I'm in similar situation... I just picked up an Arduino.
http://www.arduino.cc/
It's an open source micro controller that you code in C and it gives you access to ~10 digital IO pins and 6 analog ones. They sell add-on packs to do things like ethernet (built in web server) or wireless. Find something around your house and automate it:p
So, does a site exist where I can see which airports / countries are going to invade my civil rights?
I'm thinking about a trip to Europe later this year and as a Canadian I don't particularly want my fingerprint / other biometric data in any foreign databases.
What we need to be regulated better is public rights of way and who has access to them until wireless is mature enough to handle broadband in large deployments. What does wireless have to do with any of this? It's not some godsend that's going to solve all these issues and create world peace.
If you want high speed internet you deal with 3 companies, Time Warner, Comcast or AT&T. I'm not even an American but I can name several more companies such as Speakeasy, Verizon, Roadrunner etc. Besides that, who says this is an issue specific to broadband?
There is nothing stopping time warner sticking up a roadblock to Google, Yahoo and MSN and say go here instead. In fact they already do that to a degree by taking over your browser settings with their client software. Yes, there is something wrong with that. Client software is very different from traffic shaping.
Most of the US population isn't dense enough to attract a lot of competition because of the cost of laying cable. Wtf? They are shaping existing traffic, this means they are shaping users who already have broadband.
Right now the major players are sitting on their pipes wringing as much money as they can out of them and doing the minimum amount of upgrades necessary to maintain the status quo. That is why the telecom companies are having bandwidth issues. The rest of the world is eventually going to surpass our pipes and offer a ton of dynamic content that we can't access because the infrastructure in the US can't handle it. Correct, but your reasoning is wrong. All the major players do minimum upgrades because they like money and network upgrades cost the money.
ISP's need to either raise their rates, make less profit or stop whining. Network neutrality is a must, recently up here one of our major ISP's (Telus) blocked access to a union website. Is that something you deem as acceptable?
Recent movies including Children of Men, Borat, Night at the Museum and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest have been made available on the Internet days after they were released.
Funny, Children of Men's release date was december 25th, whereas:
11/16/2006 2006 Children Of Men.PROPER. MAVENSSUPPLIER [xx/50]
Hardly days after they were released, more like a month before hand. This always happens around this time of year as prerelease dvd's get sent out to reviewers, so how the hell are they trying to blame us Canadians for this? Who the hell download's cams anyways? Certainly not I.
a better analogy would be that you get fooled into giving some guy all your ID and passwords, then that guy goes to the bank and withdraws all your money.
Is it the banks fault? Not really, because they identified you as best as they could, you are the one who willingly gave the scammer your info.
From the SVN Handbook: "Because so many operating systems already have integrated WebDAV clients, the use case for this feature borders on fantastical: imagine an office of ordinary users running Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. Each user "mounts" the Subversion repository, which appears to be an ordinary network folder. They use the shared folder as they always do: open files, edit them, save them. Meanwhile, the server is automatically versioning everything. Any administrator (or knowledgeable user) can still use a Subversion client to search history and retrieve older versions of data."
At first thats what i thought too, then he mentioned the HP microdisplay's so i googled:
http://news.designtechnica.com/featured_article21. html
"All models have a seemingly unique lighted front-connection panel (instead of the traditional rear jack pack), designed with a special slot under the TV so that audio and video cables can easily be connected from the front and then hidden from view. "
couldn't find a pic though
Pick yourself up an xbox, softmod it then run xbox media player on it. Bingo you've got something that fits in your entertainment unit, streams mp3/mpg/avi/ogg/whatever the hell you want off anywhere you want. If you so desire you can even install linux on it and run your own software.
Why have no blog sites come out with some form of distributed / anonymous blogging? Something similar to freenet, but optimized for blogs. It seems like a relatively simple idea to keep simple text anonymous when so much work is being put into making anonymous P2P systems.
All it would take is a simple little client app that connects to other peers around the world. A checkbox saying "Connect me directly to xxx.blogservers.com" could be turned on for users in the USA / Canada where freedom of speech isn't a problem and everyone. Give the client app the ability to read blogs (as well as having them web accessable) and I don't see why this wouldn't succeed. It certainly would be far safer than ranting about your government on an non-ssl'ed connection.
It would definately work for me, I've only purchased one music CD in my life (A friend's hip hop cd he had just gotten onto a label). I've spent countless money on games and applications that I think deserves my support, but somehow I've never actually spent money on music.....
I fall into the "docile about all things political category" but don't mistake that for being the general public.
Of my 5 roommates, 4 are politically involved. That's not a bad ratio.
