All I have to say is I HIT THE DAMN JACKPOT then, because Henkles and McCoy is out tearing up the utility easement in front of my house to push my new fiber. At this point I don't care WHAT I pay, I'm just so glad to have an option other than DSL (VZ dsl, btw, sucks MAJOR balls, I'm hoping their fiber speeds are better) since ComCast doesn't offer cable internet here yet. I'm excited at the ability to slap a few servers on a DMZ and run them from home with no bandwidth issues.
Also, while this may be a 'Trophy Project', in the industry we call it a 'Pilot Rollout'. (read 'dress rehearsal') You can't just run with something this massive.. developing processes, procedures, and then running through them in test situations is the only way to ensure that your customers get solid service after the main rollout kicks off. Most of the dot-coms didn't do that, which is why there are so many issues with scalability, sustainability and upgradeability with existing small-company DSL networks (there are a few decent ones out there, but they are diamonds in the rough).
I don't work for VZ, but have been a landline customer of theirs since moving into Tarrant County, so I honestly feel that it's impressive to see them making this kind of push to wire my city with fiber.. plus it doesn't hurt that we're very close to the VZ HQ and a lot of their execs live here...;-)
At a recent carrier location, I was working on some equipment when the customer's location manager walked into the equipment room. A moment thereafter, a young golden lab (maybe 9 months) trotted into the room after him. I didn't say anything but inquired about it, and found out that he used to bring his old dog, but she died, so now he's got a new pup he's training. Bird dog. The next two weeks I was there, I saw the pup every day of the week (except Friday, when the manager wasn't there). Pretty amusing to see a dog walking through racks of equipment carrying OC-192s.
As if this wasn't enough, a co-worker of mine recounted a story about how, whilst in Germany, he watched a dog walk into a telco switch room, lift its' leg, piss on the side of a switch cabinet, and walk off. He said he'd noticed stains all over the floors but had no idea why.
When I lived in El Paso for a summer, I worked for my father at a Mexican Foods company making salsa, canned/jarred jalapenos, chiles, and so on. During the summer, I had to wear a respirator from Sears and goggles all day, every day, and in September they started dicing jalapenos, and then the respirator made no difference. The juice infused the air so thickly it'd make you cough from outside the factory. I wore the respirator and a surgical mask at the same time, and it didn't help much. The most interesting part of it was this contigent of hispanic women who worked the line, they showed up for the 4 month jalapeno canning season, and they would work a 10 hour shift stanning in the midst of all this with only a medical mask on. They'd work the chiles with only latex on, which generally didn't do anything for you (a lot of people wore heavy kitchen gloves and long sleeves every day) and never complained. Interesting stuff.
What surprises me is that they consider that printing the kernel and mailing it to IBM, they've fulfilled their discovery requirements. I mean, it's somewhere about a million pages, so I figure it's printed mass constitutes the bulk of, if not all, of SCO's discovery to date.
I have the Alpine DVD-ROM based nav in my truck, and the one thing I think it sorely lacks is the ability for the user to update the map. I would think adding on a "map edit" function, which made mods to map data and stored the edits in flash memory, would be pretty simple to add on. And in the near future, you could embed in a cellphone to call in updates to update your proprietary database automatically, putting your users' information into your database and keeping it accurate. (Audited of course) It doesn't even have to be anything fancy.. just a click to select your current location, and then a 'street add' button to add a street, then drag the ends of the street to where they go on the map, or something.
The bottom line of the whole thing is that people have invested time and money in the research and development behind their vehicles. What DARPA should do is run the course multiple times with the max # of participants, or an even division of participants, but run all of the contestant vehicles through, and time/rate them on their traversal of the course. Then pick the X top competitors and run them all through again to pick a winner. Or something. But you can't honestly expect people, who, on the word of DARPA, undertook to research and build something as difficult and complex as an autonomous vehicle, to just walk away because DARPA didn't consider limiting the number of entries before they announced the contest. Adapt the competition to suit the response..... and you'll be certain you didn't throw the best idea out arbitratily to cut down the field.
