Well, since it is both an upstream and downstream link, you just send their light back to them and get your money back. Sort of like the deposit some places have on glass bottles. You're just "borrowing" the light, which can then be recycled.
Can anyone in India tell me whether this is an honest attempt at doing something stupid, or do you guys have the equivalent of Ted Stevens and his "Internet Tubes"?
Marvell is also a founding member of the consortium, according to the website, so this really has to do little with turning hypocritical. "The founding corporate members are Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Brightstar, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, Nortel, and Red Hat."
OS X? Are you mad? Do you honestly believe you can get OS X slimmed down enough to work -- not crawl -- in 128 Mb of RAM and 500 Mb of flash? Would there even be enough left to call it "OS X"? The box specs of Tiger call for 256 Mb of RAM and 3 Gb of drive space, at a minimum.
OS X is NOT open source, it has open source components. Where is the source code for Quartz, Aqua or Quicktime (w/codecs)? Would you, or any other Mac fan, honestly consider using OS X with an X-Windows interface, foregoing Aqua, and still call it OS X?
It's not as if Marvell is going to pull their technology out of this project after the devices are fielded.
Yes, they will. It is called a "discontinued product", also known as "obsolete".
Theo is asking for documentation on the underlying hardware, in case Marvell decides to no longer support the chipset. That happens all the time, as new products are built and older ones are discontinued. When -- not if -- Marvell decides to no longer provide driver/firmware updates, who is going to support the chipset? If full documentation is available, the OSS community can and, judging by past actions, will.
Considering that this project has the potential to improve education over the entire world, does that not mitigate any other consideration?
No. Hell, if the U.S. decided to invade Sudan, for example, and completely take over -- not the half-assed job they're doing in Iraq, but full-fledged colonialism -- would the potential to improve education, sanitation, infrastructure and nutrition mitigate any other consideration? [Try not to use the word "any" in a context like you did. It can open some horrendous doors.]
African Union, a regional force made up of troops from different African nations. The theory is "locals" would be more palatable than former "colonials". They already have a small number of troops in Sudan to help police the issue. However, they have been trying to increase this number but have been thwarted by the Sudanese gov't. Sudan militarized a couple of ports and prevented their entry.
No, every little bit doesn't help for Sudan. Food and relief supplies get to the people who need it only when the Sudanese gov't wants it to. That is to say, almost never. Please explain to me why this deserves our attention. No, I will not accept "so someone will DO something" as an answer.
Do WHAT?
In Sudan it is the government inflicting this genocide on its own people. They are not interested in stopping.
The genocide in the Sudan will stop only with one of three possible outcomes:
1. The Sudanese gov't accomplishes what they are trying to do, and butcher the vast majority of animist and christian peoples in the south. They would need to eliminate them totally as a political and social entity, so I'm talking 95%+ here.
2. A revolution, overthrowing the existing gov't. They tried, and this isn't going to happen. Even if it did, it would be chaos and you'd end up with another Somalia.
3. An invasion, overthrowing the existing gov't. This would need to be done by someone with a backbone and the wherewithal to actually do it right. This leaves out both the U.N. and the A.U. And by "do it right" I mean real 19th-century colonial rule. An iron fist to whip their asses into shape, forcibly establish law and order and then set up a good educational system and get an entire generation into school.
Can you actually see a #4, or are you truely advocating #3 by raising awareness in the U.S. that we just say "enough is enough" and transfer all our troops from Iraq to Sudan?
If hardware, other than the hard drive, goes down and needs swapped then most likely you will need to reactivate. It will depend on the type and amount of hardware that goes down, but the article was about MOTHERBOARD swaps. Those will frequently trigger WGA and require activation, unless you replace it with the exact same make & model.
They were all heavily regulated industries, like banks and investment institutions.
Many had viruses that were found to have originated from web-based e-mail, causing major headaches and lots of downtime. I had this happen once at a hospital and that was all she wrote for web-based e-mail.
