Will there be a point where corporate sponsorship hangs an ad in space?
This reminds me of a 'work of art' that the ESA (European Space Agency) was said to want to put in space some time a go.
A set of really thin mirrors, and equally thin interconnecting wires was to be created which would unfold as this huge structure in space. It was going to look like the thirteen star ring of the Europeanc community, like the one that can be seen on some bumper stickers. It was going to be large enough so that it could clearly be recognized from anywhere on earth in the nighttime with the naked eye.
The project ended being cancelled because it was too controversial. Problems ranging from the setting a possible bad precedent (do we want the sky cluttered with 'art' and advertisements?), to what it would mean to the followers of certain religions led to the demise of the project.
Although it was cancelled, this project proved that putting 'art' or advertisements in space would be not only economically feasible, but as a matter of fact, relatively cheap, as the 'art' would take only a fraction of the payload of a modern rocket.
IMO with a cost of a few million, some crazy millionaire or corporation is bound to try something similar sooner or later. But, I think they will be quite unpopular; the last thing I personally want to see when I look up at the sky is something man made. Much less something that is close to being omnipresent.
This kind of research sounds like a waste of time -- given how fast conventional processors are accelerating (Moore's Law and all), do we even need molecular computing?
Well of course we do. As things get smaller and smaller it's going to get to individual atoms and molecules anyways.
Even if the current silicone transistor technology, can be scaled much further down. It will still take up a lot more molecules than this (possibly in the millions), simply because it's a technology that is not design to work with individual molecules.
You set your app to bind to the 127.x.x.x addresses only. That way the app is only accessible from the local machine.
To specify this should be easy. If it's not it might be a good area for gnome improvement. Since even behind firewalls this could be used for stupid pranks, as well as privacy violations.
This is really great news. I've used postgresql own and of for the past few years. I've found it really intuitive to use, and configure. It's also got it's own array of assorted public domain utilities, so that you can graphically manage your databases, or whatever.
I'm really glad to hear that it has performed so well in terms of performance, and the handling of large amounts of data. As that would have been my only concern about recommending it for a large project.
As somebody who has got to work with large databases on a daily basis, I look forward to implement the next one's using postgress.
It's not even just the fact that it's free, or the fact that it is faster. But just think of all the head aches I'll save. Configuration of Oracle is a big pain. Even doing a simple backup is a complex procedure. To maintain an Oracle DBMS you need proactically need a degree just on that.
Opposed to that Postgresql's setup is simple and straight forward. As well as backups which are easily done in a text format, instead of Oracle's binary.
With this announcement I feel confident that Oracle and it's sleazy Larry Ellison have now reached their peak.
And we'll all be able to look forward to a new golden age of humanity where databases are fast, efficient, and not needlessly complex to use.
Because this is a horrenduous abuse of the system on the part of large corporations.
Before we had a situation where at least everyone could claim ownership of their own work.
While it is arguable whether any copyright laws should exist at all, what these companies are doing taking the old copyright where at least people could claim ownership for their own work if they wanted to and subvert it into a system where only big corporations have rights but not individuals.
In other words they do want to take freedom of information for themselves, but not for the 'little people' like us.
This is really exciting. I wish I could get involved, but I don't have a degree in molecular stuff.
I wonder what kind of equipment you need to do this stuff. Not too long, I perused through an article that talked about how to do dna something or other in your kitchen.
When will we be at the point when we can start hacking this stuff, be it in the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, or office?
simply prevent transferring any file with a valid MP3 header
That doesn't sound like a sensible solution. There's little correlation between the file type and any restrictions on it's distribution or use. Word for windows might not distributed an MP3. It'd sound horrible. Some music I composed might not have any restrictions whatsoever?
What Napster really is just a useful utility and a directory. The utility can be easily replaced (freenet, gnutella, ftp,webserver, usw), as well as the directory (a simple cgi script will do).
The real monster is not even the internet, if they stopped it something else would replace it. The real monster here is technology. Try and stop it.
I ran this same thing about 20 times and got nothing but <pre> Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b </pre>
Both against the url above, and www.hotmail.com directly. Maybe they took NT out of load balancing already? Or maybe they're using it for some specific functions such as serving part of the static content?
