That ACTUALLY wouldn't be all that hard. With a combination of GPS, good video recognition software, and physics calculation, the car would be able to tell if a massive drop off would be coming up and automatically shut off the car with enough time for it to stop by itself.
Antilock brakes is a good precurser for this idea in that sensors tell a computer when the exact moment to let off the brakes to not have the wheels lock up would be. Computing the exact time needed before a catastrophic cliff driving accident is just a logical progression thereafter.
The next big thing I think will be accident avoidance and collision detection. Automatically taking over control of a car to avoid a collision. A human reacts poorly to most situations given that we don't have time to actually think out the most plausible action. Example being that we see something in front of us, our first reaction is to slam on the brakes. This causes wheels to lock up suddenly and we slam into the obstruction. The better action would be to quickly and smoothely correct course while applying steady and slight pressure to brakes. A computer can do this without the sudden rush of emotions that a human experiences. I imagine technology to do this will be accessible within ten years.
They actually have quite a problem with connectivity in my part of GA. The link will drop for about 1 second every hour or so, just enough time for every session I have running to be disconnected.
It sucks, nothing I can do about it. The DNS servers haven't been a problem really and I get fast response times on DNS queries, but the link dropping is a pain in my ass.
Comcast on the whole is not that bad. They actually had a knowledgable tech out here to help get shit set up. The problem exists at the corporate level where policy is made. They have stuff set up upstream to make it so that only Windows and Mac machines can use their service. The tech here got them to disable that for me.
I currently have the Wireless Gateway that they are discussing and while I don't know about the stuff they claim it can do, I do know a little about it's use.
Both those interfaces == HTTP. Both interfaces use the same password by default. User: comcast Pass: 1234
That's the default. They also recommend at install time that you don't change that.
I think that's fishy as hell so that was the first thing I changed. Luckily the tech here on site was competant enough to ask me what WEP key I wanted to use and let me pick whatever phrase I wanted. That showed intelligence.
On the whole, I have no complaints with them. If they fuck with my service, maybe I'll have problems. But Charter (local competition) isn't much better.
Don't villianize the RIAA. It's not their fault the artists didn't want their money. After all, it should be the artists responsibility to track all playings of their song around the world.
That lie aside, the RIAA sucks. I'm glad I'm not a musician on an RIAA label, I would hate myself.
As a writer, I seem to find myself using OO.o more and more these days for almost all of my writing. The only thing I use other programs for is screenplays, just because formatting on the fly is so much easier. It makes writing screenplay's as transparent as prose.
I disagree with your statement that writers don't write with OO.o. Real writers write with anything, vi, notepad, typewriters, and *gasp* even a pen and paper. Writers live to write, not to play with fancy new wordprocessors.
They have time to do what noone has effectively been able to do (make complete win32 emulation possible on open platforms) but they don't have time to make a simple webpage? Their home page says under construction.
Um... Congrats on falling for an April Fools joke 24 days after the fact. As the same blister who posted that, you have made my day knowing that I have the ability to hop forward through time and fool people nearly a full month after the actual joke.
The biggest problem with this awesome idea is the fact that the price tag will always be significant. It's almost as bad as school now where all the students are practically required to use a computer to type up all of their reports and things. It's getting to the point now where you can't pass school without a computer.
Fine for most people, but what about my sister who is living at home with my parents who aren't exactly rich and continually have problems with running Windows that leaves them without a working computer for weeks at a time.
And what happens if you lose all the data on your PDA/Computer/whatever? Data is very easy to erase and a high magnetic charge can easily wipe away gigs of data. If I spill coffee on paper, yea, it's ruined, but at least the data is still there.
It's a proxy. Allows users to just leech bandwidth. A lot of the foreigners are using it on our system to get onto IRC networks that their ISP's get banned from for warez abuse and things of that nature.
