In the case of the GPL, sure. But Darren never pretended his license was anything other than what it was. When you consider that it was only 4 lines of text, you'd expect that someone would have bothered to read it before the hassles started. Darren Reed is a dick, but he didn't try to decieve anyone.
Yep. That Steve Mann is a witty guy. According to wikipedia: The term "Ouija" is derived from the French "oui" (for "yes") and the German "ja" (for "yes"). I don't know if that does anything for ya.
Ya know I don't even buy that certificates are necessary anymore. Why can't we just have a repository where you store a hash of your site's public key. When I go to your site for the first time I get your public key, calculate the hash and deliver it to the repository for checking. It gives me back a yah or nah and we're secure. Of course, the repository will have to sign it's response, and include the hash that it is accepting, which means the browser will still have to have a repository's public key embedded in it, but that's doable.
Surely the load on a central repository like this would be minimum if we use UDP for transport. It is a central point of attack though.
Does anyone even know what a man in the middle attack is anymore? Without certificates (or with easy to aquire certificates) we don't have a way to ensure that someone isn't spying on the encrypted traffic. This service will allow me to register a certificate that looks "just like" the one you expect to get from www.usemycreditcard.com and intercept your confidential details by presenting a key signed with that certificate to your browser. This is already happening with Verisign certificates, a case of them not doing their job, and now StartCom want to make it easier? I guess it doesn't really matter as the vast majority of people are too damn stupid to examine a certificate to ensure it is correct anyways.
For years no-one bothered to read the license on IP Filter because it looked just like a standard BSD-like license. Then Mr Reed actually stood up and said something like "hey! You can't distribute modified versions of my code!" and the shit hit the fan because people actually bothered to read the license and found out that he had indeed reserved that right to himself. Of course, the result of this debarcle was that IPF was pulled from OpenBSD and those lovely chaps wrote their own IP filter in two weeks (which many people consider superior to IPF anyways).
In Steve Mann's award winning paper he describes a technique he calls Ouijagree. The next time you are presented with an EULA, grab three nearby people (family members, fellow employees) and have them gentle place their fingers on the mouse. Add your own fingers and then call upon the spirits to agree to the EULA. Watch! as the mouse slowly glides from its current position, possibily spelling out the names of lost loved ones, as it approaches the I Agree button. Should it linger over the button too long, feel free to click yourself as the spirits have made their intention clear. Now it is not you who has agreed to that EULA, it's your long dead great grandfather, who came from beyond the grave to take away your legal responsibility.
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University exams should be about applying knowledge, not regurgitating it. When I left university the vast majority of my exams were "open book" but a textbook is such an innefficient piece of technology. The problem with communication equipment in exam rooms, however, is that someone else could be reading through your glasses and doing the work for you.
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Well I'd expect in the next 2 years to be able to go to McDonalds and enter my order on a touch screen and have it brought out to me. Of course, I'd much prefer it if it were cooked by fully autonomous systems and brought out to me by a mobile robot, but I think that's still a while off (being that unskilled labour is EVERYWHERE and costs less than robots ever will).
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Alternatively you can train your staff so they can remember everyone's order without writing down a damn thing. If you've never had this kind of service I suggest you go to a high class restraunt sometime, it really is an enjoyable experience.
The killer app is direct and instant access to the combined knowledge of mankind. Imagine being able to google an answer to a question in the field in real time.
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Seriously, that's the problem. Steve Mann's EyeTap systems are the best wearable argumented reality systems available. Unfortunately he doesn't even consider it necessary to add some sunglass lenses to the front of the EyeTap, making himself look like a cyborg, which is the point really, being that he does "performance art" with it. The irony of it is, the EyeTap systems would look like normal sunglasses if you put sunglass lenses on them.
Now I have to wonder. Steve Mann isn't interested in commercializing this stuff, but he does provide full specs on how to make them, so which isn't someone commercializing this technology? I'd buy a pair of sunglasses that looked cool and let me google whilst talking to people, wouldn't you? Imagine someone asking you a question and you being able to answer with the power of google at your disposal!
Pfft, it's not like you can pick up a gnome-java app and run it on another platform anyway. I really don't know why people bought into this "isn't it great that apps will run (slowly) on any platform" crap. Really, how hard is it to compile your app once for each platform? It's not.