BTW, Americans who try to repel an attack or a robbery using a gun are more likely to wind up dead than those who don't. This is a fact. Check your own government's statistics if you don't believe it.
From the information that I have read in the past, robbers fear people who have guns at home, and it acts as a deterrent. Of course, robbers don't know in advance who has a gun, but as a result they'll tend to avoid the entire robbing residential homes crime segment. Unless they're suicidal or want some extra adrenalin, I suppose..
In all three of the directories mentioned in the article.
I haven't spent any amount of effort in trying to hide myself. I wonder how they put this data together. They're not checking phones, since I've got a whole three of them. They're not checking emails of web registrations. They're not checking property ownership records, because I do own a home.
I think I used to be able to find myself when I used switchboard.com, and get lots of really ancient addresses, phones and email addresses, going all the way back to '91. But it looks like I've been deleted from there!
I think I probably ought to be happy about this. But it still makes me wonder how they try to fill those databases up.
What does it matter whether the skill is technical or not? What does it matter if it takes any skill? Would you care to enlighten me?
Also wemen do have it hard in managment. Some people ignore female managers based on gender alone. Some think female managers have addatude problems . Some people ignore all managment so men get this almost as much as wemen. But when get more of it.
Good Grammar, and spelling.
As you might notice the people doing the picking ARE programmers an IT workers. And it's just a general addatude that has been around for a VERY long time.
We're doing the picking? What kind of drugs are you taking?
Remember regardless of what your friends tell you: LSD and cocaine do permanent brain damage
None of the stuff this guy's mentioning could possibly related to there not being enough women innto computers.
Why? Because if a woman in CS had to put up with fetching coffee, then so would the women who are in marketing, in customer care, in admin areas. Areas which are dominated primarily by women. In the computer industry people working in those areas will work side-by-side and interact frequently. A woman that'd doing programming would get at least the same treatment.
If I compare the geeks doing programing and IT work with the fellows in marketing or management it becomes quite clear that women in those areas would not have an easy time as far as social interactions go. In spite of this the percentage of women doing marketing, and management is higher than those doing IT.
So what is this about? Why are you picking on us, programmers and IT workers?
xmlterm - The most advanced gui available? Allows you to switch from gui mode to cli mode within the same window without having to use the mouse. Pretty amazing.
Script Editor - Another example of mozilla put to good use.
I think this is really great and I'm glad to see something that gives me hope that nanotech might start to mature during our lifetimes.
After reading the article, though, I think there's still a long way to go before crying that we have a cure for cancer or aging...
Why? Because while the article does a lot of explainning about what these nanobots can do, which is pretty impressive, a few important problems are practically neglected any mention in the article.
First, how are the nanobots controlled? If it's not by a computer program then they can't be called 'bots just yet. In fact it seems from the article that they actually have to have little wires to each of these nanobots in order to control them.
The next question is how are they powered. If there is no convinient way to power them, all this means is more wires. With all these wires I imagine it must be quite a complex setup for just one nanite.
The good thing about this, though, is that in order to make truly useful truly smart nanites, small robotic hands are an important step in the right direction.
They don't exactly explain what the novelty about finding water in a meteorite is. Meteorites are simply matter from outer space that fall to earth and can be commets, which are mostly made out of ice. I believe this has been determined a very long time ago.
It's possible that by meteorite they're actually talking about asteroids, which are usually made out of rock. But still finding water in some object from outer space doesn't seem to be nearly as much of a novelty as the article would have you believe.
Jon Katz! Quoting him: But for film-lovers who might appreciate the opportunity to ponder just how bad a movie can be, it's actually worth a trip. You will leave the theater with lots to talk about, I promise, and a pleasant feeling of superiority. I've seen a lot of films lately, and usually, they end up making me feel sad or angry. Now this film actually allows you to leave with a pleasant feeling of superiority. That's something. I gotta see this one.
I read thorugh through the license. It has very few restrictions, and no revocation clause. The only thing that's unusual is that one is required to provide bell labs with changes, but only at their request.
Plan9 is the successor to UNIX. It uses a different paradigm, as far as processes and user spaces go, so now that it's available to everyone it should have a positive effect on the rest of the os community.
Maybe it's some clever sort of scheme to transmit messages from the future into the past, allowing people today to send messages into the 1950's.