One of the main reasons for selecting OpenBSD is that it handles local security better than some of the other flavors. FreeBSD is my personal favorite for servers, but as a server that handles local users, I would never go with anything other than OpenBSD ever again.
The package system is also very nice. OpenBSD audits the packages that are included to protect against retarded local exploits. OpenBSD doesn't trust third party packages and this shows in its track record of local and remote root priveledge escalation's. Third party software is often overlooked as a flaw with Open Source software. Every day we hear about a new Microsoft Outlook hole, but nothing ever gets mentioned on slashdot on how XMMS allows arbitrary code execution. This kind of stuff happens all the time, but is often overlooked because most people running servers don't let their users do anything.
As a free hosting provider like we try to be, we wanted to give the users as much access to the system as we could safely allow. This has been both a hinderance and a help. Having a truely open provider available for users has helped us grow at an exponential rate. But we have to be very concerned about every local vulnerability that exists.
As one of the two co-owners of Metawire I must agree. Overall, the OpenBSD situation for us has been extremely positive. The difficulties that we had that were not mentioned in the article were mostly the cause of inproper configuration allowing local users (we are a shell provider) accessing services that we didn't expect, causing situations we couldn't avoid in time.
All in all though, it has been extremely smoothe and the users all seem to be appreciative.
One of the biggest challenges for us was getting a good userbase. We found that the majority of our users were from countries like Romania and Poland who just wanted a shell account to run a BNC and then never log in again. This went against everything we created Metawire FOR, which was to create a community of like-minded computer enthusiasts.
There have been some problems, but OpenBSD has helped to aleviate the majority of them.
You have made some very good points and I agree with you fully. I didn't intend to come off as you may have read into my post.
Theft is, and always will be illegal; using the Internet for theft shouldn't even be legally questionable. It's a crime.
However, what I AM afraid of is that laws are being passed specifically to prevent actions which are based on legal foundations, but somehow are misused for illegal practices. An example would be like your mailing list statement. Automated mailing or whatever they want to call it.
I'm just afraid that once you start using laws to strengthen weak protocols, then you've already set a precedent of using laws to support weakened ideas. The DMCA is a good example of this. You develop a weak protocol/program/encryption scheme and then make it illegal to show that it sucks. Anyone who would want to point out its flaws is a criminal for trying to help, yet the criminals are more than happy to stay just below ground and take advantage of it to its full potential.
It's good to finally see education being used in an effort to stop spam instead of focusing on legal solutions to technical/educational problems.
I cringe when I see new laws being passed to limit what you can do on the internet. If you are using technology to exploit, there should be a technological solution. Once you start making laws, you begin heading down a VERY dark, dangerous path.
but I'll post with my name anyway. I'm not afraid.
It appears to me that if you are asking slashdot how you can best use a connection this fast, you should probably quit your job and give it to someone else who would appreciate it more. The list of things I could show with a connection like this are just pure ownage, and even clients without a vag would find themselves getting wet. Metaphorically speaking of course.
You sir, are the troll for asking a question like this on Slashdot.
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They don't have to look at it to get it.
According to the DoJ report that was released a while back (I don't have the URL), they claim that 42% of all P2P pornography is kiddy porn.
Believing that number to be true (I think its high, but whatever) you could set up KaZaa to download lots of porn on the public network to your laptop and look at it when you get home. Noone would be the wiser.
The other implication to this is the RIAA.
"Uh, PIT. We need you to give us the names of all the people that used your network to download Britney Spears songs."
We'll probably see some ridiculous figure like, "RIAA's Profits Dropped 2000% Since PIT Opened WIFI Hotspot."
Any ISP that has ever blocked outgoing SMTP ports for me has quickly found themselves without me as a customer. I run my own mailserver and wouldn't want it any other way. Its the only way that I can be certain that my e-mail is my e-mail. It also goes a long way in allowing me to be proactive about spam that gets to me through a combination of ORDB, SpamAssasin and custom blacklisting through Postfix.
