A lot of high-end newer apartments in cities (actually in the city, where the businesspeople who use permanent internet more tend to live) I've seen are coming with internal fibre connections. For a certain fee on your rent, you can access a damn nice speed. I'm not sure where the connection comes from, I'd image that it's some form of T1 or T3.
Fibre still isn't cheap, but I would imaging that installing a 100baseT connection would work as well. Fibre would be nicer since it's of course faster and less bulky, but at some point they have to make it into a standard ethernet jack anyhow.
Because then it would be useful to the creator, but setting up freenet would be using somebody else's resources for your own purposes. Getting it to fix "code-red'ers" is somewhat different, they're already using up your resources (a large portion of traffic on small web-servers nowadays can be code-red) because they're too uninformed/lazy/incompetent to patch their own servers.
All that wind already pushing on the boxy front end of my 88 Toyota isn't likely going to increased a lot by adding a few fan-like turbines. At least not the amount I would need to power some low-end electronics?
I'm not talking about powering the car off of this however, that would be dumb. Using it to power a capacitor array for some low-consumption internal electronics might be useful however.
Because the power generated will be less than the power required to overcome the drag.
If you read my original post, you will see that I was talking about using turbines, etc at points where drag is already there, so adding something to take advantage of it probably won't add to it overly.
Unless you've got a superstreamlined nearly drag-free car. Mine's an 88 Corolla, old boxy design, the front end catches wind like a reverse sail at times...
Second law of slashdot: read the damn post fully, think a few times, then hit "Submit" - phorm
maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?
Recording such a board meeting would probably help nuke subsequent claims.
This doesn't sound hugely idiotic. Attaching a few mini-turbines on locations where wind-resistance and/or drag are high anyways might actually work. Putting one on the roof would add drag, putting on somewhere near or just in your front grill shouldn't add any resistance that isn't already there.
I was actually thinking of this whilst noticing a bicycle wheel spinning quite quickly - probably due to air flow (on a hitch behind the vehicle, where wind is not really significant. I've been considering designing a fan/capacitor array to generate power and seeing how much it would make, any reasons why this shouldn't work?
Yup, played it out in its original greyscale (which was actually yellowish) glory. Fun game, though a bit odd at times... a lot of twists on old fairy tales, so those who had been read GRIMM's as kids probably had an advantage
So next time around, is Deep Fritz going to compete in the world Tetris competition? From what I gathered, the big machine had a stored set of the chess moves and their optimal countermoves.
Tetris, it seems, could not even be pre-stored in such a way?
Not counting how the blocks will speed up, does this mean that humans have a better chance of winning at tetris than at chess?
This would actually make a point to worms, etc. Right now most of them seem to be one of three:
-(publicity) Hey, I'm an elite hacker, I've infected half the world's computers
-(revenge, idiocy, attack) I'm pissed at the world and for that your PC's will pay
-(information theft/hijacking) There's something on your computer I might want, and now the door is open to get it
Now, we have a type 4
-All your base are belong... er, I mean, we are the borg, you will be assi... er...
basically, and advanced form of "W3 0WN 40U."
Distributed worms could actually have a point though... There are still certain questions that any individual PC cannot solve (for which they are building voluntary, non-malicious, distributed sytems) that could be processed by this worm. Curious blue (the fix to "curious yellow) could be launched as an "anti-worm, worm" using the same exploit as curious yellow to self-patch the hole.
Similarly, such a worm *could* be used to repair other known large-coverage bugs.
Of course, it would be just as illegal to create/launch "blue" as it would be to create/launch "yellow", but wouldn't it be nice if somebody were to let loose something that goes around fixing those annoying "code-red" and "nimda" infected systems still running amok?
Unfortunately, I cannot even use my own server with a "counterprocedure" to go out and repair those idiot machines that keep trying to access/windows/system/CMD.exe on my linux machine, so nobody can do this legally (it seems that using an exploit is an attack, regardless of intent or method).
