On one hand, it does kill the Mother Theresa's of the world. But it will also kill the Stalins and Hitlers, if nothing else can.
The part that scares me, is that if anyone can afford immortality, it will be the Stalins and the Hitlers. I want to live forever too, but maybe this is a toy humanity isn't ready to play with yet. Maybe we ought to wait until we won't swallow it and choke on it.
I think it's odd that they think it's your God-given right to reverse-engineer your car, but not your XBox. Why aren't the automakers bashing these third-party code readers over the head with the DMCA while they still can?"
These congressmen can remember being young men, and working on their cars (for the most part). Cars are ancient enough, that even the 60-80 yr old politicians have all had this experience.
The automakers are actual businessmen, and for over a century have produced a product for a profit. Sometimes a lemon of a product for too much money, other times a quality marvel for less than you could believe possible. But always, selling something real in return for the money they get. It's counter-intuitive for them to think of their "product" being information, the diagnostic codes. Sure, for years they've never done a single thing to help third-party companies make aftermarket parts (no need to help the competition), but they've never really exploited IP law beyond patents or trade secrets. This is why they don't do DMCA.
Now, if we could somehow help them both make the short hop of logic from this scenario, to hardware/software hacking...
Sun will still want $3 million a year from the medium sized company, for this "subscription" software... but they'll have no true incentive to build decent hardware. The beancounters only see direct revenue, and because of that, hardware will be as cheap as they can get away with.
I already have a compaq quad port. Then I have FDDI, GPIB, direcpc, 8port serial, atm155,token ring, arcnet (just got the PCI arcnet, woohoo!), HIPPI, fibre channel, myrinet, and a few others that don't come to mind at the moment. As for ISA, there's localtalk, a GCR floppy controller, omninet, starlan 1baseT, etc. All of which can't be found in PCI versions.
So getting a magam 7/13 pci expansion box isn't enough, I needs lots of both. And it wouldn't hurt to have AGP on top of those (though I could live without that, it's not a gaming box).
Who do you think dreamt up this travesty of a lawsuit? Do you think he woke up one morning after being expelled, with lawyers at his doorstep? He went to them.
As for him being in management, this is exactly the kind of behavior that is encouraged above all else in american business. I could see him making vice president in 5 years, tops.
Whether he wins or loses that case, you have to ask yourself, would you want to HIRE him to work for you?
I wouldn't want him myself, but apparently there is no end to the number of companies that would want to hire him into management. Shame he went after an english degree, his real talent was in law.
Would be nice to know how man lanes, turn lanes, even traffic lights, too.
You yourself, wouldn't mind if there was sidewalk data. I can see how others would be interested in it showing the location of buildings and parking lots (residences could be shown, too, I don't think that would be such a privacy loss).
If we ever got a decent, relatively current national map done like that, think what we could do with it. Strange that the things government should be paying for don't happen.
You still need the inet address space to be pingable, so you can lay down a VPN tunnel. Besides, just because we want metanet, doesn't mean we're willing to forgo slashdot..;P
Routing loops are a big issue. And I'm still thinking.
If I were in Ottawa, I'd go in with you on the co-op. Since I'm not, you'd have to be satisfied with an invitation to metanet.
It's a region in france, if I'm not mistaken. The french even proposed a new EU intellectual propery law, where it would be illegal for anyone not in a particular town in UK to make "cheddar" cheese. All sorts of foodstuff, no lagers not from germany, etc. No idea on the status of this, but it's scary and stupid.
A/26 subnet (8 for the 10.x and 18 for the spatial address). If I brainfarted and typed the wrong numbers, then oops.
Assuming that all other directions are equally valid, then does it matter? I'm thinking some sort of toggle, so "up" one time, "down" for the next packet. If you start favoring one link with no good reason, you're putting a bigger burden on one of your peers. The alternative is some random/pseudorandom choice, but I'm scared of some emergent congestion phenomena ocurring.
Asymetrical consumer connections can't be helped. I realize that bandwidth-wise it will be a set back. Doesn't mean it can't be a fun network.
As for the last suggestion, I like the sentiment, but I'm thinking that even my impossible network is more likely than the impossible non-evil ISP. But if you have any suggestions on this front, I'd still be glad to hear them.
