iDNS is a project to extend the current DNS so that we can use Unicode instead of 7-bits (F)ASCII code. It seems that the main servers are operated from East Asia. __
I remember a story about something similar, a horse who did math, but the owner signaled the horse ("clever Hans"?) the number of kicks by clinking coins together. It seems that the horse could hear this while humans couldn't. This shows that the owner was intelligent, not this horse. __
It's hard to find good links (Google) about Myron Krueger's Videodesk, but I think it very interesting.
In the early 90s, Krueger had a prototype of an actual desk (as in wooden) that was watched by a videocamera and projected upon.
The computer detected things like paper sheets and your fingers on the desk and projected virtual (he called it "artificial reality") things over it. You could see virtual text on a real sheet and move text by forming a box with your fingers and moving it to the new location. Of course, to input a document into the system you would just put it on the desk.
I'd like to see something like that. It would be cool (and more ergonomic than staring to a 14" TV). __
In the First World, we get our electricity from the network. We put an enormous trust in the power company. It's ubiquitous. Everywhere you go to. (Of course, you don't go to places without power)
In the backwaters, the power company is not trustable. You have generators to supplement or substitute the network. __
it has not been long since French farmers stopped lorries carrying lamb entering France from the UK and burnt the (already slaughtered) contents.
French farmers do from time to time stop lorries (cheaper and earlier) vegetables from Spain and drop the load onto the road. The French police does look interestedly and nothing else. Years later, the French government pay something to the Spaniards.
But now the Spaniards have learnt, and Southern Spanish farmers stop lorries from Morocco carrying (cheaper and earlier) vegetables, and drop the load onto the road. These farmers will complain later about the massive immigration of unemployed Moroccan wetbacks. The immigrants come to work under the Spanish farmers, but they want them with papers.
On a related note, Portuguese fishermen dropped Spanish fish that was brought to profit of the obscene prices of fish during the St. John's (06-24) Day.
Meanwhile, the whole agricultural (tobacco included!) and fish production of Europe is subsidized by the EU. __
I always find, oh, an interesting link, -> new window, I want to read this reply and its subcomments, -> new window.
Maybe it's because of my latency but I am always opening new windows. When I end (or get bored)with the current one, I pass to the next one, which, by that time, should be fully loaded. __
I seem to recall that, in some cyberpunk novel (Sterling?) poor South Asian peasants destroy their jungles using supersharp mass-produced cheap ceramical cutlasses. __
NASA caused, both directly and indirectly, millions, possibly billions, of dollars worth of return from aerospace technologies
I have heard many times this argument for investing into space.
But tell me, if instead of investing in space waiting for "direct or indirect returns", you invest directly in Earth technologies, what would you have achieved?
Maybe the returns would have improved even aerospace tech. Certainly the Earth ones would be much better.
I can share that going to space is good, but don't try to defend it with phony arguments.
I'm merrily encrypting data from/dev/random to (similarly random) keys and mailing it off to an assortment of random UK Citizens with various amusing filenames like "murderconfession.txt.pgp," "your_herion_is_in.txt.pgp" etc.
If you receive email with an attachment with a name ending in ".pgp", delete it immediately!
It is a new virus that will get you prosecuted facing two years in the Reading gaol!!
Microsoft and Burger King have told that there is no cure for this new virus.
Wasn't Bruce Sterling in "Islands in the Net" who wrote about a Singaporean mission to space in a time when the superpowers have lost their faith in astronautics? __
For some years now, the W3C has been playing with the idea of URNs or URIs (I don't remember). These are an evolution of URL that don't specify machine location. But I have never found if there are suitable implementations.
Hacking HTML for multiple destinations is at most a kludge.
A promising thing is at Freenet. You specify what document you want and say nothing about it's location.
About load balancing, I remember that the WBI web proxy (somewhere at IBM's AlphaWorks) had an option to do a ping for every link in the page and insert an icon marking slow from fast ones. I found it interestin until I realized that final layout of the page had to wait for the slowest ping. __
From what I understood, HDTV is a failure because it doesn't solve problems.
When you ask what's wrong with TV now, you find "content", "it's boring",...
The problems are with the content (that's why you are reading Slashdot instead of watching TV), not the image quality.
