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1950- The swedish company Ericsson and Telia builds the worlds first mobile phone prototype. It fills up the trunk of a car.
1955- The worlds first fully automatic mobile/cellular phone system is introduced in
Stockholm, Sweden. The price for a phone and installation is about 750 dollars.
1956- The system has 19 users in Stockholm and 8 in Gothenburg.
I dont know what teacher Petros definition of a cell phone system is. If it must be digital to comply to his definition then there where no cell phones before 1991, when the first digital system was brought on line.
And the Ericssons and Telias system was NOT just a radio phone. It was fully automatic system.
ITEM 8: THE SENTRY GUNS. Large projectile weapons, that do not require someone to operate. Like the Smart Gun, it auto-targets moving enimies thanks to it's built-in computer system and fires. They can be placed virtually anywhere. Ideal for areas of severe attack.
On the subject TV-commercials there is a product I would like to see - The TV with an in built sound normalizer.
In Sweden and probably everywhere else in the world, all channels seem to have their own prefered sound output level which is very annoying when zapping. You have to adjust the volume constantly.
Then whe have the commercials which plays at about 150% of the program sound volume, so if you doze off when watching Babylon 5 in the afternoon you get a rude awakening when the commercials kicks in.
WHY have'nt the TV-set manufacturers done something about this? Is it becuse mr Dvorak thinks a it's theft. Probably grand theft if you sleep your way through the commercials.
Do you know any TV-sets with a normalize function, or even better a Surround/DTS receiver? Please enlighten me!
Hellooo? DeCSS? DVD rippers like DODspeed ripper decrypts and rips practically any DVD. Then when the decrypted.vob's are on the hard drive you have a variety of options to recode the movie to a 1 or 2 CDR friendly format like Divx;-) or VCD and burn. Or perhaps just record to VHS (Macrovision can be turned of on many cards, and there are filters too)
When a standard CD player comes across an error in a CD, says a technology officer at a major label, "it basically skips over it and keeps playing. But a CD-ROM must read every bit of the data. When it detects something that it suspects is an error, it loops back and rereads the data, trying to discover how to fix the problem. And ultimately, if the error can't be corrected" -- as is the case with the "erroneous" data introduced by copy-protection programs -- "the software will cease to run and the CD-ROM will stop playing."
Not sure about this, but what about skip or shock memory that all new players have? Doesent these players try to re-read when errors occur? My Numark player most certainly do this.
Trouble is, many high-end and car-stereo CD players use CD-ROM technology, which is both more accurate and less likely to skip when the player is jostled. Consequently, some audiophiles and commuters may not be able to play protected CDs. "I feel gloomy every time I go on a plane and see how many people are listening to music with their laptops," says a label executive who nonetheless regards copy protection as inevitable. "High-end players, car players, laptops -- those people are going to feel burned, and justifiably so, if they can't listen to music in the way they like."
You bet!
Unfortunately, consumers have resisted past efforts to replace CDs with MiniDiscs, DVD audio disks and Super Audio Compact Discs. For now, the labels' technologists agree that copy-protecting CDs with software locks is the most practical way to go. "Some of the best and most experienced engineers in the world are working on this," says Samit of EMI. "It's near and dear to our hearts to get this right."
The end result will most likley be:
* Many angry previosly "honest" conumers with incompatible players or laptops turn to Napster-type programs.
* Audiograbber releases a new version that "supports" the new format.
I've ripped and burned alot of CD's in my days. I work parttime as a DJ, and the ability to put 18 good songs from 10 records onto one record is very good for me. It means I can bring more music to my gigs.
A few years ago there where CD singels with copy protection. Some rippers refused to read them. Big problem...not. Decent CD-players have digital output. Just use that and record digitally if nothing else works. I've newer had to btw.
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You buy the game, then you do whatever you want with it. You own the cities you build in the game and like a real capitalist you treat your Sim "employees" like you feel. Tear down their houses. Destroy the factory they work at etc etc.
DVD and DMCA both American "innovations" on the other hand is NOT capitalist. You buy a DVD, but you cannot do what you like with it. You are not allowed to extract the content with an algorithm commonly know as DeCSS for examlpe. This is really commie stuff!
If this becomes true, the installed Windows and Office base will most likley get smaller and older (people wont upgrade), thus leaving a bigger opening to Linux and Linux software in the home/desktop market.
The mere threat will contribute to this as well.
Also, it depends on how they had their Win2k box set up. Active Directory is a mess and could be slowing it down along with a bunch of other services that come with it by default that weren't part of NT.
Do you read?
