I see the only method to create something with characteristic frequencies distributed evenly in microwave band: Piezoelectric quartz nanoparticles that resonate on different frequencies due to different size. Let us estimate the size. Speed of sound in solids is somewhere 1.5 kilometers per second (plus-minus 1 order of magnitude), so 1 GHz resonator crystal is about 1.5 micrometers in size. Such nanoparticles are easily printable, but I still see no way to create them equal.
And the second: I hear the word "magnetic". But I have heard about some magnetic resonances such as used in magneto-resonant tomography - and they all require the specific ambient magnetic field.
Let us wait for more info. For instance, a lot of IDs sticked together will be a good jammer.
He's son of Bride, not son of bride. Bride (Brid, Bridget, Brighitte and so on) is the name of pagan Celtic Goddess that became a Christian saint. See here the prayer song to St.Bride.
Comments: _A Stor 's a Storin_ says "A spring song in praise of St. Bridget, one of Ireland's national saints. To the ancient Celts spring began on February 1st - St. Bridget's Day. That day was named Imbolc." This is a great song! It has a beautiful melody, and the words are simple enough that a learner should be able to understand them easily.
BTW. I am not Celt, I am Russian. But there are a lot of colorful Gaelic curses - and I wonder that nobody addresses them to Mr. McBride.
where real human beings take their opressors to court, and pirates initiate violent action against those they dislike.
Thief (targeting a pistol): Money, quickly!
Real Human Being (With a disarming smile): Mr Thief, Would you like to visit a court with me in order to resolve our conflict? I just happen to have some megabucks to spend for our litigation!
The human life is about 20'000 days long. If I kill a person I shorten his/her life to less than 20'000 days. If I kill 10 persons I take less than 200'000 man-days and I will probably be executed.
I think that Windows users spent much more than 200'000 man-days more for troubleshooting than the Mac users in similar circumstances.
At least CompactFlash is electrically and logically IDE compatible, It means it has a MBR unless intentionally (By Bill's FAT license, for instance) made noncompatible. If so, you can move a partition every time a FAT area burns out. Of course, this approach sucks but if I have a source of burnt-out flashes it can make me a fortune.
We're living in an MS-centric world; Either you're using NTFS or FAT. And FAT, is much easier to implement than NTFS.
You may go the other way: use the ext2 or anything best suited to flash and supply the opensource Windows driver for it. I think it will cost the community much less than $250000 to develop it for 2 main MS so-called OSes - '95 and NT.
And BTW: I have compared the early Unix v.6 file system implementation and FAT. It seems Unix v.6 is more economical in terms of both time and memory.
It does not follow from the text that Micro$oft Winblow$ cannot be included with the computers as a separate CD if the buyer likes it.
If so, it will be even better for Winblow$ users since it excludes the dreadful "recovery partition" thereby granting users a real Winblow$ CD and removing the necessity to reobtain Winblow$ after the disk crash. Users will be pleased, and I am glad that Billy will not.
JFYI. There are rules that require that the cases of electric devices should be connected to the Protective Ground. But in old Russian panel khruschobas (joke means: paupers dwellings built by Khruschev) there is no Protective Ground. So I have an unpleasant perspective:
either connect the case of my cooker to the water tap and have a perspective of killing the plumber that disconnects a water pipe, (and killing yourself in the bathroom, too. The law requires the bath to be short-connected with a tap, but is it really done?)
or connect it to the Neutral and suffer electric shocks every time when I touch a cooker and a tap, and, moreover, to be killed when the oxidized aluminium Neutral wire loses contact. Last time when the Neutral was disconnected it fried everything electric in 20 apartments, including mine. The latter is legally required.
I have no idea how to solve this dilemma and avoid both grave and prison. My hourlong dispute with the safety official ended with nothing.
Human society is a system where people collaborate to achieve more than they could by themselves. So instead of having to learn how to hunt and cook and make shoes and build a home and make clothes, people can specialize in a single skill, perform it more efficiently and achieve more collectively. Money is what you use to facilitate this trade.
