Orwellian scheme? Employees have almost always been tracked throughout modern history. Since the early days of the industrial revolution employees have had to punch in and out at a time clock.
There is evidence that time clocks were used to track employees as long ago as the stone ages. I see Fred Flintstone punch in late all the time on TV and Mr. Slate gives him the business for it too.
You are pretty loosey goosey with your use of terms such as monopoly and bait-and-switch. I don't want to waste my breath explaining to you what a monopoly is, but I will quickly tell you that large market share does not a monopoly make. And where is the bait-and-switch? I'm getting 100% of what Comcast promised me when I signed up for their service.
Quite frankly, you sound like a bitter anti-capitalist to me. I'll bet you use your Comcast service to steal music and warez. You thief!
Re:Faster startup times? Whatever...
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MRAM in 2004?
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You are missing an important point. Right now if my Palm loses battery power the unit will lose all of my data after a short period of time. Of course the palm is backed up on the PC, but if I'm on the road this is a big problem.. With MRAM no power is necessary for the chip to retain its data. This is a big deal for Palms and for cell phones, PCs, etc.
Although this diagram shows an extended network outage in the Philadelphia area, I do not recall any network outages in or near Philadelphia. I have clients all around the 5 counties of southeastern Pennsylvania and none of them reported an outage.
I'm happy to see that it glides. But looking at the design I have to wonder how it could possibly handle the heat and stresses of atmospheric re-entry.
DuPont Titanium Technologies is the largest producer of titanium dioxide. There's a wealth of information on its many uses at http://www.titanium.dupont.com.
They even mention Nano-titanium dioxide (Nano-TiO2)
Are you suggtesting purposely trying to take down the offending site? Who do you think you are, Orrin Hatch?
Smart Dust application to save future flights
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I just thought of a useful application for
Smart Dust self-organizing sensor networks with respect to the shuttle.
Since no sensors can survive the heat on the exterior of the shuttle during
re-entry, perhaps applying these disposable sensors on the underside of the
shuttle would serve a useful function. During take-off these sensors would
send data to the shuttle and give a perfect map of the heat tiles damaged.
This data could be sent back to ground control in real time where instant
computer analysis could determine if the mission should be aborted before the
shuttle passes the point of no return. It is clear that there is nothing
the Columbia could have done once reaching space. It is necessary to know
the tile damage before orbit is achieved.
I guess this link answers part of my question. It appears this receiver works in a wide enough range to pick up any analog cell phone or cordless phone signal and listen in. Am I reading this correctly?
When I was in college my fraternity had an antenna on the roof of the house connected to a receiver that let us listen in on analog cell phone and cordles phone conversations around campus and around town.
It is my understanding the the FCC prohibits the sale of devices (in the US) that pick up the frequencies needed to do this anymore.
Will this device tune into these prohibited frequencies? I admit I don't know the first thing about what things transmit on various frequencies. At the time we had a big frequency catalog that told us what channels to tune into to listen to cell phones, Air Force One, cordless phones, and many other interesting things.
My wife works for DuPont. This is their press release which gives information about where it will be aired:
Rough Science - DuPont will be the corporate sponsor of the BBC production "Rough Science" in which 5 scientists on a remote island are challenged to solve science problems through their collective wits, scavenged items and the natural resources of their surroundings. The program will air on PBS stations in many of the top markets including LA, NYC, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas & Washington D.C. Air dates and times vary by market. Major funding for the program is provided by the National Science Foundation. DuPont is the only corporate sponsor and our 15 second messages will appear at the beginning and close of each segment.
John C. Dvorak had an article on this topic in the latest PC Magazine. He argues that it makes sense for companies like MS to support UGs and that companies that do not support UGs do so at their peril.
This is a good read for those criticizing MS for supporting UGs.
We've had these animated ads in the Philadelphia subway since the beginning of the summer. It works really well. It's like watching a TV commercial out your window as the train rolls by. It's one of the oldest moving picture technologies used in a new way.
Slashdot Mirror
Non-the-less, from the end users' point of view, content is free.
I have no idea why that link fails to work. I must be new. It is here:
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http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/23/1437247.s
You are missing the point. We are not talking about free access to the the Internet, we are talking about free content.
Broadcast TV content is free and funded by advertisement revenue. I still have to pay for the TV set and the electricity.
Replay TV got sued and scared into abandoning some neat features including commercial advance (on upcoming models). See previous /. article on this:m l?tid=99
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/23/1437247.sht
How long will it be before the lawyers think of a way to sue web ad blockers like Symantec (regardless of whether they have a legal leg to stand on).
In Soviet Russia, water evaperates you!