The article says they contacted M$ and that their technicians worked on the "problem" for two weeks.
I don't think they overlooked something like that.
SOAP is HTTP carried XML. It goes straight trough any firewall like an HTML page, and if there's a SOAP enabled webserver at the other end the server will try to forward the SOAP call to an object.
This could be a new frointier for virus makers and crackers.
For example write a scanner that via SOAP calls COM objects on random IP adresses and asks them to declare their interface. If you find an object that seems interesting. Write a program that calls that object and tells it to do something nasty...
Sure you can implement handshaking and such when using SOAP, but developers are not the most security minded people. Thats why we need firewalls in the first place.
Does SOAP have the potential to shoot firewalls back to square one, because HTTP is now a protocol that not only delviers HTML?
Yes, the "Predator cloake" but that would be dangerous on cars in traffic don't you think;-)
And the power consumption would be much higher. I'm thinking crystals that is "set" to reflect perticular light by an electric pulse and then keeps the setting without any current.
Gate A20
(thing) by Merlin83 Thu Jul 20 2000 at 14:26 utc
A20 refers to system address line 20 on the address bus in IBM-compatible PCs.
8088 processors, when referring to address lines greater than A19, would wrap around to the first address line. Some programmers made use of this 'feature' in their code. When the 80286 came along, with it's larger address space, lines above A19 existed and so the wrap around 'feature' no longer worked, and the processor would simply address higher areas in memory (those in the HMA - the Higher Memory Area.)
There is an option in BIOSes these days called 'Gate A20'. The purpose of this option is to restore the system to the state it was in the 8088 days, ensuring that addresses above 1MB of memory actually do wrap around, as they did before, thus ensuring that older programs would still work. It's a bit of a useless option really, since the programs that did use this feature have surely been superceded by newer programs, but it's there nonetheless.
For a more detailed explanation, see http://www.smsc.com/main/appnotes/an612.html
****
I don't get it either. But my guess is that the twist is that if you need this instuction to invoke virtual memory or something you've already exceeded the 256bytes.
The article talks alot about exponential growth of technical progress.
But do we really progress so much faster today than yesturday? And how do we measure this progress and conclude it's exponenetial?
Isn't it a bit "crude" to determine our technical progress on the basis of how many transistors we can cram into a small piece of silicon, or how much faster we can take a vaccum cleaner from concept to product because of CAD/CAM? Does that really mean that we are advancing so much faster in technology today?
The human genome project is used in the article as an evidence of the accelerating progress.
Let me use an analogy: If I lived in the 16th century and where a human calulator named Babbage and was bored with writing calculation tables and therefore made a machine that could do the necessary calculations 10 000 times faster than a human. Does this mean that the techninal progress just rose 10 000 points?
Point being, the genome project finished early because of raw computing power and refined methods. And that is not proof of exponential technical progress!
/Patrix
"And if any one should ask me, "Whence dost thou know?" I can answer, "I know, because we measure; nor can we measure things that are not; and things past and future are not." But how do we measure present time, since it hath not space? It is measured while it passeth; but when it shall have passed, it is not measured; for there will not be aught that can be measured. But whence, in what way, and whither doth it pass while it is being measured?"
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF1-01/TOC.htm#To pOfPage
Chapter XXI.-How Time May Be Measured.
"nanotech-toting script kidd3z? That'll give "port scanning" a new meaning!"
Agree. Nanotech develop tools for everyone is quite scary.
For eg. a nano replicator could make exact copies of anything. Not just counterfit or forgery but EXACT copies.
Money, id cards etc would be useless.
All money tranfers will have to be made with credit cards/cash card each transaction verified by the bank. That is if the bank is still there and not converted to Greygoo but some nanoscript kiddie.
Biometrics for all id'ing. But who says a nano replicator cannot replicate an eye or a whole person?
Weapons - I don't want to go into that subject. I think I'll just go home now. Happy that we still live in a non nanotech world.
>Just imagine the chaos that would ensue if
>people started releasing.WAV files encoded with
>using the MPEG-1, Audio Layer 3 codec instead
>of.MP3 versions.
Hey, buddy, the mp3 files I stumble onto at mp3 link sitez
have all kinds of extentions *except* mp3 -.class,.exe,.zip.etc
Wonder why?;-)
Intel compatible CPU's and standard soundcards fitted in office computers like mine are probably the most common device used to encode/decode Mp3-files.
The manufacturers of these devices must take their responsibility and fit dectection equipment into these devices that prevent any encoding and deconding of copyrighted music. Since it is impossible to detect which music is copyrighted, no playback of mp3, or any other digitally compressed music should be allowed.
