One problem with the nice docomo phone in Japan is there are towers everywhere. The things have no power because they don't need much.
I met a guy in Perth who had just come from Japan. I showed him how to rechrge the phone using the shaver plug (the 240V ac would have fried the recharger) and when it was fully charged he tried to make a call. He got a voice in Japanese saying there was a problem with his account. I wonder if they are doing trials in Perth.
In 1985 or so I got a letter from UCB. At the time Berkeley had the best com sci program of any university and I so applied. The letter I go back said "Thanks for your application"..."it hasn't even been considered since we have had over a million applicants since we filled up. Please consider one of these University of California schools"... there there was a list of crossed out schools. The application fee was $20 and they did cash the check and didn't return it.
scan both sides, runlength encode permiter of each side, sort them in a 2d mesh and print with the bitmap of each cell. Its a non trivial unless you've got the memory to store and manage about 50 million 32 bit integers for a ream of paper thats been shreaded. To bad thats only $40 these days.
The good shreaders do less than 1mm squares and will eat hard drives as well.
This is "classified" approved so the three letter agencies can read your stuff:-)
The best thing for home use is a blender and a bit of water.
There were usenet and notes and email systems using uucp before then. BITnet might have been in full swing. There were other networks that were on live and 24x7 before tcp. This is just when the last of the old sites were forced to remove the old protocol. Other sites had been runing tpc/ip v 4 for many months before this. So exactly what time should one pick?
Where does the pki infastructure come from? That will be a problem.
If you want to do this, you could build a whitelist RBL like system. It could work like this.... 0) you grab a cool domain name and create a prety https web page 1) Since I will certify that abnormal.com's users won't ever send spam under pain of death, I go to your site and register my details and certify my site won't be spaming. You enter my details in your database and hand me a token. 2) I send email to one of my RBL using friends. My MTA does a DNS lookup of md5 of my token, domain and some other bit of data and includes it in a header of the message. 3) your smtp server reads that header and looks it up using the rbl dns to find out if it was issued and whitelists the message.
You will have to have a way to revoke people from the database. Most IPS's start out clean.
The problem with this is the dns is going to get hammered if it ever takes off. Right now the root name servers tend to get hit for many email messages but not all. This system will hit a dns server for jut about every message. The current root name servers are costing about $10mil a year to run.
I ran mail for 87,000 users in late '92 (pre html email and almost no attachments) on a pyramid system that had a total of 12 machines that were almost as powerful as a sony play station. How much faster is a $600 pc? We also didn't have any 80 gig drives either.
Its too late to be solved. X.400 tried to do it and failed is many, many ways.
All "fixed" systems imply that the only people that you want to get email from already have some sort of "trusted" email system. That doesn't exist in the real world and there is no way to create one now. just like there is no technological way to keep people from putting stuff in your letter box, there is no way to keep others from putting stuff in your email box. If you lock it down, then there is a chance that people that you want to try to send you a message won't be able to. The US post office solved the problem with a law with a stiff fine. Spam will only stop when that happens and lots of people get hit hard by it.
The W3C has never been a standards body. They have been a bunch of people that came in after the fact and "defined a standard" -- poorly. Out side of some of the Open browsers no one in the real world cares about W3C's web standards and the only other thing they did was XLM which anyone who understands real computer science will know is a nasty way to pass info around since file corruption errors diverge into two states one eats up infinite memory, the other infinite time.
I don't care what w3c does and the sooner they shoot themselves in the foot (or head) in order to suck up to any sort of funding they can find, the sooner the real world will totally ignore them and I can stop explaining to comsci newbies why these people are doing evil but ignorable things.
The flashing yellow kind are the only type I know about that don't have a safty interlock. There are some very complex systems that have several interlocks and can fail in strange ways but they are designed to fial in a way that all sides get red. Most older lights will fail in such a way as one side gets a green and all the others gets a red. For a typical intersection of a main road with a minor side street, that works well when there is a problem.
