"P3P is actually really cool, and it wasn't
all THAT hard to get it implemented."
Yes, implementation may be easy, but would you enlightened us as to the COST of the implementation of P3P ?
The thing is, do you have to SPECIFY a "privacy rule" just to state that your site "respects" the visitors' privacy ?
It's kinda like sholving legalise to the throat to the WEB scene.
I know lawyers are used to the legalise thingy - like "off the record" thing, but for the visitors and those who are operating websites (commercials or otherwise), do we HAVE to state our "privacy rules" before allowing others to surf into our domain ?
What kind of world will we be living in, if we apply the P3P rule into our real lives ? Will we have to tell ALL THE VISITORS to our offices, home, or even recreation events that we respect their privacy, that there will be no hidden cameras or microphone recording their movement / speech, and there will be no PI (private investigator) tracing where they come from and where they will be going to, and so on ?
I am thinking of getting a loan and start doing something. This venture may not make a profit, in term of financial rewards, but heck, if it can save a life, it would be worth it.
In the mean time, do you have any other information regarding land mines, and / or techniques, gadgets that can detect and / or remove the mines ?
Is / are there website (or websites) that specialize on land mines and their removal ?
Thanks again for everything, and hope to hear from you soon !
You mentioned:
"The only problem is the high cost;
both for the landmine detectors & the
robotics and the personel and the
tracking/database software."
Actualy, most of the things above are already invented - that is, they are "off the shelf" items already !
All it needs is some entity to coordinate a program that use these things.
I know that UN is spending almost USD 2 Billion a year on land mine clearing, and almost every year, 2000 of the UN land mine clearing personnel are either killed or maimed by the land mines they are supposed to clear.
While it can be argued that the "cost" of the UN personnels (most of them are from really poor countries like Bangladesh) is miniscule, the _real_ cost is unthinkable.
After all, how are we going to calculate the _real_ cost of human lives ?
It's time to STOP this "we serve you by watch your every move" thing.
I hope ACLU, as well as other Civil Liberty organization will join in the suit !
Mars as a refueling station ?
on
Lots of Ice On Mars
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
The availability of ICE may be nice, but what is really needed is H3.
With current technology, it will take at least 2 years of space flight to go from Earth to Mars, and 2 more years for the flight back. The thing is, if you have to carry all the fuel for the to-and-flo flights, the spacecraft will be too heavy to be of any other use.
If there's H3 on Mars, however, the spacecraft only has to carry enough fuel to go TO Mars, and then get refuel there to come home.
One more thought - if there's plenty of ice leftover, then Mars could be used as a "refueling station" for space flight further away than Mars.
Why not move the entire operation to where Osama is hiding, where everything depends on Allah ?
Don't ever think of Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Queda gang is low-tech.
You see, they hide their messages with cryptos.
They have ultra-special, Allah enhanced stealth technology, and they use to hide Osama so well even the SMARTEST bomb of the "great devil" - U.S. of A., that is, - can't find the bearded one.
And oh, those who slammed the two planes into WTC are HIGH-TECH junkies - for they learn their ways into flying Boeing jets with the flight simulators.
BTW, you may want to move your operation to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the Moslem government there still supports Osama Bin Laden, even when they give lip services about "anti-terrorists".
While the "orbital laser cannons" might be an option in future, it may cost too much, for now.
Right now, we still need something - not necessarily LIVE PERSONS, - to either de-activate, or explode the land mines.
I believe that there are already "robots" which are specially designed to destroy active land mines. All is needed is someone to GPS enable those robots, and set up the network of those "birds" (satellites) so to coordinate the land mine search-'n-destroy mission.
Land mine clearing is a tedious and extremely dangerous job. Everyday there are people being blown up, when trying to clearing up land-mines.
Since GPS has the whole world covered, and many "birds" (satellites) are flying over us are equipped with precision lenses, then... why don't we some how use the GPS precision measuring technique, along with the robo-mine-clearer, and start automate the land-mine clearing job ?