One question is why we haven't seen BitTorrent downloads of company-sponsored stuff; e.g. the new Matrix trailer comes out, and they throw up the tracker on the main site, and set up copies of it on 6 or 8 major hosting providers... paying to make certain people can get the trailer quickly. I would think that companies who are looking for big launch numbers might consider this as an option. Not to mention the free use you get from people who download it via BitTorrent and then leave it open for others to download from them. I just am surprised we haven't seen any of this yet.
Not interviewer. InterviewerS. As in the large group of anti-SCO protesters outside of the SCO building in Lindon. That's why it seems kind of disjointed and subject-changey, and why there's lots of interruptions both on Darl's part and the crowd's.
Bottom line tho, he doesn't say anything he hasn't already: "We are keeping our heads in the sand until this thing pays off."
Google for 'Flash Mob Toronto' and post to whatever board is organizing Flash Mobs..... I'm sure with a little hucksterism you could get several hundred people to show up there, stick their tongues out at Darl, and disperse......
Hrm. Now I know that all of us Open Source advocates (read: anti-SCO) are not rich people, but with such a low share volume outstanding, why couldn't we just buy a controlling interest in SCO by setting up a fund and taking donations? I mean, with 13.1m shares at 14.74 a share, to buy a 51% interest would be something like 98 million dollars. Probably less, considering that you don't need 51%. I would think that if all of the SlashDotters who really believe in this went on a week-long hunger strike and donated their food money to buying SCO, it'd not only make a statement, we'd own the company and could release the code on our own. Someone take up this and run with it, and let's show how powerful the Linux movement REALLY is!
Well what about glasses that pick up whatever spectrum of light this invisible ink uses? Then you can just look at the dealer's card and go 'oh, I can beat that no matter what' and win hand after hand.
Well with the advent of RF Tagging in bulk, why is it that the USPS hasn't considered simply putting a 10c RF tag into a stamp, and give it a serial number, and you can track it by simply pulsing an entire basket/box/crate of mail. I think that the move from bar-code sorting to rf tag sorting will be forthcoming soon... it would simply be that when the address is read, the rf tag is pulsed and the data is assigned to that rfid. Then your users can track their mail a'la fedex as it moves through the USPS system, and the parcels/letters/etc can be sorted by the crateload instead of singly by the barcode readers.
The funny thing is that this would be easily applicable to fedex as well. Barcodes are great, but rf tagging could allow for the active tracking of every parcel on company premises as well as in vehicles. Just set up your scanning systems to scan vehicles as they leave the yard and you'll get an accurate list of what packages went out; etc.
Come on FedEx, hire me and let me deploy this for you;-) -cheezus_es_lard
What it means for consumers is more choice and much cheaper PCs - such as the $1097 Terminator you can buy from Dick Smith's. Boy, we need a Dick Smith's in the states. I could use a visit to a guy who could hammer out a 9 incher for me.... (just kidding) For those who don't know, Dick Smith's is like Australia's version of Fry's Electronics or Best Buy.
In addition, just say 'it could be a terrorist honeypot, drawing credit card numbers and information for them to fund attacks on americans with' and they'll be all over it;-)
But really, this seems to be a large-scale scam, not a single-user hack, and since they seem to be gleaning identity information, one would think the FBI would be interested, at least a little.
With the 42 volt alternator, it should be easy though: 3 phase alternator to create 42 volts, just pull off of one phase (14 volts) to supply the 12 volt power system, and use all three for the 36 volt system.
The problem with that is that it leaves us dependant on natural gas as our hydrogen source. Once again, perishable fuel that is in limited supply on our planet. The co-generating reactor eliminates dependancy on the fossil fuels, however it brings in a different ball of wax: nuclear fuels and the people that hate them.
Personally, I would be perfectly happy with nuclear power of the types that are being discussed today: small scale, small risk. Running 10 small reactors instead of 1 large light-water reactor means less centralized risk and so on. I could stand behind something like that alot easier than three mile island.
Or you could take advantage of a growing trend and do an apartment-style multi-user DSS setup, where one location has a DSS dish and the signal is rebroadcast over coax. I lived in two apartments where this was offered (DSS reciever in my living room, coax to the wall, to the apartment mgmt complex, there was a signal amp + splitter and a reciever). Pretty simple setup. I would think you could do the same thing with some basic cable co. equipment.