Thouse were traffic circles, not round abouts. The difference is that the person in the roudnabout has the right of way and the traffic circles the people in the circule yeld to thouse entering. Most of the ones in DC are traffic circles. A well designed roundabout will allow traffic to enter in only one way. The old traffic circles (from the days of horses) enter at 90 degrees and a complete disater. A well designed round about will simply be a Y interesction with a yeld sign. If the drivers can't figure that out, they should not be on the road.
A typical roundabout can allow 4 times more cars though per hour and scale to points where you need overpasses.
Don't judge a concept based on a few bad implementations. In the town I live in, there are roundabouts on the west side and none on the east. It turns out that the west side doesn't have the traffic problems but the counts show much higher levels. The pollution is lower, the accident rates are lower and the traffic jams form when the west side traffic hits the east side where all the stop lights are.
I can't find any reference to the place you mentioned but there are many web references about roundabouts in Florida that have reduced accident rates according to google.
Back with the SUV tire mess a while back congress decided to make everyone safe in intorduced a bill to make sure that all new cars (but not SUVs?) had sensors in the tires to measure pressure. There are a few ways to do this and none of them are very good. The most common idea is a to put a small RFID type tag that measures pressure and with a RF, you don't need to run any wires into the axle. Other ways would put a small sensor in the wheel at attempt to run a signal over the bearings. All these have problems with the G forces in a tire and if its too close to the rim, you get some interesting RF issues.
It should be able to read the RF tags at high speed if you've got sensors ever 3 inches across a lane but you have to tune the system to every different type of rf tag. I suspect it would also pick up some of car keys that make use of RF as well.
Its possible to that these could be read at a large distance but so far no one is selling any RFID type reader that works at any distance. Where I work would be interested in talking to someone who know how to read a TIRIS tag at 100 yeards and show its general direction.
There is very little you can do with trafic lights. Most of them use physical relay lock outs to keep two of the signals going green in different directions at the same time. About all that could be done that could cause a problem is dropping the yellow time to close to zero but there should be a minium time for that as well. Other than that, you've got exactly the same risk as when the power goes out. Too bad in that case most people think they have the right of way on the main road and no company has been smart enough to put in some battery backed flashing LED's to hint to people that its tuned into a 4 way stop. Of course 99% of all intersections with traffic lights could be replaced with round-abouts and increase saftey but that won't ever happen.
Humans are capable acting according to reason, rather than instinct. Ever have a long lived pet? They act according to reason and not instinct. A typical 15 year old cat will show many of the signs of reason that a 2 year old human will. Most of your other points don't apply to children under 2 since that part of "human development" hasn't been developed. One of the reasons for the "terrible twos" is that is when human brians start asorbing the concepts you see here. Its just that apes and cats take longer. Most cats start showing some of these traits between 10 and 15 but that approaces their expected life span.
Humans are capable of love and compassion. Once again, check out pets. The oldest cat tends to hold a grudge about about the same time as my sister for about the same things. Did one learn it from the other? Your example of the rabbit implys that the rabbit understands the concept of property and ownership and then has the freewill to steal or not. If you replace the rabbit with a communal group of humans and put them in the same situation, you may find they act with the same morals as the rabbit. Many Indians were killed for "theft". Same thing has happend anywhere where land property concepts were intorduced to people that didn't use the concept and it typicaly resulted in the deaths of large numebrs of the uncultured people.
Respect for human life varys quite a bit in different cultures. One thing is univerally true, as the population density increases, the mutual respect for others goes down.
As far as your example of humans being able to suppress their urges to eat (and I assume reproduce) is wrong. Kangaroos are much better at both than humans. Just compare the current death rate of roos in the drought areas of Australia to human death rate in Ethiopia. Roos (and many marsupials) adjust their gestation period around food supply vs local demand for that food which is something humans havn't done yet.
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Phone rings... FBI: We are the FBI and we are here to help... We want to get a tap on KM's data. we want it all logged. Tech: You'll have to wait in the snoop queue. FBI: We are the FBI, you can't make us wait! Tech: The NSA guy is here in person and he claims he's 1st. FBI: *&#*-*!
[Door breaks down. Men with large guns enter] DHS: We are the Department of Fatherland Security, were here to help. [Poor phone monkey gets nailed by a stray bullet] DHS: Give us a tap on KM's data NOW.
