Yeah, but for all your devices to access the net you will need them to have either exposed IP's or NAT. The easiest cleanest answer in your situation is to get a Linksys Broadband Router for $99, and use it's nat features. You would only need a 2 port router since you already have a hub (but don't hook up more than 4 devices that will be used simultaneously, or watch yer bandwidth go poof).
I can see the future of DRM boiling down to a "pay for everything" situation. Keep in mind this is not what I think SHOULD happen, but what MAY happen:
The net itself would have basic access charges, and huge databases of information broken up into catagories. Each person would have an account from which fees are deducted, and different rates would apply to different usage periods (primetime would cost more). There would be no distinction between watching an episode of "Days of Our Lives", and accessing data on the weather patterns of North American for a 10 year span. More currently poignant information would carry a higher fee, but not always. For instance crop reports from Brazil on the day of release would be spendy, since they would be of huge interest to OJ futures investors. I also see information resellers popping up, and complex systems of payment necessitating info brokers (either real or virtual). I imagine that personal virtual agents will tirelessly comb the nets for things of interest both professionally, and personally. Advertising will dwindle through these feeds, but become larger and more "in your face" through others (such has the flying bill boards that follow your focus in Snow Crash). Text will at last be interchangeable with audio/video, and languages will become almost irelevant. But fair use will constitute getting to read/view the data in the first place (ability to copy and or distribute will cost extra). I also believe that people that violate the rules in he extreme will be hunted down and jailed/killed/disappeared, and publicly decried as manaces to our way of life. Minor violators will have the stigma we now apply to those who steal cable.
I don't know if anyone else has brought this up, but the first salvo of bombs cost about 3.6% of Afghanistan's GDP in 1980 (only figure I could find 3.6 billion)... Maybe we should drop watermelon's on them instead.
Oh, can someone please explain to me how the ability to copy a movie or music is a funamentally basic human right?
It's not, but it is a constitutional right. Fair use: I can do what I like with my stuff. For instance, I own an astronomical number of CD's. Many of them are imports, which often cost me $30 USD. A blank cd costs $0.30. I archive the orignals, and play the copies. If I sit/step on a $0.30 cd, I am out 5 minutes labor and $0.30... If I step/sit on a a rare import, I am probably SOL (the band doesn't exist, they aren't printing anymore, ad nauseum). It also opens the doorway to further watering down the civil liberties of the citizens of the USA. There is more, but posting from work has it's disadvantages...
This one is a little different. Go to Ranger's website.
They have a section for government... The implication that this is electronic surveillance without a warrant. Who cares what the stated "reason" is, it is money. Rights? Freedom? Pursuit of happiness? These things are antithetical to legislative based revenue generation. Speed traps on the highway are not for public safety. They are for money. Businesses are now moving more boldly towards integration with governmental processes, or our government is now behaving more like a business. Either way, the result is the same. Businesses are moving to provide fewer real services to individuals, and more for other businesses. Before Dmitry was thrown in jail, there were hundreds of silly/stupid little "inconveniences". Politics makes few direct bold moves, before making thousands of tiny ones. Call it test marketing if you will...
Unfortuneately, he who can afford the biggest lawyer generally wins. Money is known as the universal lubricant for good reason. The war between legality and "basic human rights" (or what keeps the most people from living like slaves), has been historically lost with phrases like "for the good of the people". That said, the main reason that this should be thrown out BEFORE it gets to the criminal trial stage is that having the trial in the first place would lend legitimacy to the charges. The laws of ANY country are supposed to reflect the will of its citizens. Individual citizens (in this and other countries) are being sidelined in favor of corporate citizens (not people, but legel entities). Remember that our legel system can bring justice just as easily as it can fortify oppression.
My two centi-Euro's(TM)...
Collision detection for cars based on this is a leap in the wrong direction. Now aeroplanes, or hellicopters would be a better application. The little buggers are already wired for flying in swarms, what do we do that mimics this sort of behavior? Fighter jet formations in dog fights? Air traffic control? Image planes that could automatically hold a tight patern above an airport, without running into eachother (just because the pilot couldn't see the other plane).