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I'm in similar situation... I just picked up an Arduino. http://www.arduino.cc/ It's an open source micro controller that you code in C and it gives you access to ~10 digital IO pins and 6 analog ones. They sell add-on packs to do things like ethernet (built in web server) or wireless. Find something around your house and automate it :p
So, does a site exist where I can see which airports / countries are going to invade my civil rights?
I'm thinking about a trip to Europe later this year and as a Canadian I don't particularly want my fingerprint / other biometric data in any foreign databases.
ISP's need to either raise their rates, make less profit or stop whining. Network neutrality is a must, recently up here one of our major ISP's (Telus) blocked access to a union website. Is that something you deem as acceptable?
Recent movies including Children of Men, Borat, Night at the Museum and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest have been made available on the Internet days after they were released.
.PROPER. MAVENSSUPPLIER [xx/50]
Funny, Children of Men's release date was december 25th, whereas:
11/16/2006 2006 Children Of Men
Hardly days after they were released, more like a month before hand. This always happens around this time of year as prerelease dvd's get sent out to reviewers, so how the hell are they trying to blame us Canadians for this? Who the hell download's cams anyways? Certainly not I.
The camera's are NOT 360 degree.
Article with picture
Seems like this would make a fairly good diversion.... place a small bomb at the NOC to make sure the staff gets evacuated, then ddos/hack away.
but this isn't what's happening...
a better analogy would be that you get fooled into giving some guy all your ID and passwords, then that guy goes to the bank and withdraws all your money.
Is it the banks fault? Not really, because they identified you as best as they could, you are the one who willingly gave the scammer your info.
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn.webdav. autoversioning.html
From the SVN Handbook:
"Because so many operating systems already have integrated WebDAV clients, the use case for this feature borders on fantastical: imagine an office of ordinary users running Microsoft Windows or Mac OS. Each user "mounts" the Subversion repository, which appears to be an ordinary network folder. They use the shared folder as they always do: open files, edit them, save them. Meanwhile, the server is automatically versioning everything. Any administrator (or knowledgeable user) can still use a Subversion client to search history and retrieve older versions of data."
Somehow I doubt you and your friends boycott is going to cost them as much money as running their own NTP server would ;)
How is that bad math?
3200 stores exist. 1200 stores are getting it now. 1400 will have it by the end of the year.
seems clear enough to me, there isn't even any math involved!
No, if you follow Zonk's slashdot profile to his personal page, it lists his name as Michael Zenke.
Whoops, found one:
s /en/theater/tvs/mdtv_guide.html
http://h10058.www1.hp.com/digital/entertainment/u
Scroll down a bit..... not a bad idea, it seems to work
At first thats what i thought too, then he mentioned the HP microdisplay's so i googled: http://news.designtechnica.com/featured_article21. html
"All models have a seemingly unique lighted front-connection panel (instead of the traditional rear jack pack), designed with a special slot under the TV so that audio and video cables can easily be connected from the front and then hidden from view. "
couldn't find a pic though
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Pick yourself up an xbox, softmod it then run xbox media player on it. Bingo you've got something that fits in your entertainment unit, streams mp3/mpg/avi/ogg/whatever the hell you want off anywhere you want. If you so desire you can even install linux on it and run your own software.
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Why have no blog sites come out with some form of distributed / anonymous blogging? Something similar to freenet, but optimized for blogs. It seems like a relatively simple idea to keep simple text anonymous when so much work is being put into making anonymous P2P systems.
All it would take is a simple little client app that connects to other peers around the world. A checkbox saying "Connect me directly to xxx.blogservers.com" could be turned on for users in the USA / Canada where freedom of speech isn't a problem and everyone. Give the client app the ability to read blogs (as well as having them web accessable) and I don't see why this wouldn't succeed. It certainly would be far safer than ranting about your government on an non-ssl'ed connection.
It would definately work for me, I've only purchased one music CD in my life (A friend's hip hop cd he had just gotten onto a label). I've spent countless money on games and applications that I think deserves my support, but somehow I've never actually spent money on music.....
Well its dead. http://www.btefnet.net/ Sorry, BTEFNET is down for maintenance. Please try again later.
*looks around sheepishly for not reading it fully before posting*
Gah! I hope btefnet isn't in the list =( Anyone have a list?
1. It's standard NMEA protocol: http://www.kraftvoll.at/software/ 2. http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/ 3. Stop complaining and help: http://gnutaxes.sourceforge.net/
I fall into the "docile about all things political category" but don't mistake that for being the general public. Of my 5 roommates, 4 are politically involved. That's not a bad ratio.
Actually, that's a rectangular resolution. 1024x1024 or 768x768 would be a "SQUARE" resolution. Granted, it's still not high enough for the HDTV spec.
Personally, I can't wait for the days of hexagonal resolutions.
Or, intel hinted to IBM that they had some juicy details, but couldn't reveal them for one legal reason or another unless IBM could get a subpoena.