But pretty sucky for the administrators who have to have configs available for everything from Win98 to VMS to OS2 to BeOS.
How is that? Why can't they just put a box in your home which has a 10.x.x.x ip address, and do some nat later down the line?
Of course, there will be people whining they cannot run servers off that, or other other limitations. Those people should realize, that, as with all public services there'll be a certain service level for a certain price. If you want/need anything other, you'll have to pay for it yourself.
In that respect, one can compare it to public roads or sewers. You pay for 'em by taxes. If they're not what you want, you still have to pay. You're free to build your own besides, but you will have to pay for those as well, by yourself.
Still, most people think public roads and sewers, while not perfect, are better than dirtroads, and dumping everything in the street. YMMV.
Thus, if internet access is to become a public service, it has to be determined what the service level will be, for what price, and then we'll talk again.
... they just don't offer the service anymore. Please consider that offering the alt.binaries newsgroups costs a lot of money: it's a lot of data, which has to be stored, and there's a lot of possible legal implications, which costs a lot of money too, in the US of A.
As far as I see it, everybody is free to go to another news server, with all the binaries you could want. They're not about to block that. They just won't offer it anymore.
eg. Sybase. MS SQL server is a branch of the Sybase database server. (MSSQL6.5 is almost equal to Sybase 10.5) The codebase was developed by Sybase .They partnered with MS and starting developing it together. The day their two year agreement ran out, MS took off, leaving sybase int the cold, having legally, but unethically, copied their DB.
This is all about money. MS isn't worse than most companies. There's people in there that will step on anybody to make 'em look good.
I think redundant isn't worth it. Who cares if the same point is made by several people? It's even rude to use it. I do not believe that so called redundant posts are done deliberately, 99% of the time. They're on topic, and someone just didn't see another comment already made (or even being made while he/she was browsing).
Accordingly, I always metamod redundant as unjust.
I mean the Turing definition: something is intelligent when another intelligent being (i.e. a human) cannot tell if it's a machine he's communicating with, or another human
I wonder what will happen if you let one of these entries loose on slashdot? Would you get intelligent posts, or intelligent trolls? Imagine such a program accumulating more karma than Jon Katz. That would be a boost :)
But seriously. How can one consider this contest artificial intelligence? It's not like the entries have to be intelligent. They just have to be logical and well designed, and good at pattern recognition.
Look at chess as an example. This is like having a chess computer that has to learn the rules. Compared to playing chess (which is computable), learning the moves is relatively easy.
I'm going to be very arrogant here: I'm one of those programmers who can pull his own weight, and several of my coworkers', technologically. And I know several other people who are too. I'm talking about my personal experience here, but I think it goes for the majority of skilled IT personnel
Any of us likes a good salary. I sure don't want to be paid less than any of my coworkers, esp. those with less skills than me. I expect to be paid fairly, yet that is not my main reason do the work that I do. I can already live from what I make.
The secret is that I like my job. I like computers, and I like technology in general. I'm good at programming, because I find it enjoyable, and thus am more motivated. I easily learn new techniques when they interest me, or enable me to create things (software or other). Not because it gets me paid.
If you want to offer me a job, better make sure the job is great, and have guarantees. I've had job offers that promised me 4 times what I make now, and not all of those were from flimsy dotcoms. I don't switch jobs for money, I switch jobs when I'm bored, and then I go looking for an interesting job.
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If I had any modpoints, I would mod you into oblivion. How dare you call the CBM64 unpopular!
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$3 /GB. I wonder when we'll start to measure the cost per TB. That would be $3000 /TB (roughly)
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I cannot think of a way to do that, legally. It would be equivalent to declaring a hammer a tool to break into your house. You can, of course, use the hammer to break into it, but that is not what is was made for or what it was for.
The same goes for cdparanoia. It's used for extracting music tracks of cds. It's useful for rescueing damaged cds by making a copy of them, which is legal. If the copy protection can be circumvented by this tool, then they have to prove the tool was made to be a circumvention device. As the tool existed before the protection existed, they will have a hard time doing so.
If, still they succeed, the beast will be loose. What will there be to prevent other software being from accused of being circumvention devices (eg linux or windows)? It's easy enough to think of applications for which that is true.
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... will they use GPL?
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