Some people will see this as "a waste of money". But I would much rather the government spend money through grants and do some research itself, because they can't hold the patents on this information once they finish it. It's OUR money, so it's OUR information when they find it out.
Chimera (unix, linux, windows) is a molecular modeling program developed by UC San Francisco, but it was funded by a government grant from the NIH, so guess what, you can download it for free provided you don't want to make money using it.
The NIH (government orginization) has actually REQUIRED that people that use their money to come up with a protein sequence should deposit it in a freely accessable database
Also, just a side note. If anyone wants to download the program, just grab some protiens from the protien database and load them up. Some stuff you might find interesting in the way of proteins.
After reading the spec on the gibson site in PDF form, I realized there is an even cooler use for this than simply sending data from the guitar to the mixer. Since the system is Bi-directional, the guitar can not only send but recieve data from the mixer, other instruments, etc. I can think of a lot of uses for this aspect of the technology.
Say your playing in a big band, and every song in your 20 song set has different volume, tone, and pickup combinations. Well you set this all up ahead of time in a computer, and it can automatically send tone, volume, and pickup combo settings to the guitar.
This can further be extended by a prototype guitar by a man in Sonoma, CA. Steve Klein (helped design the Taylor Bass.. very cool), has a new guitar which can tune itself. Imagine one of these babies with ethernet capability. You could have time, or manually cued changes to a great combination of options; volume, tone, tuning, and pickup combination. This would leave the guitar player free to play, rather than have to futz around with tunings, volume, and all that stuff.
Also, throw some sort of sensor on each string and you may be able to detect string breaks before they happen. Red light pops up on the guitar tech's station and signals that the lead guitarist is about to blow a b-string. That can get swapped out before that moment when you break it in the middle of the Freebird solo.
Heck, in the future, every effect pedal could have this on it, hook it all up to a small touch screen clamped onto the mic stand, and voila, all the effects controls magically at your fingertips, rather than at your feet. The additional benefit of this is that it allows the sound or instrument technician to see the settings at his station as well for any person on such a system
Yet another idea, why not put this onto amps. Have feedback sensing, and cut the volume level when you surpass a preferred level. Hook the amp up to the touchscreen and have all the controls for it availible to the player.
Personally I would rather use this a a control mechanism rather than a sound transfer system, because I just have my doubts that they can accurately reproduce the spectrum accurately enough to satisfy me. I could see a system where you have two or more inputs into the guitar, the first being the ethernet, and the additional being a 1/4" jack and possibly and XLR jack on the guitar also. Package a system that contains a 802.11, and wireless, spread spectrum audio into a belt sized system, and I bet you would be able to rake in the cash from tech-savy guitarists(which believe it or not, is a lot of them)
Of course, you'd never see me using this stuff, I have come to rather dislike playing my electric guitar. Give me a Martin HD-35 miced into a California Blonde, and I'll play all day. I personally prefer the ability to control every little nuance of my performance by adjusting not the effects, but the way I play the instrument.
Just so we are on the same page. There is this package thing called ChilliSoft that lets you run ASP pages under Linux. I know the Cobalt Raq's were coming with it for a while... probably still are. So the presence of ASP and *nix are not mutually exclusive.
I am not a lawyer, so talk to a real one before you do this!
Interestingly enough, from what I can remember about contracts and who are allowed to enter into them, a person under 18 years old is not allowed to enter into a legaly binding contract. Specifically, I remember a few years ago when going to college, if you were signing your housing licence, and were under 18, your parents had to sign also.
So next time you need to throw that pirated copy of Windows2000,98,95... or whatever on. Go find your local 15 year old script kiddie, Johnny, and have him click "I Agree". When the BSA comes busting down your door, thell them. "Johnny wasn't old enough to enter into a contract, tough shit buddy"
In the spirit of the thread regarding "Oregon Trail" last week on one of the posts... here is a "kernel adventure"
Sample "Kernel Trail" Dialog Box
You need a new driver for your SCSI card, your wife hasn't seen you in a week, your kids call you "the guy in the other room on the computer"
Would you like to:
A) recompile the kernel and then hope it works again.
B) Shutdown and do it later.
C) Use a sledgehammer cause the fscking computer just won't work the way you want it to
D) get a divorce and give the wife custody of the kids.
