Barcodes are not read that way. Laser scanners sweep a beam across the barcode, and read the changes in reflected intensity serially.
Handheld barcode wands use a LED, and read the data, using algorithms to adapt to the changing speed at which the user passes over the barcode.
Technologically, an optical mouse is _very_ similar to a barcode wand. The only limitation would be the mouse firmware. Optical mice don't send the raw data back to the PC, just the decoded data. You would need to modify the mouse's firmware to have it be capable of decoding barcodes.
Ten years ago, Hurricane Andrew destroyed my mom's house. By sheer luck, the china cabinet where we stored all the family photos survived, and we were able to rescue almost all of the photos. We decided then to start digitizing them. Kodak Photo CDs had just started becoming prevalent, so we sent our photos off to a local PhotoCD preparer, who created TWO copies of each CD. Now, my mom keeps one and so do I. Now that we are both taking digital pictures, we send each other CDs occasionally, with our latest pictures. We also do the same with other family members photos. As we come across old family photos, I scan them, and touch them up.
Most people don't think about losing things like this, but as anyone who has been through a disaster such as this can tell you, the only things that matter in a disaster are saving life, and family memories that can't be replaced. Now that we have the family photos "backed-up" to other family members, that is one less worry during hurricane season.... and that is probably the best reason to put your photos on digital media.
Why not just use the WiFi Logo? All these open, closed circles, ssids etc, is too confusing.
(WiFi Logo Here) www.domain.com/wifi
If you saw this on the side of a building, you should have enough to go on. If that site wants you to use their system, then the URL would point to a page telling you everything you need to know to share their system.
The security guards are not out to get you. They are there to protect you, and the assets of those who employ them.
Don't like going through security? Then quit.
Become a freelancer, working for yourself at home. I hear that you can make $50K just for reading websites; or licking envelopes; maybe its making necklaces from beads...
Since when has Christianity been the solution to anything? Please name ONE instance where widespread conversion to or adherence of Christianity actual solved a societies ills?
The 1950's, which you seem to be so nostalgic for, were a time in America when you had to be White, Heterosexual, Male and Protestant to have any chance of achieving opportunity in this country. The rest of us wouldn't have a chance at equality under the regime you want to return to.
The ONLY reason why you don't see these sort of shootings in the small parochial schools is because they are small, NOT because they are parochial.
I knew I'd find a use for all of those Publix plastic grocery bags I've been hoarding in the pantry.
A few gallons of liquid hydrogen, and I'll have those grocery bags setup as a beowolf cluster rendering pictures of Natalie Portman, floating nude in a sea of hot grits in no time.
By making an explicit request that the programming community find weaknesses in the SDMI
protocol, they have relinquished most of their rights under DMCA.
They have granted us explicit permission to reverse-engineer their code, uncover their "Intellectual Property", and release that information to the public.
A few years from now when they try to use DMCA to protect their protocol, they are going to find it offers them no relief.
It is a basic legal principle that you cannot invite someone to enter your house and take what they like, and then turn around and have them charged with trespassing and burglary. The SDMI consortium has given us the keys to their house, and an open invitation to take the good silverware.
If you really want to see how far this technology can converge, take a look at Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict. They have a device that takes Star Trek's Communicator and tricorder, as well as GPS and video phones and combines them into something they call a "Global" This video clip shows a Global about 4 seconds into the clip. This is what I really want to have in my pocket...
I can offer my personal experiences as a network administrator on a college campus. Several years ago, I was the network admin for the Admissions Office for a local University. For years, all of the administrative computing had taken place on an IBM SNA network, with the academic computing on a separate TCP/IP network. When the administration switched from terminals to PCs, they decided to phase out SNA and replace it with TCP/IP, using Telnet and TN3270 for mainframe terminal sessions. I tried (and tried, and tried) to convince the campus admins of the dangers of using unsecured protocols. I even gave them a demo with a shareware DOS based packet sniffer, showing them how I could catch anyone's username and password as they were typed across the network. Cost issues won out. At this campus, at this very moment, any student with knowledge of the field could get the username and password for anyone in the Administration. Changing grades, modifying records, reaping general havoc, all within easy grasp.
