How would the UN define what the (big I) Internet is? Something about address allocation body and DNS I suspect.
If this got annoying, couldn't we start another network? I can't think of any reason this wouldn't be fairly easy if there was a demand for it. Start new root name servers, setup a new IP allocation agency. Need new routers, but not new cable as they wouldn't be regulating at the MAC level.
Personally, I suspect multiple Internets are going to be the way of the future. Think Xbox Live.
I made my nerd bones on a c64. Ran my first BBS, wrote my first BBS, learned 6502 machine lanaguage, all before the age of 15.
Learned to realign a 1541 disk drive. Learned to solder in reset switches, waited the longest 4-6 weeks of my life for my Action Reply Mk 5 Professional, only to replace it with a Super Snap Shot 7 a month later. First A/D converter (Covox Voice Master), first video scanner, first stolen long distance phone call.
For better or for worse, no piece of technology has had a greater effect of my life. By the end I had two systems, three 1541 5.25" drives, and two 800k 3.5" drives. 15 year old bliss.
Games have matured as an industry, mostly because the market has got far larger.
Personally, I believe video games, especially online massively multi-player games, are going to emerge as the highest grossing creative industry going. It may already be happening with Star Wars Galaxies, the game could out grossing the movies.
My vision of a future mega block buster entertainment project goes like this.
- Buy pre-established franchise. (you want a preexisting, pretested concept) - Produce a full budget movie based on said franchise. - Produce a $100+ million dollar online universe based off the franchise. - Do extensive tie in deals. All in game everything, from virtual vehicles to in game music, is a tied. - Blow the traditional $100+ million on marketing.
Now your about half a billion dollars into it. Seems like a lot, but I'm sure at least that much was spent before say, the Harry Potter movie, sold its first ticket.
With the game thrown in as the ultimate cash cow you get revenue streams that far exceed what's available in Hollywood today. The only trick is you need a lot of consoles out there with the power to handle a multiplayer universe.
Console prices are going down, power is going up, hard drives and broadband are standard.
The crack for the little guy is developing the initial franchise. Writing the comic, novel, etc.
I'm somewhat impressed the author of the article got the skinny on the 007 trick, but he missed the real point.
For non-Xbox nerds, it works like this.
The XBox has internal flash for the BIOS. To enable flashing, all just need to jumper one point (referred to as the D0 point) to ground.
The 007 trick is an buffer exploit that allows you to boot linux, once you've got linux running, assuming you jumpered D0, you can reflash your internal BIOS with a hacked version (which ignores keys). You'll never play Xbox Live, but you can now play pirate DVDs and copy games to your hard drive.
With only the buffer exploit, it's at least a challenge, but if MS was to release a signed Linux distro, the process would be trivial. Jumper D0, boot MS-Xlinux, FTP to Xbox, upload bios burner app, pow. Hacked Xbox.
It's *extreamly* unlikely MS would ever do this. These guys can release easier solutions for buffer overflow related methods, but nothing can have as much potential for evil as a signed linux distro.
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Damn. I wish I had the focus to put together a regiment like that. Best I can do is take some st john's wort when I remember, drink too much and smoke a lot of pot.
I also find it a little interesting that the same month WebMB and company have started running heavy ADHD ads on TV up here in Canada, pow, story appears on slashdot.
"sure, you might get nanodevices smaller than that, but would they be independent enough and sensing/generating enough information to communicate via IP?"
That's such a quintessentially Slashdot quote, it makes me smile.
You'll notice the lack of bioengineered animals running around the lab.
A super smart/strong mouse isn't something the microbiology scene can whip up just yet, and they fry mice like popcorn.
Doing the same thing with humans is a ways off and immeasurably more difficult as you can't flip baby humans over and chop out their spinal cord on a whim to check out your handiwork.
For the record, IDSL type things was also anounced by Cisco and another much smaller company I used to work for called Fitel-Photomatrix.
