Same here. This would be what I would want. NOTE: This is what I WANT...
Demensions: 3" wide x 6" long x 1" deep.
1. Clamshell design where when it was closed it could be used as a cell phone. 2. Upon opening it, it would reveal a querty keyboard and a 6" x 3" color screen. Possibly with a nipple type mouse in the middle of it or a touch screen with a stylus. 3. Some StrongARM type processor. 4. minimum of 64mb of ram. 5. The following features
a. GPS
b. Tuner capable of AM/FM/Shortwave/Aviation/UHF/VHF
c. wifi / Bluetooth / X10 (basically make it driver programmable) 6. Popout (like the old Xircom enet cards) Enet and phone jack. 7. Removable solid state memory slot. 8. USB and/or Firewire port. 9. Long battery life.
I'd want this thing to run linux, and I'd like to get full SDK so I can develop apps on it.
As a sysadmin, I want something that'll allow me to be anywhere and if someone needs something, I can log into the appropiate machines and get things done. At the sametime, I want a device that'll be functional for stuff like playing games and have enough horsepower for doing MAME type emulations and watching movies, etc.
Firstly, you talk like there was even a design meeting.
It was more like "We need a no fly list, think someone can whip it up?" and some poor smuck was stuck working on it in a backroom somewhere.
Issues like this were never really thought about.
Though here's a nightmare thought. What happens if you go on a two week trip somewhere far from home and upon trying to board the plane to go home, your stopped because you've been accidentally added to the list. Now, lets just say you've got the same access as the Senator, that means only 3 weeks away from home and job...
Actually, you hacking the camera is worked into their profit model. Adding in a dedicated encryption IC drives up the price. It's cheaper to just let.003% of the consumer targets hack the thing. For them it's a win/win.
If you hack the thing, you still have to buy, so they're going to make a profit off of you. Not as much as the sheeple who'll just drop the thing in the slot, but a bucks a buck.
There talking about 8,000 homes so I can imagine it's not that much water. If they were going to be cooling the whole city via this method then I'd start to worry.
The other issue that comes into play is the ammount of random data that would have be added to the file for the hashes to match up.
Maybe your lucky and it's only a couple of kilobytes, however, if it's proven the collisions are very far apart, you could end up with two files with the same hash. One's 25MB, the others 1GB...
Actually there have been a large number of cases where an ISP's DNS server has been poisoned so users type in the legimate www.somehugebank.com and it brings them to a proxy mirror image of the site where you gleefully login in and they scarf your information.
Last time I checked we're on the "IN-TER-NET". You know that place that is practially a blackhole of all things immature.
If you were to map the internet like a galaxy, Slashdot would be tucked over in the corner next to the obscene jokes and well stuff involving well hung midgets and horny lonely housewives.
Microsoft could release a patch that just by installing would cure world hunger and shrink maligant tumors and the headline on Slashdot would be "Microsoft distrupts food distribution and healthcare systems worldwide!"
So, in short, if your looking for unbiased punctunal and definitative coverage of the every evolving internet, this is not the place.
If however, your looking for the diatribes of cynical, world weary geeks, who know the whole world is basically built on match sticks and is gleefully waiting for the day the whole place comes tumbling down, you've found it.
The problem with that is that it wouldn't be a really good social experiment because the person would either forget to press the button or only press the button when there was something that they wanted to record. Maybe what you could do is install a special "privacy button" where if they were on the phone and telling the person something personal (like there SSN) they could hit the button and it would mute the mike. However, I'd still be nervous to include such a thing because I think it would still skew the output.
Personally how I'd tackle the problem is with something like mp3split and some scripting.
You'd drop a "whole" mp3 into a directory and have a job that would take the file and chunk out 10 minute segements and then glue them into one 240 minute mp3.
Though I'm not sure what's less elegant, recording tons of data just to throw 5/6th of it away or going to Rat shack and buying a 555, a couple of resisters, a switch and a battery harness and modifying the player.
The company I work for does the same thing. Basically your expected to carry your weight and getting stuff done, you'll quickly find your ass out the door.
We had one of those "calculated slackers" who used to work at this company. Strangely enough, I never met him and I now sit in what was his office.
Here's what I see as a problem with this technology.
Lets just say this technology exists. I looked at this site and I half expected to see a "Looking for investors to get the revolution started!" scrolling across the bottom.
Great, so you've got your self a 10PB disk. You pop it into drive and you suck your entire production / prototyping and development data onto the thing. While your at it, you decide to drop a copy of every file server you've got, etc.
How long is it going to take to put all that data on there and read it off?
Lets just say you've got a system where you can read/write 1GB a second sustained.
That means you've got approximately 10485760GB worth of storage space.
So writing a 1GB a second it's going to take you 10485760 / 60 = 174762.666666667 minutes $answer / 60 = 2912.711111111 hours $answer / 24 = 121.362962963 days
(please check this, it doesn't seem right)
to fill this thing to capacity, provided you can sustain 1GB a second with no delay for filesystem type stuff.
Step 1. Take harddrive and put a jumper across the "read-only" jumper if it has one.