The entire 'futuristic' view of nanotechnology is that nanotech will progress to the point of guided creation; e.g. input a design and they produce an item. With simple programming routines, the nanobots can be made to build more nanobots as needed. Once the processing capabilities of current processors have been utilized to allow 'fuzzy decision-making' by computers, e.g. provide an array of choices weighted against a set of inputs and allow the situation to dictate what the bot does, our ability to allow these bots to operate with less and less guidance will evolve. I cannot forsee that with the current understanding of nanotech, that this is where the world will end up. The concept promoted in Neal Stephenson's 'Diamond Age' may reflect a fairly accurate depiction; though possibly in a different manner, pure material will be supplied to the nanobots, and they will use it to construct items. I honestly can see this becoming reality within my lifetime, based on our current research progression in the fields of nanotechnology and quantum physics, the latter being necessary to develop a better understanding of the weak and strong atomic forces and how to break/establish bonds and channel the energy to good use. In this fashion, the laws of nature can be used to modify the positioning of subatomic particles which will make up the products produced.
Just some rambling thought for your consideration! -cheezus_es_lard
Yeah, right. So they're having problems ripping the commercially-released discs into their digiplay systems. All that we'll see happen is a separate release of non-cripped discs for radio airplay stamped 'NOT FOR RESALE, PROMO USE ONLY' or whatever, like they do with singles. I doubt this will even slow down the advance of the use of this technology.
So, we all agree that Spam is a problem. We all agree that legislating Spam out of existance isn't going to work, due to the international design of the Internet. So what needs to be developed is a backwards-compatible mail transfer protocol that authenticates the user to the sending server and forwards the message to the recieving server, who contacts the sending server back and verifies the user's identity.
I'm no software designer, but surely we could find some concept for migrating off of SMTP and POP and to a better, more secure protocol.
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All I have to say is I HIT THE DAMN JACKPOT then, because Henkles and McCoy is out tearing up the utility easement in front of my house to push my new fiber. At this point I don't care WHAT I pay, I'm just so glad to have an option other than DSL (VZ dsl, btw, sucks MAJOR balls, I'm hoping their fiber speeds are better) since ComCast doesn't offer cable internet here yet. I'm excited at the ability to slap a few servers on a DMZ and run them from home with no bandwidth issues.
;-)
Also, while this may be a 'Trophy Project', in the industry we call it a 'Pilot Rollout'. (read 'dress rehearsal') You can't just run with something this massive.. developing processes, procedures, and then running through them in test situations is the only way to ensure that your customers get solid service after the main rollout kicks off. Most of the dot-coms didn't do that, which is why there are so many issues with scalability, sustainability and upgradeability with existing small-company DSL networks (there are a few decent ones out there, but they are diamonds in the rough).
I don't work for VZ, but have been a landline customer of theirs since moving into Tarrant County, so I honestly feel that it's impressive to see them making this kind of push to wire my city with fiber.. plus it doesn't hurt that we're very close to the VZ HQ and a lot of their execs live here...
At a recent carrier location, I was working on some equipment when the customer's location manager walked into the equipment room. A moment thereafter, a young golden lab (maybe 9 months) trotted into the room after him. I didn't say anything but inquired about it, and found out that he used to bring his old dog, but she died, so now he's got a new pup he's training. Bird dog. The next two weeks I was there, I saw the pup every day of the week (except Friday, when the manager wasn't there). Pretty amusing to see a dog walking through racks of equipment carrying OC-192s.
As if this wasn't enough, a co-worker of mine recounted a story about how, whilst in Germany, he watched a dog walk into a telco switch room, lift its' leg, piss on the side of a switch cabinet, and walk off. He said he'd noticed stains all over the floors but had no idea why.
When I lived in El Paso for a summer, I worked for my father at a Mexican Foods company making salsa, canned/jarred jalapenos, chiles, and so on. During the summer, I had to wear a respirator from Sears and goggles all day, every day, and in September they started dicing jalapenos, and then the respirator made no difference. The juice infused the air so thickly it'd make you cough from outside the factory. I wore the respirator and a surgical mask at the same time, and it didn't help much. The most interesting part of it was this contigent of hispanic women who worked the line, they showed up for the 4 month jalapeno canning season, and they would work a 10 hour shift stanning in the midst of all this with only a medical mask on. They'd work the chiles with only latex on, which generally didn't do anything for you (a lot of people wore heavy kitchen gloves and long sleeves every day) and never complained. Interesting stuff.
