Try this on for size. Your own server at home w/your private information.
A bluetooth PDA or Portable Computer
A Unique ssl encryption w/digital signature
And wireless ethernet access points throughout the community.
This avoids centralized systems all together. You want my info? you have to send me a digital sig that is authenticated by my server. My server sends you the info on a unique ssl port, say a different ssl port for each country code.
The remote site accepts your ssl combined w/your digital signature and logs you on.
The trick, have different aliases on your HD and have a sym link connected to each of those ssl connections
For shopping at brick and mortar (a concept that microsoft is trying to implement w/it's.NET)
Your PDA/portable logs on to the 802.11 using bluetooth at your favorite restaurant. Now connected to the network on a limited port, the PDA contacts home and gets your info downloaded to the PDA.
Say you walk into Barnes and Noble once you log on to the network w/bluetooth and authenticate yourself with your ssl digisig, B&N offers you a cool book at a 20% discount. You accept, relay the info back to your server which contacts your account and deducts that from your checking, the inventory of B&N is reduced by one, that Barcode is deleted from the inventory stack, and you walk out without having to speak to a soul.
Now that would be cool
Who needs the stinking internet to house our info?
We have the basic structure setup already on our boxen.....
The community that is concerned about the rights of those who consume content as opposed to those who deliver content needs to create their own content.
Just as we have free and shareware, we need to have free and share books. With the option of Publishing companies to purchase the books if they want to.
That way, publishing companies can freely view the content on line to see who the best writers are and
The artists have a way to get exposed
We need to take off our blinders and expand our concept of open source
1. All devices would have to obey ISO, ASO standards, including outlets, computers, engineparts, airlocks, etc...which means that there would be no non fitting outlets
2. Since it was a private endeavour there would be 'comfort tests' to ensure that the fat cats that could afford to go up could go up "in style"
and hence there would be no 'cramped conditions'
3. Excitement about the space program and the lucrative tourist business would drive demand way up for the luxury to go up into space and the manufacturing companies would make better and faster launchers to maximize profits
4. In ten years there would be people making 'safari' excursions to the moon w/moon guides and GE space suits
5. Embedded unix would run on the space vehicles, stations and lifesupport, greatly reducing the risk of faulty programming, and intel would develop space procs which do not need as much electricity because of lessened resistance in space
6. Instead of a couple of rocket jockeys in space like now, there would be pasty, fat, American kids eating astronaut ice cream in a rocket looking out the "window" over the terminator and the sunrise saying, "Mommy, i'm feeling sick" this sucks, instead of some buzz cut 'Commander' complaining about the cramped conditions.
7. People should get a clue. We are not where we should be. The Astronauts should look at their own elitist space program which only lets olympic athletes with brains the size of small satellites up in space. There will be no comfort until you and me get the chance to fly up and realize we can't enjoy space flight in a canister the proportional size of the womb.
I understand your frustration. However, and I don't want to play the devil's advocate, but it's certain that "internet everywhere" by a fully interoperable computing language is what we are going after. Whether it is java, c#, or xml.
I think using my pda with linux (or even better a darwin) embedded to make purchases would be great.
Linux already does it inside of cell phones in Europe and Japan.
THe only ones who were actively pursuing this "internet everywhere" was M$.
This community was not energized until M$ put it's finger in the "privacy pie"
Too bad the developer's community is so reactionary. We really could have trumped M$ on this one.
Ever see microtubles "walk" by accepting an enzyme into their structure? They are able to change their conformation to "squeeze" along macrotubles (in a cell) the way an inch worm travels. The real problem w/micro/nano tech is that we are trying to re-invent the wheel.
The only advances that we will ever see is if we begin to manipulate protien structures w/different bonds so that they form the shape that we want them to, and do the work required of them. That will solve the whole friction problem, as well as release their own energy, and all we have to do is give them a couple of pre fabricated weak phosphate chains!
Once we use the hydrogen chain and proton pumps to "shoot" hydorgen atoms across the membrane potential, we will be doing the same work as micromachines in a completely organic solution, and we will have created the beginnings of sentient life in one step.
I've heard about these micro/nano machines for years. They just don't do the job they're supposed to.
As you say yourself, Lucky enough. I need not say more. Don't be so quick to judge those who choose all venues to pursue an education.