Maybe I'm onto something... maybe let kids play this one in school... heh
dammit.... Didn't actually check to make sure I was logged in. I guess that other browser window with a naked picture of a beowulf cluster of naked grit covered natalie portmans confused (aroused?) me so much I just forgot to use the little login box.
Reading through this, I was thinking how to make a piece of software that would analyze two computer programs.
I think it would involve parsing the entire program and then creating a new document that lists all of the keywords and operators (tokens)... then simple analysis of the tokens similar to what Prof. Bloomfield did (looking for a certian number of tokens in a row that are identical) would produce pretty good results. However I think a search for 6 in a row would not work well because there are more words in the english launguage than there are tokens in a given programming launguage.
Basically.... do something like what LEX does... given the grammar... produce a list of tokens that you can analyze.
Ok, so I finally decided to look around for relevant information when I make a post for once. So here's what I came up with.
For all the people talking about public domain... take a look at: http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm. Basically there are different periods when different songs come into the public domain... just look at the chart for the info.
For those talking about Fair Use, we can basically say that Fair Use is a decorative law... basically it does nothing but offer guidelines... it doesn't say anything concrete..
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html. Take a look, you can read it... it's just pretty much fluff.
And then we come to the RIAA site (http://www.riaa.com/Copyright-Laws-2.cfm)... although very biased on the topic, you can see their position in the following quote.
"Generally speaking, you are not allowed to take the 'value' of a song without permission, and sometimes that value is found even in a three-second clip."
The general rule for teachers and students is that you can use 10% of a song, but not more than 30 seconds... but as the RIAA page states... even value can be derived from a three second clip. So basically, if the people try and fight the music companies on this one... they are taking a big gamble... because "value" is what it all comes down to... nothing in the fair use law gaurantees anything for them.
I say the researchers should turn the tables and sue.. ($1+ lawyer fees seems like a good penalty) the RIAA for infringing on their first ammendment right to freedom of speech.
And what I think what they should do is take a page from the DeCSS proceedings and introduce the research paper itself into evidence... therefore making it public. heheh
Well, a lot of people seem to be saying "I'll just convert as I go". My question to them is: What happens when YOU go? When you are in a box, or scattered on a hill somewhere.... who is going to do that ad-hoc conversion for you?
(sarcasm mode)
What I think we should to is get some text-to-speech software, and have it dictate all of our emails and such into audio format. Then we can burn a few hundred audio cd's. You may all be saying "how is this different from puttting it on a computer cd"... well my friends... if we have learned anything from the RIAA.... the music industry moves slower than molasses running uphill, and you can probably be those cd's will be playable for at LEAST a hundred more years. Serioulsly... if any of us were given a vinyl record... who here could NOT find a player to play it on? And those things have been out for a LONG time.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big proponent of spam, I just don't believe the punishment justifies the crime.
Ummm.... I think you meant "opponent".
/* clip from the merriam webster online dictionary */
Main Entry: proponent
Pronunciation: pr&-'pO-n&nt, 'prO-"
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin proponent-, proponens, present participle of proponere
Date: 1588 : one who argues in favor of something:ADVOCATE
The previous posts keep alluding, and stating the kids will be able to crack this system (and rightfully so, kids probably will be able to hack it within about a day after it comes out).
Getting towards my point... these kids will go on the internet looking for some sort of hack or crack for their Xbox and we all know what happens when you go looking for hacks/cracks/etc.... You run into a large amount of porn banner ads. And lets not forget, when you browse slashdot for insightful information, you run into goatse.cx links all the time(sorry trolls... not gonna link it).
I guess the point REALLY is... these kids will see nudity, violence, and drugs no matter what. The v-chip-like-device just makes it a little harder to see it on the Xbox. This is also why devices such as these aren't the cure-all that politicians seem to think they are.
What really needs to happen is that parents need to raise their children to a point where they know that playing a violent game, or watching a violent movie doesn't make a shooting spree a good thing to do. And let's not forget sex.... heck you can watch commercials and get aroused nowadays (ally landry in doritos commercials anyone?), so what makes these people think that putting a chip in a video game system or a tv will prevent kids from seeing it?
