AOL (and all ISPs, as per law) keeps logs of which acct gets each IP. If you're LEA, you probably don't even need a court order to find out which acct had a given IP at a given time.
I'm sure the story is wrong and inaccurate in other ways, tho.
enlightenment had this really nifty live-icon box. It would (expensively, but then that's par for E-wm course) scan each window contents and display a scaled down version in the icon box. Click on an icon to focus, or switch desktop.
Expose is like a temporary, full screen, icon box.
At least that's what I thought before I saw it in action. Regardless of whether the idea is innovative, it is extremely well engineered, from a HCI perspective. Slick, pretty, AND easy to use.
The way I read it was that they have NO failsafe moderation, but engineer the max tolerances so that in the case of emergency abandonment, the reactor will safely burn itself out at max speed. No data on how long that would take.
of course, as you point out, that in the case of massive catastrophe, you lose many of your engineering assumptions --- over-engineered tolerances probably are among the first to go.
legal wash or no, I tend to agree with the assertion that there is a basic requirement to attempt to secure--and take responsability for lack of such attempts--your posessions. Similarly, the law needs to recognise that the digital subculture often DOES give things like excess bandwidth away.
Now, this needs to be subject to common sense: just because you left the door unlocked by accident doesn't mean people are allowed to enter your house, but IMHO you do need to show that you at least have the means to, and normally do, lock it. Likewise, if you flubbed your network administration, that is one thing, but that is completely different from not bothering at all. If someone sells you an unsecurable device, then that is a civil matter between you and the manufacturer. c.f: Nader's "Unsafe at any speed."
Mind you, that's my thinking, and probably does not conform to any legal standard.
How "wide open" does a network have to be to meet your standard of "implicit permission"?
In general, I would think that if the network was so poorly secured that no effort was necessary to join it, that would not be enough. What you suggest is like embedding an EULA in an HTML comment and then hitting up each visitor to your site for a license fee.
More generally, courts are quite good at balancing one thing against another. If only the courts would hold off on setting precedents until the standards and mores of online communities had become widely known, perhaps the legal standard would more closely conform to the standards of the community.
You can't blame Joe user who is an idiot and has no idea how any of this works.
I fundamentally disagree. Joe needs to take responsibility for his actions. Manufacturers need to (and do) take resposability for unfit products. If he bought a product that is unfit for advertised purpose, then that is between him and the manufacturer. If he's just an idiot and turns off all saftey controls or buys himself industrial grade networking gear, then he's just and idiot, and that is no excuse. Where that line goes is a civil court matter.
Something I've wanted to do. It'd be great if you got some in green and blue as well. Mount one pointed at two rotating mirrors, so that the beam scans left-right creating a line, and each such line is scanned up-down. Ie, the left-right mirror needs to rotate something like 500 times faster than the up-down mirror, and that needs to scan at 24 sps. (if you have a 6 sided mirror, that is 4fps -> 240rpm. That means the small mirror would need to spin at 120000rpm! A bigger mirror with more sides is probably called for: a 30sided one "only" needs 24000rpm.)
Now, turn the laser on and off in order to draw a 2D raster image on the wall. For extra-credit, implement both interlace (draw the top of the next frame while still drawing the bottom of the previous frame, using two laser pointers), or do color.
Unlikely to ever be very good: you need some REALLY fast mirrors to get the framerate, and the timing tolerances aren't very forgiving. You can get better framerates by interlacing the laserpointers, and perhaps drawing each quarter-frame. Then alignment becomes a hassle.
However, the lasers should be able to cycle on and off fast enough: I recall someone building a 10mbs line-of-sight serial link using old laserpointers and photo-diodes.
Can anyone who knows about this stuff comment on whether the pebbles are walk-away shutdown safe, or merely walk-away run-safely-until-fuel-runs-out safe? I would think you want the former, but get the impression that you get the latter.
As for fire... they claim their balls are safe up to 2600 C, which is well above the 1800 C max run-away temperature.
are you serious?! That themal expansion will be enough to [... what would you call that:] unmoderate [?] the reaction?
That just seems iffy. Anyways, that just means that the reaction will reach an equilibrium where the heat of the reaction is just enough to expand the spheres to keep the reaction going at that speed.
You want a complete shutdown when you walk away, not an indefinite intermediate equilibrium.
