Expensive toys, now, but this technology will migrate to ordinary cars fast.
I expect motor/generator combinations in replacement hubs for oilburners in less than 10 years,
Batteries is the main problem now.
So the documentation did not exist until now?
Or it was never meant to be used outside your firm?
Explains a lot of behaviour from your programs.
Thank you for the excellent argument/information.
My impression is that the concept of owning ideas is neither respected nor understood by a lot of people, including me. A lot of countries give the inventor a temporary monopoly on a method (patent) or copying of a work of art (copyright), but the ideas and the culture belongs to us all.
WIPO aside, we are in for a bumpy ride when all nations compete in a information driven international marketplace, the pace of invention will be awesome, if DRM do not succed in stemming the free exchange of information.
Well, in a couple of years it will not be a problem that high-tech satellites get in the wrong hands. The bleeding edge technology will be protected by DMCA and inaccessible according to WIPO http://www.wipo.int/ so the only wrong hands belong to pirates. And they will only poke at the debris with their cutlasses without understanding, if the lumps didn't sink their fragile wooden ships outright. Rejoice! Our precious IP will soon be safe!
I would prefer scripting whitelist in browser, but have not found any.
I am running IceWeasel with no (known to me) clientside scripting,
the preferences menu has checkboxes for popup windows and image loading,
both with a list for me to specify exceptions like my bank or Slashdot.
There is no such thing for Javascript, just the tickbox which remains off most
of the time. Please do not tell me I have to write my own browser preferences
or trust NoScript, which last time I checked ran JavaScript...
Well, a GPS use power all the time,
but in a car this is negligible. IF the data is anonymized
I MIGHT let somebody install a free GPS tracker in my car.
As for GPS-on-a-phone? My phone uses power mostly when
involved in a call. One SMS a minute is a lot of power.
Will I be compensated for the data transmitted by MY phone
using MY power, or am I expected to just charge the thing
more often and pay for the service in addition? I am not
sure I like this "smartphone" concept...
Kind of a Chord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard keyboard??
Hey, my telephone has T9, and I am getting used to it. Has somebody combined T9
with this as a mouse/onehand input device? OOps...
Memo to Self: Do not publish ideas before the money is on the table.
Memo to Self: Who cares, I will not make one of these as my days are rather full,
so the only way I will get one is if somebody runs with the idea. China? Taiwan? India?
In my part of the town w/o much parking space I counted 4 Smart cars
in 100. They stick out when parked about 35 cm from other parked cars
because they usually is parked tail to the curb. This do often surprise
drivers who coast looking for parking spots and is in my opinion intentional.:)
Sharing your music is ok.
Sharing OTHER PEOPLES music should be ok,
but there is money to be had for denying you this -
and this money like laws that deny your right to share our common culture.
Many people in most countries want something done about this,
so work with them for new laws before
you cannot play your music for your friends in your own house.
A whitelist wouldn't stop this, MsSQL would run, being on it...
If the whitelist specified that MsSQL was not allowed to load and execute code from links in data, perhaps that will do it.
Separation of code and data would fix the situation. I for one would be able to live with the reduced functionality.
Most motherboards from the last part of previous century on had boot virus protection in some form, usually a write block on the first sectors of the first harddisk. This was enabled/disabled in the BIOS setup and effectively stopped any attempt to modify these sectors. Had to be turned off for OS installation, lilo modification etc, but I found it well worth the hassle. Has this disappeared? (Found on a P4B close by - so Asus had it recently)
Much better to take the trouble to fit a cable-tie than having a wonky connector - especially since the system is designed to detect a minute cable break and need renegotiation to set up the secure channel. This seems to require power cycling in some devices.
Remote control systems in planes - the ULTIMATE cracking target.
Developed and installed by the lowest bidder - and perhaps running
a certain operating system which I am not finished reading the EULA for?
Oh no!...cant resist...
Well, you can put up Your Own Personal Homepage using THE Social Networking System of the 21. century,
and most ISP's will give you FREE server space for a modest presentation in this fabulous arena,
where a number of BIG international search and indexing services will put links to your site in their
online directories for FREE and if you are unique (as almost all of us are) a search using YOUR NAME,
your interests or personal relationships (if specified sufficently or reasonably abnormal) will present
A LINK to YOUR PAGE
so everybody can find you and know who you are.