1050 o 1250 horizontal lines are not enough to spend the money at both the emitting and the receiving ends. Of course, prices would go down after massive engagement, but there is not enough of inital adoption.
Digital TV on the other side promises more channels on the same medium. The content will as bad or worse, but there will be more of it. So Digital TV has more of a chance to replace PAL, SECAM & NTSC __
From waht I understood, Google has sets of more trustworthy pages and less trustworthy ones.
A trustworthy page is one linked to by many trustworthy pages or a page that the Google designers found interesting.
Thus to get high relevancy, spamlinkers would have to be linked from trustworthy pages. Of course, if a page links to spam, then it is not so trustworthy.
I hope Google has a way to continously reevaluate the value of pages. __
I don't know about LA, but, where I live is a hole among mountains, so road building is an expensive and difficult thing.
Anyway, the local govmt. keeps our taxes busy building infrastructures. Preparing to be a 21st-century metropolis and all that.
But htey have found that, with the recent economic prosperity, people can buy cars and take them to the road faster that they can build roads. And newer roads are more expensive (tunnels, splitting hills, landfilling).
As a result, whenever an accident or a protest blocks a bit of a road, it's kilometers of traffic jam.
They are building public transportation systems and people use them but not quick enough. Anyway given the recent upsurge in em __
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iDNS is a project to extend the current DNS so that we can use Unicode instead of 7-bits (F)ASCII code. It seems that the main servers are operated from East Asia.
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if you expect me to think a parrot is going to gain anything from some contraption that allows him to browse Slashdot
Karma?
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I remember a story about something similar, a horse who did math, but the owner signaled the horse ("clever Hans"?) the number of kicks by clinking coins together. It seems that the horse could hear this while humans couldn't.
This shows that the owner was intelligent, not this horse.
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Inoshiro publishes a series on practical Linux security at Kuro5hin.
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It wasn't mentioned that batteries use dangerous chemicals, and electric cars require lots of them.
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hello, luckykaa
it is has beena long time since last time.
what about a nice game of chess?
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It's hard to find good links (Google) about Myron Krueger's Videodesk, but I think it very interesting.
In the early 90s, Krueger had a prototype of an actual desk (as in wooden) that was watched by a videocamera and projected upon.
The computer detected things like paper sheets and your fingers on the desk and projected virtual (he called it "artificial reality") things over it. You could see virtual text on a real sheet and move text by forming a box with your fingers and moving it to the new location. Of course, to input a document into the system you would just put it on the desk.
I'd like to see something like that. It would be cool (and more ergonomic than staring to a 14" TV).
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This reminded me of electricity.
In the First World, we get our electricity from the network. We put an enormous trust in the power company. It's ubiquitous. Everywhere you go to. (Of course, you don't go to places without power)
In the backwaters, the power company is not trustable. You have generators to supplement or substitute the network.
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it has not been long since French farmers stopped lorries carrying lamb entering France from the UK and burnt the (already slaughtered) contents.
French farmers do from time to time stop lorries (cheaper and earlier) vegetables from Spain and drop the load onto the road. The French police does look interestedly and nothing else. Years later, the French government pay something to the Spaniards.
But now the Spaniards have learnt, and Southern Spanish farmers stop lorries from Morocco carrying (cheaper and earlier) vegetables, and drop the load onto the road. These farmers will complain later about the massive immigration of unemployed Moroccan wetbacks. The immigrants come to work under the Spanish farmers, but they want them with papers.
On a related note, Portuguese fishermen dropped Spanish fish that was brought to profit of the obscene prices of fish during the St. John's (06-24) Day.
Meanwhile, the whole agricultural (tobacco included!) and fish production of Europe is subsidized by the EU.
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Um. I remember that some network computers were designed to have one visible window in order to not confuse users.
So they might be right.
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Would Gopher benefit of a Gopher to i-mode or WAP gateway?
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How can you read Slashdot in one window?
I always find, oh, an interesting link, -> new window, I want to read this reply and its subcomments, -> new window.
Maybe it's because of my latency but I am always opening new windows. When I end (or get bored)with the current one, I pass to the next one, which, by that time, should be fully loaded.