"Privacy" is a poor choice of words. However, in our buzz-word laden society, we generally pick the catch phrase that is closest to our actual issue. This is part of the problem. When we allow our language to be dictated to us, our thoughts naturally follow. Further more, the lie that police protect. How many burglaries in progress, muggings in progress, rapes, ad nauseum, have police stopped. The police persons job is to take statements, collect evidence, and MAYBE if they are very lucky, punish the bad guy. The only one able to protect your family, is you and your family. Please don't think of this as some militant rambling, I am merely relating to you what was related to me by friends and family who ARE police officers. Now back to the actual topic of discussion... "Feeling safer" because of a bunch of cameras is silly. The cameras will do nothing to stop you from being hurt, insulted, or otherwise inconvenienced. In addition, there is a huge potential for missuse (as illustrated by stonehand). You may think that because you are a law abiding citizen, that such measures work for you. This is naive. Any beauracracy seeks to expand its power base, this is done through law making. Governments cannot exert force or influence on citizens that have not broken any laws. Thus, over time, more and more things become illegal... This doesn't just apply to our country, or even our time. This is a drama that has been playing and replaying since the beginnings of civilization. But before it can stop, it has to be recognized...
Just remember pigment mixing, stone carving, glazing, weaving, ad nauseum, were all "high tech" at one point. Does it matter, since we are tool users anyway, what tools we use? Is acrylic paint art? Or should we all use egg based tempra? If you don't mine the cobalt, is it cheating?
I clearly recall when I was four years old, being told that I was going to be in hot water if I didn't stop what I was doing. And then bursting into tears because I thought I was going to be boiled alive. Now saying that there is a difference between 4 and 13 is missing the point. The severity of the punishment, and the level of understanding are proportionate. Furthermore, the principal's use of the term "due process" clearly illustrates HIS lack of understanding of either: a). the english language, or b). his roll in relation to his charges... The statement could have been directly applied, without editing, to a warden commenting on the suicide of an inmate. I will probably be roasted alive for saying this... But, the parental reaction could be cultural. By this I mean that my parents reactions to various things at school, and my best friend Javed's parents reactions, were VERY different. Javed's parents took the stance that authority was something to be respected, period. Whereas my parents were sceptics until they knew the details. Sometimes they sided with me, sometimes the school. But they always investigated. How is it that the father could take his son home with only the information "he has been suspended"? Doesn't anyone ask WHY anymore? Should I call these people, and inform them that I am the collections department for X, and that they have unpaid bills? Would they pay? 10 days of suspension for a "victimless" crime, and bulies get 3? What example does this set? The knee jerk reaction is "tougher sentencing for bullies", to make it perportionate. But then again, that is how we got here...
http://www.photonlight.com/more_info/choosing_colo r.html
Towards the bottom of the page. As I am sure you all know, these lights are about the size of a quarter. It should also be fairly trivial to "strobe" the output (increases battery life a plays havoc with receptors, especially with a less than regualr pattern...)
Even though your average chemical engineer can "visualize" the structure of a molecule from it's shell valiances, and member atoms, having 3d haptic controll of molecule "docking" is way cooler (and more usefull in the long run, by allowing for "intuition"). The nifty thing about this kind of project, is that it gives a cross disciliplinary access to a whole metric butt ton of data. I am envisioning something along the lines of the "EARTH" service in Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash. Where you can have as much detail, or as little as you want, and slice multi-dimensional slabs of realtime data (like the price of pimmentos, the weather, and the GNP of Zimbabwe).
Same thing for boats as well as airplanes: Big vehicle has the right of way. Period. Secondly, the average cruising speed of a MiG-21 is around 800 miles an hour, compared to the 348 MPH of the P-3 Orion based craft. WTF were they doing sooo close? Furthermore, what is this "violation of international law" that the Chinese officials keep yapping about? Other than "right of way" in international airspace, what about the "Vienna Convention on Consular Relations" (to lazy to imbed link) http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH444.txt
which I do beleive gives US the right to visit detained miltary personel.