We made a box that split a PRI into a bunch of simulated ISDN connections. Cisco at least said they where going to offer it on a card, not sure if they did. This was back in the days when ADSL was still very wierd stuff and 56k modems didn't exist.
It's very strange seeing it now being used in India. Fitel-Photomatrix got bought out and vanished in the tech boom, but ironically their boxes would seem fairly ideal for these folks.
Just last night I was listening to the shopping list of problems at Baghdad hospitals right now and thought to myself "well, I'm no help with that, but if they've got IT problems, I'd go help."
I realize there are far bigger issues in the conflict, and the world; but as another poster said, I'm a lot better at fixing technology then at fixing people or giving away food.
I'm not sure if there really is a requirement for an IT Peace Corp, but it's a nice idea. Post-war nerd squad to setup communications infrastructure. Internet, TV, radio, cell phones, we can do all that stuff.
Geeks Without Borders. Attractive idea.
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For the record, it was probably your friend's amps causing the brown outs; neon ground effects don't pull that many amps.
What he needed was probably a thing they call a 'stiffening cap'. A big 5 farad capacitor to absorb the amps power spikes. They make some real nice ones with built in volt meters and what not just for this application.
Seems suspect to me a high output alternator would affect fuel mileage that much.
Computer Recyclers, 163 MacFarlane Road off Marivale. (613)723-3135
Not even in the same league as Active Surplus in Toronto, but not too shabby either. Lots of neat old corperate stuff, cheap U racks, steppers, power supplies, etc.
No specifics on what he actually stole. Did he just card stuff? That's pretty dumb.
I remember logged into a shell from a public terinal CCC99 in Berlin and was all disappointed when nobody showed up to own my box by the time I'd got home to Canada.
Once the technical collages started the 18 month IT courses, the party was over.
This stuff isn't all rocket science, and indians need jobs too.
I switched to marketing after 2 years at IT and never looked back. More fun work, more fun people, less hours, cooler travel, and the old IT skills are in high demand in that sphere.
Sometimes I swear they just keep me around to fix laptops and convert image formats, but my job is safe as houses.
I didn't think it was the great, and appearently Neilson families feel the same. Show's not making its rating targets, which means it costs more then it makes and nobody's doing this for art.
"Gee mister advertiser, my show getting terrible rating, but all these nerds on the net promise they like it. Please pay me as if I was pulling real numbers, cause kinda weak SF shows don't pay for themselves ya know."
Seriously. It'd be like being a kid with parents don't believe in sugar. Do the little tikes really need to be indoctrinated so soon?
The perfect kid rig is the newest version of IE, newest version of every macromedia plug-in and a tray full of closed source IM clients. Anything else is losing functionality.
Don't worry, they're just about old enough to start their first warez server and we all know the dirty open source road that leads down.
I've seen the footage. The guy was up in Aldrin's face about as much as humanly possible, screaming that he was a lier, etc etc.
Moral of the story is, if you want to live in crazy town, make sure you pick a giant faceless target (NASA) instead of a target with a face and very little desire to put up with bullshit(Alrin).
I run a indie record label and I've got nothing to do with the RIAA.
If you'd like to broadcast releases to which I own the rights, more power to you.
If you run a broadcaster and the RIAA is all up in your face, I encourage you to just stop playing releases from RIAA member labels.
The cost of entry to the music business is in fact lower then ever. Todays home studio is able to do what 10 years ago was the stuff of wet dreams. Plus CD reproduction costs are lower then ever. You can start an record label for less then $5k these days, I'm living proof.
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Bombardier invented the Skidoo (they own the trademark), Seadoo's too. Outboard motors. In short, loud fun machines that aren't very safe.
It's hard to find another company to compair them too. They're like a Harley-Davidson that also makes areospace equipment.
How would the UN define what the (big I) Internet is? Something about address allocation body and DNS I suspect.
If this got annoying, couldn't we start another network? I can't think of any reason this wouldn't be fairly easy if there was a demand for it. Start new root name servers, setup a new IP allocation agency. Need new routers, but not new cable as they wouldn't be regulating at the MAC level.