Our topology is arranged as a 6 dimensional grid of routers, with an extent of 8 in each direction. Each router gets a/26, and those 18 bits of subnet are the spatial coordinates of the router. When a packet is recieved, its destination IP will imply which "direction" it needs to go. Routing updates will only need to describe outages and congestion, rather than the actual map of neighbor routers. If I had the resources, I could see how this could be done in an asic (I've even considered what it would take to build a hardware router around an FGPA).
Instead, it will have to be done in software, at the kernel level, and it won't be considered enterprise level, that's for sure. But it just might work for a clumsy, amateur volunteer network.
An example: You're router is at 1,2,3,4,5,6 (x,y,z,a,b,c), giving you 10.41.203.128/26. One day, 3,2,3,4,5,6 goes live (10.105.203.128/26), and people start sending packets to it, and some end up on your router. Obviously, barring any holes in this mesh, 2 hops directly to the "right" is the most direct route. The "routing tables" software need only check its own IP (and associated coordinates) and the destination IP (and associated coordinates) to see this. It sends them on its way. The algorithm for this could be optimized enough, I think, to make it practical on the small scale I'm ever to likely see. Besides, if we do somehow manage to get the 252,000 routers up that IPv4 space allows for, it's not as if BGP would be any easier on our machines.
Obivously, they built the bridge to protect french culture from the cancer that is americanism. Too many people over there drive american-made cars rather than the home-grown Renault. As such, the prime minister made it a priority to get a law passed to protect people from the site of Fords and chevys. No foreign made cars are allowed below an altitude of 656 ft. 20% of the revenue from tolls will be used to firebomb McDonald's and to petition the UN to pass a resolution forbidding california vintners to call their brew "champagne".
There is a nice cobblestone road in the valley, for which people riding in horse-drawn carriages are welcome.
But let's talk about some of the other technical marvels of this bridge. Did you know that it has the most sensitive microphones ever built, placed every 20 feet of roadway. A supercomputer monitors them, filtering out road noise and wind, and doing speech recognition. It can detect someone saying "le weekend" with their windows rolled up while they're driving 80kph, and report them to the police instantly! Or how about the anti-gravity conveyors on the westbound lane, that will allow french citizens to retreat at over 500kph, should there ever be a need. These are the kinds of things yahoo just fails to mention.
I concede the elephant debate to you, I'm outgunned.
Welcome to help with the security flaws, more people than just myself would appreciate it. As for an attacker setting up an arbitrarily large chain of nodes, we're more concerned with spammers using this technique to sidestep email security. As for the treaties, that is true, but I don't remember signing them. In the USA, I can always claim the VPN connections are for completely benign purposes having nothing to do with metanet-like networks. For the extreme nations, we are working on steg tunnels (though those may only be good for mail, at best).
There is a difference between a comment that directs 200-500 hits to the page, and a story on the frontpage that gets my internet service canceled.
Routing will be different. Right now, static routes are good enough, but I've been working on a new routing protocol to take advantage of all this.
There is no direct evidence that metanet can scale any better, or even as well, as those networks. So what can I say? I have ideas that may make it better, but until I can show people....
The earth was tidally locked, orbiting a large body rather closely. On one side of the planet, you'd get a single super-continent, and a percieved reduction in weight (though not mass). I've read that this could be either Jupiter or Saturn, but even those planets wouldn't offer enough reduction.
A single catastrophic asteroid strike might add a significant amount of mass, and allow time for life to recover (unlike a constant rain of debris). But again, adding enough mass all at once, would have ripped our little planet apart, so I don't buy that either.
All very reasonable, except that we have more than a little evidence that these animals were far from lethargic. Fossilized footprints showing that they were running, bone structures that suggest they were designed for running, etc.
It's not just Jurassic Park that did this, even before that movie, we had experts who were saying that they were warm-blooded, active, and speedy. Maybe they're wrong, I don't know.
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"Aaaah, my magstripe credit/bank cards!"
I agree. IR lens filters should be paid for.
nero sang as rome burned
and hitler was an artist
but never have i ever learned
of which one was the smartest
infamy is what theyve earned
though for power they tried the hardest
and if by fortune they were spurned
one might wonder which was 'tardest
On one hand, it does kill the Mother Theresa's of the world. But it will also kill the Stalins and Hitlers, if nothing else can.
