Also, this could become an excellent place for FreeDB/Gracenote type services. Once default schemas are agreed upon by general usage, this thing could really take off for this type of data.
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I know these organizations are not the UN, but they are international organizations that are dominated by politics and are not accountable to anyone.
The IOC. Highly corrupt and not free speech friendly. You have to bribe them to get the olympics (Salt Lake City, anyone). They own the super trademark "olympic" and any derived term. They attempted to get ownership of words like "summer" and "games" around the time of Summer Games in London (oops, can I say that?)
The WTO. Likely in interfere in the economies of sovereign states. One example is their trying, after centuries of use, to re-claim common words as region names and limit their use in trade. For example, trying to say you can't sell cheese labeled "cheddar cheese" unless it comes from Cheddar, England.
The EU WRT Airbus. Airbus has received countless government subsidies to build, from scratch, a competitor to Boeing. Now that Airbus is the largest airplane manufacturer in the world, you'd think the government subsidies would stop, (or at least be reduced) right?
Can you imagine what an organization like the above could do to the internet?
Excuse me while I shamelessly try to attach myself to work that I can take no credit for.
Professor Kazerooni was my Masters Advisor while at Berkeley in 96-97. His lab is filled with completed and partially completed robotic mechanisms. He and his students have been working on things like this for years. Just to give you an idea of the advancements, check out the arms and legs of his Electric Power Extender. These things are a lot closer to any Mech than the BLEEX. Then again, these things were attached to several Pentium era PCs and several LARGE wall mounted power racks. The reduction in size is remarkable. Imagine walking into the lab and seeing these big, shiny, robotic legs hanging in the middle of the room for the first time. It is a very cool "oooh" and "ahh" experience.
I'm a little disappointed that the project I and others worked on is not on his main page. Oh well.
Stealing the reserve copies of required reading material. This is accomplished by checking out the envelope of material and returning the envelope with the papers inside replaced with junk paper from the copier. The situation can be further confused by returning the envelope to the librarian claiming that the information was already stolen.
Mining temp files off lab computers and posting the content to class bulletin boards so the original author gets nailed for plagiarism.
Sabotaging unattended lab experiments.
The rest of my examples are cheating examples like removing/inserting/editing pages in blue books for regrades, and the old "I turned my test in and YOU lost it" trick. I know one person who has her TAs copy every page of every blue book before returning to students to catch modified blue book type of cheat.
Don't know about the rest of you, but I wouldn't trust lecture notes, assignments, data, or other documents related to MY grade to a P2P system where others could change the data.
I am in competition with other students for grades on a curve. While I would never do anything sabotage another student, I have college faculty in the family and YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE what some students will do to get a leg up.
If a document I needed was available from both a server and the P2P network, my copy is coming from the server.
Mailing to yourself does not hold up in court as a substitute for a notary. You could always mail yourself an empty, unsealed envelope then fill it with documents at a later date.
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Seriously, how long do you think this will take?
Also, this could become an excellent place for FreeDB/Gracenote type services. Once default schemas are agreed upon by general usage, this thing could really take off for this type of data.
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I know these organizations are not the UN, but they are international organizations that are dominated by politics and are not accountable to anyone.
The IOC. Highly corrupt and not free speech friendly. You have to bribe them to get the olympics (Salt Lake City, anyone). They own the super trademark "olympic" and any derived term. They attempted to get ownership of words like "summer" and "games" around the time of Summer Games in London (oops, can I say that?)
The WTO. Likely in interfere in the economies of sovereign states. One example is their trying, after centuries of use, to re-claim common words as region names and limit their use in trade. For example, trying to say you can't sell cheese labeled "cheddar cheese" unless it comes from Cheddar, England.
The EU WRT Airbus. Airbus has received countless government subsidies to build, from scratch, a competitor to Boeing. Now that Airbus is the largest airplane manufacturer in the world, you'd think the government subsidies would stop, (or at least be reduced) right?
Can you imagine what an organization like the above could do to the internet?
Excuse me while I shamelessly try to attach myself to work that I can take no credit for.
Professor Kazerooni was my Masters Advisor while at Berkeley in 96-97. His lab is filled with completed and partially completed robotic mechanisms. He and his students have been working on things like this for years. Just to give you an idea of the advancements, check out the arms and legs of his Electric Power Extender. These things are a lot closer to any Mech than the BLEEX. Then again, these things were attached to several Pentium era PCs and several LARGE wall mounted power racks. The reduction in size is remarkable. Imagine walking into the lab and seeing these big, shiny, robotic legs hanging in the middle of the room for the first time. It is a very cool "oooh" and "ahh" experience.
I'm a little disappointed that the project I and others worked on is not on his main page. Oh well.
Yeah I got a few.
Stealing the reserve copies of required reading material. This is accomplished by checking out the envelope of material and returning the envelope with the papers inside replaced with junk paper from the copier. The situation can be further confused by returning the envelope to the librarian claiming that the information was already stolen.
Mining temp files off lab computers and posting the content to class bulletin boards so the original author gets nailed for plagiarism.
Sabotaging unattended lab experiments.
The rest of my examples are cheating examples like removing/inserting/editing pages in blue books for regrades, and the old "I turned my test in and YOU lost it" trick. I know one person who has her TAs copy every page of every blue book before returning to students to catch modified blue book type of cheat.
Don't know about the rest of you, but I wouldn't trust lecture notes, assignments, data, or other documents related to MY grade to a P2P system where others could change the data. I am in competition with other students for grades on a curve. While I would never do anything sabotage another student, I have college faculty in the family and YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE what some students will do to get a leg up. If a document I needed was available from both a server and the P2P network, my copy is coming from the server.
Preface: IANAL
Mailing to yourself does not hold up in court as a substitute for a notary. You could always mail yourself an empty, unsealed envelope then fill it with documents at a later date.
Document everything and get it notarized.