What surprises me is that they consider that printing the kernel and mailing it to IBM, they've fulfilled their discovery requirements. I mean, it's somewhere about a million pages, so I figure it's printed mass constitutes the bulk of, if not all, of SCO's discovery to date.
I have the Alpine DVD-ROM based nav in my truck, and the one thing I think it sorely lacks is the ability for the user to update the map. I would think adding on a "map edit" function, which made mods to map data and stored the edits in flash memory, would be pretty simple to add on. And in the near future, you could embed in a cellphone to call in updates to update your proprietary database automatically, putting your users' information into your database and keeping it accurate. (Audited of course) It doesn't even have to be anything fancy.. just a click to select your current location, and then a 'street add' button to add a street, then drag the ends of the street to where they go on the map, or something.
The bottom line of the whole thing is that people have invested time and money in the research and development behind their vehicles. What DARPA should do is run the course multiple times with the max # of participants, or an even division of participants, but run all of the contestant vehicles through, and time/rate them on their traversal of the course. Then pick the X top competitors and run them all through again to pick a winner. Or something. But you can't honestly expect people, who, on the word of DARPA, undertook to research and build something as difficult and complex as an autonomous vehicle, to just walk away because DARPA didn't consider limiting the number of entries before they announced the contest. Adapt the competition to suit the response..... and you'll be certain you didn't throw the best idea out arbitratily to cut down the field.
One question is why we haven't seen BitTorrent downloads of company-sponsored stuff; e.g. the new Matrix trailer comes out, and they throw up the tracker on the main site, and set up copies of it on 6 or 8 major hosting providers... paying to make certain people can get the trailer quickly. I would think that companies who are looking for big launch numbers might consider this as an option. Not to mention the free use you get from people who download it via BitTorrent and then leave it open for others to download from them. I just am surprised we haven't seen any of this yet.
Not interviewer. InterviewerS. As in the large group of anti-SCO protesters outside of the SCO building in Lindon. That's why it seems kind of disjointed and subject-changey, and why there's lots of interruptions both on Darl's part and the crowd's.
Bottom line tho, he doesn't say anything he hasn't already: "We are keeping our heads in the sand until this thing pays off."
Google for 'Flash Mob Toronto' and post to whatever board is organizing Flash Mobs..... I'm sure with a little hucksterism you could get several hundred people to show up there, stick their tongues out at Darl, and disperse......
Good question, because DirecTV is now being sued under the RICO act for that... ;-)
Hrm. Now I know that all of us Open Source advocates (read: anti-SCO) are not rich people, but with such a low share volume outstanding, why couldn't we just buy a controlling interest in SCO by setting up a fund and taking donations? I mean, with 13.1m shares at 14.74 a share, to buy a 51% interest would be something like 98 million dollars. Probably less, considering that you don't need 51%. I would think that if all of the SlashDotters who really believe in this went on a week-long hunger strike and donated their food money to buying SCO, it'd not only make a statement, we'd own the company and could release the code on our own. Someone take up this and run with it, and let's show how powerful the Linux movement REALLY is!
Well what about glasses that pick up whatever spectrum of light this invisible ink uses? Then you can just look at the dealer's card and go 'oh, I can beat that no matter what' and win hand after hand.
Wait wait wait. I think the more important part of that formula was the result:
SCO = Nazis
Gotta love it.
Well with the advent of RF Tagging in bulk, why is it that the USPS hasn't considered simply putting a 10c RF tag into a stamp, and give it a serial number, and you can track it by simply pulsing an entire basket/box/crate of mail. I think that the move from bar-code sorting to rf tag sorting will be forthcoming soon... it would simply be that when the address is read, the rf tag is pulsed and the data is assigned to that rfid. Then your users can track their mail a'la fedex as it moves through the USPS system, and the parcels/letters/etc can be sorted by the crateload instead of singly by the barcode readers.
