That's something that's bugged me. I don't think people realize that "multiple possible matches" doesn't make any difference if you can run validity checks on each returned value.
Eject everything that can't be an email address, for example. Send emails to all the rest, and record the ones that don't bounce.
Being online give you freedom. Manners, grammar and spelling aren't eliminated, they become a choice. And as a choice, they can become something to be proud of.
Interacting with other people online has allowed me to get to know people from other countries and cultures, instead of being limited to a west Michigan culture where it's sometimes hard to find other people interested in the same things I am.
Finally, things like email and online forums allow me to communicate and cooperate with people in other time zones. I don't have to be awake for my message to reach my buddy in Mexico. Or my friends in Africa, Europe or Asia.
I thought he was referring to having only one segment lit at a time. Hm.
I'm not all that familiar with the physics of LEDs, but what if you had three long PN junctions? One each for red, blue and green. They're all adjacent on their long sides. Each PN junction has multiple pairs of wires, positioned appropriately in order light up sections of the overall semiconductor crystals. ( Or you could do an LED array of white LEDs. But the long junctions allows for a wider range of values. )
Covering them would be a color gradient plastic, or maybe an oil, for that rainbow effect. Use a lens to focus the entire visible regions of all three PN junctions onto a diffusing white translucent sheet or opaque surface. The light passed from that diffusing device would then be sent through your fiber optic.
On the receiving end, use the prism to separate the light into its RBG component colors, and use diffusing layerss as an equivalent to voltage dividers. Between each layer, leach some of the light to control an optical transistor.
Essentially, you could decode the intensities of the R B and G channels to determine 11-bit segments of a 32-bit address(IPv4), or 43-bit segments of a 128-bit address (IPv6).
An interesting idea, except it would require a tunable single-wavelength color source.
You could conceivable do it with an incandescent light source (though with a terribly low response time), but I don't think the technology's there yet to do it with lasers or LEDs.
Oh, come on. Even with Gentoo, you don't have to compile everything. I use precompiled binaries on Debian, myself. (Except for mplayer, which I compiled.)
How about a really cheap encryption for VoIP services: Modem communication.
Many winmodems are essentially sound cards attached to phone lines, and there's been a lot of work getting those devices to function as useful modems under Linux. As a result, there's probably a lot of Free code out there that handles encoding the data stream to the audio samples that are sent over the phone line.
Why not adapt some of this code to perform such communications over the VoIP audio stream? The data source could be a low-bitrate MP3 or ogg stream piped through handshaking and encryption code adapted from OpenSSH.
An excellent example of the adaptability of F/OSS.
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All but one were posted within a minute of each other...you call that copying?
due ot multiple possible matches
That's something that's bugged me. I don't think people realize that "multiple possible matches" doesn't make any difference if you can run validity checks on each returned value.
Eject everything that can't be an email address, for example. Send emails to all the rest, and record the ones that don't bounce.
Being online give you freedom. Manners, grammar and spelling aren't eliminated, they become a choice. And as a choice, they can become something to be proud of.
Interacting with other people online has allowed me to get to know people from other countries and cultures, instead of being limited to a west Michigan culture where it's sometimes hard to find other people interested in the same things I am.
Finally, things like email and online forums allow me to communicate and cooperate with people in other time zones. I don't have to be awake for my message to reach my buddy in Mexico. Or my friends in Africa, Europe or Asia.
I thought he was referring to having only one segment lit at a time. Hm.
I'm not all that familiar with the physics of LEDs, but what if you had three long PN junctions? One each for red, blue and green. They're all adjacent on their long sides. Each PN junction has multiple pairs of wires, positioned appropriately in order light up sections of the overall semiconductor crystals. ( Or you could do an LED array of white LEDs. But the long junctions allows for a wider range of values. )
Covering them would be a color gradient plastic, or maybe an oil, for that rainbow effect. Use a lens to focus the entire visible regions of all three PN junctions onto a diffusing white translucent sheet or opaque surface. The light passed from that diffusing device would then be sent through your fiber optic.
On the receiving end, use the prism to separate the light into its RBG component colors, and use diffusing layerss as an equivalent to voltage dividers. Between each layer, leach some of the light to control an optical transistor.
Essentially, you could decode the intensities of the R B and G channels to determine 11-bit segments of a 32-bit address(IPv4), or 43-bit segments of a 128-bit address (IPv6).
The original computers were made out of discrete components. While expensive, discrete optical components are still a possibility...
You're better off using a slower medium, so you can store more data per distance between connection endpoints.
Reminds me of something I read about old mainframes storing data in a pool of mercury.
An interesting idea, except it would require a tunable single-wavelength color source.
You could conceivable do it with an incandescent light source (though with a terribly low response time), but I don't think the technology's there yet to do it with lasers or LEDs.
But then, IANAOE.
Maybe you should email the FSF. They're the gurus on all legalese GPL.
What about later age brackets?
Use some strategy from C&C, man. Wait 'til both armies are on the battlefield, then nuke the field. :)
Sure they can't own the movie industry...but they can certainly give themselves a stranglehold over its distrobution resourcse.
Microsoft doesn't consider anything you don't pay for "real" ... at least, in my experience.
(Which, I'll admit, is pretty limited regarding MS products. I didn't have a Windows box until I installed XP Pro on a spare system last month...)
Oh, come on. Even with Gentoo, you don't have to compile everything. I use precompiled binaries on Debian, myself. (Except for mplayer, which I compiled.)
Worked fine for me...Firefox killed a bunch of popups, though.
Flash technologies typically have a rewrite cycle limit. So don't use it as your swap device.
However, the rewrite limit could potentially force an upgrade cycle very beneficial to vendors.
Why? We have the oppertunity to push the international project to home soil.
I run Thunderbird over VNC...works well enough.
If it's your property, I'd guess they'd need a search warrent...
How about a really cheap encryption for VoIP services: Modem communication.
Many winmodems are essentially sound cards attached to phone lines, and there's been a lot of work getting those devices to function as useful modems under Linux. As a result, there's probably a lot of Free code out there that handles encoding the data stream to the audio samples that are sent over the phone line.
Why not adapt some of this code to perform such communications over the VoIP audio stream? The data source could be a low-bitrate MP3 or ogg stream piped through handshaking and encryption code adapted from OpenSSH.
An excellent example of the adaptability of F/OSS.
...for those of you worried about your email getting read:
Don't use IMAP or webmail services. Have your POP client poll servers frequently, and delete messages after they've been retrieved..
Most small to medium-sized ISPs don't archive email messages, due to the costs involved. (Particularly because of SPAM.)
Pressure? Anyone who so much as twitches reading some of these comments is going to get charged with terrorism.
Oh. Damn.
A couple of definitions of "parody" for you: Google's and Wikipedia's.
Read it. It's the best TC0 analysis I've ever seen.
Scratch that, it's the only TC0 analysis I've ever seen.
(hint hint)
I know the number of the truly tallented is pretty low, but this will show those numbers in broad daylight.
I hope one or the other of those statements turns out to be false. Otherwise, Linux would get a reputation for being difficult to administer.
As another slashdot poster pointed out a while back, California is usually one or two steps ahead of the rest of the country.
Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on the issue examined, though.