I dunno. Seems to me that there has to be some communication for the UI stuff. The client has to display availible play lists, current song, that sort of thing, and send the remote control commands back to the server.
But if you say you've used xmms as a front end, I'll believe you.
but unlike wireless speakers, this system grows with you. Want sound in your living room as well as your tv room, buy a new $300 unit and hook up some powered speakers to it.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm assuming each unit can either stream a common "channel", or choose its own play list. Likewise, each unit should have its own digital volume control.
If it has these features, it compares VERY nicely to the wire-your-house-for-sound systems out there. Ever try to price a B&O system (not that they sell on functionality or performance, but still)? Outrageously expensive!
If Sean wanted to, I suspect he could make a killing selling professional grade music distributions systems for nightlife places; have one channel for the bar, and another for the lounge. All centrally contolled. Maybe the bars/restaurants I go to are all behind the times, but seems they still run analog.
'course, this is nothing you couldn't do with some time and cheap hardware from ebay, but time is money. At $300, you have to either be unemployed or assemble your own solution damn quickly in order to save money that way.
Do you know if there are any slimp3 emulation clients for the streaming server? I've been looking around freshmeat and there is an embarassment of offerings, but I figure a company with a vested interest in making these things ought to have the most polished product.
I have an audrey lying around that I need to do something with, ya see.
I dunno. I seem to recall that 3.2 Gbps was the limit for DVI. Notice that no video card advertises more than 1600x1200 DVI (even though I've personally run one at 1920x1200; Sony was unable to suggest even one DVI card that worked with their 23" LCD--turns out a lowly radeon 9000 worked just fine)
If you look at the NICE IBM monitors, they usually require multiple DVI channels.
[speculation]
I've long wondered why the video information isn't at a higher level; high-bitrate MPEG (or even MJPEG), run length encoding (in 2D, perhaps), even block move/copy would all be easy to implement in the monitor, and massively cut down on the bandwidth needed. With any of these schemes alone, you could probably replace your video cable with ethernet (even 802.11b).
I'd be happy with a single-user compiler for english...
I'm writing a thesis, and it would be great to be able to automatically detect undefined terms, or that your english description becomes obsolete when you modify the greek in the figure.
Unfortunately, The middle ground between so-hard-to-use-it's-worthless and so-weak-it's-pointless depends on powerful NLP, and that sort of voodoo is not yet easily availible.
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true. true. Apparently some poor fool made similar remarks on k5 a while back, and did indeed receive a personal visit from the SS. No charges filed, but 'tis a rude awakening indeed when your online words come and knock on your door.
Westerners (wouldn't speak for others, may hold globally) really prefer flat rate over pay-as-you-go, even if the flat rate ends up being higher.
I've heard (and made, myself) the argument of the $$$ diff between camera A and camera D (analogue and digital -- geddit?) being worth so many K pictures developed.
The question isn't whether either is cheaper in the long run; the question is whether you want digital, and whether you can afford the level of quality you want.
For me, the answers are yes, and no, not yet. If I get a job, a good camera will likely be my present to myself.
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I'm saving my money, and am waiting to see how the F828 performs. If sony can keep noise down and generally improve upon the F717 (continuous shooting would be nice, sony!), I'm likely going for that.
Alternately, I'm hoping for a price war in the SLR world. I might even pick up a used Olympus E10/20, which are really nice cameras, appart from the unchangeable lens (MP count is not so important for me -- quality of delivered pixels matters more).
The super-zoom panasonic is nice (that I just like the design helps too), but if you get a canon lens-mount camera, their IS series of lenses will keep you happy (and not TOO poor ~$500 IIRC).
I've also noticed that I rarely use all of my 3x zoom on my ultra-compact Canon S400 (love it! Would like it even more with a few manual controls, tho), so an ultra zoom is not my cup of tea. Different strokes... (If I had an SLR, would probably just put a prime lens on it and carry a zoom for occasional use)
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AOL (and all ISPs, as per law) keeps logs of which acct gets each IP. If you're LEA, you probably don't even need a court order to find out which acct had a given IP at a given time.
I'm sure the story is wrong and inaccurate in other ways, tho.
enlightenment had this really nifty live-icon box. It would (expensively, but then that's par for E-wm course) scan each window contents and display a scaled down version in the icon box. Click on an icon to focus, or switch desktop.
Expose is like a temporary, full screen, icon box.