NSA: we were here 1st and were with the NSA DHS: Ours is bigger than yours! [Much machoism is displayed with people wiping out badges and such]
Meanwhile in another room.... Corp Dude [from Sun or Nokia or NEC its hard to tell]: So its all taken care of now? You'll let us no so we won't get embarrassed again? BOFH: Yes it is all taken care of, we will make sure your alerted to any hacking attempts you need to know about. Let me put down these money bags, they are getting heavy.
This may or may not apply to the story but it applies to most of the discussion here.
Its clear that there are a few holes in the GPL and I think it might be time to make changes. The GPL was intended so that developed software could be used by a wide group of people and compaines. Recent laws (such as DMCA) have restriced some of the rights that were implied when the current version of the software was written. One of thouse is the right to reverse engineer the code which accroding to my IP lawyers, is now illegal even if you have source code unless you get premission. Another hole is the NDA type agreements and those are related to some of the hiding behind trade secret laws. The GPL needs to address all of these and it needs to soon before some developer gets nailed. For example if I develop something for KDE and I steal the idea out of Gnome, its quite possible for the author of that part to sue (and win) under current US tradesecret or DMCA law even though Gnome is GPLed and its license was written with the intent of having its bits reused elsewhere.
Let's say you've just bought a device. Say a NBX100 from 3com. Now how do you know if its running GNU software or not? If they hide the copyright message, you won't know will you? At least they left in one small text message that is very gnu tar specifc. A grep GNU on their exe image shows a positive match as does a grep on "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License". So far attempts to get the source have not been productive but I did go to great lenghts to get explicit permission to reverse engineer the code from the persons whos name is on the copyright because any attempt to look at the binary code could be a DMCA violation under current law because the GPL doesn't grant that permission.
The GPL needs a anti-NDA and a reverse engeering clause added to it at once.
Keeping a fixed number of steel workers employed is a lesson leared at the start of WW1 and again in WWII when the need for steel was ramped up but many of the young steel workers had already been shiped over seas to be cannon fodder and there weren't enough left to keep up with the increased production. The result is that steel workers are something that gets watched (and protected) from inside the DOD.
Most compaines just store the entire card number. A hash is useless unless its a unique hash for every card and it provides no additional real security. Now dig out a samll c program that counts from 3.e15 to 7.e16 and md5's each of them. How long does it take? The last time I did this it took about 5 minutes but that was on a fast pc years ago.
There is no fraud because she has permission to use the card. All they can do is tell her to pay cash or a card with her name on it. If they take the card, the owner is very likly to show up demanding the card and never deal with them again. If you a pizza place, would your risk running away one of your better customers? I think not. Credit cards are a balacnce between consumer ease of use and security for the merchant. If you make them harder to use, then they won't get used and the banks lose out.
The band at the corner pub is breaking the law (unless they bought the rights to preform the songs) and the pub may be violating its alchol license by allowing illegal acts to happen in the place. If the RIAA wants to shut down every music friendly pub, they can.
Running a wap server is trivial. The question is how do I feed a nokia or erricson a ring tone (or screen saver) over a wab server? I would love to see a CGI that will do it....
By the end of 2003 there will be a phone with some sort of "bass bost" and I expect it will sell. The question is, will it be from Sony of Nokia or one of the new Asian startups? My POS Nokis 8310 has a built in FM radio but you can't listen to it unless you have the car kit or hands free kit plugged in. Why they can't route the sound do the main speaker, I'll never know but someone decided it had to use the exteranal speaker. I suspect the next verion of it will have a bass boost as well.
This is why any wire placed on a public right of way should become the propery of the city with a low "lease back" to company that put the wire there. This is already done in some areas with water lines and if you build a new subdivion in most places, the roads become propery of the city at some stage.
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One problem with the nice docomo phone in Japan is there are towers everywhere. The things have no power because they don't need much.
I met a guy in Perth who had just come from Japan. I showed him how to rechrge the phone using the shaver plug (the 240V ac would have fried the recharger) and when it was fully charged he tried to make a call. He got a voice in Japanese saying there was a problem with his account. I wonder if they are doing trials in Perth.