If sovereign nation A renigs on a treaty with sovereign nation B, than the whole rest of the alphabet doesn't want to play with A anymore. I suppose you have never tried to retrieve your car keys from a hostile three-year-old when you are late for work... Similar affect. (yes I just compared world governments to toddlers).
Yeah, but will it run *nix? (ducking) ~EOM~
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Even Palm Pilots are too cramped for "real" use (both screen and input), so this one is definetly out... But what about a laser diode that can write to any handy surface? Like a laser pointer/LCD projector? That way you could leave the lcd for more reasonable things like, displaying the time, and serving as an input surface (touch sensitive, but only when after certain conditions are met, like button combo)...
By the power vested in me, I now declare this text string and this bit string 'name' and 'key'. What RSA has joined, let no man put asunder. -- Bob Blakley
A goodly portion of their "tech" does work. This is a strong part of the appeal. As far as it being "science" that is just a samantic arguement waiting to happen. The religious aspects are just about as silly as any other religion (i.e. dire and serious to the believers, burning sardine heads to everyone else).
Mod me up down or sideways, I don't see the difference...
Unless you live in Japan, at which point you can patent things that were invented by another civilization, while you were still poking fish with sharp sticks (i.e. the guys in Japan that tried to patent curry)...
From a Linux angle, FreeS/WAN works on just about everything, even adaptive load balanced NIC teams. It provides decent packet level encryption, and is interoperable with other IPSEC implementations such as Intel Packet Protect. Both FreeS/WAN and Packet Protect are free. Packet Protect requires an Intel NIC though, but with offloading, it is worth it. Both should offer sufficient security for all applications where networking outside of a vault is okay.
Umm... Actually, most DVD's are in the high-definition catagory. It is a limitation of the TV, or a cheap DVD player. "HDTV" ready displays conntected to a quality DVD player yield sharper pictures than any other consumer electronic set-up (other than actual film projection).
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Yeah, but for all your devices to access the net you will need them to have either exposed IP's or NAT. The easiest cleanest answer in your situation is to get a Linksys Broadband Router for $99, and use it's nat features. You would only need a 2 port router since you already have a hub (but don't hook up more than 4 devices that will be used simultaneously, or watch yer bandwidth go poof).
I can see the future of DRM boiling down to a "pay for everything" situation. Keep in mind this is not what I think SHOULD happen, but what MAY happen:
The net itself would have basic access charges, and huge databases of information broken up into catagories. Each person would have an account from which fees are deducted, and different rates would apply to different usage periods (primetime would cost more). There would be no distinction between watching an episode of "Days of Our Lives", and accessing data on the weather patterns of North American for a 10 year span. More currently poignant information would carry a higher fee, but not always. For instance crop reports from Brazil on the day of release would be spendy, since they would be of huge interest to OJ futures investors. I also see information resellers popping up, and complex systems of payment necessitating info brokers (either real or virtual). I imagine that personal virtual agents will tirelessly comb the nets for things of interest both professionally, and personally. Advertising will dwindle through these feeds, but become larger and more "in your face" through others (such has the flying bill boards that follow your focus in Snow Crash). Text will at last be interchangeable with audio/video, and languages will become almost irelevant. But fair use will constitute getting to read/view the data in the first place (ability to copy and or distribute will cost extra). I also believe that people that violate the rules in he extreme will be hunted down and jailed/killed/disappeared, and publicly decried as manaces to our way of life. Minor violators will have the stigma we now apply to those who steal cable.
I don't know if anyone else has brought this up, but the first salvo of bombs cost about 3.6% of Afghanistan's GDP in 1980 (only figure I could find 3.6 billion)... Maybe we should drop watermelon's on them instead.
Oh, can someone please explain to me how the ability to copy a movie or music is a funamentally basic human right?
