The OLPC is much better suited for the developing world then classmate with it's waterproof case and 10 hour battery life and ability to be recharged using a simple hand crank the XO can even survive being submerged in water. I don't think the classmate would survive long in the high humidity environment in a shanty town in India or Bangladesh or the dusty and hot environment found in a remote village in Ethiopia.
I know classmate might be better suited for a second world environment like the eastern block nations in the EU but they might do better buying a used laptop. The big issue with classmate and the market it seems aimed you would be better off buying a used P3 notebook or G3 ibook for around $70 to $200. For the same price they could get better battery life , the ability to upgrade the HD and memory , a larger and better display , and maybe even a real GPU so they could play 3d games.
You know this probably is ISDN 2.0 because most of the security issues can be fixed with end to end encryption over existing protocols which would a a lot cheaper then replacing everything and then teaching everyone how to manage a new standard.
Also any new standard will by necessity have to be based on open standards.
BTW Adding any sort of centralized control or wiretapping will not only be politically unpopular but also would result in a far less robust network take out the centralized part the entire network goes down.
I think the DRM wiretap crap can be fought and if any new standard has that it will surely fail as people would refuse to use the new system.
People just need to stand their ground vs bend over and take it.
Yes TCP/IP works perfectly fine I'm afraid some new standard esp if it has any means of central control will be far less robust and reliable then TCP/IP has been.
I'm afraid this guy has ulterior motives or is just talking out his ass.
I agree it doesn't need rebuilt from scratch doing that for the problems it does have would be like knocking down a house because the toilet runs or a lighting circuit flickers.
I like the that feature of the internet it's unfriendliness to monopolists that it's best trait.
Also this will fail because too much hardware and software and training is in place and the rest of the world simply doesn't trust the US government anymore.
It would be like ripping up every railroad track so a different but not necessarily better gauge could be used or every highway and road for a similar reason.
They could have done this ten years ago but now no it's just politically impossible.
Seems like a IP/money grab and a reason to justify their PhDs which don't mean much any more.
Just compare any robot Carnegie or Standford has built the past five years to whats in Japan such as asimo or even south korea's hubo.
If you ask me rebuilding the internet from scratch is 100% BS these guys are smocking some serious crack.
It works very well if you ask me better then my cell phone ever has so the claims of reliability issues are false.
As for security getting rid of insecure OS's such as windows or just avoid crappy clients such as IE and outlook and not doing your everyday tasks as administrator just common sense stuff you avoid most issues they were talking about.
The last part not enough addresses IP6 fixes that.
Also it can't work since the US doesn't own or control the internet anymore nor is it the technical leader in that area of technology partly because of self imposed laws such as DMCA that have crippled innovation .
If you ask me it seems like an excuse to make the internet into a crappy closed proprietary system that as far as the end user is concerned a massive step backwards.
Yes this is all too true any more why was firefly canceled while that pile of crap known as american idol is still on also I'm sick of the CSI ripoffs.
I see no use for it as the stupid encryption already is broken besides I get a perfectly good picture using vga or dvi cables.
BTW on hdcp it is hdcp players that are crippled so yes these cards will fall under this though an HDCP equipped monitor is not crippled it's flexible.
The entire return to the moon plan might have an alternative military purpose.
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/apolmcsd.htm It should be noted the orion CEV has almost the same on orbit delta V as the old apollo LEM CSD except it also can carry several tons of equipment.
Agreed Vista could have been a good OS but microsoft blew it when they decided be hollywood's little bitch and included AACP .
AACP DRM comepletely out weighs the neat aero 3d desktop and the other features I can easily add to XP or get with linux.
The funny part is they could have said hell no and got away with it and still got media on their OS since half the idiots in congress and the senate that were in the media corps pockets are leaving this year since they have been voted out.
Actually a lot of hardware is broken under vista including ATI and intel based video displays.
The real problem was the stupid crap microsoft pulled out of paranoia from piracy and wanting to be hollywoods little toady .
They have the drm pull the drivers several times a second part of some lame anti hacking crap.
Vista is broken because of AACP and that is microsoft's fault and nooone else' well maybe hollywood but MS could have said no that this level of control is an unreasonable request implementing this crap will break our OS.
Microsoft can save their butts in the eyes of the public by ditching AACP DRM the polictal climate has shifted in favor for those who will stand up to hollywood greed.
It's more microsoft's fault then nvidia's as vista isn't even fully debugged when released and then right before releasing vista they implement this stupid as hell AACP crap in vista.
