Can someone give me a crash course on the differences between 802.11a, 802.11b and this 802.11g (other than the theoretical top speeds). I've seen plenty of stuff about 802.11b, and now this story on 802.11g, but 802.11a seems to be largely ignored.
Yes, I remember taking AP computer science in high school, taught by a college grad who seemed to know his shit. Not much real-world experience, but he laid a lot of groundwork that later proved to be helpful. Towards the end of the year, an english teacher started sitting in on our classes. I found out that he intended to take over the course the following year. All I can say is I felt really sorry for next years' kids...
The parent proposes something that sounds a lot like the Grandmother Cell Hypothesis, which refers to a theory of memory in which individual cells are responsible for memories, so you would have one cell for your grandmother, one for your car, one for your mailbox, etc.
This hypothesis has been debunked and is used to teach students about the current theories of how the brain represents information, which involve patterns of responses across populations of neurons. These so-called "population codes" are evident in visual and somatosensory (and other) sensory systems, as well as motor systems. It is quite likely that the same mechanisms are involved in memory.
I'm not saying that it's impossible for the experience of birth to be stored somewhere in the brain, but we need to be careful about assuming that just because someone has an experience which is in some way similar to being born (gasping for breath comes to mind, from what I've read about 'rebirthing'), that they remember their actual birth. That they provide facts that are consistent with those obtained from relatives and hospital records is not very surprising--surely they might have been exposed to this information prior to the rebirthing experience.
I don't think you'll find any real neuroscientists that claim the brain remembers everything. For one thing, much sensory input is discarded before it even has a chance to contribute to our conscious experience. There is also no reason for our brains to record everything, especially if we cannot access it later. The best theories we have nowadays for how memory is stored in the brain would also not lend themselves to recording everything--there simply isn't enough space.
If you've never seen the car with your own eyes, then how do you know your "memory" is an accurate record of events? Please propose a mechanism for which these memories could be stored long before your brain is developmentally capable of doing so.
Much development of the visual system in particular is epigenetic, and takes place over the months after birth and requires environmental input (i.e. if you covered a newborn's eyes with patches for the first six months of its life, you'd end up with a blind or near-blind child).
There's plenty of neat stuff here on Earth, too. Like starving and homeless people. But of course, money we divert from military spending shouldn't go to them, it should go towards developing space travel because it's pretty neat!
I have had GeoCities sites pulled within hours by claiming copyright violation. My old site, detonate.net, had many original movie parodies which became popular enough that people would mirror them on GeoCities and AngelFire. Dig up the appropriate email address, and send a polite but firm message that you do not appreciate your copyrighted material being reproduced (hosted) without your permission. Hopefully there's enough evidence to prove your ownership of the material, but chances are they won't check too thoroughly if the account has been dormant for long enough.
I don't know...I was just trying to address a lot of the misdirected bashing in the other comments. If Transmeta is trying to enter this market, there's no reason for them to engineer a 200MHz CPU when they can throw in one of their more powerful models. Obviously there will be a point at which their Crusoe can handle more than a StrongArm, which allows for more features or the addition of unanticipated ones.
Yeah, it's stupid to say that a for-profit company needs our support, but this thing is not meant to be your next desktop machine. Transmeta knows you can get a barebones x86 box for much less with far greater performance--they're not as stupid as many of you would like to believe. They're selling a development kit, i.e. for someone wanting to prototype, say, a stereo component or set-top box for resale.
I'm no expert either, but there is some amount of cacheing of the compiled PHP on the server end. There are also a few PHP accelerators that probably do the same thing.
Ok, then all I need to do as a fugitive is lay low and get new clothes at the thrift store every week. As an additional confound, I can donate all my clothes every few months just to make me harder to pin down.
You are stupid as hell. As soon as their stored hash doesn't match, it looks like you've been compromised, and if enough people get alarm bells going off, then it would be pretty obvious that the hash changed, not everyone's binaries. Sure, you could add new hashes for new binaries, but what are you going to call it?/bin/rootkit?
Fuckass.
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Then I imagine that as soon as someone changes a hash, many secure systems will indicate they've been comprimised, and the whole thing will be quite obvious to sort out.
If I found out my network admins were letting people hook personal boxes up to our private network without some kind of protection (i.e. not putting them on a subnet that is untrusted by our bastion firewall), I would fire them immediately.