Which is definitely something you would run on a server machine, not a desktop machine. Oh, and what 4 organisms would this be? I mean jesus, the human genome takes up less than a gig, even if you're representing each base pair with a word. Maybe you're comparing plant genomes, they're massive.
My point is that there's probably 20 Ask Slashdot questions in the queue and at least one of them is something that you can't get an answer for in 2 minutes of googling. The editors choose to post this question over those questions, why?
Gee I don't know, because maybe if they didn't post this Ask Slashdot they could have posted another Ask Slashdot that actually required people who were knowledgable to reply? Then we could have had a discussion with these knowledgable people about their expert opinion and the conversation would actually be interesting.
Umm no, you may be able to do this now but it took you hours to get all that set up, including figuring how to "mate" the PDA to the PC so they trust each other. The scenario is: walk into an office you've never been to before, transfer data using bluetooth to a computer which you have never used before. Now observe how long this takes. It's a hell of a lot longer than it takes to plug in a usb stick, and that's a hell of a lot longer than it should take.
Or you could just write better software. Really, I gotta wonder, what the hell are you running that requires that many pages to be in memory at the same time. Obviously you need this kind of stuff if you're running a huge database or something, but a desktop machine? You're kiding right?
IBM eserver xSeries 445 8870 (88701RX) can take 64 GB of ram, that enough for ya? I got a wild idea, why don't the "editors" of Slashdot do a 5 second google search before posting pointless Ask Slashdot questions like this and save us all a lot of time. Hell, it might even improve the quality of the site!
argumented reality is really the way to go, unfortunately the techniques used to make hmds for virtual reality will not translate to public usage of argumented reality due to social issues ("Oh! Look at the cyborg geek!"). Mann's eyetap systems look good, but he doesn't even try to cover them with a sunglass lenses (which is really ironic, he has the best technology for reducing social problems with argumented reality and he wears this stuff in public to deliberately cause social problems - which he calls performance art).
Uhhh hard. Every single time I have to plug a USB thumb drive into a PC it takes at least 5 minutes. Usually because I have to pull something else out to find a slot. You might be wondering what this technology would have over bluetooth. Well have you ever used bluetooth? You inevitably have to fiddle with it for minutes to find the menu option that lists the devices that you have already registered with and then fiddle more to map the name that is on the menu with the device that you can see, point at, and touch in the real would (but has no clear identifier on it that matches it with the menu option). All this technology is the reason why people don't like technology. The user interfaces are really unintuitive. Ultimately, loading a file from my portable data storage device onto a computer should be as simple as sitting down at the computer, selecting File -> Open and clicking the little icon of a happy user called "QuantumG's files". If someone else has the file it should be as easy as asking them to touch the computer and selecting "John's files". Transfering a file from my device to Johns should be as simple as the both of us touching a computer and dragging the files from my device to his.
And should someone at an lcd factory ever get off their ass and make a transparent lcd that fits into a contact lens or better yet, the membrane of your eye you'll be able to use your personal network to communicate with your mobile computer, storage and interface.
heh, we just have to fix FireFox. By making the guys who code on it aware that sites like this exist we can have this cleared up in no-time. In fact, the particular bug that SpaceDaily.com uses has probably been fixed already, I just don't have a nightly build.
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In the case of the GPL, sure. But Darren never pretended his license was anything other than what it was. When you consider that it was only 4 lines of text, you'd expect that someone would have bothered to read it before the hassles started. Darren Reed is a dick, but he didn't try to decieve anyone.
Yep. That Steve Mann is a witty guy. According to wikipedia: The term "Ouija" is derived from the French "oui" (for "yes") and the German "ja" (for "yes"). I don't know if that does anything for ya.
Surely the load on a central repository like this would be minimum if we use UDP for transport. It is a central point of attack though.
Does anyone even know what a man in the middle attack is anymore? Without certificates (or with easy to aquire certificates) we don't have a way to ensure that someone isn't spying on the encrypted traffic. This service will allow me to register a certificate that looks "just like" the one you expect to get from www.usemycreditcard.com and intercept your confidential details by presenting a key signed with that certificate to your browser. This is already happening with Verisign certificates, a case of them not doing their job, and now StartCom want to make it easier? I guess it doesn't really matter as the vast majority of people are too damn stupid to examine a certificate to ensure it is correct anyways.
So please, read the freakin' license.