The problem is not just that this is a security issue, but that providing what amounts to unrestricted access to academic records is a violation of the Buckley Amendment. This school, and countless others are putting the academic records of their students at risk. Students should really be the most vocal critics of these schools, demanding that their academic records be afforded the protection that they deserve, and that the law requires.
Similar, but the big advance would be to have a dstributed collection of databases and telescopes. The system would automatically select the best telescope to use for any given observation. You just tell the system what you want to see, and it gets it for you...
Almost ten years ago, I had a similar idea, which I called SkyTelNet. SkyTelNet was to have a network of telescopes, combined with a distributed network of databases. A person would be able to define an "observation query" which would use standard astronomic terms to define the observational data that the user is looking for. The system would allow you to specify observations both in the past and the future. For past observations, the system would search its collective databases, finding observations that were the best match. For future observations, the system would assign the observational task to an automated telescope suited for that particular observation.
The system would also queue observations, keeping copies of the observations at multiple locations. For future observations, the system would be smart enough to match multiple observation queries into a single observation task. A thousand people wanting to watch a particular astronomic event might be able to have a single telescope take one observation, and then "slice and dice" it to provide each of them with exactly what they were looking for.
I had wanted to do this as a senior project in college, but the University of Miami (Florida) is not strong on astronomy, and I had a hard enough time getting anyone to understand my idea, and no luck finding a professor to oversee the project (sigh). I am glad to see this though; I guess all great ideas find a way into the light. If anyone at Microsoft, or anyone else wants to know more about my ideas, I can send you the early drafts describing it.
(For anyone doubting my chronology, just consult the list of well known ports, SKYTELNET has been on the list for about ten years now...)
In the manual for my DVD player, it clearly states that CD-R's should not be used; the output levels of the laser in the DVD player are capable of damaging CD-R's.
If you want to test this, I would take a music CD-R that you are willing to lose, and put it into your DVD on continuous play.
Check it out after a few hours/days, and see how much damage has been done.
Overall, I think the gold layer CD-R's have better durability. Good luck finding them these days though...
These first generation VR decks are simply image projection on flat surfaces. No 3D objects being created or used in the scene.
I think Nanobots would be the perfect solution for creating 3D interactive environments.
Create nanobots about a millimeter in diameter. Make their external surfaces LCD panels, and give them the ability to crawl amongst each other. Nothing fancy, just sort of the nano version of cheerleaders forming a pyramid. That would be enough sophistication to build tables, chairs, and basic objects in a holodeck. As the tech advances, the nanobots get smaller, the objects they create more detailed and lifelike, and before you know it, Sherlock Holmes and Minuet are making their debuts on holodecks around the world.
P.S. - The book _Star Trek: Strange New Worlds I_ has a great short story that explains how Minuet came into existence...
I use Microsoft SMS on some servers, and VNC on others. I can fully remote any server I am responsible for from anywhere I can find a phone jack. While Windows does not have this capability built in (and it should), it is still doable, and with VNC its even doable for free.
Everyone talks about wearables as though its just another thing you are going to have to carry with you wherever you go. I don't see it this way at all. I already carry a cell phone, a pager, a PDA, and a laptop with me wherever I go. With the backpack it all fits in, thats 10kg of junk that follows me like a cyberaddiction. Imagine replacing ALL of that with a simple, 2kg wearable; replacing all of those things with one device (with GPS and TV/Radio thrown in) would be incredible...
Slashdot Mirror
WRONG.
Barcodes are not read that way. Laser scanners sweep a beam across the barcode, and read the changes in reflected intensity serially.
Handheld barcode wands use a LED, and read the data, using algorithms to adapt to the changing speed at which the user passes over the barcode.
Technologically, an optical mouse is _very_ similar to a barcode wand. The only limitation would be the mouse firmware. Optical mice don't send the raw data back to the PC, just the decoded data. You would need to modify the mouse's firmware to have it be capable of decoding barcodes.
Ten years ago, Hurricane Andrew destroyed my mom's house. By sheer luck, the china cabinet where we stored all the family photos survived, and we were able to rescue almost all of the photos. We decided then to start digitizing them. Kodak Photo CDs had just started becoming prevalent, so we sent our photos off to a local PhotoCD preparer, who created TWO copies of each CD. Now, my mom keeps one and so do I. Now that we are both taking digital pictures, we send each other CDs occasionally, with our latest pictures. We also do the same with other family members photos. As we come across old family photos, I scan them, and touch them up. Most people don't think about losing things like this, but as anyone who has been through a disaster such as this can tell you, the only things that matter in a disaster are saving life, and family memories that can't be replaced. Now that we have the family photos "backed-up" to other family members, that is one less worry during hurricane season. ... and that is probably the best reason to put your photos on digital media.
