audio is ok but text rules if you have a half decent screen.
I have a palm pilot 3e and a broadband connection. Has anyone else looked into automated downloading content onto the pda for later consumption [for me in bed as I am nodding off to sleep. I know too much information]
html to text should not be a problem with lynx, it is 'just' seamlessly tying all the pieces together.
[My 'podcasting' amounts to downloading IT Conversations to listen to at work, I have not quite managed the listen to talk audio and work yet.]
In that case, if you are against software patents, then you must be against any type of patents because it would not be fair to have a special exemption for one type of invention and not another.
I was at a talk by Richard Stallman, who suggested having a fluid law, one that applies to bodily fluids, water and petrol. It is up to the legislature to decide, and if they decide that software patent last for 3 years, that is the decision, that is the law.
In the EU the legislature have decided: software patents are not allowed. We are hoping that any backward steps, to make dubious software-like inventions covered by patents, will be blocked.
Is there a Linus watch somewhere so mere mortals can try learn from the master, by following his web contributions to forums and presentations and email lists?
The closest I know is: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel& w=2&r =1&s=Linus+Torvalds&q=a
A Richard Stallman watch would be good too.
An rss feed, or maybe just a microphone pinned to him, though the keyboard clicks would get annoying, maybe a video feed of his screen....
No joking matter, it is only a matter of time, even if it will be a distraction from the business of coding!
There must be a bittorent directory site project, which is all legal, and is packaged so that as one person gets shut down n more can open up their sites where n > 1.
Is there a limit to the number of bittorent directories. purely marketing I suppose but there will always be a top 5 sites to search, they cant sue everyone.
Actually just a web page with the current top bittorent directory sites would make the changeover as sites shut so much easier.
Om second thoughts the cheap laptops would be closer to psions wince machines that were/are almost laptop size. I would by a new 300 euro linux laptop nomater what the compromises were. X and a battery would be nice to have, but a text only cheap laptop that needed to be plugged in would be useful. A return to factory default (wiping the hard drive, bootstrap from rom) would make a useful de virus/malware tool.
Cheap and nasty but opened up computing to the masses.
A Mobile ZX81 with a screen. Dont expect many add ons to work, as long as it runs linux I reckon it is a winner, and version 2 will be the killer application that gets cheap hardware certified with linux, even if it uses ARM.
Look where it got them.[well some money for a start]
Seriously though all this is dual use stuff, where can we start to see visible signs of this stuff working?
Database companies shares go up.
Google indexes and cross references IRC and can search for patterns summarising a whole thread as pattern number 3 (reminds me of a joke about telling known jokes by number, but one has to tell it right) original patterns are brought to peoples attention as news, so they do not have to ever go to the chatrooms.
New patterns are so few that slashdot posts them for freshmen to analyse them. Sounds like a game we all could play, where are the new modes of conversation comming from and identifying them they could be spread quicker... flash talk rather than flashmob.
World Trade Center.. Actually the Freedom Fighters used everyday code words for their targets.
Actually is the problem with speach analysis not the sounds, but the context, if there was an up to date state of the IRC, analysing speech could get a whole lot better (maybe).
Recognising way of speach 'defects' so the computer/mobile phone could tell you why your girlfriend/wife hung up again.
Just searching, but must of AI is searching and the algoritms were worked out in the 60s, just technology (hardware) is catching up.
Just me throwing out half connected prose, because by the time I have thought it through properly noone will be reading the thread. sigh.
[I am secretly after more natural language research, purely so I can speak to women, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday and for the rest of my life....
I also have shares in database companies just in case all this stuff actually works, and I work in a database company on language [computer language admittedly] parsing tools.]
Ireland is pretty big in software, though we do not have five year programming degrees like in some CIS countries. Per head of population there are more commercial programmers in Ireland than in Ukraine, United States, Russia or India. Maybe not as high a percentage as the Silicon Valley area.
Ireland should be offshoring to other countries but it is not, I think low and intermediate software management are complete control freeks (compared even to programmers) and outsourcing would be forced upon them by higher management rather than on their own initiative.
I tried to drum up a little interest in outsourceing to Belarus, where my bride is from, plenty of interest from Belarus software companies who had previously done outsourcing work, zero interest from the Irish software industry.
This seems to be the way in literature and the social sciences. 'Hard' science with facts, evidence, repeatable experiment with few variables, and prediction of future outsomes seems to be free of it, journalism does not.
If there were bookies odds on each outcome there would be little bias, and/or a way to make a killing for those in the know.
The Government can keep all email from and to headers without a subpoena. I am not sure if they can keep the contents and only look at it years later when they get the subpoena, i.e. you are connected with someone who does something interesting, or maybe connected to someone who is connected to someone interesting.