At least that's what I thought before I saw it in action. Regardless of whether the idea is innovative, it is extremely well engineered, from a HCI perspective. Slick, pretty, AND easy to use.
maybe 8.8 oz is the empty weight: without any songs on it?
...REALLY fast-spinning mirrors...
Most mirrors work best at obtuse angles. Unlike comments.
The way I read it was that they have NO failsafe moderation, but engineer the max tolerances so that in the case of emergency abandonment, the reactor will safely burn itself out at max speed. No data on how long that would take.
of course, as you point out, that in the case of massive catastrophe, you lose many of your engineering assumptions --- over-engineered tolerances probably are among the first to go.
legal wash or no, I tend to agree with the assertion that there is a basic requirement to attempt to secure--and take responsability for lack of such attempts--your posessions. Similarly, the law needs to recognise that the digital subculture often DOES give things like excess bandwidth away.
Now, this needs to be subject to common sense: just because you left the door unlocked by accident doesn't mean people are allowed to enter your house, but IMHO you do need to show that you at least have the means to, and normally do, lock it. Likewise, if you flubbed your network administration, that is one thing, but that is completely different from not bothering at all. If someone sells you an unsecurable device, then that is a civil matter between you and the manufacturer. c.f: Nader's "Unsafe at any speed."
Mind you, that's my thinking, and probably does not conform to any legal standard.
How "wide open" does a network have to be to meet your standard of "implicit permission"?
In general, I would think that if the network was so poorly secured that no effort was necessary to join it, that would not be enough. What you suggest is like embedding an EULA in an HTML comment and then hitting up each visitor to your site for a license fee.
More generally, courts are quite good at balancing one thing against another. If only the courts would hold off on setting precedents until the standards and mores of online communities had become widely known, perhaps the legal standard would more closely conform to the standards of the community.
You can't blame Joe user who is an idiot and has no idea how any of this works.
I fundamentally disagree. Joe needs to take responsibility for his actions. Manufacturers need to (and do) take resposability for unfit products. If he bought a product that is unfit for advertised purpose, then that is between him and the manufacturer. If he's just an idiot and turns off all saftey controls or buys himself industrial grade networking gear, then he's just and idiot, and that is no excuse. Where that line goes is a civil court matter.
the pusher robot shoves
the shover robot pushes
Do you have stairs in your house?
Something I've wanted to do. It'd be great if you got some in green and blue as well.
Mount one pointed at two rotating mirrors, so that the beam scans left-right creating a line, and each such line is scanned up-down. Ie, the left-right mirror needs to rotate something like 500 times faster than the up-down mirror, and that needs to scan at 24 sps. (if you have a 6 sided mirror, that is 4fps -> 240rpm. That means the small mirror would need to spin at 120000rpm! A bigger mirror with more sides is probably called for: a 30sided one "only" needs 24000rpm.)
Now, turn the laser on and off in order to draw a 2D raster image on the wall. For extra-credit, implement both interlace (draw the top of the next frame while still drawing the bottom of the previous frame, using two laser pointers), or do color.
Unlikely to ever be very good: you need some REALLY fast mirrors to get the framerate, and the timing tolerances aren't very forgiving. You can get better framerates by interlacing the laserpointers, and perhaps drawing each quarter-frame. Then alignment becomes a hassle.
However, the lasers should be able to cycle on and off fast enough: I recall someone building a 10mbs line-of-sight serial link using old laserpointers and photo-diodes.
Bigger pinhole -> shorter focal length I thought?
Can anyone who knows about this stuff comment on whether the pebbles are walk-away shutdown safe, or merely walk-away run-safely-until-fuel-runs-out safe? I would think you want the former, but get the impression that you get the latter.
As for fire... they claim their balls are safe up to 2600 C, which is well above the 1800 C max run-away temperature.
are you serious?! That themal expansion will be enough to [... what would you call that:] unmoderate [?] the reaction?
That just seems iffy. Anyways, that just means that the reaction will reach an equilibrium where the heat of the reaction is just enough to expand the spheres to keep the reaction going at that speed.
You want a complete shutdown when you walk away, not an indefinite intermediate equilibrium.
And here I was wondering why you didn't link to any retailers carrying the terratec...
not very widely distributed. at all. in fact, none of their american retailers seem to carry it. However, if you want their midi gear, you're all set.
ah.
I get it now.