Most people's work who you have built upon were engineers forced into a new world and didn't have the benefit of a CS major.
You seem to put yourself in a different situation than most. I personally know several Computer Sci majors in Utah who are making 7 bucks an hour at an internship because of the lousy job market.
You are not too informed.
Don't confuse luck w/skill
Don't confuse unemployment with lack of skill
Sorry, buddy, chose to reply to this because it was the only one that was intelligent.
Let's make some points.
1. This includes CS majors.
2. A degree in CS is still a paper degree
3. I've checked out the degree. The problem w/the CS degrees is simply that they include too much and do not spend enough time delving into the meat of the theories that they port to teach.
4. I restate: An attack on one's intelligence usually is an inidcation of one's own inability to accept one's own limitations. I should know. I fell for that trap after graduated w/honors from high school with a solid gpa and a promising scholarship to BYU.
5. Anyone who thinks that studying intently is for idiots does not know the value of an education.
6. Get real. The only reason you are where you are...I repeat, is because you knew someone. Not because you know something.
I also am tired of the common sense and tech training argument too.
Sorry guy.
Just a couple of points
A court is the institution that determines if a contract is valid. Not the drafter of the contract.
If we didn't have courts to clarify and correct faulty contracts, Ma Bell would still be charging you $100 dollars for lousy phone service.
Just because someone litigates for damages, it doesn't make them a leech or a hero.
Just because you are happy w/your service doesn't mean everyone is.
Finally ISP stands for Internet Service Provider.
That is they provide a service for the internet.
That doesn't mean slap down a ip and a gateway and it's up to you to make it work.
The majority of these people aren't stupid. They just want to surf the web.
This is the failure of most technically minded people. They tend to forget that people don't love computers and technology like we do.
And we sometimes expect people to take the time that we have taken to learn things they will only use a few times in their lives.
No one expects me to operate on myself or fix my own (modern) car
But everyone expects me (the average Joe) to know what DHCP stands for and to Release and Renew and a whole bunch of other techno lingo.
Get a life.
Don't be a loser.
Let people be free to be free of computers!
Just so you know... arbitrarily spending 100 usd on software isn't helping anyone.
That's the sort of idiotic philosophy that got the venture capitalists bankrupt at the turn of the century.
Buying goods for the sake of buying undermines the real value of a product.
It will return to bite you in the bum. Because fools like you pay for useless articles, those useless articles will seem (temporarily) valuble and their price goes up
This month you pay 100 usd. Next month you pay 115 usd. All because you placed an arbitrary value on a useless product.
(how come you think MS Windows got so popular)?
Next time you go out to spend money just to spend money, do us all a favor and continue downloading porn on your 56k modem.
Sorry to burst the High Speed Bubble, but are any of these media viable in the long run? From what is getting loaded on the pipe now (business data, streaming video, massive multimedia, and intense gaming), is there really any future for the pipe limitations of broadband cable, dsl, satellite, radio etc....
Just a couple of questions
1. When everyone in your town has cable at 19.95/mo, will you get a significantly higher pipe than DUN?
2. When you travel more than a mile from a CO, will you get less bandwith, and during peak hours, will DSL suffice for most apps? Now? 10 yrs from now?
3. Will Ka and Ku band satellites be sufficient for the great high bw entertainment revo. that is supposedly occuring and satellite being the 'wave of the future? Will people pay for high latency and 10,000 users per sat module? Do LEO sats bridge the latency gap
4. When IP version 6 comes out of the wood work and everyone's house is doing igrp or rip or ospf updates, and you are turning on your vcr from Bora Bora to download the latest x-file movie from TiVO, will the internet come to a grinding 56kbps halt?
5. Have any viable solutions, beside dsl, cable sat, and radio, which have proven their limitations tragically, available? Is the only solution a pure fiber network running through every home and every community a fddi ring? How will we pay for this? With an internet tax? Will this kill e-commerce? Do we want e-commerce to live? Do we want the gov to regulate a media that is world wide and relatively free?
We are all planning for an internet revolution. However, WE HAVE NO PIPE! WE HAVE LIMITED BANDWITH! CABLE, SAT, DSL, RADIO JUST WON'T CUT IT 10 YRS FROM NOW. DO WE HAVE A SOLUTION? (and please don't say pneumatic tubes....)