Hmmm...I'm gonna throw out my "encryption scheme". I use the term only cause the DMCA likes that word:)
So lets say I have a file called file.mp3 In order to make this fairly decryptable, yet random, let each user pick a offset number and tack it onto the front of the "encrypted" string.
here is an example with an offset of 4 attached to the front of the string and then use ASCII values for the characters plus the desired offset.
this, in my opinion would create a LOT of filenames that napster would have to block.
offset5 = 5-107-110-113-106-51-114-117-56
offset6 = 6-108-111-114-107-52-115-118-57
and so on...
I guess I got a little too much out of that affadavit for Robert Philip Hanssen. (the part about a pre-agreed on offset on all numerals in the communication)
oh well.... I guess this is what happens when I haven't slept for 3 days.... I ramble out stuff like this:)
Take a look at the post and the url given.... the posted specs say 533 Celeron, but the page says 600-800mhz celeron or pentium.... so no 533 according to the specs on the page..
Also, it the pic there looks EXACTLY like the Espresso from a post a week or two ago.
Sure, if it is the real deal it would be cool.... but it looks bogus to me.
DataPlay discs are permanent and are neither erasable nor re-writeable. This will protect the integrity of pre-recorded or downloaded content such as books, music and games. Users will not be able to accidentally erase or alter content.
I'm just curious if there is anyone out there that will pay 10 bucks for a disc that you can't erase, and becomes worthless if you don't decide to unlock the songs you put on it.
Personally, I would rather save that 10 bucks and spend a bigger chunk of money on something that doesn't have copyprotection and lets me rewrite (Compact flash, Iomega Clik, heck...CD-RW even).
I was thinking... (which is sometimes a dangerous thing)
Let's just say you have a server with a bunch of MP3's on it. And let's say this analysis of mp3's becomes a viable technology. Well then what is to prevent me from configuring *my* server (banning the ip) to ignore the search engine that implements this?:)
Steve
The Ultimate Cheat for the Reflex Tester
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Quickie Twister
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· Score: 1
People, people get creative:)
Since it's all done in javascript, just start the timer on the page, then change the time on your computer back a minute! Instant negative score!
I don't know about you, but this quote that I pulled off the bottom of their Specifications page REALLY scares me.
" *How do I purchase?*
Since, the GEN H-4 still has something left to be studied, but we are looking for some customers who want to purchase and are willing to test with us. So, we need your cooperation to put our product on the market. Please e-mail us about further information. "
I don't know about other people, but I don't want to be a "tester" for a helicoptor. I can just see it now. As the FAA are picking through the wreckage, the Gen H-4 people arrive and start picking through the wreckage and taking TONS of pictures with their cameras...
says Fugi Tomatsu to his boss, designer Gen Yanagisawa.
"ahh, here is what went wrong we should have not used those hardend plastic bolts to save weight...it looks like this one broke....better fix that in the next model."
*shrug* I guess I'm funny in that I care about my life. The phrase "something left to be studied" just really gives me that creepy feeling... the same one I get everytime I see a Macintosh.
But I'm thinking that NT has to be one of the most secure OS'es out there. Seriously....how can someone hack into it when it's down most of the time... hehe
A long long time ago. In a city far, far away. I was friends with some guys who had a friend, who had a friend who had (and still have) a domain which was declared as copyright infringement...blah blah blah. They fought, and won the right to keep their domain. In the process, they set up a Advocacy group to help people that find themselves in the same situation.
Slashdot Mirror
Chimera (unix, linux, windows) is a molecular modeling program developed by UC San Francisco, but it was funded by a government grant from the NIH, so guess what, you can download it for free provided you don't want to make money using it.
The NIH (government orginization) has actually REQUIRED that people that use their money to come up with a protein sequence should deposit it in a freely accessable database
Also, just a side note. If anyone wants to download the program, just grab some protiens from the protien database and load them up. Some stuff you might find interesting in the way of proteins.
tryptophan
hemoglobin
Alcohol Dehydrogenase
DNA (not a protein, but oh well)
Insulin
more...
Enjoy,
Steve
Say your playing in a big band, and every song in your 20 song set has different volume, tone, and pickup combinations. Well you set this all up ahead of time in a computer, and it can automatically send tone, volume, and pickup combo settings to the guitar.
This can further be extended by a prototype guitar by a man in Sonoma, CA. Steve Klein (helped design the Taylor Bass.. very cool), has a new guitar which can tune itself. Imagine one of these babies with ethernet capability. You could have time, or manually cued changes to a great combination of options; volume, tone, tuning, and pickup combination. This would leave the guitar player free to play, rather than have to futz around with tunings, volume, and all that stuff.