Every time when the money is involved (Instead of do-it-yourself or direct service exchange or barter) you are obliged to pay taxes. It may be prohibitively costly.
Moreover, I am absolutely sure that in some economies (In Russia, for instance) the only way to do something well is to do it yourself. Due to the laws that protect the workforce it may be impossible to fire the negligent personnel, and due to the wage levels it may be too costly to hire the qualified one.
Park a few solar panels on your rooftop, put a stack of deep-cycle batteries in a closet, and disconnect yourself from "the grid".
Imagine a deep cycle battery that feeds half an USA, and how will you recycle it.
It may be useful for some extra reliable applications, for distant homes, for some green enthusiasts, but I doubt it will be widespread. And BTW: I pay about 200 roubles per 3 months for electricity. It's a price of a tiny solar panel for a pocket radio.
instead of building 10 new natural gas power stations, we should build 1000 new small wind installations, distribute them around liberally to off-set the heavy reliance on out-of-reach massively-capital intensive projects.
Thanks a lot:-(. The 1000 wind installations will produce with their wings so much infrasound that all the population (And the beasts, too) will surely go mad.
Our Russian energy boss Chubais (hated by everybody because of his role in killing the Soviet economy. We even have the special (obscene) word "chubaisets" - meaning the end of final economical destruction caused by Chubais) told the www.rbc.ru that the similar total blackouts are IMPOSSIBLE in Russia. Firstly, the system is highly centralized, secondly, the protective automatics will initiate rolling blackouts long before the system loses sync and falls apart. Then, Chubais needs only minutes to restore the grid.
Really, I have contacted SCO twice to check their reaction. First time, I posed as a specialist that takes decisions about use of Linux in a dept of a big company (It's really so - I cooperate with a hospital belonging to the Russian State Railways) and told them that our lawyers expressly require SCO to prove their statements so that I may buy the license only after this proof. They responded that my letter was transferred to their management; no further answers.
Second time I told them that I own at least one patch of at least one GNU licensed package (It's really so) and so I require them either to observe GPL or to cease and desist. No answer.
I believe at least 99 per cent of their contacts are the same kind.
Bio-engineered hunans to think less, and consume more?
Patent the idea and sell it to your government before I sell it to Mr. Putin. Politicians need it to create a fully controlled electorate. The only problem will be the interbreeding of such people with usual ones creating patent problems. Imagine: You have a think-less GM bride, and Monsanto lawyers accuse you of violationg their patent by having children with her.
For my taste, they'd better add th humans an organ that produces caffeine.
An Etalon-Copy of Russian Frequency and Time etalon in Irkutsk, Siberia has a tradition of growing coffee in labs as a decorative plant. I have a tree at home, too. It's simply not possible to grow more than 1 cup per tree per year. And the trees prefer shadow and hate arc lamps, too. If you want more caffeine it's much simpler to distil it from tea and add to your legal decaffeinated coffee.
The scientists should better invent the substance that has all positive sides of caffeine and has no negative ones - and is not addictive. I am a caffeine addict.
Which is why it'll have to become law that your operating system and hardware must permit self-destruction codes and remote surveillance capabilities
Ask yourself why the OpenBSD is a Canadian product. Every time the US requires something, say, extraordinary (crypto export controls, for instance) the corresponding product is produced abroad.
Then, the US organizations will be placed in much less secure conditions and it will be harmful for their bisiness. The Europeans, Osama bin Laden, Eastern Dragons and bands of script kiddies will be pleased.
Yes, I remember the CIH virus that nuked a lot of CMOSes so I was able to extract a bunch of dead motherboards from dumpster and revive them. One of them works in my server now.
You seem to forget that the CIH (as well as most virii and any Senator's nuke imaginable) are platform specific. I use FreeBSD and I am reasonably sure that not only Windows malware, but Linux malware has no place to live here.