In Steve Mann's award winning paper he describes a technique he calls Ouijagree. The next time you are presented with an EULA, grab three nearby people (family members, fellow employees) and have them gentle place their fingers on the mouse. Add your own fingers and then call upon the spirits to agree to the EULA. Watch! as the mouse slowly glides from its current position, possibily spelling out the names of lost loved ones, as it approaches the I Agree button. Should it linger over the button too long, feel free to click yourself as the spirits have made their intention clear. Now it is not you who has agreed to that EULA, it's your long dead great grandfather, who came from beyond the grave to take away your legal responsibility.
University exams should be about applying knowledge, not regurgitating it. When I left university the vast majority of my exams were "open book" but a textbook is such an innefficient piece of technology. The problem with communication equipment in exam rooms, however, is that someone else could be reading through your glasses and doing the work for you.
Well I'd expect in the next 2 years to be able to go to McDonalds and enter my order on a touch screen and have it brought out to me. Of course, I'd much prefer it if it were cooked by fully autonomous systems and brought out to me by a mobile robot, but I think that's still a while off (being that unskilled labour is EVERYWHERE and costs less than robots ever will).
Alternatively you can train your staff so they can remember everyone's order without writing down a damn thing. If you've never had this kind of service I suggest you go to a high class restraunt sometime, it really is an enjoyable experience.
The killer app is direct and instant access to the combined knowledge of mankind. Imagine being able to google an answer to a question in the field in real time.
Now I have to wonder. Steve Mann isn't interested in commercializing this stuff, but he does provide full specs on how to make them, so which isn't someone commercializing this technology? I'd buy a pair of sunglasses that looked cool and let me google whilst talking to people, wouldn't you? Imagine someone asking you a question and you being able to answer with the power of google at your disposal!
ahead-of-time compilation.
Pfft, it's not like you can pick up a gnome-java app and run it on another platform anyway. I really don't know why people bought into this "isn't it great that apps will run (slowly) on any platform" crap. Really, how hard is it to compile your app once for each platform? It's not.
Which is definitely something you would run on a server machine, not a desktop machine. Oh, and what 4 organisms would this be? I mean jesus, the human genome takes up less than a gig, even if you're representing each base pair with a word. Maybe you're comparing plant genomes, they're massive.
My point is that there's probably 20 Ask Slashdot questions in the queue and at least one of them is something that you can't get an answer for in 2 minutes of googling. The editors choose to post this question over those questions, why?
Gee I don't know, because maybe if they didn't post this Ask Slashdot they could have posted another Ask Slashdot that actually required people who were knowledgable to reply? Then we could have had a discussion with these knowledgable people about their expert opinion and the conversation would actually be interesting.
Umm no, you may be able to do this now but it took you hours to get all that set up, including figuring how to "mate" the PDA to the PC so they trust each other. The scenario is: walk into an office you've never been to before, transfer data using bluetooth to a computer which you have never used before. Now observe how long this takes. It's a hell of a lot longer than it takes to plug in a usb stick, and that's a hell of a lot longer than it should take.
Or you could just write better software. Really, I gotta wonder, what the hell are you running that requires that many pages to be in memory at the same time. Obviously you need this kind of stuff if you're running a huge database or something, but a desktop machine? You're kiding right?
IBM eserver xSeries 445 8870 (88701RX) can take 64 GB of ram, that enough for ya? I got a wild idea, why don't the "editors" of Slashdot do a 5 second google search before posting pointless Ask Slashdot questions like this and save us all a lot of time. Hell, it might even improve the quality of the site!
argumented reality is really the way to go, unfortunately the techniques used to make hmds for virtual reality will not translate to public usage of argumented reality due to social issues ("Oh! Look at the cyborg geek!"). Mann's eyetap systems look good, but he doesn't even try to cover them with a sunglass lenses (which is really ironic, he has the best technology for reducing social problems with argumented reality and he wears this stuff in public to deliberately cause social problems - which he calls performance art).
Jesus, you wanna cop to stealing someone else's newspaper too?
what? and carry it with me?
And should someone at an lcd factory ever get off their ass and make a transparent lcd that fits into a contact lens or better yet, the membrane of your eye you'll be able to use your personal network to communicate with your mobile computer, storage and interface.
Perhaps you are not aware that FireFox ships with the shockwave plugin these days.
heh, we just have to fix FireFox. By making the guys who code on it aware that sites like this exist we can have this cleared up in no-time. In fact, the particular bug that SpaceDaily.com uses has probably been fixed already, I just don't have a nightly build.