It is only a matter of time.
[Is refering to 6 degrees of separation redundant. Well I am Irish, to be sure, to be sure.]
They probably have the storage but probably blog analysis software is catching up on their analysis tools.
I remember reading that people are using blog analysis to track language development, presumably including cross blog information spread, so doing that with emails if you have everybodies might be an interesting academic exercise and it would be nice to know what the state of the art is, classifies and unclassified, and nicer to know what is hard and will be hard for the next 20 years.
At what point the information becomes worthy of an AskSlahdot is another question, left as an exercise to the 0 readers.
And the problem is still not N complete, the more data there is the harder it is going to get, not being able to get wiretaps made the problem almost manageable. The right to silence was their luxury. At petabytes of data that is oh lots for every person on the planet.Lets all get with the careless talk.
I am being lazy the numbers are staggering, the data is way beyond for example phone company records. [Which are allegedly held for 3 years for security reasons. Gosh I feel so secure.]
The great sucking noise of the expense of many Petabyte cases has got to be visible somewhere outside classified media.
Like I care, I pay taxes in more of a bananna republic, well I do care a little, just want to persuade someone else to do the spade work, while it is not part of my job, at which point I will become a lacky like everyone else, probability of selling out 99.9 percent and rising.
That does mean I have not crossed the line and it makes me 0.1% questionble, good job I did not go for the security check for that non dual use war job back in 1993.
There is a story about the miners strike in England 1983-84, that the [fascist] state tried to have automated tape recorders to record any miners strike conversations, but everyone was talking about it then, and so the tapes ran out.
From the Article:
'The volume of information being seized for forensic analysis has mushroomed. It is not uncommon to see multiple terabytes of storage being examined. Agents said that some cases are approaching the petabyte range. Usually is because of emails and email attachments. Only with the development of better search techniques can the evidence be examined, as it is physically impossible to read every single email in many of these massive cases. [an error occurred while processing this directive]'
Sounds like a challenge to blow their storage capacity and search capacity, blow your Broadband upload and download limits, you know you want to, it is for a cause (the development of better search algoriths of course, or sedition, or both).
I reckon they store everything and look back at their logs when something crops up through less automated means.
Sounds like a PhD all to itself. Maybe to make it hard to tabulate the list one could divide the amount of 'terrorism' by the square of the power of the state, since power corrupts.
Top Eleven in no Particular Order:
China Iran United Kingdom U.S.A Columbia Russia Sri Lanka North Korea Pakistan France Israel
I am not sure is it easier to consider where there are 'freedom fighters' and pick the state involved, or pick where there are the most active 'intelligence' agencies.
For our purposes we can pick the one where it is easiest to hire a car.
Re:What police/intelligence agencies have learned.
on
Blackhat/Defcon Report
·
· Score: 1
The most important thing is that they will have billions to spend on database technology and what they are trying to do is impossible.
I work in a database company (in migration), All the bases are mine. MO HAHAHAHA
Put in another way:
They have learned that if you:
1/Have no priors that the 'Intelligence' agencies know of. 2/Do not care what happens afterwards. 3/Know a few like minded people 4/Know how to fly a plane
The world is your oyster.
4 is optional, even 3 is just a good thing to have so you are not written off as a one off crank.
Something like getting a group of people to hire death machines (cars) and start running over people throughout the biggests terrorist state.
Explain your issues to a carboard cut out of a programmer and 50% of the time you solve the problem and the other 50% of the time you give a much better and more concise explanation to the next real programmer you have to explain the err unintentional feature enhancement to.
I was going to write up a cardboardprogrammer.com site with a flowchart with 20 questions to ask about a bug to clarify your thoughts. [I suppose both linux and windows can have a REBOOT as the first directive and what was the difference between now and when it was last working as the second, are you using the latest version of the code as the third has anyone else been working on these files the fourth.. well you get the idea, [it is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I have never seen it the full flowchart] that was in the dotcom era, when even a tiny good small idea like this was in someones mind a possible next big thing].
Slashdot Mirror
audio is ok but text rules if you have a half decent screen.
I have a palm pilot 3e and a broadband connection. Has anyone else looked into automated downloading content onto the pda for later consumption [for me in bed as I am nodding off to sleep. I know too much information]
html to text should not be a problem with lynx, it is 'just' seamlessly tying all the pieces together.
[My 'podcasting' amounts to downloading IT Conversations to listen to at work, I have not quite managed the listen to talk audio and work yet.]
I think someone was up on charges in Belarus, I think they got fined, maybe I should search slashdot for a reference...
s ts _americ.html
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/19/belarus_bu
In that case, if you are against software patents, then you must be against any type of patents because it would not be fair to have a special exemption for one type of invention and not another.