To say that I don't have a right to send e-mail may be correct, after all, I don't have a right to use the internet at all. But if I am going to be on the internet. And if I am going to be paying for that access, I demand to be able to send my own e-mails. And I'll vote as such with my wallet. I've switched ISP's probably 8 times before sticking with Charter cable. They are awesome and with the minor flaw that they have blocked ICMP traffic for me, they are doing a great job.
Widespread blocking of services doesn't fix the problem. It's like killing mosquito's with a nuclear bomb. It just sucks. Why not come along with a good technological solution? Possibly a new e-mail protocol or get more widespread use of technologies that already exist(like I do).
-E
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I'm pretty sure that's the webpage you were talking about. Google wins again!
Good link though. I had never read that before. A little offtopic, but their design method is brilliant. Have two groups simultaneously creating their own versions of the same idea in a sterile environment, and then sharing the best ideas from both at a later date to create the ultimate product.
Sorry sir. I couldn't, in good conscience, let that one slide. I've been going on for so long telling about how great GW is for this country and how everything he is doing is going to benefit the citizens in the long run. But this is just beyond crazy.
We have the gvt on one side telling us we need to pay more money to support wars we don't want to be in, corporations on the other side telling us we need to buy stuff from them while they lobby the overworked gvt to steal our rights out from under us, and the same companies outsourcing all their jobs to other countries (laying off hundreds of thousands of Americans) and then have the balls to wonder, "WHY IS NOONE BUYING OUR CRAPPY PRODUCTS?!?! THEY MUST BE STEALING ON THE INTARWEB THINGYMAGIGER. LETS STEAL SOME MORE RIGHTS... OR BETTER YET, SUE@@!@!#!@"
Is the Serial Killer George Bush? I would think that was would be considered as such. He said he would do a better job this year of making sure the taxpayer's money would see good use, what I am wondering if that includes another 100billion dollar war campaign.
That alone will be my reason for not voting for him. 100billion dollars could be used right here in America for so many great things.
Worried about Homeland security? How about we spend 1billion dollars on making our nations security systems here more efficient? That still leaves 99 billion dollars to play with. Oh my god, the possibilities are endless.
I think the biggest problem that exists here regarding widespread sexism is that it is ingrained into our very lives, and has been for the entirety of human history.
Only in the last ~60 years have women finally been given freedoms, and even that was done very slowly and very painfully.
This may seem like a long time to you and me (the 20-30 year old crowd) but when you compare it to the timeline of human history (at least 4000+ years) then it begins to look insignificantly small.
Sure, things are changing. Sure, women can do everything men can if they want to. But I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't take another ~4000 years before the bias is completely destroyed.
It can be done in Outlook and has been done for a while now. I'm not sure of the steps to do so as I have no Windows machines at home, but at work thats how I have my outlook set up. The restriction is that the subject has to be the related subject (re: tags are fine) and then the threading is done by date from that point. But it DOES work.
E-mail, unfortunately, as defined by RFC has no standardized way of ennumerating threads. MSGID would be the logical place to handle threading, but since every mailserver handles MSGID differently, its a moot point at this stage.
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Most likely they were for Sun machines. The DOD buy HUGE amounts of Sun servers/desktops across the board. I don't know why DOD loves Sun so much, but they'll probably keep buying from them instead of Linux. It would be too cost inefficient to move all their legacy systems over to Linux than it is to just pay Sun for the hardware.
Prices have probably gone up since I was there (about a year ago). Nonetheless, even at 25$ a month for 2mbit, thats still much better than the 45 - 75$ range for cheap American 2mbit that turns out to be closer to 256k.
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That ACTUALLY wouldn't be all that hard. With a combination of GPS, good video recognition software, and physics calculation, the car would be able to tell if a massive drop off would be coming up and automatically shut off the car with enough time for it to stop by itself.