I, Udo Dockhurst of Alloyica, and RIIIIIA suggest that Cebit ban these devices until this issue has been solved.
Maybe this trend will come to a point where corporations in the US lobby the congress to legislate all private ownership as illegal.
Non private owned intellectual and other property is soo much easier for the corporates to control. Like DIVX and DVD or software that you buy, but don't own the right to modify or do whatever you want with. You've only bought a LICENSE to use it.
What an irony, if the country that fought for individual freedom and against communism so boldly would end up like this, betrayed by the very institutions it protected...
A slasdotter wrote >As I understand it, they just introduced a >random error into the signal. To get around it, >you just put a receiver at a known location. >Then, (received signal - known location) = error >signal.
True, and I recall Ericsson made a system a few years ago that did just that.
But with the new Millennium Copyright Act, this would be illegal right?
The DCSS-crack is being proscuted, because the copy protection system was defeated. And sites providing instructions and code about how to break the protection are prosecuted as well. The issue is not that anyone tried to sell copyrighted material .
So if the GPS signal is protected with an error then it is illegal to try to defeat that protection?
My school buys alot of Imacs. But the so called mouse that is included is replaced with a real one. Hence there is a lot of mouse leftovers. They are actually decorating a wall in the basement.
What about sending these, and the leftover cases from rackmounting Imacs to an artist. He/She could make a nice piece of art with it.
The reason for the rackmount sounded a bit strange. Does Filemaker only support 50 databases on the same machine!? And why does anyone bother use Filemaker as a server DB if that's the case.
The trouble to port the Filmaker DB's to a real DBHS is probably less than rackmounting a bunch of Imacs I would argue.
But in any case, it's was a cool project!
Did'nt Industrial Light And Magic rackmount a wohle lot of Mac Power PC's a few years ago for rendering purpouses?
It would be great if some bored hacker took on Domino.
Lotus are soo cocky about the fact that Domino never been hacked. I think that's only becuse no hacker ever made an serious attempt. So come on! Slap some hack onto Notes face!:-)
Yeah, but... What about companies that have alot of Notes/Domino systems? Does these systems run under "Zope"? Dont think so. This is great! Linux cando yet another useful thing - Be a Dominoserver./Patrix
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1950- The swedish company Ericsson and Telia builds the worlds first mobile phone prototype. It fills up the trunk of a car.
1955- The worlds first fully automatic mobile/cellular phone system is introduced in
Stockholm, Sweden. The price for a phone and installation is about 750 dollars.
1956- The system has 19 users in Stockholm and 8 in Gothenburg.
I dont know what teacher Petros definition of a cell phone system is. If it must be digital to comply to his definition then there where no cell phones before 1991, when the first digital system was brought on line.
And the Ericssons and Telias system was NOT just a radio phone. It was fully automatic system.
Do YOUR homework next time
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On the subject TV-commercials there is a product I would like to see - The TV with an in built sound normalizer.
/Patrik
In Sweden and probably everywhere else in the world, all channels seem to have their own prefered sound output level which is very annoying when zapping. You have to adjust the volume constantly.
Then whe have the commercials which plays at about 150% of the program sound volume, so if you doze off when watching Babylon 5 in the afternoon you get a rude awakening when the commercials kicks in.
WHY have'nt the TV-set manufacturers done something about this? Is it becuse mr Dvorak thinks a it's theft. Probably grand theft if you sleep your way through the commercials.
Do you know any TV-sets with a normalize function, or even better a Surround/DTS receiver? Please enlighten me!
Cheers
Some comments on the mainly well written article:
.vob's are on the hard drive you have a variety of options to recode the movie to a 1 or 2 CDR friendly format like Divx;-) or VCD and burn. Or perhaps just record to VHS (Macrovision can be turned of on many cards, and there are filters too)
/Patrix - Sweden
If CDs were as hard to copy as DVDs...
Hellooo? DeCSS? DVD rippers like DODspeed ripper decrypts and rips practically any DVD. Then when the decrypted
When a standard CD player comes across an error in a CD, says a technology officer at a major label, "it basically skips over it and keeps playing. But a CD-ROM must read every bit of the data. When it detects something that it suspects is an error, it loops back and rereads the data, trying to discover how to fix the problem. And ultimately, if the error can't be corrected" -- as is the case with the "erroneous" data introduced by copy-protection programs -- "the software will cease to run and the CD-ROM will stop playing."
Not sure about this, but what about skip or shock memory that all new players have? Doesent these players try to re-read when errors occur? My Numark player most certainly do this.