Then, if (hypothetically) Senator's method works (which cannot occur) it will be a HUGE hit to Microsoft's credibility as a secure OS, and the Open Source community will be pleased. And also it will inflate my ego of BSD hacker and hardware specialist with 20++ years experience, as well as return the money spent to Flash Bios Writer.
I've thought about an extra cheap encephalograph using some Crystal Semiconductor's 24-bit 4-channel ADC (Primarily used for thermocouples), PIC as interface and some LED to transmit data via IrDA channel that should give absolute insulation. The analog and digital parts should be powered from separate LiIon cells. The op-amps are not needed since the ADC is sensitive enough.
The project was a part of a "BrainMouse" and was abandoned since it's input speed is too low compared with any of special mice for disabled persons.
access-list 100 remark Deny access between Neighbor VLANs
Why? As I understand, the local condo networks are created around some community that needs some internal traffic (P2p, game, local ftp, etc).
In Ethernet networks, much bigger problem is theft of services by cloning a MAC and IP of legal user, and this problem may be resolved by VLANs, but I didn't see anybody addressing this problem. You will face this problem in any network where the tariff is not flat or where the Internet access is not equal to LAN access (Gamers without Internet, for instance).
www.nag.ru for a lot of info about Russian LAN-builders (In Russian, sorry)
In 2-way communications, there is no need for entering a passphrase except for the authentification to exclude "Man in the middle". The key exchange should be fully transparent for the user. For instance, there is "Diffie-Hellman key agreement". The used key should be destroyed. Then, if the user is caught and tortured, he cannot reveal the key, and maximum that law enforcement can do - to obtain a passphrase that is of no use for deciphering past traffic.
The second. I believe the usable phone scrambler should be a standalone device with public domain (Or GPLed) software and hardware. The attempt of law enforcement to include a backdoor into such code will presumably fail. To create such a device, a popular PIC16F873 microchip and any external modem is quite sufficient.
And the last. I have no pity to criminals. If you can control a criminal gang but have not spent some money to secure your comms - then your fate is in your own hands. Darwinism rules.
The used physical DVD costs here (Irkutsk, Russia) about 150-300 roubles, if I remember correctly. The Internet traffic for the end user is 3.5 roubles/megabyte. It means that in order to obtain the 4.6 GB DVD movie online I should pay 16100 roubles - 2 orders of magnitude more.
Bulk Internet traffic costs here about 1 rouble/megabyte, but these prices require the 8-mbps channel and more (The Railway has put it's own cables, and they are underused and sold cheaply). Even if I may buy traffic for 1 rouble/mbyte (I may not) one DVD worth of video will cost me 4600 roubles that is 15-30 times more costly than a physical DVD.
I think this applies to every country except continental USA.
The only exception may be the extra rare movie that must be obtained by any price. But even here VOD is not a choice: The extra rare movie must be stored on a receiver end.
The gestures as a method of text input are doomed because the gesture devices don't provide the tactile feedback. I mean: They don't click. Without this feature, the gestures must rely on the sophisticated methods of gesture-to-dictionary mapping that narrow their use to natural-language text input.
BTW the same argument fully relates to different virtual keyboards projected by laser rays and, somehow, to the most modern non-clicking rubber-contact keyboards where you cannot be sure that the key was really pressed until either you see the letter on the screen or the keyboard bends under the force you apply.
The second problem is that the gestures need much more physical force to use than, say, Datahand, BAT and similar devices. It is a BIG difference for the people with physical disabilities.
I believe the fellow who invented the mouse also had a matching one handed keyboard that never caught on.
1. The 7-button device that was intended by Douglas Engelbart cannot compare with the terrible QWERTY in entry speed.
1A. I cannot imagine what amount of coordination is required for typing on two Engelbart's devices. But at least it requires the additional brain load to distribute the work. It's not good. Moreover, it increases a rate of erlpacement, oops, replacement errors.
2. The speed increase by Dvorak is marginal at best. Moreover, Dvorak is English-only layout, and of no use to me (I am Russian).
3. Maltron and similar devices do NOT address the mousing (the builtin touchpad is a poor excuse).
4. The Datahand looks the most promising. But to really use it, IMO it needs some hybridization with the Velotype or Steno keyboard. I am thinking about it now.