Here's how it would work:
1) We take advantage of the 'observer' effect
2) A laser beam is split into two using a piece of glass, and displayed on a screen so that an interference pattern can be seen depending on whether the photons passing through were observed.
3) We use a machine to record and store information about each photon that went through the machine. This part is stored away and not looked at for now.
4) The message is received as Morse code on the screen, . are interference (not observed), and - are no interference pattern (observed).
5) Now the tricky part, sending the messages, after they have been received. This can't be done by the receiver himself since he could send himself a different message back than the one he received, so this must be done by a reliable third party who can't be allowed to know that the original message was received.
So we split up the task into two. The 'sender' who encodes the message and some person to look at the data stored in step #3. Based on the numbers transmitted the data that has been stored is taken a look at or discarded. Which completes the transmission of the message
Note: Of course I don't know if this is what these number stations are about, or if I've invented something new. In case of the later this procedure is patent pending, and will be distributed under an open source license, that will allow free use, in turn for broadcasting to me next week's stock prices and loterry numbers on e week in advance.
Something like freeBSD Jail(8). It's customizable, and as secure as you want it to be. I'm sure that you can use it or something similar to create 'jails' on the fly.
I don't think a security model based on the perl language would do for the following reasons:
* There's functionality being added into the interpreter all the time (a potential for new security holes)
* It's big and complicated, unlike a simple tcl or lisp interpreter, perl has got a lot of stuff, all of which you'd have to audit in order for it to be secure.
* Therefore if you want to make a security model for perl, you'd have to dissect the language, and add all sorts of checks right into it, slowing it down, which is not what you want.
* Or you could remove all the 'unsecure' functionality from the perl library, which would take a lot of work, and then you'd have a pretty secure but inflexible result.
Slashdot Mirror
This reminds me of a 'work of art' that the ESA (European Space Agency) was said to want to put in space some time a go.
A set of really thin mirrors, and equally thin interconnecting wires was to be created which would unfold as this huge structure in space. It was going to look like the thirteen star ring of the Europeanc community, like the one that can be seen on some bumper stickers. It was going to be large enough so that it could clearly be recognized from anywhere on earth in the nighttime with the naked eye.
The project ended being cancelled because it was too controversial. Problems ranging from the setting a possible bad precedent (do we want the sky cluttered with 'art' and advertisements?), to what it would mean to the followers of certain religions led to the demise of the project.
Although it was cancelled, this project proved that putting 'art' or advertisements in space would be not only economically feasible, but as a matter of fact, relatively cheap, as the 'art' would take only a fraction of the payload of a modern rocket.
IMO with a cost of a few million, some crazy millionaire or corporation is bound to try something similar sooner or later. But, I think they will be quite unpopular; the last thing I personally want to see when I look up at the sky is something man made. Much less something that is close to being omnipresent.
This kind of research sounds like a waste of time -- given how fast conventional processors are accelerating (Moore's Law and all), do we even need molecular computing?
Well of course we do. As things get smaller and smaller it's going to get to individual atoms and molecules anyways.
Even if the current silicone transistor technology, can be scaled much further down. It will still take up a lot more molecules than this (possibly in the millions), simply because it's a technology that is not design to work with individual molecules.
You set your app to bind to the 127.x.x.x addresses only. That way the app is only accessible from the local machine.
To specify this should be easy. If it's not it might be a good area for gnome improvement. Since even behind firewalls this could be used for stupid pranks, as well as privacy violations.
--fred
This is really great news. I've used postgresql own and of for the past few years. I've found it really intuitive to use, and configure. It's also got it's own array of assorted public domain utilities, so that you can graphically manage your databases, or whatever.
I'm really glad to hear that it has performed so well in terms of performance, and the handling of large amounts of data. As that would have been my only concern about recommending it for a large project.
As somebody who has got to work with large databases on a daily basis, I look forward to implement the next one's using postgress.
It's not even just the fact that it's free, or the fact that it is faster. But just think of all the head aches I'll save. Configuration of Oracle is a big pain. Even doing a simple backup is a complex procedure. To maintain an Oracle DBMS you need proactically need a degree just on that.
Opposed to that Postgresql's setup is simple and straight forward. As well as backups which are easily done in a text format, instead of Oracle's binary.