I was at a talk by Richard Stallman, who suggested having a fluid law, one that applies to bodily fluids, water and petrol. It is up to the legislature to decide, and if they decide that software patent last for 3 years, that is the decision, that is the law.
In the EU the legislature have decided: software patents are not allowed. We are hoping that any backward steps, to make dubious software-like inventions covered by patents, will be blocked.
Thanks, are there any other forums, mailing lists and the like that Linus Torvalds or Richard Stalman contribute to?
t p://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?a=105701892400001&r= 1&w=2 [linux kernel list]
Besides:
http://www.realworldtech.com
and
ht
Maybe I am just too lazy to trawl through google or slashdot search but I have not seen this information pop up on my standard web graze...
Thank you for your time.
There is all this talk of foreign aid to North Korea? South Korea has been trying to help with economics based initiatives.
US gives $1 billion to Israel each year mostly military stuff.
I just wanted to call bull shit on the size of North Koreas foreign aid.
Just another leftie [except when boxing]
Is there a Linus watch somewhere so mere mortals can try learn from the master, by following his web contributions to forums and presentations and email lists?
& w=2&r =1&s=Linus+Torvalds&q=a
The closest I know is:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel
A Richard Stallman watch would be good too.
An rss feed, or maybe just a microphone pinned to him, though the keyboard clicks would get annoying, maybe a video feed of his screen....
No joking matter, it is only a matter of time, even if it will be a distraction from the business of coding!
There must be a bittorent directory site project, which is all legal, and is packaged so that as one person gets shut down n more can open up their sites where n > 1.
Is there a limit to the number of bittorent directories. purely marketing I suppose but there will always be a top 5 sites to search, they cant sue everyone.
Actually just a web page with the current top bittorent directory sites would make the changeover as sites shut so much easier.
Just my 2 euro cent.
Om second thoughts the cheap laptops would be closer to psions wince machines that were/are almost laptop size. I would by a new 300 euro linux laptop nomater what the compromises were. X and a battery would be nice to have, but a text only cheap laptop that needed to be plugged in would be useful. A return to factory default (wiping the hard drive, bootstrap from rom) would make a useful de virus/malware tool.
Cheap and nasty but opened up computing to the masses.
A Mobile ZX81 with a screen. Dont expect many add ons to work, as long as it runs linux I reckon it is a winner, and version 2 will be the killer application that gets cheap hardware certified with linux, even if it uses ARM.
[Allegedly]
Look where it got them.[well some money for a start]
Seriously though all this is dual use stuff, where can we start to see visible signs of this stuff working?
Database companies shares go up.
Google indexes and cross references IRC and can search for patterns summarising a whole thread as pattern number 3 (reminds me of a joke about telling known jokes by number, but one has to tell it right) original patterns are brought to peoples attention as news, so they do not have to ever go to the chatrooms.
New patterns are so few that slashdot posts them for freshmen to analyse them. Sounds like a game we all could play, where are the new modes of conversation comming from and identifying them they could be spread quicker... flash talk rather than flashmob.
World Trade Center..
Actually the Freedom Fighters used everyday code words for their targets.
Actually is the problem with speach analysis not the sounds, but the context, if there was an up to date state of the IRC, analysing speech could get a whole lot better (maybe).
Recognising way of speach 'defects' so the computer/mobile phone could tell you why your girlfriend/wife hung up again.
Just searching, but must of AI is searching and the algoritms were worked out in the 60s, just technology (hardware) is catching up.
Just me throwing out half connected prose, because by the time I have thought it through properly noone will be reading the thread. sigh.
The feds can legally get the to, from and subject headers from email, more requires a wiretap legal procedure, but that is never rejected.
Stenograph your porn video clips and put them on p2p, boost the feds per case database beyond a petabyte.
Hide in plain site:
We begin bombing in five minutes
[I am secretly after more natural language research, purely so I can speak to women, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but someday and for the rest of my life....
I also have shares in database companies just in case all this stuff actually works, and I work in a database company on language [computer language admittedly] parsing tools.]
Ireland is pretty big in software, though we do not have five year programming degrees like in some CIS countries. Per head of population there are more commercial programmers in Ireland than in Ukraine, United States, Russia or India. Maybe not as high a percentage as the Silicon Valley area.
Ireland should be offshoring to other countries but it is not, I think low and intermediate software management are complete control freeks (compared even to programmers) and outsourcing would be forced upon them by higher management rather than on their own initiative.
I tried to drum up a little interest in outsourceing to Belarus, where my bride is from, plenty of interest from Belarus software companies who had previously done outsourcing work, zero interest from the Irish software industry.