Black hat hackers can't touch me, I run Red Hat not Black Hat - phorm
Sometimes it was better to have no graphics as opposed to crappy ones. Later, they evolved a bit into having graphics and input commands (no mouse). Damn, but don't you miss the old "King's Quest" or "Space Quest" games (graphics and text input). Not the mousy ones but the ones you had to think and type?
Crappy graphics, but at least you could move with the keyboard and still type
"look under bridge"
"take ball"
would say the best technique would be poisining the p2p with what looks like legit files
This actually happens quite often, works fairly effectively too I would think. I stopped bothering to download newer movies for awhile as I got tired of the fake crap. However, I also stopped buying the DVD's once they came out because I didn't get to preview whether it was crap or not.
At my previous employer, we got one of these letters while I was out-of-office. Unfortunately, they didn't read into it and signed up with (our local version) the Domain Registry of Canada (DROC).
When I found out, I placed a nice little call to the DROC, wherein my employer talked to them and supposedly had the switch halted.
The good thing: The domain never got switched off. It hadn't expired yet, so we re-registered with our original registrar and stayed on with them.
The bad thing, the fraud thing: DROC was supposed to refund the charge to our company VISA, as they had already processed payment. They didn't. We called them and found out that "no request for refund had been entered in their system." They never actually took over our domain registry (thank god) so no service was ever in fact rendered by them to the comapny. I don't know if the refund ever came back (going to email my old employer now and ask), but this seems quite underhanded and suspicious to me.
Parallel port: Does anyone still use this
I work at a school... they still have a DOT-Matrix or two in use (both as network or local printers. The cool thing is that these buggers still work almost as good as I remember them being 10 years ago (which is to say noisy as all heck, but still functional). We also had one of these for printing out (blah) COBOL code in college.
Parallel printing has evolved though. At some point we got EPP in conjunction to ECP.
I'd also like to recommend the usage of the PS2-style keyboard connector as a friendly successor to the old AT-style standard.
And in an addition for the parent How long has the VGA pin-out been defined
Really old printers can actually have physically different pinsets. The old ones also didn't seem to have as many pins (though the places for them were there). Guess they thought ahead when designing the pin layout for monitors?
Perhaps this will allow a reincarnation of the earlier Dr. Who TV series in a new form, or perhaps even a new movie. I remember watching these when I was young, very cool stuff despite its age.
But the Metropolitan Police lost its appeal and has been ordered to pay £850, plus legal costs.
The case has been rumbling on since 1996, when the Patent Office originally accepted the Tardis as a BBC trade mark.
Anyone besides me think that the £850 isn't going to amount to much in comparison to the legal charges. Having to pay legal charges for 7 years worth of case-wrangling is probably a big ouch on the police bankbook. The Metropolitan Police will probably have a shortage of donuts in the office for quite awhile.
Any else anticipate an article that states Metropolitan Police are reducing the tolerance for speeding limit to 1% and then upping the cost of a tickets, they'll have to recover this money somehow.:-)
We had one which patched the mail system (probably to prevent viruses accessing it), so that SQL Server could no longer send emails. It required
a) Figuring out what the hell happened
b) Updating SQL server service pack
c) Applying an extra patch to fix SQL server
it offers up to four hours of CD audio playback, up to 10 hours of MP3 CD playback and up to 1.5 hours of DVD-ROM playback
Interesting that it gets more power playing an Mp3 CD than a regular CD. I would have assumed that it would take more juice to decode for mp3's.Perhaps mp3's cache to reduce disc spinning laser usage?
Also, it would be nice to get a stat on the load-time for mp3's. I've noticed that some Sony mp3-disc players in cars (such as mine) seem to prefer caching the filenames on spinup, which can take annoyingly long.
No kidding eh? This looking more like putting the onus on the internet provider to stop the problem. Cheating isn't breaking laws though, so it wouldn't work. Could you imaging talking to your provider about the problem.