With this announcement I feel confident that Oracle and it's sleazy Larry Ellison have now reached their peak.
And we'll all be able to look forward to a new golden age of humanity where databases are fast, efficient, and not needlessly complex to use.
Because this is a horrenduous abuse of the system on the part of large corporations.
Before we had a situation where at least everyone could claim ownership of their own work.
While it is arguable whether any copyright laws should exist at all, what these companies are doing taking the old copyright where at least people could claim ownership for their own work if they wanted to and subvert it into a system where only big corporations have rights but not individuals.
In other words they do want to take freedom of information for themselves, but not for the 'little people' like us.
This is really exciting. I wish I could get involved, but I don't have a degree in molecular stuff.
I wonder what kind of equipment you need to do this stuff. Not too long, I perused through an article that talked about how to do dna something or other in your kitchen.
When will we be at the point when we can start hacking this stuff, be it in the kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, or office?
--fred
Then it wouldn't be harder to hack... than nt.
See attrition.org statistics
That doesn't sound like a sensible solution. There's little correlation between the file type and any restrictions on it's distribution or use. Word for windows might not distributed an MP3. It'd sound horrible. Some music I composed might not have any restrictions whatsoever?
What Napster really is just a useful utility and a directory. The utility can be easily replaced (freenet, gnutella, ftp,webserver, usw), as well as the directory (a simple cgi script will do).
The real monster is not even the internet, if they stopped it something else would replace it. The real monster here is technology. Try and stop it.
I ran this same thing about 20 times and got nothing but
<pre>
Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.8 SSLeay/0.9.0b
</pre>
Both against the url above, and www.hotmail.com directly. Maybe they took NT out of load balancing already? Or maybe they're using it for some specific functions such as serving part of the static content?
Maybe the
From the information that I have read in the past, robbers fear people who have guns at home, and it acts as a deterrent. Of course, robbers don't know in advance who has a gun, but as a result they'll tend to avoid the entire robbing residential homes crime segment. Unless they're suicidal or want some extra adrenalin, I suppose..
In all three of the directories mentioned in the article.
I haven't spent any amount of effort in trying to hide myself. I wonder how they put this data together. They're not checking phones, since I've got a whole three of them. They're not checking emails of web registrations. They're not checking property ownership records, because I do own a home.
I think I used to be able to find myself when I used switchboard.com, and get lots of really ancient addresses, phones and email addresses, going all the way back to '91. But it looks like I've been deleted from there!
I think I probably ought to be happy about this. But it still makes me wonder how they try to fill those databases up.
The areas you mentioned are not looked on as technical.
Programming requires technical skill marketting dose not.
SysAdm requires technical skill administration dose not.
What does it matter whether the skill is technical or not? What does it matter if it takes any skill? Would you care to enlighten me?
Also wemen do have it hard in managment.
Some people ignore female managers based on gender alone. Some think female managers have addatude problems . Some people ignore all managment so men get this almost as much as wemen. But when get more of it.
Good Grammar, and spelling.
As you might notice the people doing the picking ARE programmers an IT workers.
And it's just a general addatude that has been around for a VERY long time.
We're doing the picking? What kind of drugs are you taking?
Remember regardless of what your friends tell you: LSD and cocaine do permanent brain damage
By using,
Username: woof23b
Password: abc123
None of the stuff this guy's mentioning could possibly related to there not being enough women innto computers.
Why? Because if a woman in CS had to put up with fetching coffee, then so would the women who are in marketing, in customer care, in admin areas. Areas which are dominated primarily by women. In the computer industry people working in those areas will work side-by-side and interact frequently. A woman that'd doing programming would get at least the same treatment.
If I compare the geeks doing programing and IT work with the fellows in marketing or management it becomes quite clear that women in those areas would not have an easy time as far as social interactions go. In spite of this the percentage of women doing marketing, and management is higher than those doing IT.
So what is this about? Why are you picking on us, programmers and IT workers?
xmlterm - The most advanced gui available? Allows you to switch from gui mode to cli mode within the same window without having to use the mouse. Pretty amazing.
Script Editor
- Another example of mozilla put to good use.
I think this is really great and I'm glad to see something that gives me hope that nanotech might start to mature during our lifetimes.
