The biggest work in the mobile market at the moment is 3G networks - which will integrate data, voice, and video over a high-speed cellular network.
Most of the implementors are explicitly not making an assumption that the terminal is a trusted device, and are relying on the USIM to carry trusted information (such as identity information), and on encrypted network storage to carry certificates etc.
Location based services do not rely on GPS, and do not rely on trusting the phone - LBS is a network function.
Digitally signing will require an authenticating protocol (e.g. USIM->PIN) and this authenticator will unlock a cert held in a crypto vault.
The concerns I have with this are that most of the tags are either nominalisations, or passive.
A nominalisation is a verb that has been turned into a noun - an example being "I am in a relationship". This is also passive, and as such has cognitively mixed inaccuracies loaded into it.
You can check a nominalisation very simply - is the noun in question something you could carry in a wheelbarrow? If so, no nominalisation. If you can add the descriptor "ongoing" to the noun, as in "an ongoing relationship". Non-nominalisations fail a sense test when this is applied "I am in an ongoing pencil"
When statements such as "Dr Zhivago is a butcher" are made, they represent an opinion of the speaker, with the originating reference deleted. Listener A may take the above statement to mean that Zhivago is a mass murderer, Listener B may believe that Zhivago is a poor medical practioner, and the original meaning of the content may have been that Zhivago owns a butcher's shop.
Labels such as Tired, Lazy, Angry, Fearful, Happy, are all at least level removed from the exact physiological experience. In order to communicate effectively and to eliminate misunderstanding we need to communicate at a level which elicitates exactly the things that we see, hear and feel in the person we are communicating with.
In order to communicate really well, it is essential that we meet the other person in their model of the world - to do that, we can check the response we are getting to our communication - this gives us the received meaning of our communication. If the response you are getting isn't working, do *anything* else. Doing the same thing but louder/sadder/angrier/brighter will give you more of what you've already got.
If we are talking about the vision of a Human Markup Language, how will we know that the labels that we have chosen out of the rich variety of human experience will effectively match in our target communicatee the thoughts, feelings and expressions we wished to elicit?
I am suprised that no one has mentioned the superior products offered by Psion - is this Not Invented In USA syndrome striking again?
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Of course, the funny thing was when all the windows administrators started getting all officious, and posting notices to the effect that "a virus cannot possibly spread via email".
Result? Melissa. (Well, it made me laugh - I use Linux).
Those people who find this stuff interesting should check out the work of Dr. Kevin Warwick, of Reading University, UK.
He wrote a book in 1997 called "March of the machines", which outlines the anticipated developments in cybernetics and AI.
On the ideas propounded by Joy, et al, I think that even at a conservative estimate, there are strong indicators that in the early part of this century computational power will be greater than that of the human brain.
Advancements in robotics, particularly in optical and biological systems are also speeding intelligent machines' abilities to move, operate and be effective in the everyday world. Within the next 10 to 50 years artificial intelligence systems will have been developed at a number of locations. I expect these to be not only more intelligent than humans, but to also exhibit a significant number of advantages - they will be faster, more reliable, quicker to learn and more robust. There is an issue with "sensory deprivation" - if we make a device with an equivalent or greater level of intelligence that us, we must give it input - imagine what would happen to you if you were closed off from the world with no sensory input for 23 hours out of 24.
An interesting question posed in Warwick's book is whether robots of the future will treat us as we currently treat other creatures - farms, pets and zoos? This may be the best we can hope for.
As someone who used to run ISP's for a living, (Yes I used Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AND NT on occasion:-) ) I am quite used to getting the kind of call/letter/email from a member of the outraged public, along the lines of "I searched through all the newsgroups you carry, looked at all the homepages, did some searches on the search engines you link to, and eventually, after two or three hours, I found some filth!"
The Internet is not a kiddie playground, supervised by social workers and kindly policemen. It is an anarchic meeting ground - different races, different political views, and different business drivers all come together. Sometimes they collaborate, sometimes they fight. However, if we do not encourage the freedom of expression on the Internet, it will cease being the port-of-call that it currently can be, and become just a slower form of Cable TV.
There are things on the Internet I don't want my children to see - this is also true of TV. It's my responsibility as a parent to make those choices, to educate my children and to share with them why I am making those choices.
What I would welcome from a legislative body is a process for me to choose what content I view, control where my personal information is stored (and thereby, how big my data shadow grows) and have the ability to publish my thoughts and express my beliefs without fear of prejudice, reprisal, or bigotry.
