Over at The State Hornet from the Califronia State University at Sacramento has a
story from March 2003. She's the front woman for a rock band called
Warp 11.
One Warp11's web site there are even some videos!
-- Multics
p.s. no she's not 'let herself go' -- mostly the contrary!
If the editors and or the original story source would 'waste' their time watching CSPAN, they'd have learned that the stereo cameras have only TWO filters that are the same (a red and a blue). The other colors in the color wheel filters are different so one camera can work in longer wave lengths and the other in shorter.
The JPL news conference covered by CSPAN last night explained in serious detail why it was done the way it was done and the benefits. It is easy to tell, given the color references on the robot which filter is in use.
I, for one, am tired of conspiracy under every rock. It is time for slashdot to grow up just a tiny bit and be willing to recognize that the USA can sometimes do cool things that no one else has done. It is rocket science and the USA can sometimes do it better than anyone.
-- Multics
P.S. see
here for the hardware details. It is only 2 pages for the typical/. A.D.D. reader.
I'm sure there were already distracted driver statutes on the books (Ref anyone?). Was this needed to complicate things more?
This kind of creeping legislation that trys to mandate common sense doesn't help anyone whose trying to do the right thing. I have friends that drive a pickup with hard mounted surveying equipment in it and the passenger operates the equipment. How the hell are they supposed to operate under this silliness?
To those of you/. readers (me included) that have had visits with distracted drivers... TAKE THERE LICENSES FROM THEM. Throw these thoughtless in jail.
If ever there was a/. rant list, this is it. Like why we all continue to read/., there are some good ideas intermixed with the total crap.
-- Multics
Post Quantum Crypto
on
RSA-576 Factored
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
Perhaps I should submit this as an Ask Slashdot instead of a comment here, but what happens when the quantum computers make breaking these things easy? (I'll leave out the word trivial since I can't imagine quantum computing being trivial anytime soon.)
What will be the face of the next from of Crypto? Only one-time pads?
That sounds way painful.
I have a couple of S-100 300 baud Modem Boards of yours that needs service.... It isn't even clear to me if it *ever* worked being serial numbers below 50.
I ponder if we made a list of oh say 'n' of these if the typical/.er would read them.
I've taught computer science. Specifically Software Engineering where there is about a 1" thick stack of around 15 papers that get the whole idea. Wonderful works like "Goto Considered Harmful" (Communications of the ACM, 11, p147-148, 1968) come to mind. But I don't think there's much hope the typical/.er will take the time and effort to read them better yet think about them.
In the last couple of weeks/. as a culture came up as a lunch conversation between my co-workers and I. We came to the conclusion that the wild herd doesn't pay for stuff (Kazaa, Morphious, etc), is ADD (how many times have you read a posting where the poster hadn't read the link?) and generally thinks that education is mostly worthless (the bi-annual do I need a degree grudge match). Given these behaviors, why go through the effort of making a list?
If I were working this space (putting my teaching hat back on) I'd cover:
Computer Architecture (where all things come from)
Theory of Computing including O() [& friends], analysis of algs, Turing, etc.
Software Engineering
Software Testing
Graphics
Databases
Numerical Methods
Simulation (& Statistics)
and
Systems Analysis (where apparently all books currently suck)
I think that would be the place to start and there would be more than 10 or 20 of them.
Not to mention the COmmon Business Oriented Language predates all the aforementioned languages by at least 20 years.
COBOL histories can be found
here and
here. For quite a while, the language that was available on all sorts of mainframes that addressed business was COBOL. Then one could use FORTRAN for doing engineering & science. All other languages were in the noise, were research projects, or were only supported by a single vendor.
Selecting COBOL made very good sense then and in some cases probably even makes sense now for some classes of applications. Move Corresponding still does a lot of work in a single statement. New editors make working with the verbage easy compared to the venerable 80-column card.
The copyright discussion is currently happening at
Educause's national meeting in
Anaheim. The RIAA president and MPAA's Jack "boom boom" Valenti (who finally is retiring) represent the holders of copyright.
What this discussion really implies is that it is REALLY time to express our views to our congress critters. The lobbying power of the MPAA and RIAA will overwhelm anything we do if we don't act pretty quickly as a group.
More properly, isn't this the entire point of the GPL-like world?
As much as I dislike RMS, the guy clearly is the intellectual property leader in pretty much any space I know of. We are fighting these things out in court and not rioting like third world countries.
I think the question to ask is what can we do to assure that 'FREE' makes it out into all these other disciplins before there is nothing left that is not 0wn3d.
I second this motion.
