It's big business, looking for more revenue. If the authors/musicians/whoever is standing between the company and a buck, look out!
Whenever somebody asks a "Why..." question that involves a large corporation, the answer is always "Money." If you start with that premise, everything a corporation does is 100% logical.
Uh, no. This was reported in Risks Digest a couple of days ago. If you type a search into the location bar, even if you have selected Google as your search engine, the request is also sent to Netscape. It was verified by watching the data go through a proxy - the browser was contacting Google and Netscape/AOL.
RTFA. Off-the-shelf LEDs can reliably switch on and off at a rate close to 10MHz. The experimenters were able to successfully pull data from the T1 interface of a Cisco 4000 router, where the LED is apparently driven by one of the data lines.
An LED would have difficulty keeping up with the high data rates as well (as well as any driver circuits).
Did you read the article? LEDs can reliably pulse at 10 MHz, which is 10baseT speed. I used to have a Netgear hub that did indeed have an LED directly connected to the data line, it flickered but quite faintly. And driver circuits that run at network speeds are no problem - how did they build the network electronics?
The data would be stored in multiple copies of multiple fragments, scattered across dozens of systems, with heavy error correction to be able to reconstitute any missing data. Kind of a heavy-duty distributed RAID.
Did you actually read the article? That's exactly what they said. You'd get charged micropayments for using the system, and you'd get paid micropayments for providing resources to the system.
But they do have the right to prevent people from altering the content and rebroadcasting it.
True. But as far as I can tell from my Tivo, it doesn't rebroadcast anything. It allows me to timeshift, same as a VCR. That has been explicitly ruled to not be copyright infringement. And the only "modification" is skipping commercials, which is also possible with a VCR.
The suit apparently explicitly names the ability to record a show based on it's name or description without human intervention. This is essentially suing because of new technology, not because of copyright infringement.
This isn't about a newer technology replacing an old technology. It's about new technology circumventing breaking copyright law (rebroadcasting content).
No, it's about a newer technology messing with the business model of an older technology. As much as the older technology might not like it, the older technology does not have a RIGHT to make money.
A lawsuit by the Buggy Whip Manufacturers Association against the automobile industry, because the change from carriages to automobiles has decimated their markets. The Horse Manure Shoveler's Association is expected to sign on as co-plaintiff.
I'd love to work for the govmnt, but around here (near a major air force base), half the good positions require a clearance just to get your foot in the door, and I've never had the opportunity to get one. You can't apply for a clearance on spec - you have to already have one. Catch-22, sort of.
In the mean time, I'm in at a major place via Manpower Technical, 6 month contract-to-hire (but I had to take a 30% pay cut). Still, it's better than the alternative, so I'm not complaining.
When I step on the IT, what prevents me from falling on my face ? I can think of one thing immediately: a big honking gyro spinning parallel to the ground. However, the torque produced by leaning on the control shaft seems to be quite large, too large for IT's modest-sized gyro to counteract.
Active balance. You step on one and it detects which way you're leaning and moves itself underneath you to keep you balanced. It's the same thing you do when you balance a baseball bat on end on your palm, only this is being done with little sensing gyros and computers and motors.
Remember, this is the guy that built a two-wheeled wheelchair that could go up stairs. It's technically feasable.
It also can let me dress in work clothes and not arrive at work all sweaty and stuff. I could talk on the cell phone while riding the thing, or even check the time without worrying about falling off.
Not only that, but whenever you connect it to your PC to load stuff on it, the software sends your personal information to the Cybiko site. It also apparently collects information on Cybikos it communicates with and sends THAT as well.
Probably couldn't use the ham license for this app, since there are commercial and content restrictions on ham radio. I'd recommend getting some kind of ethernet wireless bridge and directional antennas.
These things work right smack in the middle of the 902-928 MHz Ham radio band (it's a shared allocation). There are a number of ham radio folks looking at boosting the power and modifying the antenna system (legal to do only if you have a Tech or higher ham license). It shouldn't be too difficult to pump the power up to the point where the usable range is something on the order of a mile or so. Then, things ought to start getting interesting.
What kind of crack are they smoking that they want to give up the ability to downgrade non-military sets?
Because "non-military" sets are turning up as essential navigation equipment in places like ships and airplanes, where +/- 100 meter accuracy would be a disaster waiting to happen.
