I'm throwing in my support for the mail client, too. The Netscape 6 browser didn't have support for S/MIME, and I have a digital ID, so that one was out of the question. For that reason (among others), I didn't stuck with NS4 for mail, but not browsing.
Since Netscape 7 has digital ID support, I'm back with the top of the line Netscape...
could the generated voltage damage the display parts?
It's doubtful. My guess is that the materials in the display would be damaged by being irradiated/overheated by the sun itself before being damaged by the generated current. (Generally, current is the more important factor in destroying parts)
In other words, you would probably have to exercise the same degree of caution that you would with any other electronic equipment.
ex: you turn off you oled monitor and the sunlight
overtime kills the powersupply for the monitor
Monitoring circuitry (like that in cell phone batteries) could easily prevent overcharging.
Though the author quoted the "two-way operation" part of the article, the important thing here is not so much the two-way operation of organic LEDs, but that we have a different technology which serves a similar function.
The organic LED is to the LED what the solid state transistor was to the vacuum tube. The technologies are different, but the function is the same. I'm not claiming that the OLED will completely replace the semiconductor LED, but it does have potential in several areas.
You'll remember that the superpower US government tried to bribe all those Latin American countries away from Communism (O.S./free software) during the Cold War. There's no proof that they were particularly successful, but they did lead those countries right into the hands of military dictators like Noriega and his army (Bill Gates and lawyers)
How about a central server for moderation? It can't stop the peering and doesn't know what is being shared or by who. But it gives out secure (ie public key) certificates to any client that logs on, and then any client can then rate another server anonymously.
I wrote something about this at the bottom of another story, but it was WAY at the bottom, so no one read my comments.
You have to remember that generating certs is a very cpu-intensive process and is probably not too scalable. Therefore, I think you have to generate the certs only during the signup process.
However, the user IDs would be loosely (or not at all) tied to physical identities. This gives anonymity while minimizing resources needed (and risk of DoS attacks).
Also remember that the entire point of the central server is to act as a trusted third party. That means it should authorize "moderators" and assign authority to p2p users. If they go down in a legal battle, it would be possible to do a Ben Kenobi and live on. That is, they can give their authority to someone else so that the network does not die. Otherwise we could use the web-of-trust model and generate our own certificates which we sign for each other. Though IANAL, it may be possible to arrange the role of this server so that it won't get into Napster-trouble and get shut down.
Perhaps a Karma or feedback system might be able to weed out the RIAA red herrings. It'd work kinda like/., but the trick would be to make it just anonymous enough to circumvent legal trouble, but accountable enough to prevent abuse.
Just as in karma systems, saboteurs with bad karma would not be able to bring down the karma of "law abiding" p2p users very much. Using a system of digital IDs will prevent the RIAA from casting massive spells of negative karma on p2p users.
The service (e.g. Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.) would act as a trusted third party and handle identity issues. The identities establish you as a registered user, but should not keep track of what you download. (Perhaps Kazaa is a bad example for not tracking you!) The service would issue each user a digital ID, and keeps a database that links usernames (me@kazaa.com) to digital IDs. This would not be absolutely critical, but it might help prevent sabotage.
The digital IDs (and a smart registration system) keep a person from switching screen names to evade bad karma.
There are a number of nonrepudiation schemes that would allow you to prevent the RIAA from falsely giving other users bad karma, and these would come in handy to prevent attacks like that.
Businesses and the government don't realize how much long-term savings they could have if they abolished coin currency altogether, and yet our government rushes to put forth *new* coinage, on the thin hopes that they might get enough interest from collectors and whatnot.
The govt is not just introducing new coinage; it is attempting to phase out the printed one dollar bill. Coins last many times longer than printed bills (with somewhat similar production cost), and are thus cheaper to maintain. So in fact, the government is saving money by introducing new coinage.
I would bet that most state DPS or DMVs do allow local police depts to access the database. My guess is that if you live in the United States, there is a good chance that your state does this, too. I know for a fact that in Texas, police depts have access to the DPS database.
It only makes sense; that's probably the entire purpose of having a statewide database. Why else would they gather your fingerprints? Perhaps you think they are using them for "direct marketing?"
I suppose that if the air were super-viscous, then maybe this could be true... Maybe it's all the tension in the air. But oh well. Gotta give 'em a little leeway here.
The thing that I found implausible in that scene wasn't so much the physics, but how when Green Goblin appeared, that the cop yelled "Code Three! Code Three!"
Is there really a 10-code for something like that happening?
Plus, let's face it, Kirsten Dunst has it all over realistic physics, any day of the week.
If Denise Richards can pull off being a "physicist", why can't Kirsten Dunst?
TightVNC is better/faster/tighter than plain jane VNC.
I'm fortunate enough to be on a very fast network, with a 1 GHz computer acting as VNC server, and I've noticed that turning on additional TightVNC compression algorithms, like jpeg, actually make VNC run slower.
So in a situation like mine, TightVNC doesn't trump VNC by very much.
Yes, perhaps some of the models are overpriced. However, in some cases you also get what you pay for in better color sensors and truer color management. Take, for example, the color sensors mentioned in a slashdot article.
While this is definitely not news to anyone in the/. crowd, you have to step back into the real world some time and realize that most people have never heard of IRC. For the general public, this isn't breaking news, but rather a CNN lesson in computer literacy.