EE Times has missed the point. Adoption has been very sporadic as has the supporting software stack. Now with Apple Laptops
supporting it with a single software stack it is likely to be what it originally promised to be. This is the difference between MS and Apple... Apple can lead in software by implmenting new hardware.
Now if
Kyocera7135series II would support BlueTooth the world would be a cooler place!
(Yes it is poor form to reply to your own posting)
No... consider the effort already complete for the DIVX technology that Circuit City did. Push players out to the MPAA voters and make the media tied to the player.
As Jack is fond of pointing out, THIS MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY should be able to push a little technology out to keep the group clean. Then in the stream coming from the the player, still blow (randomly?) the serial number of the item into various parts of the interblanking. I am sure you could build a sufficiently complicated system that there wasn't a way (in any kind of reasonable time) to pirate the thing. I'd change it with a firmware download every year just to keep things interesting.
Instead, it is just easier for the big guys to use this as a good way to screw the little guys. Situation normal, all fouled up!
In reality, most screeners are needed because the movie company has not put a movie in general release and thus if you're a voting member in say Lake Tahoe, there is no way to see most of the movies that you're supposed to be voting on (Smelly kid or not).
No, the solution here is to allow screeners, but to digitally mark each one of them such that they can be identified (not just on the markable/scratchable skin of the DVD). That way, when one is 'discovered' in the used market, the person who released it can be fined or removed from getting any others.
They'll use technology against us customer scum, but they won't use it to clean up their own house.
Jack 'Boom Boom' Valenti's time has long past. He is second only to the RIAA in creepyness both by policy and in person. Thankfully at age 82, he'll be done soon anyway.
The TeraGrid is the NSF flagship for grid computing - be it good or bad.
The Grid.org people are some of the former SETI@home people gone more general purpose.
And of course, there is The Global Grid Forum which is meeting in Chicago in a week or so. GGF is the standards behind the Globus enabled grid.
We could ask why CERN/etal couldn't have come up with a slightly more imaginary name?
We can also ask why NSF are such suckers for the last 20 years of hype from the people who have run the national supercomputer centers in the USA? Ditto congress. But that is a (sad) story for a different day.
And finally we can ask what Top500.org is going to do when people begin reporting HPL benchmarks using these things? That HPL became the standard that people are designing supercomputers around argues just how totally screwed up high performance computing really is at the moment.
I'm sitting in the presentation that is announcing the $100/employee/yr. Pretty much it is the whole stack.
They used Google as an example. 1000 people, $100/employee/yr yields $100,000/yr for the whole software stack. So wearing my manager hat that is just 2 FTE.
The alternatives (like IIS and Websphere) are interested in licensing by connected person.
So this is yet one more way to license the products sun sells. This also is a major feeder to startups. Near zero software costs for small firms.
We're here in the vast US midwest in a land grant school. We have huge classrooms and a pending tablet program that will put 200-700 tablets in the same space.
So let's look at numbers:
300 xmitters * 50mw = 15w
In my book, 15w in the microwave bands, is enough to cause problems in your eyes or lenses of your eyes which have little ability to dump heat.
What he means is ubiquous wireless data (and hence phone). 802.11 is not the way to do that. The cell sites are too small.
AlohaNet and most of the cellular networks are the future of the third world (and even that of small town America). The cell sites are variable size and shape and can be scaled to meet the current AND FUTURE need just as they are in the first world.
Only the richest places on the planet can even consider copper to the home or small business better yet fiber.
I've been using for 4 months a Sprint Vision card in my laptop. I also have 802.11 at home and 100baseT at the office. Each of these services has their place.
I will not use an 802.11 hot spot in an airport, for example, because Vision is good enough (10k BYTES/second -- think 2 B-channel ISDN) but I certainly switch to 802.11b when I'm at home. I think the random hot spot business is a dead end especially when the fee is $10/day or worse and the security sucks.
Vision costs $80/mo unlimited. That's 8 hotel nights and/or visits to hot spots for those of you on the road. Verizon's unlimited data is a similar deal.
So... if I had to give one or the other up of the wireless services, I'd give up 802.11 and live with a wire at home. The best part is I don't have to, so all sorts of possibilities are possible. Both have their place, but cellular data works an awful lot of places and really is good enough for most of what we all do.
Alas, all these things ARE true for a culture that existed 2,000+ years ago.
Sadly it is not a culture of today.
Today the tribes of the area are too busy killing each other in the name of a dozen religions. They're too busy filling their souls with hate and killing off the dissenters with the odd ideas which will become the next medicine or math or a myriad of other futures. They're too busy protecting their own stuff/turf/wealth/power to worry about what could be.