Ummm, I can't play my favorite online game on xxx server 'cuz too many people on your service are cheating. Can you do something about that? Ummm, yeahhh. ISP couldn't do much about the cheaters anyways, you couldn't do much about the cheaters (short of hacking nasty things into their computer, or finding where they live and going vigilante), so you'd be SOL.
Making the whole accountable for a few individuals idiots is never a good idea? Ever remember having to stay after class in high school (or have internet privilages revoked etc) because of one or two idiots? - phorm
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There was a 3d-input device like this out sometime ago, but it never caught on. From memory, it was simply called "the bat", but this could be a general term much the same as "mouse."
I haven't been able to find any links on google, but a gyroscope-driven bat was definately out several years ago, as I remember considering it as a cool tool for playing descent or quake games (had they come up with proper support for it). It it catches on now, it might indeed be a cool tool for 3d-gamers and developers alike.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure that in Candada you are very happy to rely on US protection. However, as a citizen of Canada, I find the looming US giant more oppressive than protective.
And as another note, Canada IS often more liked as a country (whether by deserved reputation or not). We may have to protect ourself against crackpots, but the police tend to handle those. As for other countries, most of them tend to be a little more friendly towards Canada than the US, probably due to a more practiced policy of non-interference.
With several friends in other countries, most of whom have visited the US and Canada, I have to say that the North does often tend to be friendlier. And having less people pissed off at one's country is often its own little ounce of prevention right there.
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A lot of high-end newer apartments in cities (actually in the city, where the businesspeople who use permanent internet more tend to live) I've seen are coming with internal fibre connections. For a certain fee on your rent, you can access a damn nice speed. I'm not sure where the connection comes from, I'd image that it's some form of T1 or T3.
Fibre still isn't cheap, but I would imaging that installing a 100baseT connection would work as well. Fibre would be nicer since it's of course faster and less bulky, but at some point they have to make it into a standard ethernet jack anyhow.
Because then it would be useful to the creator, but setting up freenet would be using somebody else's resources for your own purposes. Getting it to fix "code-red'ers" is somewhat different, they're already using up your resources (a large portion of traffic on small web-servers nowadays can be code-red) because they're too uninformed/lazy/incompetent to patch their own servers.
All that wind already pushing on the boxy front end of my 88 Toyota isn't likely going to increased a lot by adding a few fan-like turbines. At least not the amount I would need to power some low-end electronics?
I'm not talking about powering the car off of this however, that would be dumb. Using it to power a capacitor array for some low-consumption internal electronics might be useful however.
Because the power generated will be less than the power required to overcome the drag.
If you read my original post, you will see that I was talking about using turbines, etc at points where drag is already there, so adding something to take advantage of it probably won't add to it overly.
Unless you've got a superstreamlined nearly drag-free car. Mine's an 88 Corolla, old boxy design, the front end catches wind like a reverse sail at times...
Second law of slashdot: read the damn post fully, think a few times, then hit "Submit" - phorm
maybe you don't infringe these seven patents. But we have 10,000 U.S. patents. Do you really want us to go back to Armonk [IBM headquarters in New York] and find seven patents you do infringe? Or do you want to make this easy and just pay us $20 million?
Recording such a board meeting would probably help nuke subsequent claims.
This doesn't sound hugely idiotic. Attaching a few mini-turbines on locations where wind-resistance and/or drag are high anyways might actually work. Putting one on the roof would add drag, putting on somewhere near or just in your front grill shouldn't add any resistance that isn't already there.
I was actually thinking of this whilst noticing a bicycle wheel spinning quite quickly - probably due to air flow (on a hitch behind the vehicle, where wind is not really significant. I've been considering designing a fan/capacitor array to generate power and seeing how much it would make, any reasons why this shouldn't work?
Yup, played it out in its original greyscale (which was actually yellowish) glory. Fun game, though a bit odd at times... a lot of twists on old fairy tales, so those who had been read GRIMM's as kids probably had an advantage
So next time around, is Deep Fritz going to compete in the world Tetris competition? From what I gathered, the big machine had a stored set of the chess moves and their optimal countermoves.