Many viruses contain their own SMTP engine, so the easy way to detect and neutralize them is to have your firewall block port 25 communications to/from any system EXCEPT your authorized mail servers. Your monitoring agent should light up like a Christmas tree when you do this and get infected.
Some of the managers were seriosuly anal. I had one guy tell me "I pay them for 40 hours worth of work, I don't want to see ONE MINUTE of web browsing or personal e-mail." This company later offered me a permanent position. I politely declined.
Others allowed time-based holes, such as lunch hour and after hours for general browsing.
Many took the sane route. Announce, log, monitor and then only go after serious offenders. Block the serious sites flat out, like porn and gambling. Then, if necessary, traffic shape to other sites or block by MAC address.
Again, you really need some dedicated people. This is NOT an afterthought or part-time job if you organization has more than 20 people.
I used to work for a company that had an excellent product that could interface with this. TriGeo Network Security's SIM would be perfect in this situation.
Send all Internet connections thru proxies. Hire a couple of admins who have the job -- and nothing else -- of reviewing logs and applying content filters. Just flat out block porn, auction sites, non-official e-mail/webmail, stock/investment, gambling and sports sites. Start working down from there.
Post a policy, make everyone attend an "awareness" class, make them sign off on it. Make sure they all understand they are being watched and this sort of thing won't be tolerated.
Have the policy contain some teeth. Warn people on the first instance, reprimand on the following, suspend on #3 and FIRE THEM on #4. Make the termination public -- tell the rest of the staff why that person is no longer with you.
Apply it fairly, up and down the chain, from the Department Head all the way down to the janitors.
I'd also suggest taking inventory of what software people NEED to use for their daily jobs and then locking the system down so they can't install other software. Terminal services (Citrix, LTSP, whatever) is an excellent choice for non-power users.
Will it be 100% effective? No, of course not. But it will make a major dent in the problem. I've guided several financial institutions thru this exact process and it works.
Hospitals and health care institutions are a different animal. Nothing is more entertaining than watching some poor net admin try and tell a Doctor (aka GOD) that he can't do that. Heh. Subtler means are necessary...
$400-$700 per developer for a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Professional vs $1000 for the Desktop Qt library? I think I'll stick with Visual Studio 2005.
Then you won't be doing any cross-platform work, will you? QT is available for Windows, Linux and Mac but Visual Studio is going to generate output only for Windows.
Wouldn't BK just be the darling of the media if there was a "Hot Coffee" type of mod, allowing the "King" to deliver his own special meat and dipping sauce to his chosen "Queen".
A "Godfather" mod could have a dark-suited, Sicilian King making you a Meal Deal you Can't Refuse.
A "GTA" mod could have the possibility of someone popping a cap in his ass when he jumps out with food.
Doesn't that depend on how they use the magnets? If the entire payload is magnetically suspended -- levitated, if you will -- and there is no contact with a track, that would reduce stress greatly.
I'd suggest doing it in a vacuum as well, but the shock of going from micro-vacuum to the atmosphere at 8+ kps would most likely pulverize the satellite. It would create one hell of a sonic "boom", though.:-)
Ideally, they'd build something like this down in S. America, up in the Andes. Get as far up as you can so you aren't fighting so much gravity. What we really need to do is get to Mars. Olympus Mons rises so high up it would be the perfect spot for a launch facility like this.
Hmmm...that image reminds me of the guys in Australia that built the potato gun with a 30-foot barrel. The potatoes were fired so fast that when they hit their target (watermelons, in this case) the targets just blew into a red mist. There was a video of this online somewhere...
Re-use the ring by doing multiple loops around it to gradually build up speed. The problem with linear acceleration is you would need to either accelerate it very, very fast or have one hell of a long line. The ring solves those problems.
Speaking of R&D......one of the comments made by Lucent CEO Patricia Russo about the pending merger with Alcatel said (and I'm paraphrasing because I don't have the quote in front of me):
"Alcatel does not do the kind of research that Lucent has historically done at Bell Labs. Future projects at Bell Labs will need to focus on productization in a 5-year timeframe. This transition has already started."