Although agriculture is important, if the land is mined, performing agricultural works on the land will be VERY DANGEROUS.
I sincerely hope NASA and/or any UN related agency / agencies come up with ways to utilize GPS in clearing up the tens of millions of land mines still buried in many unmarked land, throughout the world.
"Remember most of the poeple who ran
Fidonet are alive and ready to kick ass."
I truly hope that one day a worldwide network that runs in the spirit as FidoNet will be set up.
When InterNet starts, everyone rushed into it, and FidoNet languished. But no matter how useful InterNet is, FidoNet still has that _spirit_ of INDIVIDUALISM that InterNet truly lacks.
The more ICANN has [d]evolved, the more ICANN has gone away from its grassroot.
I am an ICANN member, - just a ordinary member thank you very much, - and I can tell you that I am really disappointed with ICANN's [d]evolution process so far.
Granted, there _are_ things that ordinary members like me don't know. Mebbe there are some valid reason for ICANN to do what it has been doing. I won't utter a blanket condemnation towards ICANN, not just yet.
But I have to say this - as I am a member of ICANN, I am also a member of the cyberspace, aka Netizen.
As a Netizen, and as one who don't really trust government - any government, mind you - that much, the ICANN's latest maneuver, in inviting the government to take such a large part of ICANN's operation really worries me.
If ICANN is let to do its own thing, there is a huge possibility that ICANN will be yet-another-irrelevant-organization.
I don't care who that ICANN CEO is, but this is what I will say - if ICANN forgets its grassroot, ICANN might as well fold its operation. Because without the grassroot, ICANN will no longer be representing ANYTHING relevant.
Governments and corporations already have their own way to express their views. ICANN was set up primarily to address the views of the grassroots.
No matter it's DCMA or ICANN's latest move, the future for grassroots in the cyberspace doesn't look good.
We keep losing in the power struggle. The corporate power and the bureaucrats from the governments keep on winning.
What will it be like 10 years of 20 years in the future, if the Net can not tolerate FREE VIEWS anymore ?
Actually, Sony WAS a monopoloy, during the 70's and 80's, when they came up with the "BETA" format of video tape.
Because of Sony's monopoly, they get to dictate what their Beta tapes can be used for, and what can't.
Sony, as a "moral corporate citizen", decided that their Beta tapes were NOT to be used for PORN, and since there was another video tape format available - VHS - everyone, including the PORN industry, decided to opt for VHS.
And the rest is history.
About the "IS" - Sony "IS" a monopoly, in it's PlayStation and it's "robot-dog" setup.
Sony is using DCMA, to sue people, for extending the PlayStation and the robotic-dog.
In that sense, Sony is acting much like MicroSoft, since Sony _IS_ the monopoly in the above two categories.
I don't know how many of the "letter from high-placed officers" I've gotten from Nigerians.
You name it, they have it.
High places from the "daughter" of the Nigerian president, to the "son-in-law" of the Nigerian Agriculture Minister, to the "right-hand-man" to one of the "Top General Of Nigeria", all saying, one way or another, "We need your bank account number so we can transfer some dirty money and you help us clean up the money and you get a portion of it".
It's a scam of course. Even if it's NOT a scam, I won't participating in money laudrying operation.
But these scam emails come from Nigeria - or people claiming to be Nigeria - all the time.
I get these emails in my mailboxes located in Asia, Europe, Americas (North and Souths). Seems like they spam the entire globe, looking for "bank accounts".
If there is a _real_ need to ban anything, why don't we start by banning Nigeria ?
At the second page [ http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020121/duron1 300-02.html ], under the "memory clock", Tom's hardware listed the Celeron as having 100MHz memory clock.
This is patently UNTRUE.
I AM USING A CELERON 1.2 GHz with SDRAM 133 MHZ CAS2.
I truly hope that for once, people will do an ACTUAL REAL WORLD comparison, rather than that cripple-one-side-so-to-make-the-other-looks-good variety.