(WiFi Logo Here)
www.domain.com/wifi
If you saw this on the side of a building, you should have enough to go on. If that site wants you to use their system, then the URL would point to a page telling you everything you need to know to share their system.
I have been eating miscellaneous pieces of flesh laying around the lab for years now...
Igor - hand me that thing that looks like a chicken wing!
The security guards are not out to get you. They are there to protect you, and the assets of those who employ them.
Don't like going through security? Then quit.
Become a freelancer, working for yourself at home. I hear that you can make $50K just for reading websites; or licking envelopes; maybe its making necklaces from beads...
It would have been nice if you had included a few links to these great sounding tools...
Great website. Thanks for posting it.
ReadyFire
That way, they can't bitch that you included their three precious letters...
(and if you put those letters in the middle, it reminds us of the last three words these weasily lawyers who abuse IP law should ever hear J/K ... )
Since when has Christianity been the solution to anything? Please name ONE instance where widespread conversion to or adherence of Christianity actual solved a societies ills?
The 1950's, which you seem to be so nostalgic for, were a time in America when you had to be White, Heterosexual, Male and Protestant to have any chance of achieving opportunity in this country. The rest of us wouldn't have a chance at equality under the regime you want to return to.
The ONLY reason why you don't see these sort of shootings in the small parochial schools is because they are small, NOT because they are parochial.
I knew I'd find a use for all of those Publix plastic grocery bags I've been hoarding in the pantry.
A few gallons of liquid hydrogen, and I'll have those grocery bags setup as a beowolf cluster rendering pictures of Natalie Portman, floating nude in a sea of hot grits in no time.
Do you monkey-porn lovers really want your neighbors to have even the slightest chance of seeing what you keep on your hard drive?
30 GB of "Shopping the web for goat.cx " and you'd be lucky if they didn't weld your front door shut, with you trapped inside ...
By making an explicit request that the programming community find weaknesses in the SDMI
protocol, they have relinquished most of their rights under DMCA.
They have granted us explicit permission to reverse-engineer their code, uncover their "Intellectual Property", and release that information to the public.
A few years from now when they try to use DMCA to protect their protocol, they are going to find it offers them no relief.
It is a basic legal principle that you cannot invite someone to enter your house and take what they like, and then turn around and have them charged with trespassing and burglary. The SDMI consortium has given us the keys to their house, and an open invitation to take the good silverware.
I say we take them up on it...
TOWM
If you really want to see how far this technology can converge, take a look at Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict. They have a device that takes Star Trek's Communicator and tricorder, as well as GPS and video phones and combines them into something they call a "Global" This video clip shows a Global about 4 seconds into the clip. This is what I really want to have in my pocket...
I can offer my personal experiences as a network administrator on a college campus. Several years ago, I was the network admin for the Admissions Office for a local University. For years, all of the administrative computing had taken place on an IBM SNA network, with the academic computing on a separate TCP/IP network. When the administration switched from terminals to PCs, they decided to phase out SNA and replace it with TCP/IP, using Telnet and TN3270 for mainframe terminal sessions. I tried (and tried, and tried) to convince the campus admins of the dangers of using unsecured protocols. I even gave them a demo with a shareware DOS based packet sniffer, showing them how I could catch anyone's username and password as they were typed across the network. Cost issues won out. At this campus, at this very moment, any student with knowledge of the field could get the username and password for anyone in the Administration. Changing grades, modifying records, reaping general havoc, all within easy grasp.
The problem is not just that this is a security issue, but that providing what amounts to unrestricted access to academic records is a violation of the Buckley Amendment. This school, and countless others are putting the academic records of their students at risk. Students should really be the most vocal critics of these schools, demanding that their academic records be afforded the protection that they deserve, and that the law requires.
I can see the VBSCRIPT now:
Sub ILOVEYOU()
Print("Hello World, I Love You!!!")