Antilock brakes is a good precurser for this idea in that sensors tell a computer when the exact moment to let off the brakes to not have the wheels lock up would be. Computing the exact time needed before a catastrophic cliff driving accident is just a logical progression thereafter.
The next big thing I think will be accident avoidance and collision detection. Automatically taking over control of a car to avoid a collision. A human reacts poorly to most situations given that we don't have time to actually think out the most plausible action. Example being that we see something in front of us, our first reaction is to slam on the brakes. This causes wheels to lock up suddenly and we slam into the obstruction. The better action would be to quickly and smoothely correct course while applying steady and slight pressure to brakes. A computer can do this without the sudden rush of emotions that a human experiences. I imagine technology to do this will be accessible within ten years.
They actually have quite a problem with connectivity in my part of GA. The link will drop for about 1 second every hour or so, just enough time for every session I have running to be disconnected.
It sucks, nothing I can do about it. The DNS servers haven't been a problem really and I get fast response times on DNS queries, but the link dropping is a pain in my ass.
Comcast on the whole is not that bad. They actually had a knowledgable tech out here to help get shit set up. The problem exists at the corporate level where policy is made. They have stuff set up upstream to make it so that only Windows and Mac machines can use their service. The tech here got them to disable that for me.
I currently have the Wireless Gateway that they are discussing and while I don't know about the stuff they claim it can do, I do know a little about it's use.
192.168.0.0/24 == NAT range used.
192.168.0.1 == Router admin interface
192.168.100.1 == Router tech summary interface
Both those interfaces == HTTP. Both interfaces use the same password by default.
User: comcast
Pass: 1234
That's the default. They also recommend at install time that you don't change that.
I think that's fishy as hell so that was the first thing I changed. Luckily the tech here on site was competant enough to ask me what WEP key I wanted to use and let me pick whatever phrase I wanted. That showed intelligence.
On the whole, I have no complaints with them. If they fuck with my service, maybe I'll have problems. But Charter (local competition) isn't much better.
Don't villianize the RIAA. It's not their fault the artists didn't want their money. After all, it should be the artists responsibility to track all playings of their song around the world.
That lie aside, the RIAA sucks. I'm glad I'm not a musician on an RIAA label, I would hate myself.
Now, off to mortgage my house and buy some stock. I just hope they maintain quality of service that they have been providing for so long.
As a writer, I seem to find myself using OO.o more and more these days for almost all of my writing. The only thing I use other programs for is screenplays, just because formatting on the fly is so much easier. It makes writing screenplay's as transparent as prose.
I disagree with your statement that writers don't write with OO.o. Real writers write with anything, vi, notepad, typewriters, and *gasp* even a pen and paper. Writers live to write, not to play with fancy new wordprocessors.
They have time to do what noone has effectively been able to do (make complete win32 emulation possible on open platforms) but they don't have time to make a simple webpage? Their home page says under construction.
I smell bullshit.
Um... Congrats on falling for an April Fools joke 24 days after the fact. As the same blister who posted that, you have made my day knowing that I have the ability to hop forward through time and fool people nearly a full month after the actual joke.
Congrats.
-Eric
The biggest problem with this awesome idea is the fact that the price tag will always be significant. It's almost as bad as school now where all the students are practically required to use a computer to type up all of their reports and things. It's getting to the point now where you can't pass school without a computer.
Fine for most people, but what about my sister who is living at home with my parents who aren't exactly rich and continually have problems with running Windows that leaves them without a working computer for weeks at a time.
And what happens if you lose all the data on your PDA/Computer/whatever? Data is very easy to erase and a high magnetic charge can easily wipe away gigs of data. If I spill coffee on paper, yea, it's ruined, but at least the data is still there.
Just some concerns.
-blister
It's a proxy. Allows users to just leech bandwidth. A lot of the foreigners are using it on our system to get onto IRC networks that their ISP's get banned from for warez abuse and things of that nature.