And the individual units have special purpose browsers that speak to the same server but on a different port and in a more limited language.
much obliged for the info.
I dunno. Seems to me that there has to be some communication for the UI stuff. The client has to display availible play lists, current song, that sort of thing, and send the remote control commands back to the server.
But if you say you've used xmms as a front end, I'll believe you.
true,
but unlike wireless speakers, this system grows with you. Want sound in your living room as well as your tv room, buy a new $300 unit and hook up some powered speakers to it.
I didn't RTFA, but I'm assuming each unit can either stream a common "channel", or choose its own play list.
Likewise, each unit should have its own digital volume control.
If it has these features, it compares VERY nicely to the wire-your-house-for-sound systems out there. Ever try to price a B&O system (not that they sell on functionality or performance, but still)? Outrageously expensive!
If Sean wanted to, I suspect he could make a killing selling professional grade music distributions systems for nightlife places; have one channel for the bar, and another for the lounge. All centrally contolled. Maybe the bars/restaurants I go to are all behind the times, but seems they still run analog.
'course, this is nothing you couldn't do with some time and cheap hardware from ebay, but time is money. At $300, you have to either be unemployed or assemble your own solution damn quickly in order to save money that way.
Do you know if there are any slimp3 emulation clients for the streaming server? I've been looking around freshmeat and there is an embarassment of offerings, but I figure a company with a vested interest in making these things ought to have the most polished product.
I have an audrey lying around that I need to do something with, ya see.
Johan
they're not video, but rather pointers to video streams. PITA, in other words.
I dunno. I seem to recall that 3.2 Gbps was the limit for DVI. Notice that no video card advertises more than 1600x1200 DVI (even though I've personally run one at 1920x1200; Sony was unable to suggest even one DVI card that worked with their 23" LCD--turns out a lowly radeon 9000 worked just fine)
If you look at the NICE IBM monitors, they usually require multiple DVI channels.
[speculation]
I've long wondered why the video information isn't at a higher level; high-bitrate MPEG (or even MJPEG), run length encoding (in 2D, perhaps), even block move/copy would all be easy to implement in the monitor, and massively cut down on the bandwidth needed. With any of these schemes alone, you could probably replace your video cable with ethernet (even 802.11b).
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. ...
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
Grouch Marx, what a cad!
I would like to see a cummulative %paid vs %population graph, like a lorenz curve.
I would show you with ascii-art, but that was too lame for slashdot, apparently.
I'd be happy with a single-user compiler for english...
I'm writing a thesis, and it would be great to be able to automatically detect undefined terms, or that your english description becomes obsolete when you modify the greek in the figure.
Unfortunately, The middle ground between so-hard-to-use-it's-worthless and so-weak-it's-pointless depends on powerful NLP, and that sort of voodoo is not yet easily availible.
latex?
true. true. Apparently some poor fool made similar remarks on k5 a while back, and did indeed receive a personal visit from the SS. No charges filed, but 'tis a rude awakening indeed when your online words come and knock on your door.
Interesting armchair psychiatry (sp?):
Westerners (wouldn't speak for others, may hold globally) really prefer flat rate over pay-as-you-go, even if the flat rate ends up being higher.
I've heard (and made, myself) the argument of the $$$ diff between camera A and camera D (analogue and digital -- geddit?) being worth so many K pictures developed.
The question isn't whether either is cheaper in the long run; the question is whether you want digital, and whether you can afford the level of quality you want.
For me, the answers are yes, and no, not yet. If I get a job, a good camera will likely be my present to myself.
I'm saving my money, and am waiting to see how the F828 performs. If sony can keep noise down and generally improve upon the F717 (continuous shooting would be nice, sony!), I'm likely going for that.
Alternately, I'm hoping for a price war in the SLR world. I might even pick up a used Olympus E10/20, which are really nice cameras, appart from the unchangeable lens (MP count is not so important for me -- quality of delivered pixels matters more).
The super-zoom panasonic is nice (that I just like the design helps too), but if you get a canon lens-mount camera, their IS series of lenses will keep you happy (and not TOO poor ~$500 IIRC).
I've also noticed that I rarely use all of my 3x zoom on my ultra-compact Canon S400 (love it! Would like it even more with a few manual controls, tho), so an ultra zoom is not my cup of tea. Different strokes... (If I had an SLR, would probably just put a prime lens on it and carry a zoom for occasional use)