Personally, I suspect multiple Internets are going to be the way of the future. Think Xbox Live.
I made my nerd bones on a c64. Ran my first BBS, wrote my first BBS, learned 6502 machine lanaguage, all before the age of 15.
Learned to realign a 1541 disk drive. Learned to solder in reset switches, waited the longest 4-6 weeks of my life for my Action Reply Mk 5 Professional, only to replace it with a Super Snap Shot 7 a month later. First A/D converter (Covox Voice Master), first video scanner, first stolen long distance phone call.
For better or for worse, no piece of technology has had a greater effect of my life. By the end I had two systems, three 1541 5.25" drives, and two 800k 3.5" drives. 15 year old bliss.
Games have matured as an industry, mostly because the market has got far larger.
Personally, I believe video games, especially online massively multi-player games, are going to emerge as the highest grossing creative industry going. It may already be happening with Star Wars Galaxies, the game could out grossing the movies.
My vision of a future mega block buster entertainment project goes like this.
- Buy pre-established franchise. (you want a preexisting, pretested concept)
- Produce a full budget movie based on said franchise.
- Produce a $100+ million dollar online universe based off the franchise.
- Do extensive tie in deals. All in game everything, from virtual vehicles to in game music, is a tied.
- Blow the traditional $100+ million on marketing.
Now your about half a billion dollars into it. Seems like a lot, but I'm sure at least that much was spent before say, the Harry Potter movie, sold its first ticket.
With the game thrown in as the ultimate cash cow you get revenue streams that far exceed what's available in Hollywood today. The only trick is you need a lot of consoles out there with the power to handle a multiplayer universe.
Console prices are going down, power is going up, hard drives and broadband are standard.
The crack for the little guy is developing the initial franchise. Writing the comic, novel, etc.
I'm somewhat impressed the author of the article got the skinny on the 007 trick, but he missed the real point.
For non-Xbox nerds, it works like this.
The XBox has internal flash for the BIOS.
To enable flashing, all just need to jumper one point (referred to as the D0 point) to ground.
The 007 trick is an buffer exploit that allows you to boot linux, once you've got linux running, assuming you jumpered D0, you can reflash your internal BIOS with a hacked version (which ignores keys). You'll never play Xbox Live, but you can now play pirate DVDs and copy games to your hard drive.
With only the buffer exploit, it's at least a challenge, but if MS was to release a signed Linux distro, the process would be trivial. Jumper D0, boot MS-Xlinux, FTP to Xbox, upload bios burner app, pow. Hacked Xbox.
It's *extreamly* unlikely MS would ever do this. These guys can release easier solutions for buffer overflow related methods, but nothing can have as much potential for evil as a signed linux distro.
Damn. I wish I had the focus to put together a regiment like that. Best I can do is take some st john's wort when I remember, drink too much and smoke a lot of pot.
I also find it a little interesting that the same month WebMB and company have started running heavy ADHD ads on TV up here in Canada, pow, story appears on slashdot.
"sure, you might get nanodevices smaller than that, but would they be independent enough and sensing/generating enough information to communicate via IP?"
That's such a quintessentially Slashdot quote, it makes me smile.
Now if only that human body as a power supply thing made a lick of sense.
I hope some Saberhagen Berserker's show up in the next movie and settle everybodies hash real good.
Personally, I have little desire to pay $30 a month to carry a WIFI computer around with me all of the time.
I would totally pay $30 a month to have my PDA/Cellphone/Camera have access to the net all the time.
As the previous poster said, it's not about laptops, they're for old men anyway.
You'll notice the lack of bioengineered animals running around the lab.
A super smart/strong mouse isn't something the microbiology scene can whip up just yet, and they fry mice like popcorn.
Doing the same thing with humans is a ways off and immeasurably more difficult as you can't flip baby humans over and chop out their spinal cord on a whim to check out your handiwork.
For the record, IDSL type things was also anounced by Cisco and another much smaller company I used to work for called Fitel-Photomatrix.