"That's a rather naive assumption; it
assumes that a 4KB page takes the same
amount of time to move as a 4MB page"
But I _did_ say that it's a WORST CASE SCENARIO, didn't I?
Of course, unless someone posted an actual benchmark to show how much time it takes for a 4MB page to load, versus that of a 4KB, et cetera, et cetera, simple arithmetic WILL DO.
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You said:
"How weird. I've had four computers in my
life and none of them came with Windows."
Yeah
Computer #1: Commodore PET
Computer #2: TRS-80
Computer #3: Original IBM-PC, with ROM-BASIC.
Computer #4: Apple III.
Thanks a lot for the leads !!
I will add them to the list and hope that others will do too.
Thanks again !!
You said:
"P3P is actually really cool, and it wasn't
all THAT hard to get it implemented."
Yes, implementation may be easy, but would you enlightened us as to the COST of the implementation of P3P ?
The thing is, do you have to SPECIFY a "privacy rule" just to state that your site "respects" the visitors' privacy ?
It's kinda like sholving legalise to the throat to the WEB scene.
I know lawyers are used to the legalise thingy - like "off the record" thing, but for the visitors and those who are operating websites (commercials or otherwise), do we HAVE to state our "privacy rules" before allowing others to surf into our domain ?
What kind of world will we be living in, if we apply the P3P rule into our real lives ? Will we have to tell ALL THE VISITORS to our offices, home, or even recreation events that we respect their privacy, that there will be no hidden cameras or microphone recording their movement / speech, and there will be no PI (private investigator) tracing where they come from and where they will be going to, and so on ?
Think of the consequences, will ya, please ?
Is this a case of Play Hard, and Play SO HARD, that Play-Till-You-Drop-AND-THEN-YOU-STILL-PLAY-IT-SIX
I'm gonna need people's help to add to the list below.
Here is a list of (freeware) Memory Leak Detectors and Garbage Collectors -
ccmalloc
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/biere/projects/cc
Valgrind
http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/
Boehm Collector
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
Parallel Collector on Message Passing Environment
http://www.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/gc/dgc/
If there are more out there, would you kindly add what you have to the list, please ?
Thank you !
First of all, thanks for the infos.
I am thinking of getting a loan and start doing something. This venture may not make a profit, in term of financial rewards, but heck, if it can save a life, it would be worth it.
In the mean time, do you have any other information regarding land mines, and / or techniques, gadgets that can detect and / or remove the mines ?
Is / are there website (or websites) that specialize on land mines and their removal ?
Thanks again for everything, and hope to hear from you soon !
You mentioned:
"The only problem is the high cost;
both for the landmine detectors & the
robotics and the personel and the
tracking/database software."
Actualy, most of the things above are already invented - that is, they are "off the shelf" items already !
All it needs is some entity to coordinate a program that use these things.
I know that UN is spending almost USD 2 Billion a year on land mine clearing, and almost every year, 2000 of the UN land mine clearing personnel are either killed or maimed by the land mines they are supposed to clear.
While it can be argued that the "cost" of the UN personnels (most of them are from really poor countries like Bangladesh) is miniscule, the _real_ cost is unthinkable.
After all, how are we going to calculate the _real_ cost of human lives ?
Anyway, thanks for the www.nomadic.com tip !
Hooray for EPIC !
It's time to STOP this "we serve you by watch your every move" thing.
I hope ACLU, as well as other Civil Liberty organization will join in the suit !
The availability of ICE may be nice, but what is really needed is H3.
With current technology, it will take at least 2 years of space flight to go from Earth to Mars, and 2 more years for the flight back. The thing is, if you have to carry all the fuel for the to-and-flo flights, the spacecraft will be too heavy to be of any other use.
If there's H3 on Mars, however, the spacecraft only has to carry enough fuel to go TO Mars, and then get refuel there to come home.
One more thought - if there's plenty of ice leftover, then Mars could be used as a "refueling station" for space flight further away than Mars.
Just a thought.
Why not move the entire operation to where Osama is hiding, where everything depends on Allah ?