As opposed to, say, going into Barnes & Nobel and drinking coffee while reading the whole thing free?
Oh dear. If you do not keep your mouth shut we may soon find all the books at Barnes & Noble shrink rapped.
Orwellian scheme? Employees have almost always been tracked throughout modern history. Since the early days of the industrial revolution employees have had to punch in and out at a time clock.
There is evidence that time clocks were used to track employees as long ago as the stone ages. I see Fred Flintstone punch in late all the time on TV and Mr. Slate gives him the business for it too.
There's no need to implant everyone to track them. There are a number of ways that will be technologically feasable in the very near future.
As any dog knows every human has a ubique scent. You could be tracked in public places base on sniffing devices.
Or you could be tracked by scanning lasers posted at every street corner that reads your retina.
Or there could be little vacuums that collect the cells that fall from your body and analyzes them on the fly as you walk.
Some day these and other unimaginable ways to track us will be possible and they will be used.
Mark my post as Redundant, but my bullshit detector is going off too.
You are pretty loosey goosey with your use of terms such as monopoly and bait-and-switch. I don't want to waste my breath explaining to you what a monopoly is, but I will quickly tell you that large market share does not a monopoly make. And where is the bait-and-switch? I'm getting 100% of what Comcast promised me when I signed up for their service.
Quite frankly, you sound like a bitter anti-capitalist to me. I'll bet you use your Comcast service to steal music and warez. You thief!
You are missing an important point. Right now if my Palm loses battery power the unit will lose all of my data after a short period of time. Of course the palm is backed up on the PC, but if I'm on the road this is a big problem.. With MRAM no power is necessary for the chip to retain its data. This is a big deal for Palms and for cell phones, PCs, etc.
Although this diagram shows an extended network outage in the Philadelphia area, I do not recall any network outages in or near Philadelphia. I have clients all around the 5 counties of southeastern Pennsylvania and none of them reported an outage.
You must be in the Sharon Stone chapter of Mensa.
I'm happy to see that it glides. But looking at the design I have to wonder how it could possibly handle the heat and stresses of atmospheric re-entry.
... and the white middle of an Oreo cookie as well as the white "M" on your M&Ms.
DuPont Titanium Technologies is the largest producer of titanium dioxide. There's a wealth of information on its many uses at http://www.titanium.dupont.com.
They even mention Nano-titanium dioxide (Nano-TiO2)
This comment is Insightful? Haven't you ever heard of a subpeona?
Are you suggtesting purposely trying to take down the offending site? Who do you think you are, Orrin Hatch?
I just thought of a useful application for Smart Dust self-organizing sensor networks with respect to the shuttle. Since no sensors can survive the heat on the exterior of the shuttle during re-entry, perhaps applying these disposable sensors on the underside of the shuttle would serve a useful function. During take-off these sensors would send data to the shuttle and give a perfect map of the heat tiles damaged. This data could be sent back to ground control in real time where instant computer analysis could determine if the mission should be aborted before the shuttle passes the point of no return. It is clear that there is nothing the Columbia could have done once reaching space. It is necessary to know the tile damage before orbit is achieved.
I guess this link answers part of my question. It appears this receiver works in a wide enough range to pick up any analog cell phone or cordless phone signal and listen in. Am I reading this correctly?
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/cordless-telephone
When I was in college my fraternity had an antenna on the roof of the house connected to a receiver that let us listen in on analog cell phone and cordles phone conversations around campus and around town.
It is my understanding the the FCC prohibits the sale of devices (in the US) that pick up the frequencies needed to do this anymore.
Will this device tune into these prohibited frequencies? I admit I don't know the first thing about what things transmit on various frequencies. At the time we had a big frequency catalog that told us what channels to tune into to listen to cell phones, Air Force One, cordless phones, and many other interesting things.
My wife works for DuPont. This is their press release which gives information about where it will be aired:
Rough Science - DuPont will be the corporate sponsor of the BBC production "Rough Science" in which 5 scientists on a remote island are challenged to solve science problems through their collective wits, scavenged items and the natural resources of their surroundings. The program will air on PBS stations in many of the top markets including LA, NYC, Philadelphia, Houston, Dallas & Washington D.C. Air dates and times vary by market. Major funding for the program is provided by the National Science Foundation. DuPont is the only corporate sponsor and our 15 second messages will appear at the beginning and close of each segment.
This is a good read for those criticizing MS for supporting UGs.
We've had these animated ads in the Philadelphia subway since the beginning of the summer. It works really well. It's like watching a TV commercial out your window as the train rolls by. It's one of the oldest moving picture technologies used in a new way.
Darn, I can't rate the original post as a troll.