Step 2. Attach harddrive as some device say "/dev/hde"
Step 3. Copy harddrive via byte level copy. i.e. "dd if=/dev/hde of=/evidence/hardriveX.img" where X is the Number you've written on the label of the harddrive.
Step 4. Take harddrive out of machine and put into evidence vault.
Step 5. Make a copy of your harddrive image and append the word "pristine" to the filename.
Step 6. Use disk tools to dig around filesystem contained in the image looking for evidence.
McBride and slashdot are technically oxymorons, are they not?
That's like saying he likes having his tiny nuts bitten by badgers.
It has been said that the difference between gutsy and foolness is very thin.
However, picking a fight with an active community of highly intelligent zealots who have a product that's years beyond your current product goes under the foolish cateygory.
The guy was hopped up on P2P! It's way worse than PCP!
It's like any addiction. First it's only ROMS. Then a DV rip here or there. Then suddenly you find yourself one night in front of the computer with a box of tissues and a bottle of jerkens downloading "VixenBrittenyGoats.ex.mpg". Before long the street starts to notice as soon as your car pulls into the driveway, their internet connection come to a grinding halt as you consume a whole 57% of the regions available bandwidth. As you walk down the street you hear them cluth their ugly blue pleather purses just a bit tighter as they glace at you with those little beedy old lady eyes and whisper "I hear he's on that P-2-P stuff".
Lets sell a hobbled, half assed version of an operating system when the person can buy the same thing for less than what they're going to charge for the half assed version.
Hmm. Suddenly I'm not so worried about the Microsoft marketing machine.
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I wonder how well their business model will do when I don't buy their shitbox crippled phone...
Same here. This would be what I would want.
NOTE: This is what I WANT...
Demensions: 3" wide x 6" long x 1" deep.
1. Clamshell design where when it was closed it could be used as a cell phone.
2. Upon opening it, it would reveal a querty keyboard and a 6" x 3" color screen. Possibly with a nipple type mouse in the middle of it or a touch screen with a stylus.
3. Some StrongARM type processor.
4. minimum of 64mb of ram.
5. The following features
a. GPS
b. Tuner capable of AM/FM/Shortwave/Aviation/UHF/VHF
c. wifi / Bluetooth / X10 (basically make it driver programmable)
6. Popout (like the old Xircom enet cards) Enet and phone jack.
7. Removable solid state memory slot.
8. USB and/or Firewire port.
9. Long battery life.
I'd want this thing to run linux, and I'd like to get full SDK so I can develop apps on it.
As a sysadmin, I want something that'll allow me to be anywhere and if someone needs something, I can log into the appropiate machines and get things done. At the sametime, I want a device that'll be functional for stuff like playing games and have enough horsepower for doing MAME type emulations and watching movies, etc.
I think that's when you ask, "Why officer?" and he better have a damn good reason. And when he doesn't have a good reason, you ask the next question.
"I WANT your badge number and who your superior is and the phone number to contact them."
I wish I could mediate that deal.
You can have Nintendo, but Miyamoto goes to Sony!
Firstly, you talk like there was even a design meeting.
It was more like "We need a no fly list, think someone can whip it up?" and some poor smuck was stuck working on it in a backroom somewhere.
Issues like this were never really thought about.
Though here's a nightmare thought. What happens if you go on a two week trip somewhere far from home and upon trying to board the plane to go home, your stopped because you've been accidentally added to the list. Now, lets just say you've got the same access as the Senator, that means only 3 weeks away from home and job...
Actually, you hacking the camera is worked into their profit model. Adding in a dedicated encryption IC drives up the price. It's cheaper to just let .003% of the consumer targets hack the thing. For them it's a win/win.
If you hack the thing, you still have to buy, so they're going to make a profit off of you. Not as much as the sheeple who'll just drop the thing in the slot, but a bucks a buck.
Okay, lets just get the low hanging fruit out of the way...
1. I for one, welcome our flaming powerbook overlords.
2. In Soviet Union, Powerbook burns you!
3. Imagine a Beawulf cluster of flaming powerbooks!
I guess Apples notebook business is cooked.
I wonder if Apples next code names for their products are Weber and Habachi!
As a computer scientist who has always had an interest (though never academically persued) in molecular genetics, can you explain this a bit better.
I know that mutations naturally occur, do these pions accelerate the process or tailor the process to more effective mutation?
It's more petty than anything else.
Why not just go out and stand in front of the RNC's headquarters and block people from entering?
What they should be doing is going out and doing something positive, like getting involed with the political party they feel the most affinity for.
Personally, I think it's just a media ploy by a bunch of lowball egonauts.
Doh! It's really early. That "There" should be a "They are" or a "They're".
There talking about 8,000 homes so I can imagine it's not that much water. If they were going to be cooling the whole city via this method then I'd start to worry.
I'm in the same boat!
However, I did find this site...
http://nationalatlas.gov/
That allows you to download maps plus all the info about them.
What I'd like to write is something like "map point" for linux.
This way I can take my laptop on the road and not having to install windows on it.