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Put a tinfoil or a box of juice over your document.
I see the only method to create something with characteristic frequencies distributed evenly in microwave band: Piezoelectric quartz nanoparticles that resonate on different frequencies due to different size. Let us estimate the size. Speed of sound in solids is somewhere 1.5 kilometers per second (plus-minus 1 order of magnitude), so 1 GHz resonator crystal is about 1.5 micrometers in size. Such nanoparticles are easily printable, but I still see no way to create them equal.
And the second: I hear the word "magnetic". But I have heard about some magnetic resonances such as used in magneto-resonant tomography - and they all require the specific ambient magnetic field.
Let us wait for more info. For instance, a lot of IDs sticked together will be a good jammer.
BTW. I am not Celt, I am Russian. But there are a lot of colorful Gaelic curses - and I wonder that nobody addresses them to Mr. McBride.
Some time ago I had a hope that Microsoft will be broken by the weight of justice and right plus weight of users' dissatisfaction...
Thief (targeting a pistol): Money, quickly!
Real Human Being (With a disarming smile): Mr Thief, Would you like to visit a court with me in order to resolve our conflict? I just happen to have some megabucks to spend for our litigation!
The human life is about 20'000 days long. If I kill a person I shorten his/her life to less than 20'000 days. If I kill 10 persons I take less than 200'000 man-days and I will probably be executed.
I think that Windows users spent much more than 200'000 man-days more for troubleshooting than the Mac users in similar circumstances.
NO CARRIER
At least CompactFlash is electrically and logically IDE compatible, It means it has a MBR unless intentionally (By Bill's FAT license, for instance) made noncompatible. If so, you can move a partition every time a FAT area burns out. Of course, this approach sucks but if I have a source of burnt-out flashes it can make me a fortune.
We're living in an MS-centric world; Either you're using NTFS or FAT. And FAT, is much easier to implement than NTFS.
You may go the other way: use the ext2 or anything best suited to flash and supply the opensource Windows driver for it. I think it will cost the community much less than $250000 to develop it for 2 main MS so-called OSes - '95 and NT.
And BTW: I have compared the early Unix v.6 file system implementation and FAT. It seems Unix v.6 is more economical in terms of both time and memory.
It does not follow from the text that Micro$oft Winblow$ cannot be included with the computers as a separate CD if the buyer likes it.
If so, it will be even better for Winblow$ users since it excludes the dreadful "recovery partition" thereby granting users a real Winblow$ CD and removing the necessity to reobtain Winblow$ after the disk crash. Users will be pleased, and I am glad that Billy will not.
JFYI. There are rules that require that the cases of electric devices should be connected to the Protective Ground. But in old Russian panel khruschobas (joke means: paupers dwellings built by Khruschev) there is no Protective Ground. So I have an unpleasant perspective:
either connect the case of my cooker to the water tap and have a perspective of killing the plumber that disconnects a water pipe, (and killing yourself in the bathroom, too. The law requires the bath to be short-connected with a tap, but is it really done?)
or connect it to the Neutral and suffer electric shocks every time when I touch a cooker and a tap, and, moreover, to be killed when the oxidized aluminium Neutral wire loses contact. Last time when the Neutral was disconnected it fried everything electric in 20 apartments, including mine. The latter is legally required.
I have no idea how to solve this dilemma and avoid both grave and prison. My hourlong dispute with the safety official ended with nothing.
Human society is a system where people collaborate to achieve more than they could by themselves. So instead of having to learn how to hunt and cook and make shoes and build a home and make clothes, people can specialize in a single skill, perform it more efficiently and achieve more collectively. Money is what you use to facilitate this trade.
Every time when the money is involved (Instead of do-it-yourself or direct service exchange or barter) you are obliged to pay taxes. It may be prohibitively costly.