We made a box that split a PRI into a bunch of simulated ISDN connections. Cisco at least said they where going to offer it on a card, not sure if they did. This was back in the days when ADSL was still very wierd stuff and 56k modems didn't exist.
It's very strange seeing it now being used in India. Fitel-Photomatrix got bought out and vanished in the tech boom, but ironically their boxes would seem fairly ideal for these folks.
Ben, pleaes e-mail me. gray at lowpass dot net.
I would very much like to explore your proposal.
True. Why is it that the bad guys always get the best uniforms?
Just last night I was listening to the shopping list of problems at Baghdad hospitals right now and thought to myself "well, I'm no help with that, but if they've got IT problems, I'd go help."
I realize there are far bigger issues in the conflict, and the world; but as another poster said, I'm a lot better at fixing technology then at fixing people or giving away food.
I'm not sure if there really is a requirement for an IT Peace Corp, but it's a nice idea. Post-war nerd squad to setup communications infrastructure. Internet, TV, radio, cell phones, we can do all that stuff.
Geeks Without Borders. Attractive idea.
For the record, it was probably your friend's amps causing the brown outs; neon ground effects don't pull that many amps.
What he needed was probably a thing they call a 'stiffening cap'. A big 5 farad capacitor to absorb the amps power spikes. They make some real nice ones with built in volt meters and what not just for this application.
Seems suspect to me a high output alternator would affect fuel mileage that much.
Look at all those shiney smiling white people.
Place looks like hell on earth based on the web site.
Computer Recyclers, 163 MacFarlane Road off Marivale. (613)723-3135
Not even in the same league as Active Surplus in Toronto, but not too shabby either. Lots of neat old corperate stuff, cheap U racks, steppers, power supplies, etc.
There's at least one more of us.
I CS, watch NASCAR and race a Civic. The total heretic package.
No specifics on what he actually stole. Did he just card stuff? That's pretty dumb.
I remember logged into a shell from a public terinal CCC99 in Berlin and was all disappointed when nobody showed up to own my box by the time I'd got home to Canada.
Once the technical collages started the 18 month IT courses, the party was over.
This stuff isn't all rocket science, and indians need jobs too.
I switched to marketing after 2 years at IT and never looked back. More fun work, more fun people, less hours, cooler travel, and the old IT skills are in high demand in that sphere.
Sometimes I swear they just keep me around to fix laptops and convert image formats, but my job is safe as houses.
WEBSITE'S DON'T PAY FOR THEMSELVES!
No revenue = No content, end of story.
I didn't think it was the great, and appearently Neilson families feel the same. Show's not making its rating targets, which means it costs more then it makes and nobody's doing this for art.
"Gee mister advertiser, my show getting terrible rating, but all these nerds on the net promise they like it. Please pay me as if I was pulling real numbers, cause kinda weak SF shows don't pay for themselves ya know."
Besides, I'm much more depressed about Futurama.
Seriously. It'd be like being a kid with parents don't believe in sugar. Do the little tikes really need to be indoctrinated so soon?
The perfect kid rig is the newest version of IE, newest version of every macromedia plug-in and a tray full of closed source IM clients. Anything else is losing functionality.
Don't worry, they're just about old enough to start their first warez server and we all know the dirty open source road that leads down.
I've seen the footage. The guy was up in Aldrin's face about as much as humanly possible, screaming that he was a lier, etc etc.
Moral of the story is, if you want to live in crazy town, make sure you pick a giant faceless target (NASA) instead of a target with a face and very little desire to put up with bullshit(Alrin).
I run a indie record label and I've got nothing to do with the RIAA.
If you'd like to broadcast releases to which I own the rights, more power to you.
If you run a broadcaster and the RIAA is all up in your face, I encourage you to just stop playing releases from RIAA member labels.
The cost of entry to the music business is in fact lower then ever. Todays home studio is able to do what 10 years ago was the stuff of wet dreams. Plus CD reproduction costs are lower then ever. You can start an record label for less then $5k these days, I'm living proof.