It would also be nice if I could be assured that the communications I send and receive remain confidential, retain integrity, and that the channels I communicate over - be it email, web, IRC, telephone, letter, or whatever - undertake to protect those channels, and to maximise their availablity to me.
I know this may sound like a utopian dream, but this is the kind of aspiration most of us share - we are drawn to OS's like Linux and BSD not only because they extend the invitation to directly participate in their development, but also because those who have already participated in that development have chosen to build it as best they can. Focusing on stability and reliabity has given us a stable platform, which assures us that we can use it as a communications base without fear of being let down.
We need the same level of assurance in our communications - we need to have an assurance that our privacy is respected, the integrity and confidentiality of our communications is controlled and measurable, and that those who we trust to carry our messages will do so to the best of their ability.
Part of the answer to this may be strong crypto - certainly things like PGP, Thawte, and so on allow us to set controls on privacy and identity. It is not the role of the government to protect us from ourselves - we do not want it, or need it.
Probably not. Made in Israel, made in Finland, made in the UK, now those are possible.
The USA is no longer seen as the dominant force in software development, thanks to some brilliant European programmers, the accent on quality over features, and also the recent inhibitive software legislation, of which UCITA is the latest example.
It is a shame that a project of this kind, which could have some real benefits (scanning email for transmitted viral content, etc.) has been put to such a low purpose as the supression of free speech.
Zedz.net (under their former name of replay.com) have done sterling work for years - advocating and providing strong crypto, providing assured anonymity systems and services _for free_, and in general raising the awareness of crypto in Europe and providing valuable resources. To be honest, they've been on the block longer than Slashdot.
The domain issue is a silly one - I am strongly opposed to the "register everywhere to protect the organisation" policies advocated by Network Solutions - it obviously helps them sell more domains, but if your organisation is weak enough to need this type of protection, you have other things to worry about. It is arguable whether the current "hierachical" domain model is valid any more - if everyone "has" to be under.com, then surely.com is redundant.
Two things occur to me - the OpenSSH project(s) should be about cutting code, getting it out there early and often, and providing a viable alternative to the closed-source implementations. Squabbling about who has what domain name has nothing to do with open-source. The Linux v BSD issue is also a non-event as far as I am concerned. Why can't you develop something that is cross-platform? The adoption rate will be far higher? In my opinion, the most desperate need for an open-ssh client is on WinTel - something which will compile and run on Linux, BSD and Wintel stands the most chance of being the prevalent package of use. Simply writing something that your friends will use probably means that your friends will be impressed, but the rest of the world will ignore you.
For Slashdot to caricature this as a "domain squatting" issue seems at least, sloppy journalism, and at worst, rampant bias.
If slashdot wishes to be seen as the voice of the opensource community, then it needs to raise its standards above simple jingoism, and present a balanced view. You certainly don't speak for me on this issue.
Nice one - instead of hacking code, you are now into hacking people:-)
You either need to get yourself on a training course, or read a book - a nice simple one is "Management for Dummies", and this is a good starter.
Management (or leadership, or whatever) is a skill, just as real-time C programming is. It can be creative, and fun, or it can be a drudge, depending on how good you are at it.
Most of the "bad boss" stories I hear on Dilbert, etc. are the result of someone not caring, not knowing, or not wanting to manage right. You have to understand and appreciate the unique talents and traits that make people tick.
Just as coding is all about exploiting and using the machine to its best advantage, management is about exploiting and using people to their best advantage.
One thing to be prepared for is the downside - when you have to discipline people, and when you have to fire them. You need to be trained to deal with "difficult" people, to understand them, to turn them around to your way of thinking, and if all else fails, to stop them being a pain, and get them gone. This is never easy, and will test you to the limit.
If you don't feel comfortable being management, don't do it. Get in a professional, just like you would get in a professional coder, plumber, or electrician. Always remember that mistakes in management affect people's lives directly.
Reading the web page of the provider concerned, they are using Linux as their engine, on a custom platform, with some nice switching software running on top (which they wrote themselves).
I'd guess that they would assume commercial liability for any systems they sold, but would either get a linux guru on retainer, or buy Alan much beer:-)
I believe that the reliability of Linux is much better suited to running switches and PBX's than current NT offerings. Who knows what Windows 2000 will be like in five years.
Mind you, if you want _really_ long uptimes, you should try VMS;-)
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The biggest work in the mobile market at the moment is 3G networks - which will integrate data, voice, and video over a high-speed cellular network.
Most of the implementors are explicitly not making an assumption that the terminal is a trusted device, and are relying on the USIM to carry trusted information (such as identity information), and on encrypted network storage to carry certificates etc.