Science and research for the sake of science and research is now officially dead at Bell Labs. If they can't turn it into something that can be sold within 5 years, shitcan it.
Umm...he is right. Comcast offers that service as well. The VoIP DTA has a cable modem built in and it locks out other connections. Yes, technically you have cable internet service, but it only works for the VoIP phone and not anything else you plug in to it.
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Really? Then how come my Comcast VoIP phone goes all to hell when I start uploading big files at the same time?
That reminds me of a CNN headline that read "Reno Extends Gore Probe". It was about Al Gore's arm-twisting phone calls for donations, made from his office. However, more could be read into it from just the headline. If you've ever seen a photo of Janet Reno that headline could give you nightmares!
"How does it work? Using your existing e-mail address, Void says its technology automatically separates the sender's and receiver's names and the date from the body of the message, never allowing them to be seen together: "VaporStream messages cannot be printed, cut and pasted, forwarded or saved, helping promote open and collaborative communications. Once read, VaporStream stream messages are gone forever." The instant a VaporStream stream message is sent, the company says, it is placed in a temporary storage buffer space. "When the recipient logs in to read their message, the message is removed from the buffer space. By the time the recipient opens it, the complete stream message no longer exists on the server or any other computer."
Anyone can go to the company's web site and sign up for the service at $39.95 per year. It is Web-based, meaning that no hardware or software purchases are required. The company also says that VaporStream is completely immune to spam and viruses."
I guess their angle is to defend against MITM attacks. If it is web based, it sounds like the sender (Adam) logs in via HTTPS and sends a message to the recipient (Betty). The service adds a unique ID to the message, strips the headers and forwards it on to Betty.
Security problems that keep the bad guys from using it? The first is the $39.95 per month fee. No sense registering with that credit card 'cause that is tracable. How about sniffing one step upstream from Void's servers for originating IPs. That'll give you who is using it. Then traffic analysis watching for outgoing e-mail messages. If it works with your existing e-mail address then it uses SMTP, which is quite possibly plain text. You can sniff the contents of the message and the recipient. Statistical analysis of the HTTPS traffic just before the SMTP intercept can probably tell you who the sender was.
Let's not even get into the whole "recent hole in OpenSSL", staging a MITM/DNS poising attack with a proxy or phishing site.
The IAEA has estimated they have a total of maybe about 50 each, of varying yields but nothing on the order of magnitude of what Russia or the U.S. has or had back in the bad ol' days.
It is also highly unlikely that they'd both shoot their entire arsenal and that their delivery systems are 100% effective.
The total target area, if you assume 100% of the land area of both countries, doesn't come anywhere close to the land area they were talking about if the U.S. and U.S.S.R. teed off. The whole "nuclear winter" scenario was based on massive strikes throughout N. America, Europe and Asia with a possibility of Australia getting hit, too.
There have been above-ground tests by several countries of hydrogen-style bombs, none of which disturbed the weather of Cleveland one whit.
"Nuclear" is not a synonym for "magic". It is a big-ass bomb with a varying amount of radiation depending on the design. Yes, it would be devastating for South-Central Asia and the surrounding area, but considering it a major worry for the people in the Western Hemisphere? That is an overreaction.
Fallout would be limited to the region and where the prevaling winds blew, but not far. And nuclear winter isn't an option with the few nukes those countries have. Remember, nukes have been detonated before in small numbers without those issues.
In all reality, a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India wouldn't be all that noticable outside of the directly affected area. After all, the bombing of Hiroshima didn't exactly affect the weather in Cleveland, did it?
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Well, since it is both an upstream and downstream link, you just send their light back to them and get your money back. Sort of like the deposit some places have on glass bottles. You're just "borrowing" the light, which can then be recycled.
Can anyone in India tell me whether this is an honest attempt at doing something stupid, or do you guys have the equivalent of Ted Stevens and his "Internet Tubes"?