Slashdot Mirror
Try this on for size. Your own server at home w/your private information.
A bluetooth PDA or Portable Computer
A Unique ssl encryption w/digital signature
And wireless ethernet access points throughout the community.
This avoids centralized systems all together. You want my info? you have to send me a digital sig that is authenticated by my server. My server sends you the info on a unique ssl port, say a different ssl port for each country code.
The remote site accepts your ssl combined w/your digital signature and logs you on.
The trick, have different aliases on your HD and have a sym link connected to each of those ssl connections
For shopping at brick and mortar (a concept that microsoft is trying to implement w/it's .NET)
Your PDA/portable logs on to the 802.11 using bluetooth at your favorite restaurant. Now connected to the network on a limited port, the PDA contacts home and gets your info downloaded to the PDA.
Say you walk into Barnes and Noble once you log on to the network w/bluetooth and authenticate yourself with your ssl digisig, B&N offers you a cool book at a 20% discount. You accept, relay the info back to your server which contacts your account and deducts that from your checking, the inventory of B&N is reduced by one, that Barcode is deleted from the inventory stack, and you walk out without having to speak to a soul.
Now that would be cool
Who needs the stinking internet to house our info? We have the basic structure setup already on our boxen.....
There is an alternative
The community that is concerned about the rights of those who consume content as opposed to those who deliver content needs to create their own content.
Just as we have free and shareware, we need to have free and share books. With the option of Publishing companies to purchase the books if they want to.
That way, publishing companies can freely view the content on line to see who the best writers are and The artists have a way to get exposed
We need to take off our blinders and expand our concept of open source
Open information should be more like it.
If this were a private venture,
1. All devices would have to obey ISO, ASO standards, including outlets, computers, engineparts, airlocks, etc...which means that there would be no non fitting outlets
2. Since it was a private endeavour there would be 'comfort tests' to ensure that the fat cats that could afford to go up could go up "in style" and hence there would be no 'cramped conditions'
3. Excitement about the space program and the lucrative tourist business would drive demand way up for the luxury to go up into space and the manufacturing companies would make better and faster launchers to maximize profits
4. In ten years there would be people making 'safari' excursions to the moon w/moon guides and GE space suits
5. Embedded unix would run on the space vehicles, stations and lifesupport, greatly reducing the risk of faulty programming, and intel would develop space procs which do not need as much electricity because of lessened resistance in space
6. Instead of a couple of rocket jockeys in space like now, there would be pasty, fat, American kids eating astronaut ice cream in a rocket looking out the "window" over the terminator and the sunrise saying, "Mommy, i'm feeling sick" this sucks, instead of some buzz cut 'Commander' complaining about the cramped conditions.
7. People should get a clue. We are not where we should be. The Astronauts should look at their own elitist space program which only lets olympic athletes with brains the size of small satellites up in space. There will be no comfort until you and me get the chance to fly up and realize we can't enjoy space flight in a canister the proportional size of the womb.
I think using my pda with linux (or even better a darwin) embedded to make purchases would be great.
Linux already does it inside of cell phones in Europe and Japan.
THe only ones who were actively pursuing this "internet everywhere" was M$.
This community was not energized until M$ put it's finger in the "privacy pie" Too bad the developer's community is so reactionary. We really could have trumped M$ on this one.
The only advances that we will ever see is if we begin to manipulate protien structures w/different bonds so that they form the shape that we want them to, and do the work required of them. That will solve the whole friction problem, as well as release their own energy, and all we have to do is give them a couple of pre fabricated weak phosphate chains!
Once we use the hydrogen chain and proton pumps to "shoot" hydorgen atoms across the membrane potential, we will be doing the same work as micromachines in a completely organic solution, and we will have created the beginnings of sentient life in one step.
I've heard about these micro/nano machines for years. They just don't do the job they're supposed to.
Protien is the way to go.