One of the main reasons for selecting OpenBSD is that it handles local security better than some of the other flavors. FreeBSD is my personal favorite for servers, but as a server that handles local users, I would never go with anything other than OpenBSD ever again.
The package system is also very nice. OpenBSD audits the packages that are included to protect against retarded local exploits. OpenBSD doesn't trust third party packages and this shows in its track record of local and remote root priveledge escalation's. Third party software is often overlooked as a flaw with Open Source software. Every day we hear about a new Microsoft Outlook hole, but nothing ever gets mentioned on slashdot on how XMMS allows arbitrary code execution. This kind of stuff happens all the time, but is often overlooked because most people running servers don't let their users do anything.
As a free hosting provider like we try to be, we wanted to give the users as much access to the system as we could safely allow. This has been both a hinderance and a help. Having a truely open provider available for users has helped us grow at an exponential rate. But we have to be very concerned about every local vulnerability that exists.
As one of the two co-owners of Metawire I must agree. Overall, the OpenBSD situation for us has been extremely positive. The difficulties that we had that were not mentioned in the article were mostly the cause of inproper configuration allowing local users (we are a shell provider) accessing services that we didn't expect, causing situations we couldn't avoid in time.
All in all though, it has been extremely smoothe and the users all seem to be appreciative.
One of the biggest challenges for us was getting a good userbase. We found that the majority of our users were from countries like Romania and Poland who just wanted a shell account to run a BNC and then never log in again. This went against everything we created Metawire FOR, which was to create a community of like-minded computer enthusiasts.
There have been some problems, but OpenBSD has helped to aleviate the majority of them.
You have made some very good points and I agree with you fully. I didn't intend to come off as you may have read into my post.
Theft is, and always will be illegal; using the Internet for theft shouldn't even be legally questionable. It's a crime.
However, what I AM afraid of is that laws are being passed specifically to prevent actions which are based on legal foundations, but somehow are misused for illegal practices. An example would be like your mailing list statement. Automated mailing or whatever they want to call it.
I'm just afraid that once you start using laws to strengthen weak protocols, then you've already set a precedent of using laws to support weakened ideas. The DMCA is a good example of this. You develop a weak protocol/program/encryption scheme and then make it illegal to show that it sucks. Anyone who would want to point out its flaws is a criminal for trying to help, yet the criminals are more than happy to stay just below ground and take advantage of it to its full potential.
It's good to finally see education being used in an effort to stop spam instead of focusing on legal solutions to technical/educational problems.
I cringe when I see new laws being passed to limit what you can do on the internet. If you are using technology to exploit, there should be a technological solution. Once you start making laws, you begin heading down a VERY dark, dangerous path.
but I'll post with my name anyway. I'm not afraid.
It appears to me that if you are asking slashdot how you can best use a connection this fast, you should probably quit your job and give it to someone else who would appreciate it more. The list of things I could show with a connection like this are just pure ownage, and even clients without a vag would find themselves getting wet. Metaphorically speaking of course.
You sir, are the troll for asking a question like this on Slashdot.
They don't have to look at it to get it.
According to the DoJ report that was released a while back (I don't have the URL), they claim that 42% of all P2P pornography is kiddy porn.
Believing that number to be true (I think its high, but whatever) you could set up KaZaa to download lots of porn on the public network to your laptop and look at it when you get home. Noone would be the wiser.
The other implication to this is the RIAA.
"Uh, PIT. We need you to give us the names of all the people that used your network to download Britney Spears songs."
We'll probably see some ridiculous figure like, "RIAA's Profits Dropped 2000% Since PIT Opened WIFI Hotspot."
-Eric
Any ISP that has ever blocked outgoing SMTP ports for me has quickly found themselves without me as a customer. I run my own mailserver and wouldn't want it any other way. Its the only way that I can be certain that my e-mail is my e-mail. It also goes a long way in allowing me to be proactive about spam that gets to me through a combination of ORDB, SpamAssasin and custom blacklisting through Postfix.