Marvell is also a founding member of the consortium, according to the website, so this really has to do little with turning hypocritical. "The founding corporate members are Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Brightstar, Google, Marvell, News Corporation, Nortel, and Red Hat."
OS X? Are you mad? Do you honestly believe you can get OS X slimmed down enough to work -- not crawl -- in 128 Mb of RAM and 500 Mb of flash? Would there even be enough left to call it "OS X"? The box specs of Tiger call for 256 Mb of RAM and 3 Gb of drive space, at a minimum.
OS X is NOT open source, it has open source components. Where is the source code for Quartz, Aqua or Quicktime (w/codecs)? Would you, or any other Mac fan, honestly consider using OS X with an X-Windows interface, foregoing Aqua, and still call it OS X?
It's not as if Marvell is going to pull their technology out of this project after the devices are fielded.
Yes, they will. It is called a "discontinued product", also known as "obsolete".
Theo is asking for documentation on the underlying hardware, in case Marvell decides to no longer support the chipset. That happens all the time, as new products are built and older ones are discontinued. When -- not if -- Marvell decides to no longer provide driver/firmware updates, who is going to support the chipset? If full documentation is available, the OSS community can and, judging by past actions, will.
Considering that this project has the potential to improve education over the entire world, does that not mitigate any other consideration?
No. Hell, if the U.S. decided to invade Sudan, for example, and completely take over -- not the half-assed job they're doing in Iraq, but full-fledged colonialism -- would the potential to improve education, sanitation, infrastructure and nutrition mitigate any other consideration? [Try not to use the word "any" in a context like you did. It can open some horrendous doors.]
African Union, a regional force made up of troops from different African nations. The theory is "locals" would be more palatable than former "colonials". They already have a small number of troops in Sudan to help police the issue. However, they have been trying to increase this number but have been thwarted by the Sudanese gov't. Sudan militarized a couple of ports and prevented their entry.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6033231.stm
No, every little bit doesn't help for Sudan. Food and relief supplies get to the people who need it only when the Sudanese gov't wants it to. That is to say, almost never. Please explain to me why this deserves our attention. No, I will not accept "so someone will DO something" as an answer.
Do WHAT?
In Sudan it is the government inflicting this genocide on its own people. They are not interested in stopping.
The genocide in the Sudan will stop only with one of three possible outcomes:
1. The Sudanese gov't accomplishes what they are trying to do, and butcher the vast majority of animist and christian peoples in the south. They would need to eliminate them totally as a political and social entity, so I'm talking 95%+ here.
2. A revolution, overthrowing the existing gov't. They tried, and this isn't going to happen. Even if it did, it would be chaos and you'd end up with another Somalia.
3. An invasion, overthrowing the existing gov't. This would need to be done by someone with a backbone and the wherewithal to actually do it right. This leaves out both the U.N. and the A.U. And by "do it right" I mean real 19th-century colonial rule. An iron fist to whip their asses into shape, forcibly establish law and order and then set up a good educational system and get an entire generation into school.
Can you actually see a #4, or are you truely advocating #3 by raising awareness in the U.S. that we just say "enough is enough" and transfer all our troops from Iraq to Sudan?
Charles
You forgot SG1. This is a geek website, how the hell can you forget SG1! Wait. You're a mole from the MPAA, aren't you. We're on to you buddy!
Flying cars would be a great -- for thinning the population. Have you seen how people drive? Think how it would be with gravity and no true brake.
If hardware, other than the hard drive, goes down and needs swapped then most likely you will need to reactivate. It will depend on the type and amount of hardware that goes down, but the article was about MOTHERBOARD swaps. Those will frequently trigger WGA and require activation, unless you replace it with the exact same make & model.
They were all heavily regulated industries, like banks and investment institutions.
Many had viruses that were found to have originated from web-based e-mail, causing major headaches and lots of downtime. I had this happen once at a hospital and that was all she wrote for web-based e-mail.