Some assembly required, no batteries included -
E-mail me for assistance, offer open until yesterday and assistance will be rendered upon personal delivery
of 700 handpainted original Norwegian 7 - Kroner notes to my address. Thank you for your attention.
...And as far as I saw, noone offering this for delivery in Norway.
What's the matter with the OLPC - is our money smelly?
I DO want a sturdy, light laptop with long battery life. The Asus EEE
comes close, but no cigar due to high energy requirements. I do not want
flash or movies, I need web & decent text display, and the ability to
stand sand and water in accidental amounts. I would even go G2G1!
-- This is a good reason to remove enforced upper limits on these roads completely. Much of the braking is due to the few goody-goodies cramping the whole flow.
Ahh, I agree mostly sincerly, these pesky speed limits are quite restricting, especially for heavy trucks capable of 160 Km/t (100 miles/hour) on our narrow, often icy Norwegian roads. ALL drivers should be allowed to drive as fast as they want as long as she or he feel they are in control.
Offer to Swap seat
if declined - join in and try to derail the conversation into a discussion of the relative nutritinal content of cats and dogs
- repeat as(s) necessary.
As I see it, when somebody takes content released under one licence and releases it under a more restrictive licence it is not only copyright infringement, but theft from our common store of content, if they can restrict further the spread of information by doing so.
Harrumph!
When I saw the first "Good Times" meme http://daringfireball.net/2003/08/good_times
it was hilariously funny because everybody knew E-mail was just text - then I saw Word macros and became afraid, then angry that
functionality trumped security. Now I am telling people "you paid for it, you got it"
and helping them reformat, reinstall & lock down after my moment of primitive glee over
their trembling lower lips...once.
Slashdot Mirror
Expensive toys, now, but this technology will migrate to ordinary cars fast.
I expect motor/generator combinations in replacement hubs for oilburners in less than 10 years,
Batteries is the main problem now.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080625-why-the-cloud-cannot-obscure-the-scientific-method.html
I like the fact that the web and search/aggregate engines may combine vast amounts of data in ways we now
cannot imagine - it expands the field for new scientific research enormously. Replace science? No.
Or avoiding exporting sensitive technology with:
"This page left internationally blank"
So the documentation did not exist until now?
Or it was never meant to be used outside your firm?
Explains a lot of behaviour from your programs.
Thank you for the excellent argument/information.
My impression is that the concept of owning ideas is neither respected nor understood by a lot of people, including me. A lot of countries give the inventor a temporary monopoly on a method (patent) or copying of a work of art (copyright), but the ideas and the culture belongs to us all.
WIPO aside, we are in for a bumpy ride when all nations compete in a information driven international marketplace, the pace of invention will be awesome, if DRM do not succed in stemming the free exchange of information.
Well, in a couple of years it will not be a problem that high-tech satellites get in the wrong hands. The bleeding edge technology will be protected by DMCA and inaccessible according to WIPO http://www.wipo.int/ so the only wrong hands belong to pirates. And they will only poke at the debris with their cutlasses without understanding, if the lumps didn't sink their fragile wooden ships outright. Rejoice! Our precious IP will soon be safe!
I would prefer scripting whitelist in browser, but have not found any.
I am running IceWeasel with no (known to me) clientside scripting,
the preferences menu has checkboxes for popup windows and image loading,
both with a list for me to specify exceptions like my bank or Slashdot.
There is no such thing for Javascript, just the tickbox which remains off most
of the time. Please do not tell me I have to write my own browser preferences
or trust NoScript, which last time I checked ran JavaScript...
Well, a GPS use power all the time,
but in a car this is negligible. IF the data is anonymized
I MIGHT let somebody install a free GPS tracker in my car.
As for GPS-on-a-phone? My phone uses power mostly when
involved in a call. One SMS a minute is a lot of power.
Will I be compensated for the data transmitted by MY phone
using MY power, or am I expected to just charge the thing
more often and pay for the service in addition? I am not
sure I like this "smartphone" concept...
Dear Sir, Madam or Neuter AC. More people will respond to your arguments if you
do not needlessly repeat yourself.
Let's hope the plane is made to float on water as well,
else the chances for finding it will be smaller.