Moreover, I am absolutely sure that in some economies (In Russia, for instance) the only way to do something well is to do it yourself. Due to the laws that protect the workforce it may be impossible to fire the negligent personnel, and due to the wage levels it may be too costly to hire the qualified one.
[Place for a standard quote about Soviet Russia]
Park a few solar panels on your rooftop, put a stack of deep-cycle batteries in a closet, and disconnect yourself from "the grid".
Imagine a deep cycle battery that feeds half an USA, and how will you recycle it.
It may be useful for some extra reliable applications, for distant homes, for some green enthusiasts, but I doubt it will be widespread. And BTW: I pay about 200 roubles per 3 months for electricity. It's a price of a tiny solar panel for a pocket radio.
instead of building 10 new natural gas power stations, we should build 1000 new small wind installations, distribute them around liberally to off-set the heavy reliance on out-of-reach massively-capital intensive projects.
:-(. The 1000 wind installations will produce with their wings so much infrasound that all the population (And the beasts, too) will surely go mad.
Thanks a lot
Our Russian energy boss Chubais (hated by everybody because of his role in killing the Soviet economy. We even have the special (obscene) word "chubaisets" - meaning the end of final economical destruction caused by Chubais) told the www.rbc.ru that the similar total blackouts are IMPOSSIBLE in Russia. Firstly, the system is highly centralized, secondly, the protective automatics will initiate rolling blackouts long before the system loses sync and falls apart.
Then, Chubais needs only minutes to restore the grid.
Really, I have contacted SCO twice to check their reaction. First time, I posed as a specialist that takes decisions about use of Linux in a dept of a big company (It's really so - I cooperate with a hospital belonging to the Russian State Railways) and told them that our lawyers expressly require SCO to prove their statements so that I may buy the license only after this proof. They responded that my letter was transferred to their management; no further answers.
Second time I told them that I own at least one patch of at least one GNU licensed package (It's really so) and so I require them either to observe GPL or to cease and desist. No answer.
I believe at least 99 per cent of their contacts are the same kind.
Bio-engineered hunans to think less, and consume more?
Patent the idea and sell it to your government before I sell it to Mr. Putin. Politicians need it to create a fully controlled electorate. The only problem will be the interbreeding of such people with usual ones creating patent problems. Imagine: You have a think-less GM bride, and Monsanto lawyers accuse you of violationg their patent by having children with her.
For my taste, they'd better add th humans an organ that produces caffeine.
Add SCO jokes to taste. Consume hot.
An Etalon-Copy of Russian Frequency and Time etalon in Irkutsk, Siberia has a tradition of growing coffee in labs as a decorative plant. I have a tree at home, too. It's simply not possible to grow more than 1 cup per tree per year. And the trees prefer shadow and hate arc lamps, too. If you want more caffeine it's much simpler to distil it from tea and add to your legal decaffeinated coffee.
The scientists should better invent the substance that has all positive sides of caffeine and has no negative ones - and is not addictive. I am a caffeine addict.
Which is why it'll have to become law that your operating system and hardware must permit self-destruction codes and remote surveillance capabilities
Ask yourself why the OpenBSD is a Canadian product. Every time the US requires something, say, extraordinary (crypto export controls, for instance) the corresponding product is produced abroad.
Then, the US organizations will be placed in much less secure conditions and it will be harmful for their bisiness. The Europeans, Osama bin Laden, Eastern Dragons and bands of script kiddies will be pleased.
Yes, I remember the CIH virus that nuked a lot of CMOSes so I was able to extract a bunch of dead motherboards from dumpster and revive them. One of them works in my server now.
You seem to forget that the CIH (as well as most virii and any Senator's nuke imaginable) are platform specific. I use FreeBSD and I am reasonably sure that not only Windows malware, but Linux malware has no place to live here.
Then, if (hypothetically) Senator's method works (which cannot occur) it will be a HUGE hit to Microsoft's credibility as a secure OS, and the Open Source community will be pleased. And also it will inflate my ego of BSD hacker and hardware specialist with 20++ years experience, as well as return the money spent to Flash Bios Writer.
