I totally agree. If only it were possible! But it's probably about 5 years too late. At Phase5 in Germany (www.phase5.de) they used to have lots of info on their A\\Box project, which is a modern (and just as leading-edge for its time) version of the Amiga they planned on creating. But the info has gone away, which means it probably won't happen. Gateway makes a bunch of promises about reviving the Amiga, but I'll believe it when I see it. My guess is at best they'll do a faster (PPC) version of the 4000.
what a surprise - Anonymous Coward. Like the other person said, these friends and families are better off without you and your immature, biased, blind opinions.
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Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Damned WIntel trolls. Go away and spread lies elswehere.
Athlon sounds like either a tennis shoe or an anti-fungus foot powder. But we forgive them if it rocks!
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Posted by 2B||!2B:
You're absolutely right!!! It's just like when Microsoft put a (paltry) sum into Apple to keep it alive.
The company I'm surprised hasn't gotten into this deeper is IBM. They have both the capability and the deep pockets to compete head-to-head with Intel if they want to. It could still happen.
I have a far more useful application for these lightweight glasses than movies or porn or laptops or video games: some of us need them in real life.
7 years ago in a car wreck I had severe damage to the orbit of my left eye (all 4 walls; that's bad). Anyway, the eye is fine, and the optic nerve had little damage, but the muscles were permanently damaged, and they're not the kind of thing that can be repaired with transplants or anything else. So, like many people who have a bad eye (which is more commonly an eye that always points either out or in, a "lazy eye"), my eyes aren't aligned, preventing me from having proper depth perception or peripheral vision (which makes sports and driving a nightmare; you don't find half-blind guys in the NBA!). There are probably a ton of people in the same state; you normally don't notice because most of us wear sunglasses day and night to avoid stupid comments. I only wear an eye patch when I perform with my rock group, since it's more appropriate then.
As these lightweight LCD glasses improve in resolution, the possibility improves of someone building a pair which would supply a real-time image transformation (in combination with a really high-res CCD or other mini-camera, and a good set of DSP's) for the bad eye so that all of us with a bad eye could see correctly again (thus it would only need the LCD on one side, improving the cost). Normally the mind blocks out the image of the bad eye, but with image alignment it becomes useful again.
I'm not sure what resolution, refresh rate, and color depth it would need to be useful, but I would guess at least 1024 x something, 16-bit as a bare minimum. I'm more of a programmer than an electronics guy, but I may end up trying to organize such a thing myself if somebody else doesn't.
That horse is GONE. The days of pervasive government snooping are over. Anyone who wants their communications to be private can have them be private.
Any brain-dead moron that thinks that the goverment (or anyone else) can tie up the use of already pervasive algorithms is ignoring virtual reality and living in Oz.
I've been using beta 3 for over a month and am loving every minute of it. i had to reboot a couple times the first week while installing certain pieces of software (why oh why does most win software force a reboot - it isn't needed! the registry can be updated on the fly). the system has been turned on and logged in for 3 weeks now, and i run about 20 apps at once, including shitty debug versions of software i'm developing, on a PPro 200 w/ 128MB. if you have any system from ppro to celeron to p2 on up and RAM to spare (c'mon, the stuff is cheap now) - get thyself a copy of W2K Pro when it's released. (best of all: it'll have DX6, maybe 7, i forget which version).
>>Going with your line of argument, they would point out that it's YOUR problem to protect yourself, get an armor suite, bodyguards, don't go out at all.
Speaking as a man who has body armor... No, his arguement is akin to this... Let's say that it becomes illegal to view a nude body that doesn't belong to your child or spouse. If you walk around naked, must it be my obligation to look away or should you put clothes on?
I say it's the latter.
While we're at it, let's make it illegal to be rude. Let's make it illegal to have blue eyes.
The security of your communications is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. Just as safe driving, and good nutrition are your responsibility.
Back to the body armor thing for just a moment. Most types of ballistic armor are rendered useless by a broadhead hunting arrow. A steel.308 or 30-06 rifle bullet will also punch right through most types of body armor. Even if it doesn't make it through it would probably shatter your ribs and puncture a lung anyway.
NO, you are mistaken. Being that IP packets travel over multiple routers which are often owned by MANY differend groups of people. Any admin along that chain can run a packet sniffer and read anything that passes by.
Why do you think there is https? Why do you think Netscape and IE warn you when you submit forms? Because it's easy for the right person to watch packets go by. You have no expectation that at any given moment someone isn't watching. This is why crypto is important.