Location based services do not rely on GPS, and do not rely on trusting the phone - LBS is a network function.
Digitally signing will require an authenticating protocol (e.g. USIM->PIN) and this authenticator will unlock a cert held in a crypto vault.
The concerns I have with this are that most of the tags are either nominalisations, or passive.
A nominalisation is a verb that has been turned into a noun - an example being "I am in a relationship". This is also passive, and as such has cognitively mixed inaccuracies loaded into it.
You can check a nominalisation very simply - is the noun in question something you could carry in a wheelbarrow? If so, no nominalisation. If you can add the descriptor "ongoing" to the noun, as in "an ongoing relationship". Non-nominalisations fail a sense test when this is applied "I am in an ongoing pencil"
When statements such as "Dr Zhivago is a butcher" are made, they represent an opinion of the speaker, with the originating reference deleted. Listener A may take the above statement to mean that Zhivago is a mass murderer, Listener B may believe that Zhivago is a poor medical practioner, and the original meaning of the content may have been that Zhivago owns a butcher's shop.
Labels such as Tired, Lazy, Angry, Fearful, Happy, are all at least level removed from the exact physiological experience. In order to communicate effectively and to eliminate misunderstanding we need to communicate at a level which elicitates exactly the things that we see, hear and feel in the person we are communicating with.
In order to communicate really well, it is essential that we meet the other person in their model of the world - to do that, we can check the response we are getting to our communication - this gives us the received meaning of our communication. If the response you are getting isn't working, do *anything* else. Doing the same thing but louder/sadder/angrier/brighter will give you more of what you've already got.
If we are talking about the vision of a Human Markup Language, how will we know that the labels that we have chosen out of the rich variety of human experience will effectively match in our target communicatee the thoughts, feelings and expressions we wished to elicit?
The Psion 5Mx is one example of a pen operated Psion product. The Psion series 7 is a little bigger, but also has a touch screen.
I am suprised that no one has mentioned the superior products offered by Psion - is this Not Invented In USA syndrome striking again?
Of course, the funny thing was when all the windows administrators started getting all officious, and posting notices to the effect that "a virus cannot possibly spread via email".
Result? Melissa. (Well, it made me laugh - I use Linux).
Those people who find this stuff interesting should check out the work of Dr. Kevin Warwick, of Reading University, UK.
He wrote a book in 1997 called "March of the machines", which outlines the anticipated developments in cybernetics and AI.
On the ideas propounded by Joy, et al, I think that even at a conservative estimate, there are strong indicators that in the early part of this century computational power will be greater than that of the human brain.
Advancements in robotics, particularly in optical and biological systems are also speeding intelligent machines' abilities to move, operate and be effective in the everyday world. Within the next 10 to 50 years artificial intelligence systems will have been developed at a number of locations. I expect these to be not only more intelligent than humans, but to also exhibit a significant number of advantages - they will be faster, more reliable, quicker to learn and more robust. There is an issue with "sensory deprivation" - if we make a device with an equivalent or greater level of intelligence that us, we must give it input - imagine what would happen to you if you were closed off from the world with no sensory input for 23 hours out of 24.
An interesting question posed in Warwick's book is whether robots of the future will treat us as we currently treat other creatures - farms, pets and zoos? This may be the best we can hope for.
As someone who used to run ISP's for a living, (Yes I used Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AND NT on occasion :-) ) I am quite used to getting the kind of call/letter/email from a member of the outraged public, along the lines of "I searched through all the newsgroups you carry, looked at all the homepages, did some searches on the search engines you link to, and eventually, after two or three hours, I found some filth!"
The Internet is not a kiddie playground, supervised by social workers and kindly policemen. It is an anarchic meeting ground - different races, different political views, and different business drivers all come together. Sometimes they collaborate, sometimes they fight. However, if we do not encourage the freedom of expression on the Internet, it will cease being the port-of-call that it currently can be, and become just a slower form of Cable TV.
There are things on the Internet I don't want my children to see - this is also true of TV. It's my responsibility as a parent to make those choices, to educate my children and to share with them why I am making those choices.
What I would welcome from a legislative body is a process for me to choose what content I view, control where my personal information is stored (and thereby, how big my data shadow grows) and have the ability to publish my thoughts and express my beliefs without fear of prejudice, reprisal, or bigotry.
It would also be nice if I could be assured that the communications I send and receive remain confidential, retain integrity, and that the channels I communicate over - be it email, web, IRC, telephone, letter, or whatever - undertake to protect those channels, and to maximise their availablity to me.