Many viruses contain their own SMTP engine, so the easy way to detect and neutralize them is to have your firewall block port 25 communications to/from any system EXCEPT your authorized mail servers. Your monitoring agent should light up like a Christmas tree when you do this and get infected.
Some of the managers were seriosuly anal. I had one guy tell me "I pay them for 40 hours worth of work, I don't want to see ONE MINUTE of web browsing or personal e-mail." This company later offered me a permanent position. I politely declined.
Others allowed time-based holes, such as lunch hour and after hours for general browsing.
Many took the sane route. Announce, log, monitor and then only go after serious offenders. Block the serious sites flat out, like porn and gambling. Then, if necessary, traffic shape to other sites or block by MAC address.
Again, you really need some dedicated people. This is NOT an afterthought or part-time job if you organization has more than 20 people.
I used to work for a company that had an excellent product that could interface with this. TriGeo Network Security's SIM would be perfect in this situation.
Charles
Send all Internet connections thru proxies. Hire a couple of admins who have the job -- and nothing else -- of reviewing logs and applying content filters. Just flat out block porn, auction sites, non-official e-mail/webmail, stock/investment, gambling and sports sites. Start working down from there.
Post a policy, make everyone attend an "awareness" class, make them sign off on it. Make sure they all understand they are being watched and this sort of thing won't be tolerated.
Have the policy contain some teeth. Warn people on the first instance, reprimand on the following, suspend on #3 and FIRE THEM on #4. Make the termination public -- tell the rest of the staff why that person is no longer with you.
Apply it fairly, up and down the chain, from the Department Head all the way down to the janitors.
I'd also suggest taking inventory of what software people NEED to use for their daily jobs and then locking the system down so they can't install other software. Terminal services (Citrix, LTSP, whatever) is an excellent choice for non-power users.
Will it be 100% effective? No, of course not. But it will make a major dent in the problem. I've guided several financial institutions thru this exact process and it works.
Hospitals and health care institutions are a different animal. Nothing is more entertaining than watching some poor net admin try and tell a Doctor (aka GOD) that he can't do that. Heh. Subtler means are necessary...
$400-$700 per developer for a copy of Visual Studio 2005 Professional vs $1000 for the Desktop Qt library? I think I'll stick with Visual Studio 2005.
Then you won't be doing any cross-platform work, will you? QT is available for Windows, Linux and Mac but Visual Studio is going to generate output only for Windows.
This game just cries out for mods.
Wouldn't BK just be the darling of the media if there was a "Hot Coffee" type of mod, allowing the "King" to deliver his own special meat and dipping sauce to his chosen "Queen".
A "Godfather" mod could have a dark-suited, Sicilian King making you a Meal Deal you Can't Refuse.
A "GTA" mod could have the possibility of someone popping a cap in his ass when he jumps out with food.
The possibilities (for lawsuits) are endless!
Doesn't that depend on how they use the magnets? If the entire payload is magnetically suspended -- levitated, if you will -- and there is no contact with a track, that would reduce stress greatly.
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I'd suggest doing it in a vacuum as well, but the shock of going from micro-vacuum to the atmosphere at 8+ kps would most likely pulverize the satellite. It would create one hell of a sonic "boom", though.
Ideally, they'd build something like this down in S. America, up in the Andes. Get as far up as you can so you aren't fighting so much gravity. What we really need to do is get to Mars. Olympus Mons rises so high up it would be the perfect spot for a launch facility like this.
Hmmm...that image reminds me of the guys in Australia that built the potato gun with a 30-foot barrel. The potatoes were fired so fast that when they hit their target (watermelons, in this case) the targets just blew into a red mist. There was a video of this online somewhere...
Re-use the ring by doing multiple loops around it to gradually build up speed. The problem with linear acceleration is you would need to either accelerate it very, very fast or have one hell of a long line. The ring solves those problems.
Speaking of R&D... ...one of the comments made by Lucent CEO Patricia Russo about the pending merger with Alcatel said (and I'm paraphrasing because I don't have the quote in front of me):
"Alcatel does not do the kind of research that Lucent has historically done at Bell Labs. Future projects at Bell Labs will need to focus on productization in a 5-year timeframe. This transition has already started."