If I borrow a little from Phil Zimmerman (ok, borrow a lot) sending e-mail is like sending a postcard. Anyone along the way may read it. If you don't like the way that works, use an envelope. Crypto is that envelope. If you want privacy, ENCRYPT, ENCRYPT, ENCRYPT!
The jumping-around within chapters was made necessary, a lot of the time, by Stephenson's funky way of tracing the story -between- chapters. The following sort of technique is not just typical, it's ubiquitous in the novel:
1. We end a chapter with Bobby & Co. leaving a crashed ship to fight their way across Sweden.
2. We have a chapter with Randy, maybe a chapter with Lawrence.
3. When we get to the next chapter with Bobby, he's in bed with a Finnish lady! We have no clue what happened in Sweden.
What happens, then, is that somewhere in the middle of a given chapter, the gaps between it and the previous one with that character are filled in (through dialogue, flashback, whatever). But for a few pages there, as the reader you're doing double-time: trying to adjust to where the protag is now, but also waiting and wondering about what happened where he was.
This made for some confusing parts. I definitely had to do a bit of page-flipping at the beginning of some chapters just to remember where we had last left this particular hero. For me, anyway, the technique -worked- in that it kept my interest: I was avidly pluging through each chapter to discover what just happened in addition to what was about to happen. For a novel that's already jumping back and forth through time, it's an appropriate schtick as well.
There's also some interesting (I'll use that word instead of 'good' or 'bad' since I'm not sure if I like it) stuff going on in terms of which scenes he chooses to actually narrate and which ones occur in the gaps between chapters. E.g. the Sweden thing -- dammit, I wanted to read about that! No such luck. Or how we get a whole chapter about Lawrence's sexual frustrations visavis Mary, but absolutely none of the scene of them getting it on or getting engaged -- when we finally learn it it's in a chapter from another character's perspective. That one didn't bother me as much, and for the most part I suspect Neal's instincts were good as to what to keep and what to defer.
>> I'd rather that they be able to do a bit of policing in the computer world than that they be constantly stumped by encoded documents.
Privacy is more important than making the job of the police easier. Digital eavesdropping isn't the ONLY way to get evidence to arrest criminals.
What do you think L-E-Os did before so much communication was electronic? They worked for a living. John Gotti was brought down without reading a single piece of mafia e-mail.
This is about casual snooping. Not criminal investigations. If you're breaking the law there is real world evidence of it. If I'm plotting to murder someone the crime is in the commission of the act(although in somplaces conspiracy is enough to get you busted). If I sell crack to school kids, I have to buy/produce and then sell the stuff. There are ample opportunities for L-E-Os to catch the bad guys without screwing over the rest of us.
>>Even if the government does ban this, there is no way that they can enforce it. They would be better off not trying to control it at all. They would save money.
You're talking about a government that has wasted BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to stop people from smoking dope. Dope isn't really my thing, but I like to drink beer. Beer for me, weed for someone else, whatever makes you feel good. It's stupid to waste money on something that can't be stopped.
taxation and control, I do agree that the last thing the Feds want is all us proles using encryption.
I particularly like how they claim they're not discouraging free speech. "No, say whatever you'd like. We just want the right to be able to read any and all of it. And take notes."
Why spend the money on this when they can't afford to feed the people in parts of Africa, and when wars still rage there? Why?
Sure they could connect to the Internet at 2Mb/s to send an email, but they can't feed half of the population in central Africa. Cynical? No, but the idea is.
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Posted by The Incredible Mr. Limpett:
AFAIK,
The Altair had the metal switches and the brushed metal front.
The IMSAI 8080, an Altair clone, had the red and blue plastic buttons and looked much nicer (It was shown in the movie War Games.)
BTW this is way before my time, my first computer was a TI99/4A in the early/mid 80's.
Posted by BadOperand:
Most of this free stuff is designed only for
USA power systems anyway.
Remember 110AC 50Hz is used there rather than
220-240AC 60Hz (something like that) which
European countries use (varies for each country).
If you're gonna buy it anyway make sure the
power specs match your own local specs.
Enjoy!
Posted by 2B||!2B:
I totally agree. If only it were possible! But it's probably about 5 years too late. At Phase5 in Germany (www.phase5.de) they used to have lots of info on their A\\Box project, which is a modern (and just as leading-edge for its time) version of the Amiga they planned on creating. But the info has gone away, which means it probably won't happen. Gateway makes a bunch of promises about reviving the Amiga, but I'll believe it when I see it. My guess is at best they'll do a faster (PPC) version of the 4000.
