My wife made the observation that a cross country flight has a lot of fuel, makes a big impact. So hopefully that means that all local flights are safe(r).
Good job to slashdot for being one of the better (if not the only) site up and running strong.
Please don't over react. I'm with you tomorrow if the Palestinians are really celebrating, but really, this sucks big time for them---the US is the only force keeping the Israelis from eradicating them.
I think the Palestinians are rather sick of all this violence. Terrorists are terrorists and wacked in the head, but the average palestinian just wants to go to work and live a nice life.
CNN reports on radio link that:
united 93 Newark to San Fran crashed near pennsyl, this might be the same or different as the Pittsburgh report. Not clear from CNN reporter.
American Dulles to LA crashed in pentagon,
American flight 11 (?) Boston to LA.
I know people in all those cities and I live in LA area.
Not true.
When your cell phone is on and broadcasting, there is a thing called multipath in which your signal bounces off of trees and buildings and such on its way to the cell antenna. Normally, that's a problem. But the best way to track users to satisfy the e911 requirement is to plot the multipath on every street, using in the guy who presented this at a conference I attended--college kids in wired up vans driving up and down every street in every city.
So when you fire up your cell in a city that has been mapped, your position is tracked quite well.
here is a pretty cool set of links about it.
a patent story
and the main culprits/innovators,
US Wireless
and their product, including some demo links.
Oh, I just revisted the site, and it appears that the demo they had of a car driving around on the freeway in Oakland isn't there anymore. Too bad, it was scary.
I think the issue at hand concerns patent applications, not actual patents. Patents are public knowledge, etc. Patent applications are probably not, until the patent is granted. As I recall, Rambus hid the filing or intent to file patent applications, went to this meeting and got a bunch of ideas, then filed patents on those ideas.
In other words, they allegedly committed fraud.
Hey good work. Make it a bender plug in, then you've got a winner...people can discuss songs, post their own mp3s to the diary, maybe even pay the artist some spare change
because i laughed pretty hard at this article. Although an incredible waste of animal life, the sheer stupidity and audacity of the researchers made me laugh and laugh. It's like a Monty Python skit, except it is real. I can hear John Cleese proclaiming that the severed head of the monkey is merely resting its eyes at the moment, but that soon it will start climbing trees!
The web is a revolution because anyone can do it - anyone can understand HTML with a little work. The ability of people to publish their own content unrestricted to an unlimited audience is unprecidented [sic], and should not be ignored.
right on. html is pretty hard to comprehend all by itself, let alone messing with fancy client-side scripting. sure, i can figure all that stuff out, but i'm a programmer. my wife is not, and she's the one with a burning need to throw pictures of our daughter on the web with accompanying text.
anyway, if java and javascript were all that useful, then they would be included in slashcode, right?!
yeah, The military is already trying to do this with their Small Unit Operation Sutuaiton awareness system, which I've also seen referenced asa Blobal Mobile Information Systems. Essentially, each soldier gets a luggable device that forms an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer communication system that can keep squads/platoons/whatever in contact, while at the same time resisting enemy interference. While this may never fly in a battlefield environment, it probably will fly in downtown urban areas.
i think the government is playing with fire, but is too arrogant to notice. the modern version of let them eat cake is use your computer at home. the reason for this is that poor people and minorities don't vote, and certainly don't contribute big bucks for advertising time on "When good times go bad".
but poor illiterate uneducated folks, white or minority, can still shoot guns. which is pretty scary to those of us in the master race/master class who know a little about history.
what will it be? power comes from the barrel of a gun, or the pen is mightier than the sword? Sure i'm being extreme. but who knows what will finally fuck things up.
Who is this really hurting? Who is this really helping?
that is a good question, one that brings to mind equal protection under the law. Only those who's last recourse is the public or school library are hurt by this law, which can be shown to be the poor and minorities. Given that w is in office because a mojority of the supreme court hid behind the equal protection clause of the constitution, maybe they should be hit with that repeatedly for the next four years.
If I couldn't do it from school, then I'll do it from home. As long as there is a way of getting non-filtered material.
That's the ALA's point. You are a middle-class suburban punk with a computer at home. Lucky you. Can you imagine a world without your privileges? Turn off your home computer for a month, this month, and see how highly you rate your filter then.
And Nokia engineers actually contributed to the linux1394 mailing list quite a bit when I was reading it (from the sidelines) last summer. It was wierd. There was all this back and forth about bugs and development from the usual hardworking academics and hobbyists, then suddenly there is an email from a guy from Nokia discussing bugs in the code, then a whole mini exchange about giving bugfixes back or not, and the requirements of the GPL. I didn't stick with the mailing list enough to see the result, but Nokia was playing fair, it seemed to me.
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My wife made the observation that a cross country flight has a lot of fuel, makes a big impact. So hopefully that means that all local flights are safe(r).