;-)
The funny thing is that this would be easily applicable to fedex as well. Barcodes are great, but rf tagging could allow for the active tracking of every parcel on company premises as well as in vehicles. Just set up your scanning systems to scan vehicles as they leave the yard and you'll get an accurate list of what packages went out; etc.
Come on FedEx, hire me and let me deploy this for you
-cheezus_es_lard
What it means for consumers is more choice and much cheaper PCs - such as the $1097 Terminator you can buy from Dick Smith's.
Boy, we need a Dick Smith's in the states. I could use a visit to a guy who could hammer out a 9 incher for me.... (just kidding) For those who don't know, Dick Smith's is like Australia's version of Fry's Electronics or Best Buy.
who's yo daddy?
In addition, just say 'it could be a terrorist honeypot, drawing credit card numbers and information for them to fund attacks on americans with' and they'll be all over it ;-)
Post it on Slashdot! ...err
But really, this seems to be a large-scale scam, not a single-user hack, and since they seem to be gleaning identity information, one would think the FBI would be interested, at least a little.
With the 42 volt alternator, it should be easy though: 3 phase alternator to create 42 volts, just pull off of one phase (14 volts) to supply the 12 volt power system, and use all three for the 36 volt system.
The problem with that is that it leaves us dependant on natural gas as our hydrogen source. Once again, perishable fuel that is in limited supply on our planet. The co-generating reactor eliminates dependancy on the fossil fuels, however it brings in a different ball of wax: nuclear fuels and the people that hate them.
Personally, I would be perfectly happy with nuclear power of the types that are being discussed today: small scale, small risk. Running 10 small reactors instead of 1 large light-water reactor means less centralized risk and so on. I could stand behind something like that alot easier than three mile island.
$0.02 deposited.
I have a real aversion to the idea of paying to send email of any type, so any method that is not in that vein is progress in my opinion.
Why market it AGAINST 802.11a in any case? Why not build dual-chipset a/g cards that do both?
Or you could take advantage of a growing trend and do an apartment-style multi-user DSS setup, where one location has a DSS dish and the signal is rebroadcast over coax. I lived in two apartments where this was offered (DSS reciever in my living room, coax to the wall, to the apartment mgmt complex, there was a signal amp + splitter and a reciever). Pretty simple setup. I would think you could do the same thing with some basic cable co. equipment.
The entire 'futuristic' view of nanotechnology is that nanotech will progress to the point of guided creation; e.g. input a design and they produce an item. With simple programming routines, the nanobots can be made to build more nanobots as needed. Once the processing capabilities of current processors have been utilized to allow 'fuzzy decision-making' by computers, e.g. provide an array of choices weighted against a set of inputs and allow the situation to dictate what the bot does, our ability to allow these bots to operate with less and less guidance will evolve. I cannot forsee that with the current understanding of nanotech, that this is where the world will end up. The concept promoted in Neal Stephenson's 'Diamond Age' may reflect a fairly accurate depiction; though possibly in a different manner, pure material will be supplied to the nanobots, and they will use it to construct items. I honestly can see this becoming reality within my lifetime, based on our current research progression in the fields of nanotechnology and quantum physics, the latter being necessary to develop a better understanding of the weak and strong atomic forces and how to break/establish bonds and channel the energy to good use. In this fashion, the laws of nature can be used to modify the positioning of subatomic particles which will make up the products produced.
Just some rambling thought for your consideration!
-cheezus_es_lard
Yeah, right. So they're having problems ripping the commercially-released discs into their digiplay systems. All that we'll see happen is a separate release of non-cripped discs for radio airplay stamped 'NOT FOR RESALE, PROMO USE ONLY' or whatever, like they do with singles. I doubt this will even slow down the advance of the use of this technology.
So, we all agree that Spam is a problem. We all agree that legislating Spam out of existance isn't going to work, due to the international design of the Internet. So what needs to be developed is a backwards-compatible mail transfer protocol that authenticates the user to the sending server and forwards the message to the recieving server, who contacts the sending server back and verifies the user's identity.
I'm no software designer, but surely we could find some concept for migrating off of SMTP and POP and to a better, more secure protocol.
Other thoughts?
-cheezus_es_lard