Don't ever think of Osama Bin Laden and his Al-Queda gang is low-tech.
You see, they hide their messages with cryptos.
They have ultra-special, Allah enhanced stealth technology, and they use to hide Osama so well even the SMARTEST bomb of the "great devil" - U.S. of A., that is, - can't find the bearded one.
And oh, those who slammed the two planes into WTC are HIGH-TECH junkies - for they learn their ways into flying Boeing jets with the flight simulators.
BTW, you may want to move your operation to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for the Moslem government there still supports Osama Bin Laden, even when they give lip services about "anti-terrorists".
While the "orbital laser cannons" might be an option in future, it may cost too much, for now.
Right now, we still need something - not necessarily LIVE PERSONS, - to either de-activate, or explode the land mines.
I believe that there are already "robots" which are specially designed to destroy active land mines. All is needed is someone to GPS enable those robots, and set up the network of those "birds" (satellites) so to coordinate the land mine search-'n-destroy mission.
Land mine clearing is a tedious and extremely dangerous job. Everyday there are people being blown up, when trying to clearing up land-mines.
Since GPS has the whole world covered, and many "birds" (satellites) are flying over us are equipped with precision lenses, then... why don't we some how use the GPS precision measuring technique, along with the robo-mine-clearer, and start automate the land-mine clearing job ?
Although agriculture is important, if the land is mined, performing agricultural works on the land will be VERY DANGEROUS.
I sincerely hope NASA and
"Remember most of the poeple who ran
Fidonet are alive and ready to kick ass."
I truly hope that one day a worldwide network that runs in the spirit as FidoNet will be set up.
When InterNet starts, everyone rushed into it, and FidoNet languished. But no matter how useful InterNet is, FidoNet still has that _spirit_ of INDIVIDUALISM that InterNet truly lacks.
How I longed for the FidoNet days.
The more ICANN has [d]evolved, the more ICANN has gone away from its grassroot.
I am an ICANN member, - just a ordinary member thank you very much, - and I can tell you that I am really disappointed with ICANN's [d]evolution process so far.
Granted, there _are_ things that ordinary members like me don't know. Mebbe there are some valid reason for ICANN to do what it has been doing. I won't utter a blanket condemnation towards ICANN, not just yet.
But I have to say this - as I am a member of ICANN, I am also a member of the cyberspace, aka Netizen.
As a Netizen, and as one who don't really trust government - any government, mind you - that much, the ICANN's latest maneuver, in inviting the government to take such a large part of ICANN's operation really worries me.
If ICANN is let to do its own thing, there is a huge possibility that ICANN will be yet-another-irrelevant-organization.
I don't care who that ICANN CEO is, but this is what I will say - if ICANN forgets its grassroot, ICANN might as well fold its operation. Because without the grassroot, ICANN will no longer be representing ANYTHING relevant.
Governments and corporations already have their own way to express their views. ICANN was set up primarily to address the views of the grassroots.
No matter it's DCMA or ICANN's latest move, the future for grassroots in the cyberspace doesn't look good.
We keep losing in the power struggle. The corporate power and the bureaucrats from the governments keep on winning.
What will it be like 10 years of 20 years in the future, if the Net can not tolerate FREE VIEWS anymore ?
Someone once said
"Good! I'm glad that no cheezy teen pop videos
will be staged on the ISS. At least not in the
near future..."
Then why put this thing on Slashdot ?
This piece of "news" is of no interest to most Slashdotters. Geeks are too weird for lamers like "N sync" or whatever.
Actually, Sony WAS a monopoloy, during the 70's and 80's, when they came up with the "BETA" format of video tape.
Because of Sony's monopoly, they get to dictate what their Beta tapes can be used for, and what can't.
Sony, as a "moral corporate citizen", decided that their Beta tapes were NOT to be used for PORN, and since there was another video tape format available - VHS - everyone, including the PORN industry, decided to opt for VHS.
And the rest is history.
About the "IS" - Sony "IS" a monopoly, in it's PlayStation and it's "robot-dog" setup.