Yes, it's somewhat alarmist in emphasizing the illegal activities of IRC, but then again, isn't most of what goes on on IRC probably illegal in some form or another?
Slashdot Mirror
It would be interesting to be able to take your AI snapshot from a month ago and play against it, and see if you've improved.
I'm throwing in my support for the mail client, too. The Netscape 6 browser didn't have support for S/MIME, and I have a digital ID, so that one was out of the question. For that reason (among others), I didn't stuck with NS4 for mail, but not browsing. Since Netscape 7 has digital ID support, I'm back with the top of the line Netscape...
I have found this to be true for many speakers, especially "morale boosters," thus proving that Moore's Law is business mumbo jumbo.
In a seminar I once attended, it got so bad that I started making bets on how many times the windbags on the stage would each mention Moore's Law.
Perhaps the real explanation for this that the caffeine produced insomniac mice who get no sun.
That sounds like something I said yesterday...
I'm surprised CNN didn't use that same Asteroid Impact image that they've used on almost every "near miss" asteroid story...
Like here
here
here
here
here
and even here
Don't you want to have your own personal Bernard?
user: qwerty pass: qwerty
I think they both go to the same server; it's just a matter of a coin toss whether you get 403'd or you actually get content.
Why DoS when you can Slashdot 'em?
We'll make it an international event, where we make August 1, 2002 at 10:00 PM CDT the Repeatedly-visit-the-RIAA-website Day.
I second that. UltraEdit
In other words, you would probably have to exercise the same degree of caution that you would with any other electronic equipment.
Monitoring circuitry (like that in cell phone batteries) could easily prevent overcharging.Though the author quoted the "two-way operation" part of the article, the important thing here is not so much the two-way operation of organic LEDs, but that we have a different technology which serves a similar function.
The organic LED is to the LED what the solid state transistor was to the vacuum tube. The technologies are different, but the function is the same. I'm not claiming that the OLED will completely replace the semiconductor LED, but it does have potential in several areas.
An Interesting Parallel to the Cold War:
You'll remember that the superpower US government tried to bribe all those Latin American countries away from Communism (O.S./free software) during the Cold War. There's no proof that they were particularly successful, but they did lead those countries right into the hands of military dictators like Noriega and his army (Bill Gates and lawyers)
Maybe this time communism will win.
Would bunny-hopping be considered "Academic Dishonesty?"
If it is, I hope they don't have to vote you out of the class.
I wrote something about this at the bottom of another story, but it was WAY at the bottom, so no one read my comments.
You have to remember that generating certs is a very cpu-intensive process and is probably not too scalable. Therefore, I think you have to generate the certs only during the signup process.
However, the user IDs would be loosely (or not at all) tied to physical identities. This gives anonymity while minimizing resources needed (and risk of DoS attacks).
Also remember that the entire point of the central server is to act as a trusted third party. That means it should authorize "moderators" and assign authority to p2p users. If they go down in a legal battle, it would be possible to do a Ben Kenobi and live on. That is, they can give their authority to someone else so that the network does not die. Otherwise we could use the web-of-trust model and generate our own certificates which we sign for each other. Though IANAL, it may be possible to arrange the role of this server so that it won't get into Napster-trouble and get shut down.
Perhaps a Karma or feedback system might be able to weed out the RIAA red herrings. It'd work kinda like /., but the trick would be to make it just anonymous enough to circumvent legal trouble, but accountable enough to prevent abuse.
Just as in karma systems, saboteurs with bad karma would not be able to bring down the karma of "law abiding" p2p users very much. Using a system of digital IDs will prevent the RIAA from casting massive spells of negative karma on p2p users.
The service (e.g. Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.) would act as a trusted third party and handle identity issues. The identities establish you as a registered user, but should not keep track of what you download. (Perhaps Kazaa is a bad example for not tracking you!)
The service would issue each user a digital ID, and keeps a database that links usernames (me@kazaa.com) to digital IDs. This would not be absolutely critical, but it might help prevent sabotage.
The digital IDs (and a smart registration system) keep a person from switching screen names to evade bad karma.
There are a number of nonrepudiation schemes that would allow you to prevent the RIAA from falsely giving other users bad karma, and these would come in handy to prevent attacks like that.
http://standards.ieee.org/faqs/stdsbdFAQ.html#c3
Let's see your aimbot save you now...
It only makes sense; that's probably the entire purpose of having a statewide database. Why else would they gather your fingerprints? Perhaps you think they are using them for "direct marketing?"
I suppose that if the air were super-viscous, then maybe this could be true... Maybe it's all the tension in the air. But oh well. Gotta give 'em a little leeway here.
The thing that I found implausible in that scene wasn't so much the physics, but how when Green Goblin appeared, that the cop yelled "Code Three! Code Three!"
Is there really a 10-code for something like that happening?
If Denise Richards can pull off being a "physicist", why can't Kirsten Dunst?Yes, perhaps some of the models are overpriced. However, in some cases you also get what you pay for in better color sensors and truer color management. Take, for example, the color sensors mentioned in a slashdot article.
While this is definitely not news to anyone in the /. crowd, you have to step back into the real world some time and realize that most people have never heard of IRC. For the general public, this isn't breaking news,
/.ers.
but rather a CNN lesson in computer literacy.
Yes, it's somewhat alarmist in emphasizing the illegal activities of IRC, but then again, isn't most of what goes on on IRC probably illegal in some form or another?
But of course sarcasm is always fun for