At the moment, Egypt is a poor, misguided, 3rd world nation that has neighbors that are similarly misguided 3rd world nations (including Israel). Until the hate stops, that is the only way it will be.
And how do they think they're going to have any market share?
This reminds me of Sony's inability to select feature sets for consumer electronics that make sense. One normally ADDs features as one goes up the line, not (seemingly) randomly have some and not others.
Litigation vs No Market Share -- sure seems like an unpleasant set of choices to me.
Keep those free PVR reviews coming! Do we need an 'open' source of TV listings?
Slashdot Mirror
One Warp11's web site there are even some videos!
-- Multics
p.s. no she's not 'let herself go' -- mostly the contrary!
The JPL news conference covered by CSPAN last night explained in serious detail why it was done the way it was done and the benefits. It is easy to tell, given the color references on the robot which filter is in use.
I, for one, am tired of conspiracy under every rock. It is time for slashdot to grow up just a tiny bit and be willing to recognize that the USA can sometimes do cool things that no one else has done. It is rocket science and the USA can sometimes do it better than anyone.
-- Multics
P.S. see here for the hardware details. It is only 2 pages for the typical /. A.D.D. reader.
This kind of creeping legislation that trys to mandate common sense doesn't help anyone whose trying to do the right thing. I have friends that drive a pickup with hard mounted surveying equipment in it and the passenger operates the equipment. How the hell are they supposed to operate under this silliness?
To those of you /. readers (me included) that have had visits with distracted drivers... TAKE THERE LICENSES FROM THEM. Throw these thoughtless in jail.
-- Multics
If ever there was a /. rant list, this is it. Like why we all continue to read /., there are some good ideas intermixed with the total crap.
-- Multics
What will be the face of the next from of Crypto? Only one-time pads? That sounds way painful.
-- Multics
I have a couple of S-100 300 baud Modem Boards of yours that needs service.... It isn't even clear to me if it *ever* worked being serial numbers below 50.
Where shall I send them?
-- Multics
-- Multics
and $50 * 65000 is around $3,250,000. but I'll guess a deployment like that costs around 10x the cost of the [?Java-based?] cards.
-- Multics
I've taught computer science. Specifically Software Engineering where there is about a 1" thick stack of around 15 papers that get the whole idea. Wonderful works like "Goto Considered Harmful" (Communications of the ACM, 11, p147-148, 1968) come to mind. But I don't think there's much hope the typical /.er will take the time and effort to read them better yet think about them.
In the last couple of weeks /. as a culture came up as a lunch conversation between my co-workers and I. We came to the conclusion that the wild herd doesn't pay for stuff (Kazaa, Morphious, etc), is ADD (how many times have you read a posting where the poster hadn't read the link?) and generally thinks that education is mostly worthless (the bi-annual do I need a degree grudge match). Given these behaviors, why go through the effort of making a list?
If I were working this space (putting my teaching hat back on) I'd cover:
Computer Architecture (where all things come from)
Theory of Computing including O() [& friends], analysis of algs, Turing, etc.
Software Engineering
Software Testing
Graphics
Databases
Numerical Methods
Simulation (& Statistics)
and
Systems Analysis (where apparently all books currently suck)
I think that would be the place to start and there would be more than 10 or 20 of them.
-- Multics
COBOL histories can be found here and here. For quite a while, the language that was available on all sorts of mainframes that addressed business was COBOL. Then one could use FORTRAN for doing engineering & science. All other languages were in the noise, were research projects, or were only supported by a single vendor.
Selecting COBOL made very good sense then and in some cases probably even makes sense now for some classes of applications. Move Corresponding still does a lot of work in a single statement. New editors make working with the verbage easy compared to the venerable 80-column card.
-- Multics
The copyright discussion is currently happening at Educause's national meeting in Anaheim. The RIAA president and MPAA's Jack "boom boom" Valenti (who finally is retiring) represent the holders of copyright.
What this discussion really implies is that it is REALLY time to express our views to our congress critters. The lobbying power of the MPAA and RIAA will overwhelm anything we do if we don't act pretty quickly as a group.
-- Multics
Let's be sure to adopt and extend
lest someone come to close to us
Let's be sure to adopt and extend!
-- Multics
More properly, isn't this the entire point of the GPL-like world?
As much as I dislike RMS, the guy clearly is the intellectual property leader in pretty much any space I know of. We are fighting these things out in court and not rioting like third world countries.
I think the question to ask is what can we do to assure that 'FREE' makes it out into all these other disciplins before there is nothing left that is not 0wn3d.
-- Multics
Now if Kyocera 7135 series II would support BlueTooth the world would be a cooler place!