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Argh! An extremely long word in FULL CAPS as the subject. That broke the layout of the main page (I have the Ten Top Comments box on)
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I seem to recall that, in some cyberpunk novel (Sterling?) poor South Asian peasants destroy their jungles using supersharp mass-produced cheap ceramical cutlasses.
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How does having a big international science facility in Chile influence the Chileans?
How do you adapt to living in a place (the Atacama desert) with virtually no rain?
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NASA caused, both directly and indirectly, millions, possibly billions, of dollars worth of return from aerospace technologies
I have heard many times this argument for investing into space.
But tell me, if instead of investing in space waiting for "direct or indirect returns", you invest directly in Earth technologies, what would you have achieved?
Maybe the returns would have improved even aerospace tech. Certainly the Earth ones would be much better.
I can share that going to space is good, but don't try to defend it with phony arguments.
__
I'm merrily encrypting data from /dev/random to (similarly random) keys and mailing it off to an assortment of random UK Citizens with various amusing filenames like "murderconfession.txt.pgp," "your_herion_is_in.txt.pgp" etc.
If you receive email with an attachment with a name ending in ".pgp", delete it immediately!
It is a new virus that will get you prosecuted facing two years in the Reading gaol!!
Microsoft and Burger King have told that there is no cure for this new virus.
Forward this to everybody you ever knew.
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Wasn't Bruce Sterling in "Islands in the Net" who wrote about a Singaporean mission to space in a time when the superpowers have lost their faith in astronautics?
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For some years now, the W3C has been playing with the idea of URNs or URIs (I don't remember). These are an evolution of URL that don't specify machine location. But I have never found if there are suitable implementations.
Hacking HTML for multiple destinations is at most a kludge.
A promising thing is at Freenet. You specify what document you want and say nothing about it's location.
About load balancing, I remember that the WBI web proxy (somewhere at IBM's AlphaWorks) had an option to do a ping for every link in the page and insert an icon marking slow from fast ones. I found it interestin until I realized that final layout of the page had to wait for the slowest ping.
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From what I understood, HDTV is a failure because it doesn't solve problems.
When you ask what's wrong with TV now, you find "content", "it's boring",...
The problems are with the content (that's why you are reading Slashdot instead of watching TV), not the image quality.
1050 o 1250 horizontal lines are not enough to spend the money at both the emitting and the receiving ends.
Of course, prices would go down after massive engagement, but there is not enough of inital adoption.
Digital TV on the other side promises more channels on the same medium. The content will as bad or worse, but there will be more of it. So Digital TV has more of a chance to replace PAL, SECAM & NTSC
__
From waht I understood, Google has sets of more trustworthy pages and less trustworthy ones.
A trustworthy page is one linked to by many trustworthy pages or a page that the Google designers found interesting.
Thus to get high relevancy, spamlinkers would have to be linked from trustworthy pages. Of course, if a page links to spam, then it is not so trustworthy.
I hope Google has a way to continously reevaluate the value of pages.
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Loki gathered some hackers (including ESR) to hack (under NDA) tricks for their game "Civilization: Call to Power".
It was reported earlier.
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Jakob Nielsen has a very good impression on this.
He thinks this will finally bring micropayments into reality.
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We are a decentralized metropolitan area of tens of millions of people, with no fixed transportation patterns.
:)
This is an effect of not having a proper public transportation planning from the start.
The Los Angeles area is built on geographically unstable stuff that requires a lot of engineering to tunnel through.
Actually, I am betting a major earthquake will hit LA anytime soon. It's amazing the (economical, cultural) risks the world is taking about it.
It seems it would be better to bulldoze and start elsewhere, or was it in SimCity?
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I don't know about LA, but, where I live is a hole among mountains, so road building is an expensive and difficult thing.
Anyway, the local govmt. keeps our taxes busy building infrastructures. Preparing to be a 21st-century metropolis and all that.
But htey have found that, with the recent economic prosperity, people can buy cars and take them to the road faster that they can build roads. And newer roads are more expensive (tunnels, splitting hills, landfilling).
As a result, whenever an accident or a protest blocks a bit of a road, it's kilometers of traffic jam.
They are building public transportation systems and people use them but not quick enough.
Anyway given the recent upsurge in em
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