Posted by stodge:
Good point, I hang my head in shame. We forget parts of the deep south. Guess I've seen too many BBC reports on war and famine in Africa.
Posted by stodge:
what a surprise - Anonymous Coward. Like the other person said, these friends and families are better off without you and your immature, biased, blind opinions.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Damned WIntel trolls. Go away and spread lies elswehere.
LK
Posted by 2B||!2B:
Athlon sounds like either a tennis shoe or an anti-fungus foot powder. But we forgive them if it rocks!
Posted by 2B||!2B:
You're absolutely right!!! It's just like when Microsoft put a (paltry) sum into Apple to keep it alive.
The company I'm surprised hasn't gotten into this deeper is IBM. They have both the capability and the deep pockets to compete head-to-head with Intel if they want to. It could still happen.
I have a far more useful application for these lightweight glasses than movies or porn or laptops or video games:
some of us need them in real life.
7 years ago in a car wreck I had severe damage to the orbit of my left eye (all 4 walls; that's bad). Anyway, the eye is fine, and the optic nerve had little damage, but the muscles were permanently damaged, and they're not the kind of thing that can be repaired with transplants or anything else. So, like many people who have a bad eye (which is more commonly an eye that always points either out or in, a "lazy eye"), my eyes aren't aligned, preventing me from having proper depth perception or peripheral vision (which makes sports and driving a nightmare; you don't find half-blind guys in the NBA!). There are probably a ton of people in the same state; you normally don't notice because most of us wear sunglasses day and night to avoid stupid comments. I only wear an eye patch when I perform with my rock group, since it's more appropriate then.
As these lightweight LCD glasses improve in resolution, the possibility improves of someone building a pair which would supply a real-time image transformation (in combination with a really high-res CCD or other mini-camera, and a good set of DSP's) for the bad eye so that all of us with a bad eye could see correctly again (thus it would only need the LCD on one side, improving the cost). Normally the mind blocks out the image of the bad eye, but with image alignment it becomes useful again.
I'm not sure what resolution, refresh rate, and color depth it would need to be useful, but I would guess at least 1024 x something, 16-bit as a bare minimum. I'm more of a programmer than an electronics guy, but I may end up trying to organize such a thing myself if somebody else doesn't.
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Even if you have a trauma plate that can stop it, the kinetic energy that the bullet has can still crack your ribs.
LK
Posted by Reitzel:
They don't get it.
That horse is GONE. The days of pervasive government snooping are over. Anyone who wants their communications to be private can have them be private.
Any brain-dead moron that thinks that the goverment (or anyone else) can tie up the use of already pervasive algorithms is ignoring virtual reality and living in Oz.
Posted by Reitzel:
Sure it's illegal. So what? Did Newt a lot of good to bitch about it being illegal.
You want privacy? Encrypt it.
Just think of it as a condom an the age of electronic AIDS.
Posted by rik e:
I've been using beta 3 for over a month and am loving every minute of it. i had to reboot a couple times the first week while installing certain pieces of software (why oh why does most win software force a reboot - it isn't needed! the registry can be updated on the fly). the system has been turned on and logged in for 3 weeks now, and i run about 20 apps at once, including shitty debug versions of software i'm developing, on a PPro 200 w/ 128MB. if you have any system from ppro to celeron to p2 on up and RAM to spare (c'mon, the stuff is cheap now) - get thyself a copy of W2K Pro when it's released. (best of all: it'll have DX6, maybe 7, i forget which version).
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
.sig?
>>I've yet to find a decision on which I agree with Scalia.
See my
LK
Posted by stodge:
No I didn't know that about Iowa. Fascinating (no really I mean that).
As someone else put it, "Hey HIV+ is prevalent in Africa, but don't worry, you have fast Internet access!"
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
.308 or 30-06 rifle bullet will also punch right through most types of body armor. Even if it doesn't make it through it would probably shatter your ribs and puncture a lung anyway.
>>Going with your line of argument, they would point out that it's YOUR problem to protect yourself, get an armor suite, bodyguards, don't go out at all.
Speaking as a man who has body armor... No, his arguement is akin to this... Let's say that it becomes illegal to view a nude body that doesn't belong to your child or spouse. If you walk around naked, must it be my obligation to look away or should you put clothes on?
I say it's the latter.
While we're at it, let's make it illegal to be rude. Let's make it illegal to have blue eyes.
The security of your communications is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. Just as safe driving, and good nutrition are your responsibility.