This seems to be the way in literature and the social sciences. 'Hard' science with facts, evidence, repeatable experiment with few variables, and prediction of future outsomes seems to be free of it, journalism does not.
If there were bookies odds on each outcome there would be little bias, and/or a way to make a killing for those in the know.
The Government can keep all email from and to headers without a subpoena. I am not sure if they can keep the contents and only look at it years later when they get the subpoena, i.e. you are connected with someone who does something interesting, or maybe connected to someone who is connected to someone interesting.
It is only a matter of time.
[Is refering to 6 degrees of separation redundant. Well I am Irish, to be sure, to be sure.]
They probably have the storage but probably blog analysis software is catching up on their analysis tools.
I remember reading that people are using blog analysis to track language development, presumably including cross blog information spread, so doing that with emails if you have everybodies might be an interesting academic exercise and it would be nice to know what the state of the art is, classifies and unclassified, and nicer to know what is hard and will be hard for the next 20 years.
At what point the information becomes worthy of an AskSlahdot is another question, left as an exercise to the 0 readers.
The Agenda of the nasty un right wing person
From a quick seach on google groups
details of how it is done
60 IBM 3390 Model 3 disks.
Disks
five StorageTek Powderhorn Automated Cartridge Systems. containing 6,000 tape cartridges.
tape library
And the problem is still not N complete, the more data there is the harder it is going to get, not being able to get wiretaps made the problem almost manageable. The right to silence was their luxury. At petabytes of data that is oh lots for every person on the planet.Lets all get with the careless talk.
I am being lazy the numbers are staggering, the data is way beyond for example phone company records.
[Which are allegedly held for 3 years for security reasons. Gosh I feel so secure.]
The
Challenge of Managing Petabytes of Storage
The great sucking noise of the expense of many Petabyte cases has got to be visible somewhere outside classified media.
Like I care, I pay taxes in more of a bananna republic, well I do care a little, just want to persuade someone else to do the spade work, while it is not part of my job, at which point I will become a lacky like everyone else, probability of selling out 99.9 percent and rising.
That does mean I have not crossed the line and it makes me 0.1% questionble, good job I did not go for the security check for that non dual use war job back in 1993.
There is a story about the miners strike in England 1983-84, that the [fascist] state tried to have automated tape recorders to record any miners strike conversations, but everyone was talking about it then, and so the tapes ran out.
From the Article:
'The volume of information being seized for forensic analysis has mushroomed. It is not uncommon to see multiple terabytes of storage being examined. Agents said that some cases are approaching the petabyte range. Usually is because of emails and email attachments. Only with the development of better search techniques can the evidence be examined, as it is physically impossible to read every single email in many of these massive cases. [an error occurred while processing this directive]'
Sounds like a challenge to blow their storage capacity and search capacity, blow your Broadband upload and download limits, you know you want to, it is for a cause (the development of better search algoriths of course, or sedition, or both).
I reckon they store everything and look back at their logs when something crops up through less automated means.
Sounds like a PhD all to itself. Maybe to make it hard to tabulate the list one could divide the amount of 'terrorism' by the square of the power of the state, since power corrupts.
Top Eleven in no Particular Order:
China
Iran
United Kingdom
U.S.A
Columbia
Russia
Sri Lanka
North Korea
Pakistan
France
Israel
I am not sure is it easier to consider where there are 'freedom fighters' and pick the state involved, or pick where there are the most active 'intelligence' agencies.
For our purposes we can pick the one where it is easiest to hire a car.
The most important thing is that they will have billions to spend on database technology and what they are trying to do is impossible.
I work in a database company (in migration), All the bases are mine. MO HAHAHAHA
Put in another way:
They have learned that if you:
1/Have no priors that the 'Intelligence' agencies know of.
2/Do not care what happens afterwards.
3/Know a few like minded people
4/Know how to fly a plane
The world is your oyster.
4 is optional, even 3 is just a good thing to have so you are not written off as a one off crank.
Something like getting a group of people to hire death machines (cars) and start running over people throughout the biggests terrorist state.
I was going to write up a cardboardprogrammer.com site with a flowchart with 20 questions to ask about a bug to clarify your thoughts. [I suppose both linux and windows can have a REBOOT as the first directive and what was the difference between now and when it was last working as the second, are you using the latest version of the code as the third has anyone else been working on these files the fourth.. well you get the idea, [it is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I have never seen it the full flowchart] that was in the dotcom era, when even a tiny good small idea like this was in someones mind a possible next big thing].
http://www.colinux.org/
Call me self centered and bitter, with too many un illuminating visits to the shrink. You may also say I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one. etc.
Hey what the heck, I may even read the article when I get home from work.
Simple emacs spreadsheet, ant and maven
integration caught my eye.