The part that scares me, is that if anyone can afford immortality, it will be the Stalins and the Hitlers. I want to live forever too, but maybe this is a toy humanity isn't ready to play with yet. Maybe we ought to wait until we won't swallow it and choke on it.
I think it's odd that they think it's your God-given right to reverse-engineer your car, but not your XBox. Why aren't the automakers bashing these third-party code readers over the head with the DMCA while they still can?"
These congressmen can remember being young men, and working on their cars (for the most part). Cars are ancient enough, that even the 60-80 yr old politicians have all had this experience.
The automakers are actual businessmen, and for over a century have produced a product for a profit. Sometimes a lemon of a product for too much money, other times a quality marvel for less than you could believe possible. But always, selling something real in return for the money they get. It's counter-intuitive for them to think of their "product" being information, the diagnostic codes. Sure, for years they've never done a single thing to help third-party companies make aftermarket parts (no need to help the competition), but they've never really exploited IP law beyond patents or trade secrets. This is why they don't do DMCA.
Now, if we could somehow help them both make the short hop of logic from this scenario, to hardware/software hacking...
Hah. I'm an expert, I can ruin a relationship without resorting to games at all.
Sun will still want $3 million a year from the medium sized company, for this "subscription" software... but they'll have no true incentive to build decent hardware. The beancounters only see direct revenue, and because of that, hardware will be as cheap as they can get away with.
Not in this machine, duh. But let's see, I have MCA, EISA, sbus, gio32, zorro2/3, applebus, nubus, pds, vme... just in different machines.
Yes.
I already have a compaq quad port. Then I have FDDI, GPIB, direcpc, 8port serial, atm155,token ring, arcnet (just got the PCI arcnet, woohoo!), HIPPI, fibre channel, myrinet, and a few others that don't come to mind at the moment. As for ISA, there's localtalk, a GCR floppy controller, omninet, starlan 1baseT, etc. All of which can't be found in PCI versions.
So getting a magam 7/13 pci expansion box isn't enough, I needs lots of both. And it wouldn't hurt to have AGP on top of those (though I could live without that, it's not a gaming box).
But what about guys like me that need a dozen (or two) PCI slots and at least as many ISA?
I expect less.
Who do you think dreamt up this travesty of a lawsuit? Do you think he woke up one morning after being expelled, with lawyers at his doorstep? He went to them.
As for him being in management, this is exactly the kind of behavior that is encouraged above all else in american business. I could see him making vice president in 5 years, tops.
Whether he wins or loses that case, you have to ask yourself, would you want to HIRE him to work for you?
I wouldn't want him myself, but apparently there is no end to the number of companies that would want to hire him into management. Shame he went after an english degree, his real talent was in law.
And the know-how to use it, primarily so I could build my own Babbage engine. Never ocurred to me to do it with legos. ;P
Would be nice to know how man lanes, turn lanes, even traffic lights, too.
You yourself, wouldn't mind if there was sidewalk data. I can see how others would be interested in it showing the location of buildings and parking lots (residences could be shown, too, I don't think that would be such a privacy loss).
If we ever got a decent, relatively current national map done like that, think what we could do with it. Strange that the things government should be paying for don't happen.
You still need the inet address space to be pingable, so you can lay down a VPN tunnel. Besides, just because we want metanet, doesn't mean we're willing to forgo slashdot.. ;P
Routing loops are a big issue. And I'm still thinking.
If I were in Ottawa, I'd go in with you on the co-op. Since I'm not, you'd have to be satisfied with an invitation to metanet.
It's a region in france, if I'm not mistaken. The french even proposed a new EU intellectual propery law, where it would be illegal for anyone not in a particular town in UK to make "cheddar" cheese. All sorts of foodstuff, no lagers not from germany, etc. No idea on the status of this, but it's scary and stupid.
A /26 subnet (8 for the 10.x and 18 for the spatial address). If I brainfarted and typed the wrong numbers, then oops.
Assuming that all other directions are equally valid, then does it matter? I'm thinking some sort of toggle, so "up" one time, "down" for the next packet. If you start favoring one link with no good reason, you're putting a bigger burden on one of your peers. The alternative is some random/pseudorandom choice, but I'm scared of some emergent congestion phenomena ocurring.