Trouble is, many high-end and car-stereo CD players use CD-ROM technology, which is both more accurate and less likely to skip when the player is jostled. Consequently, some audiophiles and commuters may not be able to play protected CDs. "I feel gloomy every time I go on a plane and see how many people are listening to music with their laptops," says a label executive who nonetheless regards copy protection as inevitable. "High-end players, car players, laptops -- those people are going to feel burned, and justifiably so, if they can't listen to music in the way they like."
You bet!
Unfortunately, consumers have resisted past efforts to replace CDs with MiniDiscs, DVD audio disks and Super Audio Compact Discs. For now, the labels' technologists agree that copy-protecting CDs with software locks is the most practical way to go. "Some of the best and most experienced engineers in the world are working on this," says Samit of EMI. "It's near and dear to our hearts to get this right."
The end result will most likley be:
* Many angry previosly "honest" conumers with incompatible players or laptops turn to Napster-type programs.
* Audiograbber releases a new version that "supports" the new format.
I've ripped and burned alot of CD's in my days. I work parttime as a DJ, and the ability to put 18 good songs from 10 records onto one record is very good for me. It means I can bring more music to my gigs.
A few years ago there where CD singels with copy protection. Some rippers refused to read them. Big problem...not. Decent CD-players have digital output. Just use that and record digitally if nothing else works. I've newer had to btw.
Cheers
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Not true.
You buy the game, then you do whatever you want with it. You own the cities you build in the game and like a real capitalist you treat your Sim "employees" like you feel. Tear down their houses. Destroy the factory they work at etc etc.
DVD and DMCA both American "innovations" on the other hand is NOT capitalist. You buy a DVD, but you cannot do what you like with it. You are not allowed to extract the content with an algorithm commonly know as DeCSS for examlpe. This is really commie stuff!
If this becomes true, the installed Windows and Office base will most likley get smaller and older (people wont upgrade), thus leaving a bigger opening to Linux and Linux software in the home/desktop market.
;-)
The mere threat will contribute to this as well.
When the snowball starts to roll...
Do you read?
The article says they contacted M$ and that their technicians worked on the "problem" for two weeks. I don't think they overlooked something like that.
SOAP is HTTP carried XML. It goes straight trough any firewall like an HTML page, and if there's a SOAP enabled webserver at the other end the server will try to forward the SOAP call to an object. This could be a new frointier for virus makers and crackers.
For example write a scanner that via SOAP calls COM objects on random IP adresses and asks them to declare their interface. If you find an object that seems interesting. Write a program that calls that object and tells it to do something nasty...
Sure you can implement handshaking and such when using SOAP, but developers are not the most security minded people. Thats why we need firewalls in the first place.
Does SOAP have the potential to shoot firewalls back to square one, because HTTP is now a protocol that not only delviers HTML?
Yes, the "Predator cloake" but that would be dangerous on cars in traffic don't you think ;-)
And the power consumption would be much higher. I'm thinking crystals that is "set" to reflect perticular light by an electric pulse and then keeps the setting without any current.
www.everything2.org:
Gate A20
(thing) by Merlin83 Thu Jul 20 2000 at 14:26 utc
A20 refers to system address line 20 on the address bus in IBM-compatible PCs.
8088 processors, when referring to address lines greater than A19, would wrap around to the first address line. Some programmers made use of this 'feature' in their code. When the 80286 came along, with it's larger address space, lines above A19 existed and so the wrap around 'feature' no longer worked, and the processor would simply address higher areas in memory (those in the HMA - the Higher Memory Area.)
There is an option in BIOSes these days called 'Gate A20'. The purpose of this option is to restore the system to the state it was in the 8088 days, ensuring that addresses above 1MB of memory actually do wrap around, as they did before, thus ensuring that older programs would still work. It's a bit of a useless option really, since the programs that did use this feature have surely been superceded by newer programs, but it's there nonetheless.
For a more detailed explanation, see http://www.smsc.com/main/appnotes/an612.html
****
I don't get it either. But my guess is that the twist is that if you need this instuction to invoke virtual memory or something you've already exceeded the 256bytes.
/Patrix
The article talks alot about exponential growth of technical progress.
o pOfPage
But do we really progress so much faster today than yesturday? And how do we measure this progress and conclude it's exponenetial?
Isn't it a bit "crude" to determine our technical progress on the basis of how many transistors we can cram into a small piece of silicon, or how much faster we can take a vaccum cleaner from concept to product because of CAD/CAM? Does that really mean that we are advancing so much faster in technology today?
The human genome project is used in the article as an evidence of the accelerating progress.