In 1985 or so I got a letter from UCB. At the time Berkeley had the best com sci program of any university and I so applied. The letter I go back said "Thanks for your application"..."it hasn't even been considered since we have had over a million applicants since we filled up. Please consider one of these University of California schools"... there there was a list of crossed out schools. The application fee was $20 and they did cash the check and didn't return it.
1.5 x 4 mm?
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scan both sides, runlength encode permiter of each side, sort them in a 2d mesh and print with the bitmap of each cell. Its a non trivial unless you've got the memory to store and manage about 50 million 32 bit integers for a ream of paper thats been shreaded. To bad thats only $40 these days.
The good shreaders do less than 1mm squares and will eat hard drives as well.
This is "classified" approved so the three letter agencies can read your stuff
The best thing for home use is a blender and a bit of water.
There were usenet and notes and email systems using uucp before then. BITnet might have been in full swing. There were other networks that were on live and 24x7 before tcp. This is just when the last of the old sites were forced to remove the old protocol. Other sites had been runing tpc/ip v 4 for many months before this. So exactly what time should one pick?
Its not the death of privacy, it jsut shifts the people "in the know" from the local town gossip to the people who know how to use the net.
Where does the pki infastructure come from? That will be a problem.
If you want to do this, you could build a whitelist RBL like system. It could work like this....
0) you grab a cool domain name and create a prety https web page
1) Since I will certify that abnormal.com's users won't ever send spam under pain of death, I go to your site and register my details and certify my site won't be spaming. You enter my details in your database and hand me a token.
2) I send email to one of my RBL using friends. My MTA does a DNS lookup of md5 of my token, domain and some other bit of data and includes it in a header of the message.
3) your smtp server reads that header and looks it up using the rbl dns to find out if it was issued and whitelists the message.
You will have to have a way to revoke people from the database. Most IPS's start out clean.
The problem with this is the dns is going to get hammered if it ever takes off. Right now the root name servers tend to get hit for many email messages but not all. This system will hit a dns server for jut about every message. The current root name servers are costing about $10mil a year to run.
I ran mail for 87,000 users in late '92 (pre html email and almost no attachments) on a pyramid system that had a total of 12 machines that were almost as powerful as a sony play station. How much faster is a $600 pc? We also didn't have any 80 gig drives either.
Its too late to be solved. X.400 tried to do it and failed is many, many ways.
All "fixed" systems imply that the only people that you want to get email from already have some sort of "trusted" email system. That doesn't exist in the real world and there is no way to create one now. just like there is no technological way to keep people from putting stuff in your letter box, there is no way to keep others from putting stuff in your email box. If you lock it down, then there is a chance that people that you want to try to send you a message won't be able to. The US post office solved the problem with a law with a stiff fine. Spam will only stop when that happens and lots of people get hit hard by it.
The W3C has never been a standards body. They have been a bunch of people that came in after the fact and "defined a standard" -- poorly. Out side of some of the Open browsers no one in the real world cares about W3C's web standards and the only other thing they did was XLM which anyone who understands real computer science will know is a nasty way to pass info around since file corruption errors diverge into two states one eats up infinite memory, the other infinite time.
I don't care what w3c does and the sooner they shoot themselves in the foot (or head) in order to suck up to any sort of funding they can find, the sooner the real world will totally ignore them and I can stop explaining to comsci newbies why these people are doing evil but ignorable things.
The flashing yellow kind are the only type I know about that don't have a safty interlock. There are some very complex systems that have several interlocks and can fail in strange ways but they are designed to fial in a way that all sides get red. Most older lights will fail in such a way as one side gets a green and all the others gets a red. For a typical intersection of a main road with a minor side street, that works well when there is a problem.
Thouse were traffic circles, not round abouts. The difference is that the person in the roudnabout has the right of way and the traffic circles the people in the circule yeld to thouse entering. Most of the ones in DC are traffic circles. A well designed roundabout will allow traffic to enter in only one way. The old traffic circles (from the days of horses) enter at 90 degrees and a complete disater. A well designed round about will simply be a Y interesction with a yeld sign. If the drivers can't figure that out, they should not be on the road.