It's not, but it is a constitutional right. Fair use: I can do what I like with my stuff. For instance, I own an astronomical number of CD's. Many of them are imports, which often cost me $30 USD. A blank cd costs $0.30. I archive the orignals, and play the copies. If I sit/step on a $0.30 cd, I am out 5 minutes labor and $0.30... If I step/sit on a a rare import, I am probably SOL (the band doesn't exist, they aren't printing anymore, ad nauseum). It also opens the doorway to further watering down the civil liberties of the citizens of the USA. There is more, but posting from work has it's disadvantages...
Anyone know?
This one is a little different. Go to Ranger's website. They have a section for government... The implication that this is electronic surveillance without a warrant. Who cares what the stated "reason" is, it is money. Rights? Freedom? Pursuit of happiness? These things are antithetical to legislative based revenue generation. Speed traps on the highway are not for public safety. They are for money. Businesses are now moving more boldly towards integration with governmental processes, or our government is now behaving more like a business. Either way, the result is the same. Businesses are moving to provide fewer real services to individuals, and more for other businesses. Before Dmitry was thrown in jail, there were hundreds of silly/stupid little "inconveniences". Politics makes few direct bold moves, before making thousands of tiny ones. Call it test marketing if you will...
Unfortuneately, he who can afford the biggest lawyer generally wins. Money is known as the universal lubricant for good reason. The war between legality and "basic human rights" (or what keeps the most people from living like slaves), has been historically lost with phrases like "for the good of the people". That said, the main reason that this should be thrown out BEFORE it gets to the criminal trial stage is that having the trial in the first place would lend legitimacy to the charges. The laws of ANY country are supposed to reflect the will of its citizens. Individual citizens (in this and other countries) are being sidelined in favor of corporate citizens (not people, but legel entities). Remember that our legel system can bring justice just as easily as it can fortify oppression. My two centi-Euro's(TM)...
Collision detection for cars based on this is a leap in the wrong direction. Now aeroplanes, or hellicopters would be a better application. The little buggers are already wired for flying in swarms, what do we do that mimics this sort of behavior? Fighter jet formations in dog fights? Air traffic control? Image planes that could automatically hold a tight patern above an airport, without running into eachother (just because the pilot couldn't see the other plane).
"Privacy" is a poor choice of words. However, in our buzz-word laden society, we generally pick the catch phrase that is closest to our actual issue. This is part of the problem. When we allow our language to be dictated to us, our thoughts naturally follow. Further more, the lie that police protect. How many burglaries in progress, muggings in progress, rapes, ad nauseum, have police stopped. The police persons job is to take statements, collect evidence, and MAYBE if they are very lucky, punish the bad guy. The only one able to protect your family, is you and your family. Please don't think of this as some militant rambling, I am merely relating to you what was related to me by friends and family who ARE police officers. Now back to the actual topic of discussion... "Feeling safer" because of a bunch of cameras is silly. The cameras will do nothing to stop you from being hurt, insulted, or otherwise inconvenienced. In addition, there is a huge potential for missuse (as illustrated by stonehand). You may think that because you are a law abiding citizen, that such measures work for you. This is naive. Any beauracracy seeks to expand its power base, this is done through law making. Governments cannot exert force or influence on citizens that have not broken any laws. Thus, over time, more and more things become illegal... This doesn't just apply to our country, or even our time. This is a drama that has been playing and replaying since the beginnings of civilization. But before it can stop, it has to be recognized...
"He who sacrifices liberty for security deserves neither."
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Just remember pigment mixing, stone carving, glazing, weaving, ad nauseum, were all "high tech" at one point. Does it matter, since we are tool users anyway, what tools we use? Is acrylic paint art? Or should we all use egg based tempra? If you don't mine the cobalt, is it cheating?