Asymetrical consumer connections can't be helped. I realize that bandwidth-wise it will be a set back. Doesn't mean it can't be a fun network.
As for the last suggestion, I like the sentiment, but I'm thinking that even my impossible network is more likely than the impossible non-evil ISP. But if you have any suggestions on this front, I'd still be glad to hear them.
Our topology is arranged as a 6 dimensional grid of routers, with an extent of 8 in each direction. Each router gets a /26, and those 18 bits of subnet are the spatial coordinates of the router. When a packet is recieved, its destination IP will imply which "direction" it needs to go. Routing updates will only need to describe outages and congestion, rather than the actual map of neighbor routers. If I had the resources, I could see how this could be done in an asic (I've even considered what it would take to build a hardware router around an FGPA).
Instead, it will have to be done in software, at the kernel level, and it won't be considered enterprise level, that's for sure. But it just might work for a clumsy, amateur volunteer network.
An example: You're router is at 1,2,3,4,5,6 (x,y,z,a,b,c), giving you 10.41.203.128/26. One day, 3,2,3,4,5,6 goes live (10.105.203.128/26), and people start sending packets to it, and some end up on your router. Obviously, barring any holes in this mesh, 2 hops directly to the "right" is the most direct route. The "routing tables" software need only check its own IP (and associated coordinates) and the destination IP (and associated coordinates) to see this. It sends them on its way. The algorithm for this could be optimized enough, I think, to make it practical on the small scale I'm ever to likely see. Besides, if we do somehow manage to get the 252,000 routers up that IPv4 space allows for, it's not as if BGP would be any easier on our machines.
Obivously, they built the bridge to protect french culture from the cancer that is americanism. Too many people over there drive american-made cars rather than the home-grown Renault. As such, the prime minister made it a priority to get a law passed to protect people from the site of Fords and chevys. No foreign made cars are allowed below an altitude of 656 ft. 20% of the revenue from tolls will be used to firebomb McDonald's and to petition the UN to pass a resolution forbidding california vintners to call their brew "champagne".
There is a nice cobblestone road in the valley, for which people riding in horse-drawn carriages are welcome.
But let's talk about some of the other technical marvels of this bridge. Did you know that it has the most sensitive microphones ever built, placed every 20 feet of roadway. A supercomputer monitors them, filtering out road noise and wind, and doing speech recognition. It can detect someone saying "le weekend" with their windows rolled up while they're driving 80kph, and report them to the police instantly! Or how about the anti-gravity conveyors on the westbound lane, that will allow french citizens to retreat at over 500kph, should there ever be a need. These are the kinds of things yahoo just fails to mention.
I concede the elephant debate to you, I'm outgunned.
Welcome to help with the security flaws, more people than just myself would appreciate it. As for an attacker setting up an arbitrarily large chain of nodes, we're more concerned with spammers using this technique to sidestep email security. As for the treaties, that is true, but I don't remember signing them. In the USA, I can always claim the VPN connections are for completely benign purposes having nothing to do with metanet-like networks. For the extreme nations, we are working on steg tunnels (though those may only be good for mail, at best).
There is a difference between a comment that directs 200-500 hits to the page, and a story on the frontpage that gets my internet service canceled.
Routing will be different. Right now, static routes are good enough, but I've been working on a new routing protocol to take advantage of all this.
There is no direct evidence that metanet can scale any better, or even as well, as those networks. So what can I say? I have ideas that may make it better, but until I can show people....
More interesting (though almost as kooky):
The earth was tidally locked, orbiting a large body rather closely. On one side of the planet, you'd get a single super-continent, and a percieved reduction in weight (though not mass). I've read that this could be either Jupiter or Saturn, but even those planets wouldn't offer enough reduction.
A single catastrophic asteroid strike might add a significant amount of mass, and allow time for life to recover (unlike a constant rain of debris). But again, adding enough mass all at once, would have ripped our little planet apart, so I don't buy that either.
All very reasonable, except that we have more than a little evidence that these animals were far from lethargic. Fossilized footprints showing that they were running, bone structures that suggest they were designed for running, etc.
It's not just Jurassic Park that did this, even before that movie, we had experts who were saying that they were warm-blooded, active, and speedy. Maybe they're wrong, I don't know.