The other issue that comes into play is the ammount of random data that would have be added to the file for the hashes to match up.
Maybe your lucky and it's only a couple of kilobytes, however, if it's proven the collisions are very far apart, you could end up with two files with the same hash. One's 25MB, the others 1GB...
Actually there have been a large number of cases where an ISP's DNS server has been poisoned so users type in the legimate www.somehugebank.com and it brings them to a proxy mirror image of the site where you gleefully login in and they scarf your information.
Maybe at some point ./ will allow us to actually edit our posts...
Basically, your correct.
Last time I checked we're on the "IN-TER-NET". You know that place that is practially a blackhole of all things immature.
If you were to map the internet like a galaxy, Slashdot would be tucked over in the corner next to the obscene jokes and well stuff involving well hung midgets and horny lonely housewives.
Microsoft could release a patch that just by installing would cure world hunger and shrink maligant tumors and the headline on Slashdot would be "Microsoft distrupts food distribution and healthcare systems worldwide!"
So, in short, if your looking for unbiased punctunal and definitative coverage of the every evolving internet, this is not the place.
If however, your looking for the diatribes of cynical, world weary geeks, who know the whole world is basically built on match sticks and is gleefully waiting for the day the whole place comes tumbling down, you've found it.
The problem with that is that it wouldn't be a really good social experiment because the person would either forget to press the button or only press the button when there was something that they wanted to record. Maybe what you could do is install a special "privacy button" where if they were on the phone and telling the person something personal (like there SSN) they could hit the button and it would mute the mike. However, I'd still be nervous to include such a thing because I think it would still skew the output.
Personally how I'd tackle the problem is with something like mp3split and some scripting.
You'd drop a "whole" mp3 into a directory and have a job that would take the file and chunk out 10 minute segements and then glue them into one 240 minute mp3.
Though I'm not sure what's less elegant, recording tons of data just to throw 5/6th of it away or going to Rat shack and buying a 555, a couple of resisters, a switch and a battery harness and modifying the player.
The company I work for does the same thing. Basically your expected to carry your weight and getting stuff done, you'll quickly find your ass out the door.
We had one of those "calculated slackers" who used to work at this company. Strangely enough, I never met him and I now sit in what was his office.
Here's what I see as a problem with this technology.
Lets just say this technology exists. I looked at this site and I half expected to see a "Looking for investors to get the revolution started!" scrolling across the bottom.
Great, so you've got your self a 10PB disk. You pop it into drive and you suck your entire production / prototyping and development data onto the thing. While your at it, you decide to drop a copy of every file server you've got, etc.
How long is it going to take to put all that data on there and read it off?
Lets just say you've got a system where you can read/write 1GB a second sustained.
That means you've got approximately 10485760GB worth of storage space.
So writing a 1GB a second it's going to take you 10485760 / 60 = 174762.666666667 minutes
$answer / 60 = 2912.711111111 hours
$answer / 24 = 121.362962963 days
(please check this, it doesn't seem right)
to fill this thing to capacity, provided you can sustain 1GB a second with no delay for filesystem type stuff.
Really?
I thought the process worked like this.
Step 1. Take harddrive and put a jumper across the "read-only" jumper if it has one.
Step 2. Attach harddrive as some device say "/dev/hde"
Step 3. Copy harddrive via byte level copy. i.e.
"dd if=/dev/hde of=/evidence/hardriveX.img" where X is the Number you've written on the label of the harddrive.
Step 4. Take harddrive out of machine and put into evidence vault.
Step 5. Make a copy of your harddrive image and append the word "pristine" to the filename.
Step 6. Use disk tools to dig around filesystem contained in the image looking for evidence.
McBride and slashdot are technically oxymorons, are they not?
That's like saying he likes having his tiny nuts bitten by badgers.
It has been said that the difference between gutsy and foolness is very thin. However, picking a fight with an active community of highly intelligent zealots who have a product that's years beyond your current product goes under the foolish cateygory.
So instead of a script kiddie, we're going to now have "click kiddie"...
"I'm so l33t, I don't 3v3n type!"
No, No, NO!
The guy was hopped up on P2P! It's way worse than PCP!
It's like any addiction. First it's only ROMS. Then a DV rip here or there. Then suddenly you find yourself one night in front of the computer with a box of tissues and a bottle of jerkens downloading "VixenBrittenyGoats.ex.mpg". Before long the street starts to notice as soon as your car pulls into the driveway, their internet connection come to a grinding halt as you consume a whole 57% of the regions available bandwidth. As you walk down the street you hear them cluth their ugly blue pleather purses just a bit tighter as they glace at you with those little beedy old lady eyes and whisper "I hear he's on that P-2-P stuff".
Lets sell a hobbled, half assed version of an operating system when the person can buy the same thing for less than what they're going to charge for the half assed version.
Hmm. Suddenly I'm not so worried about the Microsoft marketing machine.
how long before you go into an Arcade and you rent a VR helmet and you plug it into the different games.
Just think about a VR helmet that can actually do 1280x1024 by true color and combine that with 3 generations after the Doom3 or HL2 engine...