Good job to slashdot for being one of the better (if not the only) site up and running strong.
jem
Shut up moron.
I'm thinking too bad there is an imbecile in the white house because now he is going to flail about like a chicken with its head cut off.
Please don't over react. I'm with you tomorrow if the Palestinians are really celebrating, but really, this sucks big time for them---the US is the only force keeping the Israelis from eradicating them.
I think the Palestinians are rather sick of all this violence. Terrorists are terrorists and wacked in the head, but the average palestinian just wants to go to work and live a nice life.
jem
CNN reports second boston to LA flight, this one united 175 (as opposed to american 11 that hit the WTC) is down. Did *not* give any further details.
jem
CNN reports on radio link that:
united 93 Newark to San Fran crashed near pennsyl, this might be the same or different as the Pittsburgh report. Not clear from CNN reporter.
American Dulles to LA crashed in pentagon,
American flight 11 (?) Boston to LA.
I know people in all those cities and I live in LA area.
jem
probably the same as cnn is showing, but i have no tv. very dramatic. jem
Not true. When your cell phone is on and broadcasting, there is a thing called multipath in which your signal bounces off of trees and buildings and such on its way to the cell antenna. Normally, that's a problem. But the best way to track users to satisfy the e911 requirement is to plot the multipath on every street, using in the guy who presented this at a conference I attended--college kids in wired up vans driving up and down every street in every city. So when you fire up your cell in a city that has been mapped, your position is tracked quite well. here is a pretty cool set of links about it. a patent story and the main culprits/innovators, US Wireless and their product, including some demo links. Oh, I just revisted the site, and it appears that the demo they had of a car driving around on the freeway in Oakland isn't there anymore. Too bad, it was scary.
I think the issue at hand concerns patent applications, not actual patents. Patents are public knowledge, etc. Patent applications are probably not, until the patent is granted. As I recall, Rambus hid the filing or intent to file patent applications, went to this meeting and got a bunch of ideas, then filed patents on those ideas. In other words, they allegedly committed fraud.
Hey good work. Make it a bender plug in, then you've got a winner...people can discuss songs, post their own mp3s to the diary, maybe even pay the artist some spare change
james
I browse at 2, so maybe someone already posted this, but benefon, UK
because i laughed pretty hard at this article. Although an incredible waste of animal life, the sheer stupidity and audacity of the researchers made me laugh and laugh. It's like a Monty Python skit, except it is real. I can hear John Cleese proclaiming that the severed head of the monkey is merely resting its eyes at the moment, but that soon it will start climbing trees!
right on. html is pretty hard to comprehend all by itself, let alone messing with fancy client-side scripting. sure, i can figure all that stuff out, but i'm a programmer. my wife is not, and she's the one with a burning need to throw pictures of our daughter on the web with accompanying text.
anyway, if java and javascript were all that useful, then they would be included in slashcode, right?!
James
yeah, The military is already trying to do this with their Small Unit Operation Sutuaiton awareness system, which I've also seen referenced asa Blobal Mobile Information Systems. Essentially, each soldier gets a luggable device that forms an ad-hoc, peer-to-peer communication system that can keep squads/platoons/whatever in contact, while at the same time resisting enemy interference. While this may never fly in a battlefield environment, it probably will fly in downtown urban areas.
This is not a funny comment, this is my phd research.
but poor illiterate uneducated folks, white or minority, can still shoot guns. which is pretty scary to those of us in the master race/master class who know a little about history.
what will it be? power comes from the barrel of a gun, or the pen is mightier than the sword? Sure i'm being extreme. but who knows what will finally fuck things up.
that is a good question, one that brings to mind equal protection under the law. Only those who's last recourse is the public or school library are hurt by this law, which can be shown to be the poor and minorities. Given that w is in office because a mojority of the supreme court hid behind the equal protection clause of the constitution, maybe they should be hit with that repeatedly for the next four years.
That's the ALA's point. You are a middle-class suburban punk with a computer at home. Lucky you. Can you imagine a world without your privileges? Turn off your home computer for a month, this month, and see how highly you rate your filter then.
what if you are doing research on breast cancer? or checking what might be the cause of vaginal bleeding when you are three months pregnant.
censors will filter that.
you probably would throw out the baby with the bath water, or destroy a town in order to save it.
And Nokia engineers actually contributed to the linux1394 mailing list quite a bit when I was reading it (from the sidelines) last summer. It was wierd. There was all this back and forth about bugs and development from the usual hardworking academics and hobbyists, then suddenly there is an email from a guy from Nokia discussing bugs in the code, then a whole mini exchange about giving bugfixes back or not, and the requirements of the GPL. I didn't stick with the mailing list enough to see the result, but Nokia was playing fair, it seemed to me.