Also, throw some sort of sensor on each string and you may be able to detect string breaks before they happen. Red light pops up on the guitar tech's station and signals that the lead guitarist is about to blow a b-string. That can get swapped out before that moment when you break it in the middle of the Freebird solo.
Heck, in the future, every effect pedal could have this on it, hook it all up to a small touch screen clamped onto the mic stand, and voila, all the effects controls magically at your fingertips, rather than at your feet. The additional benefit of this is that it allows the sound or instrument technician to see the settings at his station as well for any person on such a system
Yet another idea, why not put this onto amps. Have feedback sensing, and cut the volume level when you surpass a preferred level. Hook the amp up to the touchscreen and have all the controls for it availible to the player.
Personally I would rather use this a a control mechanism rather than a sound transfer system, because I just have my doubts that they can accurately reproduce the spectrum accurately enough to satisfy me. I could see a system where you have two or more inputs into the guitar, the first being the ethernet, and the additional being a 1/4" jack and possibly and XLR jack on the guitar also. Package a system that contains a 802.11, and wireless, spread spectrum audio into a belt sized system, and I bet you would be able to rake in the cash from tech-savy guitarists(which believe it or not, is a lot of them)
Of course, you'd never see me using this stuff, I have come to rather dislike playing my electric guitar. Give me a Martin HD-35 miced into a California Blonde, and I'll play all day. I personally prefer the ability to control every little nuance of my performance by adjusting not the effects, but the way I play the instrument.
Steve
Steve
Interestingly enough, from what I can remember about contracts and who are allowed to enter into them, a person under 18 years old is not allowed to enter into a legaly binding contract. Specifically, I remember a few years ago when going to college, if you were signing your housing licence, and were under 18, your parents had to sign also.
So next time you need to throw that pirated copy of Windows2000,98,95... or whatever on. Go find your local 15 year old script kiddie, Johnny, and have him click "I Agree". When the BSA comes busting down your door, thell them. "Johnny wasn't old enough to enter into a contract, tough shit buddy"
Steve
Sample "Kernel Trail" Dialog Box
You need a new driver for your SCSI card, your wife hasn't seen you in a week, your kids call you "the guy in the other room on the computer"
Would you like to:
A) recompile the kernel and then hope it works again.
B) Shutdown and do it later.
C) Use a sledgehammer cause the fscking computer just won't work the way you want it to
D) get a divorce and give the wife custody of the kids.
Maybe I'm onto something... maybe let kids play this one in school... heh
Steve
Steve
1)California doesn't use the electric chair. Last I heard it was the gas chamber (possibly moving to leathal injection... i think).
2)The executions take place at San Quentin State Prision, which is approxamately 20 minutes due north of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Steve
I think it would involve parsing the entire program and then creating a new document that lists all of the keywords and operators (tokens)... then simple analysis of the tokens similar to what Prof. Bloomfield did (looking for a certian number of tokens in a row that are identical) would produce pretty good results. However I think a search for 6 in a row would not work well because there are more words in the english launguage than there are tokens in a given programming launguage.
Basically.... do something like what LEX does... given the grammar... produce a list of tokens that you can analyze.
If your interested about grammars and parsing, I found a good website at: http://epaperpress.com/y_man.html
Steve
For all the people talking about public domain... take a look at: http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm. Basically there are different periods when different songs come into the public domain... just look at the chart for the info.
For those talking about Fair Use, we can basically say that Fair Use is a decorative law... basically it does nothing but offer guidelines... it doesn't say anything concrete.. http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html. Take a look, you can read it... it's just pretty much fluff.
And then we come to the RIAA site (http://www.riaa.com/Copyright-Laws-2.cfm)... although very biased on the topic, you can see their position in the following quote.