Set Me = LittleNanoWarrior
Me.Locate(Human(atRandom))
Me.EnterBody(Human)
Me.Moveto(Human.Brain)
Me.NeuronClipper.Activate
Do
Me.ClipNeurons()
Until Human = Nothing
Print("Goodbye World.")
ILOVEYOU()
End Sub
Similar, but the big advance would be to have a dstributed collection of databases and telescopes. The system would automatically select the best telescope to use for any given observation. You just tell the system what you want to see, and it gets it for you...
Almost ten years ago, I had a similar idea, which I called SkyTelNet. SkyTelNet was to have a network of telescopes, combined with a distributed network of databases. A person would be able to define an "observation query" which would use standard astronomic terms to define the observational data that the user is looking for. The system would allow you to specify observations both in the past and the future. For past observations, the system would search its collective databases, finding observations that were the best match. For future observations, the system would assign the observational task to an automated telescope suited for that particular observation.
The system would also queue observations, keeping copies of the observations at multiple locations. For future observations, the system would be smart enough to match multiple observation queries into a single observation task. A thousand people wanting to watch a particular astronomic event might be able to have a single telescope take one observation, and then "slice and dice" it to provide each of them with exactly what they were looking for.
I had wanted to do this as a senior project in college, but the University of Miami (Florida) is not strong on astronomy, and I had a hard enough time getting anyone to understand my idea, and no luck finding a professor to oversee the project (sigh). I am glad to see this though; I guess all great ideas find a way into the light. If anyone at Microsoft, or anyone else wants to know more about my ideas, I can send you the early drafts describing it.
(For anyone doubting my chronology, just consult the list of well known ports, SKYTELNET has been on the list for about ten years now...)
In the manual for my DVD player, it clearly
states that CD-R's should not be used;
the output levels of the laser in the DVD
player are capable of damaging CD-R's.
If you want to test this, I would take a
music CD-R that you are willing to lose,
and put it into your DVD on continuous play.
Check it out after a few hours/days, and see
how much damage has been done.
Overall, I think the gold layer CD-R's have
better durability. Good luck finding them
these days though...
These first generation VR decks are simply image projection on flat surfaces. No 3D objects being created or used in the scene.
I think Nanobots would be the perfect solution for creating 3D interactive environments.
Create nanobots about a millimeter in diameter. Make their external surfaces LCD panels, and give them the ability to crawl amongst each other. Nothing fancy, just sort of the nano version of cheerleaders forming a pyramid. That would be enough sophistication to build tables, chairs, and basic objects in a holodeck. As the tech advances, the nanobots get smaller, the objects they create more detailed and lifelike, and before you know it, Sherlock Holmes and Minuet are making their debuts on holodecks around the world.
P.S. - The book _Star Trek: Strange New Worlds I_ has a great short story that explains how Minuet came into existence...
I use Microsoft SMS on some servers, and VNC on others. I can fully remote any server I am responsible for from anywhere I can find a phone jack. While Windows does not have this capability built in (and it should), it is still doable, and with VNC its even doable for free.
> "Contrary to popular myth the Constitution does not grant a right to privacy."
Actually, Constitutional Law combined with Case Law (Miranda case) makes a strong argument for the right to privacy.
The First Amendment grants people the freedom of speech.
The Miranda Case grants people the right to remain silent.
It seems to me that:
The right to speak with those you wish to speak
+ The right to remain silent with those you do not wish to speak
= Right to Privacy
The people of Kansas do not believe that they have evolved from apes.
I see no reason to argue with them. I too, see no evidence that they have evolved from apes.
Perhaps inbreeding cures evolution?
Everyone talks about wearables as though its just another thing you are going to have to carry with you wherever you go. I don't see it this way at all. I already carry a cell phone, a pager, a PDA, and a laptop with me wherever I go. With the backpack it all fits in, thats 10kg of junk that follows me like a cyberaddiction. Imagine replacing ALL of that with a simple, 2kg wearable; replacing all of those things with one device (with GPS and TV/Radio thrown in) would be incredible...
Lookie here Maw!!
Ted Kaszinski and Timothy McVeigh finale gawt thar emayl uhcowntz at duh big howse...
When the mile-wide UFOs start beaming Death Rays(TM) into Davis, California, at least someone in that town will have it coming...