I've thought about an extra cheap encephalograph using some Crystal Semiconductor's 24-bit 4-channel ADC (Primarily used for thermocouples), PIC as interface and some LED to transmit data via IrDA channel that should give absolute insulation. The analog and digital parts should be powered from separate LiIon cells. The op-amps are not needed since the ADC is sensitive enough.
The project was a part of a "BrainMouse" and was abandoned since it's input speed is too low compared with any of special mice for disabled persons.
access-list 100 remark Deny access between Neighbor VLANs
Why? As I understand, the local condo networks are created around some community that needs some internal traffic (P2p, game, local ftp, etc).
In Ethernet networks, much bigger problem is theft of services by cloning a MAC and IP of legal user, and this problem may be resolved by VLANs, but I didn't see anybody addressing this problem. You will face this problem in any network where the tariff is not flat or where the Internet access is not equal to LAN access (Gamers without Internet, for instance).
www.nag.ru for a lot of info about Russian LAN-builders (In Russian, sorry)
WARNING! ADVERSARY IS LISTENING!
In 2-way communications, there is no need for entering a passphrase except for the authentification to exclude "Man in the middle". The key exchange should be fully transparent for the user. For instance, there is "Diffie-Hellman key agreement". The used key should be destroyed. Then, if the user is caught and tortured, he cannot reveal the key, and maximum that law enforcement can do - to obtain a passphrase that is of no use for deciphering past traffic.
The second. I believe the usable phone scrambler should be a standalone device with public domain (Or GPLed) software and hardware. The attempt of law enforcement to include a backdoor into such code will presumably fail. To create such a device, a popular PIC16F873 microchip and any external modem is quite sufficient.
And the last. I have no pity to criminals. If you can control a criminal gang but have not spent some money to secure your comms - then your fate is in your own hands. Darwinism rules.
The used physical DVD costs here (Irkutsk, Russia) about 150-300 roubles, if I remember correctly. The Internet traffic for the end user is 3.5 roubles/megabyte. It means that in order to obtain the 4.6 GB DVD movie online I should pay 16100 roubles - 2 orders of magnitude more.
Bulk Internet traffic costs here about 1 rouble/megabyte, but these prices require the 8-mbps channel and more (The Railway has put it's own cables, and they are underused and sold cheaply).
Even if I may buy traffic for 1 rouble/mbyte (I may not) one DVD worth of video will cost me 4600 roubles that is 15-30 times more costly than a physical DVD.
I think this applies to every country except continental USA.
The only exception may be the extra rare movie that must be obtained by any price. But even here VOD is not a choice: The extra rare movie must be stored on a receiver end.
The gestures as a method of text input are doomed because the gesture devices don't provide the tactile feedback. I mean: They don't click. Without this feature, the gestures must rely on the sophisticated methods of gesture-to-dictionary mapping that narrow their use to natural-language text input.
BTW the same argument fully relates to different virtual keyboards projected by laser rays and, somehow, to the most modern non-clicking rubber-contact keyboards where you cannot be sure that the key was really pressed until either you see the letter on the screen or the keyboard bends under the force you apply.
The second problem is that the gestures need much more physical force to use than, say, Datahand, BAT and similar devices. It is a BIG difference for the people with physical disabilities.
I believe the fellow who invented the mouse also had a matching one handed keyboard that never caught on.
1. The 7-button device that was intended by Douglas Engelbart cannot compare with the terrible QWERTY in entry speed.
1A. I cannot imagine what amount of coordination is required for typing on two Engelbart's devices. But at least it requires the additional brain load to distribute the work. It's not good. Moreover, it increases a rate of erlpacement, oops, replacement errors.
2. The speed increase by Dvorak is marginal at best. Moreover, Dvorak is English-only layout, and of no use to me (I am Russian).
3. Maltron and similar devices do NOT address the mousing (the builtin touchpad is a poor excuse).
4. The Datahand looks the most promising. But to really use it, IMO it needs some hybridization with the Velotype or Steno keyboard. I am thinking about it now.