A typical roundabout can allow 4 times more cars though per hour and scale to points where you need overpasses.
Don't judge a concept based on a few bad implementations. In the town I live in, there are roundabouts on the west side and none on the east. It turns out that the west side doesn't have the traffic problems but the counts show much higher levels. The pollution is lower, the accident rates are lower and the traffic jams form when the west side traffic hits the east side where all the stop lights are.
I can't find any reference to the place you mentioned but there are many web references about roundabouts in Florida that have reduced accident rates according to google.
Back with the SUV tire mess a while back congress decided to make everyone safe in intorduced a bill to make sure that all new cars (but not SUVs?) had sensors in the tires to measure pressure. There are a few ways to do this and none of them are very good. The most common idea is a to put a small RFID type tag that measures pressure and with a RF, you don't need to run any wires into the axle. Other ways would put a small sensor in the wheel at attempt to run a signal over the bearings. All these have problems with the G forces in a tire and if its too close to the rim, you get some interesting RF issues.
It should be able to read the RF tags at high speed if you've got sensors ever 3 inches across a lane but you have to tune the system to every different type of rf tag. I suspect it would also pick up some of car keys that make use of RF as well.
Its possible to that these could be read at a large distance but so far no one is selling any RFID type reader that works at any distance. Where I work would be interested in talking to someone who know how to read a TIRIS tag at 100 yeards and show its general direction.
There have been stiff fines for messing with car computers since at least 5 years.
There is very little you can do with trafic lights. Most of them use physical relay lock outs to keep two of the signals going green in different directions at the same time. About all that could be done that could cause a problem is dropping the yellow time to close to zero but there should be a minium time for that as well. Other than that, you've got exactly the same risk as when the power goes out. Too bad in that case most people think they have the right of way on the main road and no company has been smart enough to put in some battery backed flashing LED's to hint to people that its tuned into a 4 way stop. Of course 99% of all intersections with traffic lights could be replaced with round-abouts and increase saftey but that won't ever happen.
Humans are capable acting according to reason, rather than instinct.
Ever have a long lived pet? They act according to reason and not instinct. A typical 15 year old cat will show many of the signs of reason that a 2 year old human will. Most of your other points don't apply to children under 2 since that part of "human development" hasn't been developed. One of the reasons for the "terrible twos" is that is when human brians start asorbing the concepts you see here. Its just that apes and cats take longer. Most cats start showing some of these traits between 10 and 15 but that approaces their expected life span.
Humans are capable of love and compassion. Once again, check out pets. The oldest cat tends to hold a grudge about about the same time as my sister for about the same things. Did one learn it from the other? Your example of the rabbit implys that the rabbit understands the concept of property and ownership and then has the freewill to steal or not. If you replace the rabbit with a communal group of humans and put them in the same situation, you may find they act with the same morals as the rabbit. Many Indians were killed for "theft". Same thing has happend anywhere where land property concepts were intorduced to people that didn't use the concept and it typicaly resulted in the deaths of large numebrs of the uncultured people.
Respect for human life varys quite a bit in different cultures. One thing is univerally true, as the population density increases, the mutual respect for others goes down.
As far as your example of humans being able to suppress their urges to eat (and I assume reproduce) is wrong. Kangaroos are much better at both than humans. Just compare the current death rate of roos in the drought areas of Australia to human death rate in Ethiopia. Roos (and many marsupials) adjust their gestation period around food supply vs local demand for that food which is something humans havn't done yet.
Phone rings...
FBI: We are the FBI and we are here to help... We want to get a tap on KM's data. we want it all logged.
Tech: You'll have to wait in the snoop queue.
FBI: We are the FBI, you can't make us wait!
Tech: The NSA guy is here in person and he claims he's 1st.
FBI: *&#*-*!
[Door breaks down. Men with large guns enter]
DHS: We are the Department of Fatherland Security, were here to help.