Tetris, it seems, could not even be pre-stored in such a way?
Not counting how the blocks will speed up, does this mean that humans have a better chance of winning at tetris than at chess?
This would actually make a point to worms, etc. Right now most of them seem to be one of three:
/windows/system/CMD.exe on my linux machine, so nobody can do this legally (it seems that using an exploit is an attack, regardless of intent or method).
-(publicity) Hey, I'm an elite hacker, I've infected half the world's computers
-(revenge, idiocy, attack) I'm pissed at the world and for that your PC's will pay
-(information theft/hijacking) There's something on your computer I might want, and now the door is open to get it
Now, we have a type 4
-All your base are belong... er, I mean, we are the borg, you will be assi... er...
basically, and advanced form of "W3 0WN 40U."
Distributed worms could actually have a point though... There are still certain questions that any individual PC cannot solve (for which they are building voluntary, non-malicious, distributed sytems) that could be processed by this worm. Curious blue (the fix to "curious yellow) could be launched as an "anti-worm, worm" using the same exploit as curious yellow to self-patch the hole.
Similarly, such a worm *could* be used to repair other known large-coverage bugs.
Of course, it would be just as illegal to create/launch "blue" as it would be to create/launch "yellow", but wouldn't it be nice if somebody were to let loose something that goes around fixing those annoying "code-red" and "nimda" infected systems still running amok?
Unfortunately, I cannot even use my own server with a "counterprocedure" to go out and repair those idiot machines that keep trying to access
Black hat hackers can't touch me, I run Red Hat not Black Hat - phorm
Sometimes it was better to have no graphics as opposed to crappy ones. Later, they evolved a bit into having graphics and input commands (no mouse). Damn, but don't you miss the old "King's Quest" or "Space Quest" games (graphics and text input). Not the mousy ones but the ones you had to think and type?
Crappy graphics, but at least you could move with the keyboard and still type
"look under bridge"
"take ball"
If it becomes a passable defense that distributing a prime number can not be illegal
The parser would likely be an application (not being done manually), and then made illegal instead.
would say the best technique would be poisining the p2p with what looks like legit files
This actually happens quite often, works fairly effectively too I would think. I stopped bothering to download newer movies for awhile as I got tired of the fake crap. However, I also stopped buying the DVD's once they came out because I didn't get to preview whether it was crap or not.
Guess we both lose out. Hmm, image that.
At my previous employer, we got one of these letters while I was out-of-office. Unfortunately, they didn't read into it and signed up with (our local version) the Domain Registry of Canada (DROC).
When I found out, I placed a nice little call to the DROC, wherein my employer talked to them and supposedly had the switch halted.
The good thing: The domain never got switched off. It hadn't expired yet, so we re-registered with our original registrar and stayed on with them.
The bad thing, the fraud thing: DROC was supposed to refund the charge to our company VISA, as they had already processed payment. They didn't. We called them and found out that "no request for refund had been entered in their system." They never actually took over our domain registry (thank god) so no service was ever in fact rendered by them to the comapny. I don't know if the refund ever came back (going to email my old employer now and ask), but this seems quite underhanded and suspicious to me.
These came in snail-mail though, can I hire a "spamassassin" to sift it before it reaches my postal box?
Can you explain the origin of the term "sticker shock" and its meaning. I've never heard that one before (have to keep up on my tech vocab)
Parallel port: Does anyone still use this
I work at a school... they still have a DOT-Matrix or two in use (both as network or local printers. The cool thing is that these buggers still work almost as good as I remember them being 10 years ago (which is to say noisy as all heck, but still functional). We also had one of these for printing out (blah) COBOL code in college.
Parallel printing has evolved though. At some point we got EPP in conjunction to ECP.
I'd also like to recommend the usage of the PS2-style keyboard connector as a friendly successor to the old AT-style standard.