The AACP hooks in to the video driver and requires any full screen HD premium "now theres an oxymoron" content is only outputted as protect by HDCP.
Now another rotten part of this feature other then taking a wizz on consumer rights and fair use is it polls the hardware drivers every 60 miliseconds or so so it's no wonder drivers are breaking with this constant interrupt loop running repolling the hardware.
If anything hardware vendors should be suing microsoft for making an OS with rotten under pinnings that makes it impossible to write a stable and fast drivers.
The biggest issue for a manned NEO mission would be the habitation module.
The US has little experince here and would need the russians help.
The lightest combo that can be done near term would consist of an Orion,a transhab with a propulsion and power module, or a Russian Zarya module aka mir core which has both power and propulsion,the EDS would require some up rating but I do not see how this is easier then a moon mission.
The only thing an asteriod mission doesn't require the the moon mission needs is the LSAM but since it lasts 90 days and craft the size of orion only has 14 days of life support you'll need a hab module like trans hab or a Mir/saluyt core.
One Orion is 22tons + 24 to 30 tons for a hab + 10 tons for an RCS/power module.
Though if a russian station core is used the hab goes down to 23tons so only 45tons needs to be accelerated to escape velocity.
I think a nuclear reactor and mass driver would work much better but either way to effective move an asteriod the entire system will weigh several hunderd tons and require a real space transportation system to get into orbit something like the old rombus/selina concept.
I had someone leech off my connection once I didn't panic or call the police I fixed the problem myself like everyone else should.
All I did was change my password and add mac filtering problem solved no bullshit three ring circus or wasted tax dollars took me exactly 15 minutes less time then it takes to get a pizza.
If you are not smart enough to manage a wireless network and are scared someone will leach porn off it then use ethernet cable and turn off your wireless card.
I agree open source allows you to implement something with out loosing sleep over licensing worries security issues or the software becoming orphaned . The Novell and Microsoft agreement is nothing good. Also I hate what novell did to suse which once was a good distro.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually just going up to a 357 or 44 magnum over the 9mm would likely defeat the vest.
The OLPC is much better suited for the developing world then classmate with it's waterproof case and 10 hour battery life and ability to be recharged using a simple hand crank the XO can even survive being submerged in water.
I don't think the classmate would survive long in the high humidity environment in a shanty town in India or Bangladesh or the dusty and hot environment found in a remote village in Ethiopia.
I know classmate might be better suited for a second world environment like the eastern block nations in the EU but they might do better buying a used laptop.
The big issue with classmate and the market it seems aimed you would be better off buying a used P3 notebook or G3 ibook for around $70 to $200.
For the same price they could get better battery life , the ability to upgrade the HD and memory , a larger and better display , and maybe even a real GPU so they could play 3d games.
Politically right now would be a very bad time to redesign the internet too many bad characters like the RIAA,MPAA,and DHS running around.
Any DRM or bigbrother also equals instant fail.
You know this probably is ISDN 2.0 because most of the security issues can be fixed with end to end encryption over existing protocols which would a a lot cheaper then replacing everything and then teaching everyone how to manage a new standard. Also any new standard will by necessity have to be based on open standards. BTW Adding any sort of centralized control or wiretapping will not only be politically unpopular but also would result in a far less robust network take out the centralized part the entire network goes down.
I think the DRM wiretap crap can be fought and if any new standard has that it will surely fail as people would refuse to use the new system. People just need to stand their ground vs bend over and take it.
Yes TCP/IP works perfectly fine I'm afraid some new standard esp if it has any means of central control will be far less robust and reliable then TCP/IP has been. I'm afraid this guy has ulterior motives or is just talking out his ass.
I agree it doesn't need rebuilt from scratch doing that for the problems it does have would be like knocking down a house because the toilet runs or a lighting circuit flickers.
I like the that feature of the internet it's unfriendliness to monopolists that it's best trait. Also this will fail because too much hardware and software and training is in place and the rest of the world simply doesn't trust the US government anymore. It would be like ripping up every railroad track so a different but not necessarily better gauge could be used or every highway and road for a similar reason. They could have done this ten years ago but now no it's just politically impossible. Seems like a IP/money grab and a reason to justify their PhDs which don't mean much any more. Just compare any robot Carnegie or Standford has built the past five years to whats in Japan such as asimo or even south korea's hubo.