Yes, the XPS M1530-BOFH model, remotely controllable
(via Tor for preference) from any IP-address of your choice...:)
Kind of a Chord http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorded_keyboard keyboard??
Hey, my telephone has T9, and I am getting used to it. Has somebody combined T9
with this as a mouse/onehand input device? OOps...
Memo to Self: Do not publish ideas before the money is on the table.
Memo to Self: Who cares, I will not make one of these as my days are rather full,
so the only way I will get one is if somebody runs with the idea. China? Taiwan? India?
In my part of the town w/o much parking space I counted 4 Smart cars
in 100. They stick out when parked about 35 cm from other parked cars
because they usually is parked tail to the curb. This do often surprise
drivers who coast looking for parking spots and is in my opinion intentional.:)
Sharing your music is ok.
Sharing OTHER PEOPLES music should be ok,
but there is money to be had for denying you this -
and this money like laws that deny your right to share our common culture.
Many people in most countries want something done about this,
so work with them for new laws before
you cannot play your music for your friends in your own house.
A whitelist wouldn't stop this, MsSQL would run, being on it...
If the whitelist specified that MsSQL was not allowed to load and execute code from links in data, perhaps that will do it.
Separation of code and data would fix the situation. I for one would be able to live with the reduced functionality.
Most motherboards from the last part of previous century on had boot virus protection in some form, usually a write block on the first sectors of the first harddisk. This was enabled/disabled in the BIOS setup and effectively stopped any attempt to modify these sectors. Had to be turned off for OS installation, lilo modification etc, but I found it well worth the hassle. Has this disappeared? (Found on a P4B close by - so Asus had it recently)
Much better to take the trouble to fit a cable-tie than having a wonky connector - especially since the system is designed to detect a minute cable break and need renegotiation to set up the secure channel. This seems to require power cycling in some devices.
Yes, more women in politics automatically, few men will take the risk...
Remote control systems in planes - the ULTIMATE cracking target.
Developed and installed by the lowest bidder - and perhaps running
a certain operating system which I am not finished reading the EULA for?
Oh no!...cant resist...
Well, you can put up Your Own Personal Homepage using THE Social Networking System of the 21. century,
and most ISP's will give you FREE server space for a modest presentation in this fabulous arena,
where a number of BIG international search and indexing services will put links to your site in their
online directories for FREE and if you are unique (as almost all of us are) a search using YOUR NAME,
your interests or personal relationships (if specified sufficently or reasonably abnormal) will present
A LINK to YOUR PAGE
so everybody can find you and know who you are.
Some assembly required, no batteries included -
E-mail me for assistance, offer open until yesterday and assistance will be rendered upon personal delivery
of 700 handpainted original Norwegian 7 - Kroner notes to my address. Thank you for your attention.
...And as far as I saw, noone offering this for delivery in Norway.
What's the matter with the OLPC - is our money smelly?
I DO want a sturdy, light laptop with long battery life. The Asus EEE comes close, but no cigar due to high energy requirements. I do not want flash or movies, I need web & decent text display, and the ability to stand sand and water in accidental amounts. I would even go G2G1!
-- This is a good reason to remove enforced upper limits on these roads completely. Much of the braking is due to the few goody-goodies cramping the whole flow.
Ahh, I agree mostly sincerly, these pesky speed limits are quite restricting, especially for heavy trucks capable of 160 Km/t (100 miles/hour) on our narrow, often icy Norwegian roads. ALL drivers should be allowed to drive as fast as they want as long as she or he feel they are in control.
Offer to Swap seat
if declined - join in and try to derail the conversation into a discussion of the relative nutritinal content of cats and dogs
- repeat as(s) necessary.
As I see it, when somebody takes content released under one licence and releases it under a more restrictive licence it is not only copyright infringement, but theft from our common store of content, if they can restrict further the spread of information by doing so.
Harrumph!
When I saw the first "Good Times" meme http://daringfireball.net/2003/08/good_times it was hilariously funny because everybody knew E-mail was just text - then I saw Word macros and became afraid, then angry that functionality trumped security. Now I am telling people "you paid for it, you got it" and helping them reformat, reinstall & lock down after my moment of primitive glee over their trembling lower lips...once.