Sony is using DCMA, to sue people, for extending the PlayStation and the robotic-dog.
In that sense, Sony is acting much like MicroSoft, since Sony _IS_ the monopoly in the above two categories.
I don't know how many of the "letter from high-placed officers" I've gotten from Nigerians.
You name it, they have it.
High places from the "daughter" of the Nigerian president, to the "son-in-law" of the Nigerian Agriculture Minister, to the "right-hand-man" to one of the "Top General Of Nigeria", all saying, one way or another, "We need your bank account number so we can transfer some dirty money and you help us clean up the money and you get a portion of it".
It's a scam of course. Even if it's NOT a scam, I won't participating in money laudrying operation.
But these scam emails come from Nigeria - or people claiming to be Nigeria - all the time.
I get these emails in my mailboxes located in Asia, Europe, Americas (North and Souths). Seems like they spam the entire globe, looking for "bank accounts".
If there is a _real_ need to ban anything, why don't we start by banning Nigeria ?
I am on a s-l-o-w dialup connection, and it is almost impossible to download a 12MB file, in one shot, under this condition.
Therefore, I need to find a place where I can do somekind of "getright" or "netvampire" type of "segmented" download.
In other words, I need to find an exact URL (either HTTP or FTP) so to get the "segmented" download session going.
Is there anyone who can provide the exact URL for the Java 1.4 JRE kit, please?
Thanks in advance !
Other than CVS and arc, are there any other (GPL)software revision control system available, and how best you rate them ?
You said:
"Just because you are using 133 MHz CAS2,
doesn't mean that it is operating at
133 MHz... Or even CAS2 latency."
Actually, according to my mobo, it is.
100 MHz is Celeron's FSB, and 33 MHz PCI.
I even used memtest86 to verify this, and yep, the memory is running at 133 MHz, believe it or not.
That is, if I run the system without overclocking.
If I run the system under overclocked mode, I actually can run the CAS2 memory to 164 MHz ! (122 MHz Celeron FSB and 40 MHz PCI bus.)
Just thought that you would like to know.
At the second page [ http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020121/duron
This is patently UNTRUE.
I AM USING A CELERON 1.2 GHz with SDRAM 133 MHZ CAS2.
I truly hope that for once, people will do an ACTUAL REAL WORLD comparison, rather than that cripple-one-side-so-to-make-the-other-looks-good variety.
You said :
"That's a rather naive assumption; it
assumes that a 4KB page takes the same
amount of time to move as a 4MB page"
But I _did_ say that it's a WORST CASE SCENARIO, didn't I?
Of course, unless someone posted an actual benchmark to show how much time it takes for a 4MB page to load, versus that of a 4KB, et cetera, et cetera, simple arithmetic WILL DO.
Remember K.I.S.S. ??
If what you are saying is true
"As it turns out, AMD did eventually get
around to fixing this issue with Stepping
A5 of the AthlonXP/MP core."
then we have a real problem here.
You see, Alan Cox and friends are planning to make Linux "recognizes" Athlons, and do a special case - the "nomem" thingy - on it.
But if the Stepping A5 of AthlonXP/MP core has the bug licked, then, the "nomem" thingy by Alan Cox et al may be a step backward.
Unless of course, the kernel hackers want to have a double-checked thingy on their "Atholon finder". Such as
If Athlon=step5, then do nothing.
Simple arithmetic -
4MB = 1024 X 4KB
Therefore, the worst case scenario is a 1024 times slower performance hit.
But in reality, unless there is a lot of paging activity, 4KB is not too bad.
Of course, 4MB is much nicer
But the bug was there since Sep. 2000 !
You think someone in AMD may have correct the bug, but nooooooo.
How many version of Athlon / Thunderbird / XP / MP have there since Sep. 2000 ?
I thought in all new iteration of chip, they have "de-bugging sessions" - just like softwares - before the "tape-out" stage.
Have to wonder why AMD don't do debugging before tape-out ?
Is it money?
Or is the bug a "feature" instead ?