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Can someone give me a crash course on the differences between 802.11a, 802.11b and this 802.11g (other than the theoretical top speeds). I've seen plenty of stuff about 802.11b, and now this story on 802.11g, but 802.11a seems to be largely ignored.
Probably modded as such because of your use of "bonez" and "skillz" as well as "HELLA".
Yes, I remember taking AP computer science in high school, taught by a college grad who seemed to know his shit. Not much real-world experience, but he laid a lot of groundwork that later proved to be helpful. Towards the end of the year, an english teacher started sitting in on our classes. I found out that he intended to take over the course the following year. All I can say is I felt really sorry for next years' kids...
This hypothesis has been debunked and is used to teach students about the current theories of how the brain represents information, which involve patterns of responses across populations of neurons. These so-called "population codes" are evident in visual and somatosensory (and other) sensory systems, as well as motor systems. It is quite likely that the same mechanisms are involved in memory.
I'm not saying that it's impossible for the experience of birth to be stored somewhere in the brain, but we need to be careful about assuming that just because someone has an experience which is in some way similar to being born (gasping for breath comes to mind, from what I've read about 'rebirthing'), that they remember their actual birth. That they provide facts that are consistent with those obtained from relatives and hospital records is not very surprising--surely they might have been exposed to this information prior to the rebirthing experience.
I don't think you'll find any real neuroscientists that claim the brain remembers everything. For one thing, much sensory input is discarded before it even has a chance to contribute to our conscious experience. There is also no reason for our brains to record everything, especially if we cannot access it later. The best theories we have nowadays for how memory is stored in the brain would also not lend themselves to recording everything--there simply isn't enough space.
Much development of the visual system in particular is epigenetic, and takes place over the months after birth and requires environmental input (i.e. if you covered a newborn's eyes with patches for the first six months of its life, you'd end up with a blind or near-blind child).
There's plenty of neat stuff here on Earth, too. Like starving and homeless people. But of course, money we divert from military spending shouldn't go to them, it should go towards developing space travel because it's pretty neat!
I started watching that, but I just couldn't finish. It was a pathetic attempt at a broadcast style those guys just aren't suited for.
Mod parent up. The only problem I can see in this proposal is appointing gurus for computer-related fields, since we're all experts here ;-)
Are you high or just incredibly stupid?
Those pages are just as useless; read them. They amount to maybe 4 pages each of printed material. Hardly a comprehensive porting guide.
Man, I'd hate to be your kids.
...but ours goes up to 11.
Last I checked, the internet was a tad bigger than 150GB.
Well, I'm already reliving the speed of that experience...
I have had GeoCities sites pulled within hours by claiming copyright violation. My old site, detonate.net, had many original movie parodies which became popular enough that people would mirror them on GeoCities and AngelFire. Dig up the appropriate email address, and send a polite but firm message that you do not appreciate your copyrighted material being reproduced (hosted) without your permission. Hopefully there's enough evidence to prove your ownership of the material, but chances are they won't check too thoroughly if the account has been dormant for long enough.
I don't know...I was just trying to address a lot of the misdirected bashing in the other comments. If Transmeta is trying to enter this market, there's no reason for them to engineer a 200MHz CPU when they can throw in one of their more powerful models. Obviously there will be a point at which their Crusoe can handle more than a StrongArm, which allows for more features or the addition of unanticipated ones.
Yeah, it's stupid to say that a for-profit company needs our support, but this thing is not meant to be your next desktop machine. Transmeta knows you can get a barebones x86 box for much less with far greater performance--they're not as stupid as many of you would like to believe. They're selling a development kit, i.e. for someone wanting to prototype, say, a stereo component or set-top box for resale.
I'm no expert either, but there is some amount of cacheing of the compiled PHP on the server end. There are also a few PHP accelerators that probably do the same thing.
When the revolution comes, I expect you'll be one of those standing in line to be up against the wall.
Ok, then all I need to do as a fugitive is lay low and get new clothes at the thrift store every week. As an additional confound, I can donate all my clothes every few months just to make me harder to pin down.
How about we learn to spell before we espouse our cynical ideologies?
Fuckass.
Then I imagine that as soon as someone changes a hash, many secure systems will indicate they've been comprimised, and the whole thing will be quite obvious to sort out.
If I found out my network admins were letting people hook personal boxes up to our private network without some kind of protection (i.e. not putting them on a subnet that is untrusted by our bastion firewall), I would fire them immediately.