As you say yourself, Lucky enough. I need not say more. Don't be so quick to judge those who choose all venues to pursue an education. Most people's work who you have built upon were engineers forced into a new world and didn't have the benefit of a CS major. You seem to put yourself in a different situation than most. I personally know several Computer Sci majors in Utah who are making 7 bucks an hour at an internship because of the lousy job market. You are not too informed. Don't confuse luck w/skill Don't confuse unemployment with lack of skill
Sorry, buddy, chose to reply to this because it was the only one that was intelligent. Let's make some points. 1. This includes CS majors. 2. A degree in CS is still a paper degree 3. I've checked out the degree. The problem w/the CS degrees is simply that they include too much and do not spend enough time delving into the meat of the theories that they port to teach. 4. I restate: An attack on one's intelligence usually is an inidcation of one's own inability to accept one's own limitations. I should know. I fell for that trap after graduated w/honors from high school with a solid gpa and a promising scholarship to BYU. 5. Anyone who thinks that studying intently is for idiots does not know the value of an education. 6. Get real. The only reason you are where you are...I repeat, is because you knew someone. Not because you know something. I also am tired of the common sense and tech training argument too.
Sorry guy. Just a couple of points A court is the institution that determines if a contract is valid. Not the drafter of the contract. If we didn't have courts to clarify and correct faulty contracts, Ma Bell would still be charging you $100 dollars for lousy phone service. Just because someone litigates for damages, it doesn't make them a leech or a hero. Just because you are happy w/your service doesn't mean everyone is. Finally ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. That is they provide a service for the internet. That doesn't mean slap down a ip and a gateway and it's up to you to make it work. The majority of these people aren't stupid. They just want to surf the web. This is the failure of most technically minded people. They tend to forget that people don't love computers and technology like we do. And we sometimes expect people to take the time that we have taken to learn things they will only use a few times in their lives. No one expects me to operate on myself or fix my own (modern) car But everyone expects me (the average Joe) to know what DHCP stands for and to Release and Renew and a whole bunch of other techno lingo. Get a life. Don't be a loser. Let people be free to be free of computers!
Just so you know... arbitrarily spending 100 usd on software isn't helping anyone.
That's the sort of idiotic philosophy that got the venture capitalists bankrupt at the turn of the century.
Buying goods for the sake of buying undermines the real value of a product.
It will return to bite you in the bum. Because fools like you pay for useless articles, those useless articles will seem (temporarily) valuble and their price goes up
This month you pay 100 usd. Next month you pay 115 usd. All because you placed an arbitrary value on a useless product.
(how come you think MS Windows got so popular)?
Next time you go out to spend money just to spend money, do us all a favor and continue downloading porn on your 56k modem.
MY SIG
Come on! Anyone who pays for dialup internet service is a fool.
Anyone who demands that someone pay for it is doomed to surf at 33kbps forever.
The only way to get the fiber/copper at your house is to let the dialups die out. Then they have to lay pipe.
Smart shoppers dial for free. I only pay for premium bandwidth.
Besides. Who do you know who pays for an isp dialup who isn't bombarded with ads anyway?
My SIG
Sorry to burst the High Speed Bubble, but are any of these media viable in the long run? From what is getting loaded on the pipe now (business data, streaming video, massive multimedia, and intense gaming), is there really any future for the pipe limitations of broadband cable, dsl, satellite, radio etc.... Just a couple of questions 1. When everyone in your town has cable at 19.95/mo, will you get a significantly higher pipe than DUN? 2. When you travel more than a mile from a CO, will you get less bandwith, and during peak hours, will DSL suffice for most apps? Now? 10 yrs from now? 3. Will Ka and Ku band satellites be sufficient for the great high bw entertainment revo. that is supposedly occuring and satellite being the 'wave of the future? Will people pay for high latency and 10,000 users per sat module? Do LEO sats bridge the latency gap 4. When IP version 6 comes out of the wood work and everyone's house is doing igrp or rip or ospf updates, and you are turning on your vcr from Bora Bora to download the latest x-file movie from TiVO, will the internet come to a grinding 56kbps halt? 5. Have any viable solutions, beside dsl, cable sat, and radio, which have proven their limitations tragically, available? Is the only solution a pure fiber network running through every home and every community a fddi ring? How will we pay for this? With an internet tax? Will this kill e-commerce? Do we want e-commerce to live? Do we want the gov to regulate a media that is world wide and relatively free? We are all planning for an internet revolution. However, WE HAVE NO PIPE! WE HAVE LIMITED BANDWITH! CABLE, SAT, DSL, RADIO JUST WON'T CUT IT 10 YRS FROM NOW. DO WE HAVE A SOLUTION? (and please don't say pneumatic tubes....)