The general rule for teachers and students is that you can use 10% of a song, but not more than 30 seconds... but as the RIAA page states... even value can be derived from a three second clip. So basically, if the people try and fight the music companies on this one... they are taking a big gamble... because "value" is what it all comes down to... nothing in the fair use law gaurantees anything for them.Steve
And what I think what they should do is take a page from the DeCSS proceedings and introduce the research paper itself into evidence... therefore making it public. heheh
Steve
(sarcasm mode)
What I think we should to is get some text-to-speech software, and have it dictate all of our emails and such into audio format. Then we can burn a few hundred audio cd's. You may all be saying "how is this different from puttting it on a computer cd"... well my friends... if we have learned anything from the RIAA.... the music industry moves slower than molasses running uphill, and you can probably be those cd's will be playable for at LEAST a hundred more years. Serioulsly... if any of us were given a vinyl record... who here could NOT find a player to play it on? And those things have been out for a LONG time.
Steve
Ummm.... I think you meant "opponent".
Main Entry: proponent
Pronunciation: pr&-'pO-n&nt, 'prO-"
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin proponent-, proponens, present participle of proponere
Date: 1588
Steve
Getting towards my point... these kids will go on the internet looking for some sort of hack or crack for their Xbox and we all know what happens when you go looking for hacks/cracks/etc. ... You run into a large amount of porn banner ads. And lets not forget, when you browse slashdot for insightful information, you run into goatse.cx links all the time(sorry trolls... not gonna link it).
I guess the point REALLY is... these kids will see nudity, violence, and drugs no matter what. The v-chip-like-device just makes it a little harder to see it on the Xbox. This is also why devices such as these aren't the cure-all that politicians seem to think they are.
What really needs to happen is that parents need to raise their children to a point where they know that playing a violent game, or watching a violent movie doesn't make a shooting spree a good thing to do. And let's not forget sex.... heck you can watch commercials and get aroused nowadays (ally landry in doritos commercials anyone?), so what makes these people think that putting a chip in a video game system or a tv will prevent kids from seeing it?
Steve
So lets say I have a file called file.mp3 In order to make this fairly decryptable, yet random, let each user pick a offset number and tack it onto the front of the "encrypted" string.
here is an example with an offset of 4 attached to the front of the string and then use ASCII values for the characters plus the desired offset.
Example: Filename = file.mp3 Offset = 4:
4-106-109-112-105-50-113-116-55
or
4-(ASCII 'f' + 4)-(ASCII 'i' + 4)-(ASCII 'l' + 4)-(ASCII 'l' + 4)-(ASCII '.' + 4)-(ASCII 'm' + 4)-(ASCII 'p' + 4)-(ASCII '3' + 4)
this, in my opinion would create a LOT of filenames that napster would have to block.
I guess I got a little too much out of that affadavit for Robert Philip Hanssen. (the part about a pre-agreed on offset on all numerals in the communication)oh well.... I guess this is what happens when I haven't slept for 3 days.... I ramble out stuff like this :)
Steve
I've been too lazy to actually set it up, now I have a nice neat little list that will make my web browsing "crap free".
Steve
Also, it the pic there looks EXACTLY like the Espresso from a post a week or two ago.
Sure, if it is the real deal it would be cool.... but it looks bogus to me.
Steve
Personally, I would rather save that 10 bucks and spend a bigger chunk of money on something that doesn't have copyprotection and lets me rewrite (Compact flash, Iomega Clik, heck...CD-RW even).
Steve
Let's just say you have a server with a bunch of MP3's on it. And let's say this analysis of mp3's becomes a viable technology. Well then what is to prevent me from configuring *my* server (banning the ip) to ignore the search engine that implements this? :)
Steve
Since it's all done in javascript, just start the timer on the page, then change the time on your computer back a minute! Instant negative score!
Steve
how about "shop in drag" ? steve
you mean the ransom note looks like a Micosoft product key?...hehe
Don't you just enjoy hearing "Dick Armey is on the warpath"?
armey... warpath... get it?
I don't know about other people, but I don't want to be a "tester" for a helicoptor. I can just see it now. As the FAA are picking through the wreckage, the Gen H-4 people arrive and start picking through the wreckage and taking TONS of pictures with their cameras...
*shrug* I guess I'm funny in that I care about my life. The phrase "something left to be studied" just really gives me that creepy feeling... the same one I get everytime I see a Macintosh.
Steve
Steve
Take a look at: http://www.ajax.org/dda/
Since I really have no affiliation with them, I can't tell you exactly what they will do, but the webpage gives you an idea.
Good Luck, and may the force be with you...
Steve
(I swear I'm not a Star Wars junkie..I just felt like being creative in my post =) )