I clearly recall when I was four years old, being told that I was going to be in hot water if I didn't stop what I was doing. And then bursting into tears because I thought I was going to be boiled alive. Now saying that there is a difference between 4 and 13 is missing the point. The severity of the punishment, and the level of understanding are proportionate. Furthermore, the principal's use of the term "due process" clearly illustrates HIS lack of understanding of either: a). the english language, or b). his roll in relation to his charges... The statement could have been directly applied, without editing, to a warden commenting on the suicide of an inmate. I will probably be roasted alive for saying this... But, the parental reaction could be cultural. By this I mean that my parents reactions to various things at school, and my best friend Javed's parents reactions, were VERY different. Javed's parents took the stance that authority was something to be respected, period. Whereas my parents were sceptics until they knew the details. Sometimes they sided with me, sometimes the school. But they always investigated. How is it that the father could take his son home with only the information "he has been suspended"? Doesn't anyone ask WHY anymore? Should I call these people, and inform them that I am the collections department for X, and that they have unpaid bills? Would they pay? 10 days of suspension for a "victimless" crime, and bulies get 3? What example does this set? The knee jerk reaction is "tougher sentencing for bullies", to make it perportionate. But then again, that is how we got here...
http://www.photonlight.com/more_info/choosing_colo r.html
Towards the bottom of the page. As I am sure you all know, these lights are about the size of a quarter. It should also be fairly trivial to "strobe" the output (increases battery life a plays havoc with receptors, especially with a less than regualr pattern...)
Message: Aerosol Assault will be met with flying butt pliers?
Even though your average chemical engineer can "visualize" the structure of a molecule from it's shell valiances, and member atoms, having 3d haptic controll of molecule "docking" is way cooler (and more usefull in the long run, by allowing for "intuition"). The nifty thing about this kind of project, is that it gives a cross disciliplinary access to a whole metric butt ton of data. I am envisioning something along the lines of the "EARTH" service in Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash. Where you can have as much detail, or as little as you want, and slice multi-dimensional slabs of realtime data (like the price of pimmentos, the weather, and the GNP of Zimbabwe).
Same thing for boats as well as airplanes: Big vehicle has the right of way. Period. Secondly, the average cruising speed of a MiG-21 is around 800 miles an hour, compared to the 348 MPH of the P-3 Orion based craft. WTF were they doing sooo close? Furthermore, what is this "violation of international law" that the Chinese officials keep yapping about? Other than "right of way" in international airspace, what about the "Vienna Convention on Consular Relations" (to lazy to imbed link) http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multi/texts/BH444.txt which I do beleive gives US the right to visit detained miltary personel.
If sovereign nation A renigs on a treaty with sovereign nation B, than the whole rest of the alphabet doesn't want to play with A anymore. I suppose you have never tried to retrieve your car keys from a hostile three-year-old when you are late for work... Similar affect. (yes I just compared world governments to toddlers).
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Even Palm Pilots are too cramped for "real" use (both screen and input), so this one is definetly out... But what about a laser diode that can write to any handy surface? Like a laser pointer/LCD projector? That way you could leave the lcd for more reasonable things like, displaying the time, and serving as an input surface (touch sensitive, but only when after certain conditions are met, like button combo)... By the power vested in me, I now declare this text string and this bit string 'name' and 'key'. What RSA has joined, let no man put asunder. -- Bob Blakley
A goodly portion of their "tech" does work. This is a strong part of the appeal. As far as it being "science" that is just a samantic arguement waiting to happen. The religious aspects are just about as silly as any other religion (i.e. dire and serious to the believers, burning sardine heads to everyone else). Mod me up down or sideways, I don't see the difference...
I don't get this modding thang...
Unless you live in Japan, at which point you can patent things that were invented by another civilization, while you were still poking fish with sharp sticks (i.e. the guys in Japan that tried to patent curry)...
From a Linux angle, FreeS/WAN works on just about everything, even adaptive load balanced NIC teams. It provides decent packet level encryption, and is interoperable with other IPSEC implementations such as Intel Packet Protect. Both FreeS/WAN and Packet Protect are free. Packet Protect requires an Intel NIC though, but with offloading, it is worth it. Both should offer sufficient security for all applications where networking outside of a vault is okay.
Umm... Actually, most DVD's are in the high-definition catagory. It is a limitation of the TV, or a cheap DVD player. "HDTV" ready displays conntected to a quality DVD player yield sharper pictures than any other consumer electronic set-up (other than actual film projection).