-- Multics
No... consider the effort already complete for the DIVX technology that Circuit City did. Push players out to the MPAA voters and make the media tied to the player.
As Jack is fond of pointing out, THIS MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY should be able to push a little technology out to keep the group clean. Then in the stream coming from the the player, still blow (randomly?) the serial number of the item into various parts of the interblanking. I am sure you could build a sufficiently complicated system that there wasn't a way (in any kind of reasonable time) to pirate the thing. I'd change it with a firmware download every year just to keep things interesting.
Instead, it is just easier for the big guys to use this as a good way to screw the little guys. Situation normal, all fouled up!
Thanks Boom Boom!
-- Multics
In reality, most screeners are needed because the movie company has not put a movie in general release and thus if you're a voting member in say Lake Tahoe, there is no way to see most of the movies that you're supposed to be voting on (Smelly kid or not).
No, the solution here is to allow screeners, but to digitally mark each one of them such that they can be identified (not just on the markable/scratchable skin of the DVD). That way, when one is 'discovered' in the used market, the person who released it can be fined or removed from getting any others.
They'll use technology against us customer scum, but they won't use it to clean up their own house.
Jack 'Boom Boom' Valenti's time has long past. He is second only to the RIAA in creepyness both by policy and in person. Thankfully at age 82, he'll be done soon anyway.
-- Multics
I appreciate his work more and more... he was just a little bit early.
-- Multics
The TeraGrid is the NSF flagship for grid computing - be it good or bad.
The Grid.org people are some of the former SETI@home people gone more general purpose.
And of course, there is The Global Grid Forum which is meeting in Chicago in a week or so. GGF is the standards behind the Globus enabled grid.
We could ask why CERN/etal couldn't have come up with a slightly more imaginary name?
We can also ask why NSF are such suckers for the last 20 years of hype from the people who have run the national supercomputer centers in the USA? Ditto congress. But that is a (sad) story for a different day.
And finally we can ask what Top500.org is going to do when people begin reporting HPL benchmarks using these things? That HPL became the standard that people are designing supercomputers around argues just how totally screwed up high performance computing really is at the moment.
-- Multics
They used Google as an example. 1000 people, $100/employee/yr yields $100,000/yr for the whole software stack. So wearing my manager hat that is just 2 FTE.
The alternatives (like IIS and Websphere) are interested in licensing by connected person.
So this is yet one more way to license the products sun sells. This also is a major feeder to startups. Near zero software costs for small firms.
-- Multics
So let's look at numbers:
300 xmitters * 50mw = 15w
In my book, 15w in the microwave bands, is enough to cause problems in your eyes or lenses of your eyes which have little ability to dump heat.
The FCC's power limit commentary formed through National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 yielded this RF Guidelines which makes for very good reading compared to the /. stream on this article.
-- Multics
AlohaNet and most of the cellular networks are the future of the third world (and even that of small town America). The cell sites are variable size and shape and can be scaled to meet the current AND FUTURE need just as they are in the first world.
Only the richest places on the planet can even consider copper to the home or small business better yet fiber.
-- Multics
I will not use an 802.11 hot spot in an airport, for example, because Vision is good enough (10k BYTES/second -- think 2 B-channel ISDN) but I certainly switch to 802.11b when I'm at home. I think the random hot spot business is a dead end especially when the fee is $10/day or worse and the security sucks. Vision costs $80/mo unlimited. That's 8 hotel nights and/or visits to hot spots for those of you on the road. Verizon's unlimited data is a similar deal.
So... if I had to give one or the other up of the wireless services, I'd give up 802.11 and live with a wire at home. The best part is I don't have to, so all sorts of possibilities are possible. Both have their place, but cellular data works an awful lot of places and really is good enough for most of what we all do.
-- Multics
Sadly, you get no disagreement from me other than I might cut two zeros.
-- Multics
Sadly it is not a culture of today.
Today the tribes of the area are too busy killing each other in the name of a dozen religions. They're too busy filling their souls with hate and killing off the dissenters with the odd ideas which will become the next medicine or math or a myriad of other futures. They're too busy protecting their own stuff/turf/wealth/power to worry about what could be.
At the moment, Egypt is a poor, misguided, 3rd world nation that has neighbors that are similarly misguided 3rd world nations (including Israel). Until the hate stops, that is the only way it will be.
It is a horrible waste for all.
-- Multics
This reminds me of Sony's inability to select feature sets for consumer electronics that make sense. One normally ADDs features as one goes up the line, not (seemingly) randomly have some and not others.
Litigation vs No Market Share -- sure seems like an unpleasant set of choices to me.
Keep those free PVR reviews coming! Do we need an 'open' source of TV listings?
-- Multics