Science and research for the sake of science and research is now officially dead at Bell Labs. If they can't turn it into something that can be sold within 5 years, shitcan it.
Umm...he is right. Comcast offers that service as well. The VoIP DTA has a cable modem built in and it locks out other connections. Yes, technically you have cable internet service, but it only works for the VoIP phone and not anything else you plug in to it.
Really? Then how come my Comcast VoIP phone goes all to hell when I start uploading big files at the same time?
Since discontinued, but more likely than not better quality than anything you're going to need.
Get thee to Ebay!
(No, that is not my auction.)
That reminds me of a CNN headline that read "Reno Extends Gore Probe". It was about Al Gore's arm-twisting phone calls for donations, made from his office. However, more could be read into it from just the headline. If you've ever seen a photo of Janet Reno that headline could give you nightmares!
Someone was hit by a blimp?
"How does it work? Using your existing e-mail address, Void says its technology automatically separates the sender's and receiver's names and the date from the body of the message, never allowing them to be seen together: "VaporStream messages cannot be printed, cut and pasted, forwarded or saved, helping promote open and collaborative communications. Once read, VaporStream stream messages are gone forever." The instant a VaporStream stream message is sent, the company says, it is placed in a temporary storage buffer space. "When the recipient logs in to read their message, the message is removed from the buffer space. By the time the recipient opens it, the complete stream message no longer exists on the server or any other computer."
Anyone can go to the company's web site and sign up for the service at $39.95 per year. It is Web-based, meaning that no hardware or software purchases are required. The company also says that VaporStream is completely immune to spam and viruses."
I guess their angle is to defend against MITM attacks. If it is web based, it sounds like the sender (Adam) logs in via HTTPS and sends a message to the recipient (Betty). The service adds a unique ID to the message, strips the headers and forwards it on to Betty.
Security problems that keep the bad guys from using it? The first is the $39.95 per month fee. No sense registering with that credit card 'cause that is tracable. How about sniffing one step upstream from Void's servers for originating IPs. That'll give you who is using it. Then traffic analysis watching for outgoing e-mail messages. If it works with your existing e-mail address then it uses SMTP, which is quite possibly plain text. You can sniff the contents of the message and the recipient. Statistical analysis of the HTTPS traffic just before the SMTP intercept can probably tell you who the sender was.
Let's not even get into the whole "recent hole in OpenSSL", staging a MITM/DNS poising attack with a proxy or phishing site.
Charles
The IAEA has estimated they have a total of maybe about 50 each, of varying yields but nothing on the order of magnitude of what Russia or the U.S. has or had back in the bad ol' days.
It is also highly unlikely that they'd both shoot their entire arsenal and that their delivery systems are 100% effective.
The total target area, if you assume 100% of the land area of both countries, doesn't come anywhere close to the land area they were talking about if the U.S. and U.S.S.R. teed off. The whole "nuclear winter" scenario was based on massive strikes throughout N. America, Europe and Asia with a possibility of Australia getting hit, too.
There have been above-ground tests by several countries of hydrogen-style bombs, none of which disturbed the weather of Cleveland one whit.
"Nuclear" is not a synonym for "magic". It is a big-ass bomb with a varying amount of radiation depending on the design. Yes, it would be devastating for South-Central Asia and the surrounding area, but considering it a major worry for the people in the Western Hemisphere? That is an overreaction.
"Key to the Extraterrestrial Messages"
Say what?!
Fallout would be limited to the region and where the prevaling winds blew, but not far. And nuclear winter isn't an option with the few nukes those countries have. Remember, nukes have been detonated before in small numbers without those issues.
In all reality, a nuclear exchange between Pakistan and India wouldn't be all that noticable outside of the directly affected area. After all, the bombing of Hiroshima didn't exactly affect the weather in Cleveland, did it?