After reading the article, though, I think there's still a long way to go before crying that we have a cure for cancer or aging...
Why? Because while the article does a lot of explainning about what these nanobots can do, which is pretty impressive, a few important problems are practically neglected any mention in the article.
First, how are the nanobots controlled? If it's not by a computer program then they can't be called 'bots just yet. In fact it seems from the article that they actually have to have little wires to each of these nanobots in order to control them.
The next question is how are they powered. If there is no convinient way to power them, all this means is more wires. With all these wires I imagine it must be quite a complex setup for just one nanite.
The good thing about this, though, is that in order to make truly useful truly smart nanites, small robotic hands are an important step in the right direction.
They don't exactly explain what the novelty about finding water in a meteorite is. Meteorites are simply matter from outer space that fall to earth and can be commets, which are mostly made out of ice. I believe this has been determined a very long time ago.
It's possible that by meteorite they're actually talking about asteroids, which are usually made out of rock. But still finding water in some object from outer space doesn't seem to be nearly as much of a novelty as the article would have you believe.
Jon Katz!
Quoting him: But for film-lovers who might appreciate the opportunity to ponder just how bad a movie can be, it's actually worth a trip. You will leave the theater with lots to talk about, I promise, and a pleasant feeling of superiority.
I've seen a lot of films lately, and usually, they end up making me feel sad or angry. Now this film actually allows you to leave with a pleasant feeling of superiority. That's something. I gotta see this one.
I read thorugh through the license. It has very few restrictions, and no revocation clause. The only thing that's unusual is that one is required to provide bell labs with changes, but only at their request.
Plan9 is the successor to UNIX. It uses a different paradigm, as far as processes and user spaces go, so now that it's available to everyone it should have a positive effect on the rest of the os community.
It seems kind of interesting that they want a picture of your credit card.
Maybe they'll just print it out and replicate it somewhere else. Then they can go on shopping spree!
The moderators must know very little about anime to moderate this high up. All this guy's mentionning is second-rate animation.
There's much better, higher quality anime. Some recommendations:
* Macross Plus - Possibly the most exciting movie I've ever seen. Great story line, and animation
* Ghost in the Shell - Probably like this if you liked the matrix
* Armitage III - Has a cute main character
I wonder if it can play that weird vcd format that
is popular in some foregin countries.
Maybe it's some clever sort of scheme to transmit messages from the future into the past, allowing people today to send messages into the 1950's.
Here's how it would work:
1) We take advantage of the 'observer' effect
2) A laser beam is split into two using a piece of glass, and displayed on a screen so that an interference pattern can be seen depending on whether the photons passing through were observed.
3) We use a machine to record and store information about each photon that went through the machine. This part is stored away and not looked at for now.
4) The message is received as Morse code on the screen, . are interference (not observed), and - are no interference pattern (observed).
5) Now the tricky part, sending the messages, after they have been received. This can't be done by the receiver himself since he could send himself a different message back than the one he received, so this must be done by a reliable third party who can't be allowed to know that the original message was received.
So we split up the task into two. The 'sender' who encodes the message and some person to look at the data stored in step #3. Based on the numbers transmitted the data that has been stored is taken a look at or discarded. Which completes the transmission of the message
Note: Of course I don't know if this is what these number stations are about, or if I've invented something new. In case of the later this procedure is patent pending, and will be distributed under an open source license, that will allow free use, in turn for broadcasting to me next week's stock prices and loterry numbers on e week in advance.
(C) Fred 2000
That way they can learn proper programming from the beginnning...
Something like freeBSD Jail(8). It's customizable, and as secure as you want it to be. I'm sure that you can use it or something similar to create 'jails' on the fly.
I don't think a security model based on the perl language would do for the following reasons:
* There's functionality being added into the interpreter all the time (a potential for new security holes)
* It's big and complicated, unlike a simple tcl or lisp interpreter, perl has got a lot of stuff, all of which you'd have to audit in order for it to be secure.
* Therefore if you want to make a security model for perl, you'd have to dissect the language, and add all sorts of checks right into it, slowing it down, which is not what you want.
* Or you could remove all the 'unsecure' functionality from the perl library, which would take a lot of work, and then you'd have a pretty secure but inflexible result.