If you ask me rebuilding the internet from scratch is 100% BS these guys are smocking some serious crack. It works very well if you ask me better then my cell phone ever has so the claims of reliability issues are false. As for security getting rid of insecure OS's such as windows or just avoid crappy clients such as IE and outlook and not doing your everyday tasks as administrator just common sense stuff you avoid most issues they were talking about. The last part not enough addresses IP6 fixes that. Also it can't work since the US doesn't own or control the internet anymore nor is it the technical leader in that area of technology partly because of self imposed laws such as DMCA that have crippled innovation . If you ask me it seems like an excuse to make the internet into a crappy closed proprietary system that as far as the end user is concerned a massive step backwards.
I agree though patents last 20 years in the US copyrights should last no longer.
Even star treks replicator wasn't zero cost it did use a huge amount of energy.
Yes this is all too true any more why was firefly canceled while that pile of crap known as american idol is still on also I'm sick of the CSI ripoffs.
BTW you are way too late every hates HDCP and guess what it's broken they reversed the entire algorithm so they can't even revoke keys now.
I see no use for it as the stupid encryption already is broken besides I get a perfectly good picture using vga or dvi cables. BTW on hdcp it is hdcp players that are crippled so yes these cards will fall under this though an HDCP equipped monitor is not crippled it's flexible.
The entire return to the moon plan might have an alternative military purpose. http://www.astronautix.com/craft/apolmcsd.htm It should be noted the orion CEV has almost the same on orbit delta V as the old apollo LEM CSD except it also can carry several tons of equipment.
Agreed Vista could have been a good OS but microsoft blew it when they decided be hollywood's little bitch and included AACP . AACP DRM comepletely out weighs the neat aero 3d desktop and the other features I can easily add to XP or get with linux. The funny part is they could have said hell no and got away with it and still got media on their OS since half the idiots in congress and the senate that were in the media corps pockets are leaving this year since they have been voted out.
Actually a lot of hardware is broken under vista including ATI and intel based video displays. The real problem was the stupid crap microsoft pulled out of paranoia from piracy and wanting to be hollywoods little toady . They have the drm pull the drivers several times a second part of some lame anti hacking crap. Vista is broken because of AACP and that is microsoft's fault and nooone else' well maybe hollywood but MS could have said no that this level of control is an unreasonable request implementing this crap will break our OS. Microsoft can save their butts in the eyes of the public by ditching AACP DRM the polictal climate has shifted in favor for those who will stand up to hollywood greed.
It's more microsoft's fault then nvidia's as vista isn't even fully debugged when released and then right before releasing vista they implement this stupid as hell AACP crap in vista. The AACP hooks in to the video driver and requires any full screen HD premium "now theres an oxymoron" content is only outputted as protect by HDCP. Now another rotten part of this feature other then taking a wizz on consumer rights and fair use is it polls the hardware drivers every 60 miliseconds or so so it's no wonder drivers are breaking with this constant interrupt loop running repolling the hardware. If anything hardware vendors should be suing microsoft for making an OS with rotten under pinnings that makes it impossible to write a stable and fast drivers.
The biggest issue for a manned NEO mission would be the habitation module. The US has little experince here and would need the russians help. The lightest combo that can be done near term would consist of an Orion,a transhab with a propulsion and power module, or a Russian Zarya module aka mir core which has both power and propulsion ,the EDS would require some up rating but I do not see how this is easier then a moon mission.
The only thing an asteriod mission doesn't require the the moon mission needs is the LSAM but since it lasts 90 days and craft the size of orion only has 14 days of life support you'll need a hab module like trans hab or a Mir/saluyt core.
One Orion is 22tons + 24 to 30 tons for a hab + 10 tons for an RCS/power module.
Though if a russian station core is used the hab goes down to 23tons so only 45tons needs to be accelerated to escape velocity.
I think a nuclear reactor and mass driver would work much better but either way to effective move an asteriod the entire system will weigh several hunderd tons and require a real space transportation system to get into orbit something like the old rombus/selina concept.
Yep true singapore still canes people for littering or graffiti and executes drug offenders.
I had someone leech off my connection once I didn't panic or call the police I fixed the problem myself like everyone else should. All I did was change my password and add mac filtering problem solved no bullshit three ring circus or wasted tax dollars took me exactly 15 minutes less time then it takes to get a pizza. If you are not smart enough to manage a wireless network and are scared someone will leach porn off it then use ethernet cable and turn off your wireless card.
Still 3 years is harsh and if you agree such a punishment is just then you have a very warped sense of justice.
I agree open source allows you to implement something with out loosing sleep over licensing worries security issues or the software becoming orphaned .
The Novell and Microsoft agreement is nothing good.
Also I hate what novell did to suse which once was a good distro.