Let me use an analogy: If I lived in the 16th century and where a human calulator named Babbage and was bored with writing calculation tables and therefore made a machine that could do the necessary calculations 10 000 times faster than a human. Does this mean that the techninal progress just rose 10 000 points?
Point being, the genome project finished early because of raw computing power and refined methods. And that is not proof of exponential technical progress!
/Patrix
"And if any one should ask me, "Whence dost thou know?" I can answer, "I know, because we measure; nor can we measure things that are not; and things past and future are not." But how do we measure present time, since it hath not space? It is measured while it passeth; but when it shall have passed, it is not measured; for there will not be aught that can be measured. But whence, in what way, and whither doth it pass while it is being measured?"
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/NPNF1-01/TOC.htm#T
Chapter XXI.-How Time May Be Measured.
"nanotech-toting script kidd3z? That'll give "port scanning" a new meaning!"
/Patrix
Agree. Nanotech develop tools for everyone is quite scary.
For eg. a nano replicator could make exact copies of anything. Not just counterfit or forgery but EXACT copies.
Money, id cards etc would be useless.
All money tranfers will have to be made with credit cards/cash card each transaction verified by the bank. That is if the bank is still there and not converted to Greygoo but some nanoscript kiddie.
Biometrics for all id'ing. But who says a nano replicator cannot replicate an eye or a whole person?
Weapons - I don't want to go into that subject. I think I'll just go home now. Happy that we still live in a non nanotech world.
Cheers
>Just imagine the chaos that would ensue if .WAV files encoded with
.MP3 versions.
.class, .exe, .zip .etc
;-)
>people started releasing
>using the MPEG-1, Audio Layer 3 codec instead
>of
Hey, buddy, the mp3 files I stumble onto at mp3 link sitez
have all kinds of extentions *except* mp3 -
Wonder why?
Intel compatible CPU's and standard soundcards fitted in office computers like mine are probably the most common device used to encode/decode Mp3-files.
The manufacturers of these devices must take their responsibility and fit dectection equipment into these devices that prevent any encoding and deconding of copyrighted music. Since it is impossible to detect which music is copyrighted, no playback of mp3, or any other digitally compressed music should be allowed.
I, Udo Dockhurst of Alloyica, and RIIIIIA suggest that Cebit ban these devices until this issue has been solved.
Maybe this trend will come to a point where corporations in the US lobby the congress to legislate all private ownership as illegal.
;-)
/Patrix, Sweden
Non private owned intellectual and other property is soo much easier for the corporates to control. Like DIVX and DVD or software that you buy, but don't own the right to modify or do whatever you want with. You've only bought a LICENSE to use it.
What an irony, if the country that fought for individual freedom and against communism so boldly would end up like this, betrayed by the very institutions it protected...
WHOWHOWHOHAHahah! - Carl Marks in his grave
Cheers!
A slasdotter wrote
>As I understand it, they just introduced a
>random error into the signal. To get around it,
>you just put a receiver at a known location.
>Then, (received signal - known location) = error
>signal.
True, and I recall Ericsson made a system a few years ago that did just that.
But with the new Millennium Copyright Act, this would be illegal right?
The DCSS-crack is being proscuted, because the copy protection system was defeated. And sites providing instructions and code about how to break the protection are prosecuted as well. The issue is not that anyone tried to sell copyrighted material .
So if the GPS signal is protected with an error then it is illegal to try to defeat that protection?
/Patrix, Sweden
My school buys alot of Imacs. But the so called mouse that is included is replaced with a real one. Hence there is a lot of mouse leftovers. They are actually decorating a wall in the basement.
What about sending these, and the leftover cases from rackmounting Imacs to an artist. He/She could make a nice piece of art with it.
The reason for the rackmount sounded a bit strange. Does Filemaker only support 50 databases on the same machine!? And why does anyone bother use Filemaker as a server DB if that's the case.
The trouble to port the Filmaker DB's to a real DBHS is probably less than rackmounting a bunch of Imacs I would argue.
But in any case, it's was a cool project!
Did'nt Industrial Light And Magic rackmount a wohle lot of Mac Power PC's a few years ago for rendering purpouses?
A happy weekend to you all!
/Patrix, Sweden
It would be great if some bored hacker took on Domino.
:-)
Lotus are soo cocky about the fact that Domino never been hacked. I think that's only becuse no hacker ever made an serious attempt.
So come on! Slap some hack onto Notes face!
Yeah, but... What about companies that have alot of Notes/Domino systems? Does these systems run under "Zope"? Dont think so. This is great! Linux cando yet another useful thing - Be a Dominoserver. /Patrix
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