[Poor phone monkey gets nailed by a stray bullet]
DHS: Give us a tap on KM's data NOW.
NSA: we were here 1st and were with the NSA
DHS: Ours is bigger than yours!
[Much machoism is displayed with people wiping out badges and such]
Meanwhile in another room....
Corp Dude [from Sun or Nokia or NEC its hard to tell]: So its all taken care of now? You'll let us no so we won't get embarrassed again?
BOFH: Yes it is all taken care of, we will make sure your alerted to any hacking attempts you need to know about. Let me put down these money bags, they are getting heavy.
Maybe being his ISP wouldn't be so bad...
This may or may not apply to the story but it applies to most of the discussion here.
Its clear that there are a few holes in the GPL and I think it might be time to make changes. The GPL was intended so that developed software could be used by a wide group of people and compaines. Recent laws (such as DMCA) have restriced some of the rights that were implied when the current version of the software was written. One of thouse is the right to reverse engineer the code which accroding to my IP lawyers, is now illegal even if you have source code unless you get premission. Another hole is the NDA type agreements and those are related to some of the hiding behind trade secret laws. The GPL needs to address all of these and it needs to soon before some developer gets nailed. For example if I develop something for KDE and I steal the idea out of Gnome, its quite possible for the author of that part to sue (and win) under current US tradesecret or DMCA law even though Gnome is GPLed and its license was written with the intent of having its bits reused elsewhere.
Let's say you've just bought a device. Say a NBX100 from 3com. Now how do you know if its running GNU software or not? If they hide the copyright message, you won't know will you? At least they left in one small text message that is very gnu tar specifc. A grep GNU on their exe image shows a positive match as does a grep on "You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License". So far attempts to get the source have not been productive but I did go to great lenghts to get explicit permission to reverse engineer the code from the persons whos name is on the copyright because any attempt to look at the binary code could be a DMCA violation under current law because the GPL doesn't grant that permission.
The GPL needs a anti-NDA and a reverse engeering clause added to it at once.
Keeping a fixed number of steel workers employed is a lesson leared at the start of WW1 and again in WWII when the need for steel was ramped up but many of the young steel workers had already been shiped over seas to be cannon fodder and there weren't enough left to keep up with the increased production. The result is that steel workers are something that gets watched (and protected) from inside the DOD.
Most compaines just store the entire card number. A hash is useless unless its a unique hash for every card and it provides no additional real security. Now dig out a samll c program that counts from 3.e15 to 7.e16 and md5's each of them. How long does it take? The last time I did this it took about 5 minutes but that was on a fast pc years ago.
There is no fraud because she has permission to use the card. All they can do is tell her to pay cash or a card with her name on it. If they take the card, the owner is very likly to show up demanding the card and never deal with them again. If you a pizza place, would your risk running away one of your better customers? I think not. Credit cards are a balacnce between consumer ease of use and security for the merchant. If you make them harder to use, then they won't get used and the banks lose out.
os vs os wars should be moded to -1 but I just saw something I thought was odd...
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In the "related links" section for this topic there is a link: Compare the best prices on: Software/Operating Systems
so which has the best price, Free BSD or Linux
The band at the corner pub is breaking the law (unless they bought the rights to preform the songs) and the pub may be violating its alchol license by allowing illegal acts to happen in the place. If the RIAA wants to shut down every music friendly pub, they can.
Running a wap server is trivial. The question is how do I feed a nokia or erricson a ring tone (or screen saver) over a wab server? I would love to see a CGI that will do it....
By the end of 2003 there will be a phone with some sort of "bass bost" and I expect it will sell. The question is, will it be from Sony of Nokia or one of the new Asian startups? My POS Nokis 8310 has a built in FM radio but you can't listen to it unless you have the car kit or hands free kit plugged in. Why they can't route the sound do the main speaker, I'll never know but someone decided it had to use the exteranal speaker. I suspect the next verion of it will have a bass boost as well.
This is why any wire placed on a public right of way should become the propery of the city with a low "lease back" to company that put the wire there. This is already done in some areas with water lines and if you build a new subdivion in most places, the roads become propery of the city at some stage.