To say that I don't have a right to send e-mail may be correct, after all, I don't have a right to use the internet at all. But if I am going to be on the internet. And if I am going to be paying for that access, I demand to be able to send my own e-mails. And I'll vote as such with my wallet. I've switched ISP's probably 8 times before sticking with Charter cable. They are awesome and with the minor flaw that they have blocked ICMP traffic for me, they are doing a great job.
Widespread blocking of services doesn't fix the problem. It's like killing mosquito's with a nuclear bomb. It just sucks. Why not come along with a good technological solution? Possibly a new e-mail protocol or get more widespread use of technologies that already exist(like I do).
-E
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/hci_topics/pap ers/apple.html
I'm pretty sure that's the webpage you were talking about. Google wins again!
Good link though. I had never read that before. A little offtopic, but their design method is brilliant. Have two groups simultaneously creating their own versions of the same idea in a sterile environment, and then sharing the best ideas from both at a later date to create the ultimate product.
Sorry sir. I couldn't, in good conscience, let that one slide. I've been going on for so long telling about how great GW is for this country and how everything he is doing is going to benefit the citizens in the long run. But this is just beyond crazy.
We have the gvt on one side telling us we need to pay more money to support wars we don't want to be in, corporations on the other side telling us we need to buy stuff from them while they lobby the overworked gvt to steal our rights out from under us, and the same companies outsourcing all their jobs to other countries (laying off hundreds of thousands of Americans) and then have the balls to wonder, "WHY IS NOONE BUYING OUR CRAPPY PRODUCTS?!?! THEY MUST BE STEALING ON THE INTARWEB THINGYMAGIGER. LETS STEAL SOME MORE RIGHTS... OR BETTER YET, SUE@@!@!#!@"
I'm sick of it.
Maybe capitalism isn't the way...
Is the Serial Killer George Bush? I would think that was would be considered as such. He said he would do a better job this year of making sure the taxpayer's money would see good use, what I am wondering if that includes another 100billion dollar war campaign.
That alone will be my reason for not voting for him. 100billion dollars could be used right here in America for so many great things.
Worried about Homeland security? How about we spend 1billion dollars on making our nations security systems here more efficient? That still leaves 99 billion dollars to play with. Oh my god, the possibilities are endless.
I hate fucked up spending.
I think the biggest problem that exists here regarding widespread sexism is that it is ingrained into our very lives, and has been for the entirety of human history.
Only in the last ~60 years have women finally been given freedoms, and even that was done very slowly and very painfully.
This may seem like a long time to you and me (the 20-30 year old crowd) but when you compare it to the timeline of human history (at least 4000+ years) then it begins to look insignificantly small.
Sure, things are changing. Sure, women can do everything men can if they want to. But I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't take another ~4000 years before the bias is completely destroyed.
It can be done in Outlook and has been done for a while now. I'm not sure of the steps to do so as I have no Windows machines at home, but at work thats how I have my outlook set up. The restriction is that the subject has to be the related subject (re: tags are fine) and then the threading is done by date from that point. But it DOES work.
E-mail, unfortunately, as defined by RFC has no standardized way of ennumerating threads. MSGID would be the logical place to handle threading, but since every mailserver handles MSGID differently, its a moot point at this stage.
Most likely they were for Sun machines. The DOD buy HUGE amounts of Sun servers/desktops across the board. I don't know why DOD loves Sun so much, but they'll probably keep buying from them instead of Linux. It would be too cost inefficient to move all their legacy systems over to Linux than it is to just pay Sun for the hardware.
I, for one, welcome our new nano-sized overlords.
Prices have probably gone up since I was there (about a year ago). Nonetheless, even at 25$ a month for 2mbit, thats still much better than the 45 - 75$ range for cheap American 2mbit that turns out to be closer to 256k.