And in an addition for the parent
How long has the VGA pin-out been defined
Really old printers can actually have physically different pinsets. The old ones also didn't seem to have as many pins (though the places for them were there). Guess they thought ahead when designing the pin layout for monitors?
Perhaps this will allow a reincarnation of the earlier Dr. Who TV series in a new form, or perhaps even a new movie. I remember watching these when I was young, very cool stuff despite its age.
:-)
But the Metropolitan Police lost its appeal and has been ordered to pay £850, plus legal costs.
The case has been rumbling on since 1996, when the Patent Office originally accepted the Tardis as a BBC trade mark.
Anyone besides me think that the £850 isn't going to amount to much in comparison to the legal charges. Having to pay legal charges for 7 years worth of case-wrangling is probably a big ouch on the police bankbook. The Metropolitan Police will probably have a shortage of donuts in the office for quite awhile.
Any else anticipate an article that states Metropolitan Police are reducing the tolerance for speeding limit to 1% and then upping the cost of a tickets, they'll have to recover this money somehow.
We had one which patched the mail system (probably to prevent viruses accessing it), so that SQL Server could no longer send emails. It required
a) Figuring out what the hell happened
b) Updating SQL server service pack
c) Applying an extra patch to fix SQL server
They forgot to go to the network control panel and enable "File and Printer Sharing", I guess? :-)
it offers up to four hours of CD audio playback, up to 10 hours of MP3 CD playback and up to 1.5 hours of DVD-ROM playback
Interesting that it gets more power playing an Mp3 CD than a regular CD. I would have assumed that it would take more juice to decode for mp3's.Perhaps mp3's cache to reduce disc spinning laser usage?
Also, it would be nice to get a stat on the load-time for mp3's. I've noticed that some Sony mp3-disc players in cars (such as mine) seem to prefer caching the filenames on spinup, which can take annoyingly long.
A small wire (with pos and neg) running headphone-style to your pocket would be a small price to pay for having a sweetass HUD in your shades :-)
- Portable (touch-type?) displays you can plug in anywhere. Download new library books by chapter (into temporary memory?).
- Restaurant tables? TV's: watch the game on your table. Virtual colouring books for kids
- Forget the coloured contacts. Glasses will come back in style as you get your own mini-HUD
The bad- Billboards, now every office window can be one!
- Spyglass-capabilities
- And you thought your palm broke easily when you dropped it
The uglyNo kidding eh? This looking more like putting the onus on the internet provider to stop the problem. Cheating isn't breaking laws though, so it wouldn't work. Could you imaging talking to your provider about the problem.
Ummm, I can't play my favorite online game on xxx server 'cuz too many people on your service are cheating. Can you do something about that? Ummm, yeahhh. ISP couldn't do much about the cheaters anyways, you couldn't do much about the cheaters (short of hacking nasty things into their computer, or finding where they live and going vigilante), so you'd be SOL.
Making the whole accountable for a few individuals idiots is never a good idea? Ever remember having to stay after class in high school (or have internet privilages revoked etc) because of one or two idiots? - phorm
There was a 3d-input device like this out sometime ago, but it never caught on. From memory, it was simply called "the bat", but this could be a general term much the same as "mouse."
I haven't been able to find any links on google, but a gyroscope-driven bat was definately out several years ago, as I remember considering it as a cool tool for playing descent or quake games (had they come up with proper support for it). It it catches on now, it might indeed be a cool tool for 3d-gamers and developers alike.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that. I'm sure that in Candada you are very happy to rely on US protection. However, as a citizen of Canada, I find the looming US giant more oppressive than protective.
And as another note, Canada IS often more liked as a country (whether by deserved reputation or not). We may have to protect ourself against crackpots, but the police tend to handle those. As for other countries, most of them tend to be a little more friendly towards Canada than the US, probably due to a more practiced policy of non-interference.
With several friends in other countries, most of whom have visited the US and Canada, I have to say that the North does often tend to be friendlier. And having less people pissed off at one's country is often its own little ounce of prevention right there.