I know this may sound like a utopian dream, but this is the kind of aspiration most of us share - we are drawn to OS's like Linux and BSD not only because they extend the invitation to directly participate in their development, but also because those who have already participated in that development have chosen to build it as best they can. Focusing on stability and reliabity has given us a stable platform, which assures us that we can use it as a communications base without fear of being let down.
We need the same level of assurance in our communications - we need to have an assurance that our privacy is respected, the integrity and confidentiality of our communications is controlled and measurable, and that those who we trust to carry our messages will do so to the best of their ability.
Part of the answer to this may be strong crypto - certainly things like PGP, Thawte, and so on allow us to set controls on privacy and identity.
It is not the role of the government to protect us from ourselves - we do not want it, or need it.
Probably not.
Made in Israel, made in Finland, made in the UK, now those are possible.
The USA is no longer seen as the dominant force in software development, thanks to some brilliant European programmers, the accent on quality over features, and also the recent inhibitive software legislation, of which UCITA is the latest example.
It is a shame that a project of this kind, which could have some real benefits (scanning email for transmitted viral content, etc.) has been put to such a low purpose as the supression of free speech.
Zedz.net (under their former name of replay.com) have done sterling work for years - advocating and providing strong crypto, providing assured anonymity systems and services _for free_, and in general raising the awareness of crypto in Europe and providing valuable resources. To be honest, they've been on the block longer than Slashdot.
.com, then surely .com is redundant.
The domain issue is a silly one - I am strongly opposed to the "register everywhere to protect the organisation" policies advocated by Network Solutions - it obviously helps them sell more domains, but if your organisation is weak enough to need this type of protection, you have other things to worry about. It is arguable whether the current "hierachical" domain model is valid any more - if everyone "has" to be under
Two things occur to me - the OpenSSH project(s) should be about cutting code, getting it out there early and often, and providing a viable alternative to the closed-source implementations. Squabbling about who has what domain name has nothing to do with open-source.
The Linux v BSD issue is also a non-event as far as I am concerned. Why can't you develop something that is cross-platform? The adoption rate will be far higher? In my opinion, the most desperate need for an open-ssh client is on WinTel - something which will compile and run on Linux, BSD and Wintel stands the most chance of being the prevalent package of use. Simply writing something that your friends will use probably means that your friends will be impressed, but the rest of the world will ignore you.
For Slashdot to caricature this as a "domain squatting" issue seems at least, sloppy journalism, and at worst, rampant bias.
If slashdot wishes to be seen as the voice of the opensource community, then it needs to raise its standards above simple jingoism, and present a balanced view. You certainly don't speak for me on this issue.
People should also look at Digital VHS. It's region free, recordable, and provides comparable video and audio quality.
Don't buy DVD's until they are economically and technologically sound.
Nice one - instead of hacking code, you are now into hacking people :-)
You either need to get yourself on a training course, or read a book - a nice simple one is "Management for Dummies", and this is a good starter.
Management (or leadership, or whatever) is a skill, just as real-time C programming is. It can be creative, and fun, or it can be a drudge, depending on how good you are at it.
Most of the "bad boss" stories I hear on Dilbert, etc. are the result of someone not caring, not knowing, or not wanting to manage right. You have to understand and appreciate the unique talents and traits that make people tick.
Just as coding is all about exploiting and using the machine to its best advantage, management is about exploiting and using people to their best advantage.
One thing to be prepared for is the downside - when you have to discipline people, and when you have to fire them. You need to be trained to deal with "difficult" people, to understand them, to turn them around to your way of thinking, and if all else fails, to stop them being a pain, and get them gone. This is never easy, and will test you to the limit.
If you don't feel comfortable being management, don't do it. Get in a professional, just like you would get in a professional coder, plumber, or electrician. Always remember that mistakes in management affect people's lives directly.
Cheapest source of cases in the UK I have found is Scan Computers. They are selling for £150 apiece.
If you want fully built systems, Transtec do nice 19" systems for approx 1200 each.
Reading the web page of the provider concerned, they are using Linux as their engine, on a custom platform, with some nice switching software running on top (which they wrote themselves).
:-)
;-)
I'd guess that they would assume commercial liability for any systems they sold, but would either get a linux guru on retainer, or buy Alan much beer
I believe that the reliability of Linux is much better suited to running switches and PBX's than current NT offerings. Who knows what Windows 2000 will be like in five years.
Mind you, if you want _really_ long uptimes, you should try VMS