Back to the body armor thing for just a moment. Most types of ballistic armor are rendered useless by a broadhead hunting arrow. A steel
LK
Posted by kodokan:
They are available in San Francisco at the Sony Style store in the Metreon. You can try them there and you can buy them
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Come on guys, give me a break.
I wanna snoop too!
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
NO, you are mistaken. Being that IP packets travel over multiple routers which are often owned by MANY differend groups of people. Any admin along that chain can run a packet sniffer and read anything that passes by.
Why do you think there is https? Why do you think Netscape and IE warn you when you submit forms? Because it's easy for the right person to watch packets go by. You have no expectation that at any given moment someone isn't watching. This is why crypto is important.
If I borrow a little from Phil Zimmerman (ok, borrow a lot) sending e-mail is like sending a postcard. Anyone along the way may read it. If you don't like the way that works, use an envelope. Crypto is that envelope. If you want privacy, ENCRYPT, ENCRYPT, ENCRYPT!
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
Over the internet you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. The 4th amendment doesn't apply here.
LK
Posted by TheGrimburgoth:
The jumping-around within chapters was made necessary, a lot of the time, by Stephenson's funky way of tracing the story -between- chapters. The following sort of technique is not just typical, it's ubiquitous in the novel:
1. We end a chapter with Bobby & Co. leaving a crashed ship to fight their way across Sweden.
2. We have a chapter with Randy, maybe a chapter with Lawrence.
3. When we get to the next chapter with Bobby, he's in bed with a Finnish lady! We have no clue what happened in Sweden.
What happens, then, is that somewhere in the middle of a given chapter, the gaps between it and the previous one with that character are filled in (through dialogue, flashback, whatever). But for a few pages there, as the reader you're doing double-time: trying to adjust to where the protag is now, but also waiting and wondering about what happened where he was.
This made for some confusing parts. I definitely had to do a bit of page-flipping at the beginning of some chapters just to remember where we had last left this particular hero. For me, anyway, the technique -worked- in that it kept my interest: I was avidly pluging through each chapter to discover what just happened in addition to what was about to happen. For a novel that's already jumping back and forth through time, it's an appropriate schtick as well.
There's also some interesting (I'll use that word instead of 'good' or 'bad' since I'm not sure if I like it) stuff going on in terms of which scenes he chooses to actually narrate and which ones occur in the gaps between chapters. E.g. the Sweden thing -- dammit, I wanted to read about that! No such luck. Or how we get a whole chapter about Lawrence's sexual frustrations visavis Mary, but absolutely none of the scene of them getting it on or getting engaged -- when we finally learn it it's in a chapter from another character's perspective. That one didn't bother me as much, and for the most part I suspect Neal's instincts were good as to what to keep and what to defer.
Nathan Bruinooge
nsb@wizard.net
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>> I'd rather that they be able to do a bit of policing in the computer world than that they be constantly stumped by encoded documents.
Privacy is more important than making the job of the police easier. Digital eavesdropping isn't the ONLY way to get evidence to arrest criminals.
What do you think L-E-Os did before so much communication was electronic? They worked for a living. John Gotti was brought down without reading a single piece of mafia e-mail.
This is about casual snooping. Not criminal investigations. If you're breaking the law there is real world evidence of it. If I'm plotting to murder someone the crime is in the commission of the act(although in somplaces conspiracy is enough to get you busted). If I sell crack to school kids, I have to buy/produce and then sell the stuff. There are ample opportunities for L-E-Os to catch the bad guys without screwing over the rest of us.
LK
Posted by Lord Kano-The Gangster Of Love:
>>Even if the government does ban this, there is no way that they can enforce it. They would be better off not trying to control it at all. They would save money.
You're talking about a government that has wasted BILLIONS of taxpayer dollars to stop people from smoking dope. Dope isn't really my thing, but I like to drink beer. Beer for me, weed for someone else, whatever makes you feel good. It's stupid to waste money on something that can't be stopped.
LK
Posted by generic kewl tech reference:
taxation and control, I do agree that the last thing the Feds want is all us proles using encryption.
I particularly like how they claim they're not discouraging free speech. "No, say whatever you'd like. We just want the right to be able to read any and all of it. And take notes."
List of things to do:
Download PGP.
Encrypt everything.
Posted by stodge:
Why spend the money on this when they can't afford to feed the people in parts of Africa, and when wars still rage there? Why?
Sure they could connect to the Internet at 2Mb/s to send an email, but they can't feed half of the population in central Africa. Cynical? No, but the idea is.