That plus they can now selectively degrade the accuracy in a small region, plus jam it in even smaller regions, means they don't need to worry so much about degrading non-military GPS.
Excuse my cynicism (and my poor spelling), but they're trying to tell us that they're capturing light that was generated billions of years ago. Enough light to charge an optical receiver. I'm currently working on a project that has to generate laser light down a fiber, and pick up the signal after on a few miles, and we're having problems doing that. Occam's Razor applies here, and in my mind there are a mountain of explanations that fit better.
Well, why don't you ASK 'em? (Or maybe do a little research on the topic.) Astronomers have been working for decades on techniques of more and more efficiently capturing photons. Supercooled charged-coupled devices are now all the rage. And don't forget, they are using telescopes with lenses 8 meters across, thus a LOT more light-gathering power.
What makes people so sure that they've figured out things that are so unfathomably far away in space/time?
First of all, what makes you think they're all that sure?
Second, do you remember how science works? Collect evidence, formulate a theory, use the theory to suggest more evidence to look for, look for that evidence, lather, rinse, repeat. All you're seeing is the output of that cycle. Doesn't mean the answer is RIGHT, it just means that it's an answer that fits the evidence. Got a better answer that fits all the evidence? Bring it on!
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Whenever somebody asks a "Why..." question that involves a large corporation, the answer is always "Money." If you start with that premise, everything a corporation does is 100% logical.
Uh, no. This was reported in Risks Digest a couple of days ago. If you type a search into the location bar, even if you have selected Google as your search engine, the request is also sent to Netscape. It was verified by watching the data go through a proxy - the browser was contacting Google and Netscape/AOL.
RTFA. Off-the-shelf LEDs can reliably switch on and off at a rate close to 10MHz. The experimenters were able to successfully pull data from the T1 interface of a Cisco 4000 router, where the LED is apparently driven by one of the data lines.
Did you read the article? LEDs can reliably pulse at 10 MHz, which is 10baseT speed. I used to have a Netgear hub that did indeed have an LED directly connected to the data line, it flickered but quite faintly. And driver circuits that run at network speeds are no problem - how did they build the network electronics?
Ebay owns Billpoint, a payment system. It's absolutely terrible.
The data would be stored in multiple copies of multiple fragments, scattered across dozens of systems, with heavy error correction to be able to reconstitute any missing data. Kind of a heavy-duty distributed RAID.
Remember: Read, then post.
True. But as far as I can tell from my Tivo, it doesn't rebroadcast anything. It allows me to timeshift, same as a VCR. That has been explicitly ruled to not be copyright infringement. And the only "modification" is skipping commercials, which is also possible with a VCR.
The suit apparently explicitly names the ability to record a show based on it's name or description without human intervention. This is essentially suing because of new technology, not because of copyright infringement.
No, it's about a newer technology messing with the business model of an older technology. As much as the older technology might not like it, the older technology does not have a RIGHT to make money.
A lawsuit by the Buggy Whip Manufacturers Association against the automobile industry, because the change from carriages to automobiles has decimated their markets. The Horse Manure Shoveler's Association is expected to sign on as co-plaintiff.
In the mean time, I'm in at a major place via Manpower Technical, 6 month contract-to-hire (but I had to take a 30% pay cut). Still, it's better than the alternative, so I'm not complaining.
For the record, his web site is hosted by some company in Clearwater, Florida.
He'd have to wait in line behind Bob Allisat.
Active balance. You step on one and it detects which way you're leaning and moves itself underneath you to keep you balanced. It's the same thing you do when you balance a baseball bat on end on your palm, only this is being done with little sensing gyros and computers and motors.
Remember, this is the guy that built a two-wheeled wheelchair that could go up stairs. It's technically feasable.
Better hope it's not raining.
Not only that, but whenever you connect it to your PC to load stuff on it, the software sends your personal information to the Cybiko site. It also apparently collects information on Cybikos it communicates with and sends THAT as well.
Probably couldn't use the ham license for this app, since there are commercial and content restrictions on ham radio. I'd recommend getting some kind of ethernet wireless bridge and directional antennas.
Nah. You haven't been a true old-fart geek unless you've toggled in a bootstrap loader to read a paper tape from a ASR-33 teletype.
These things work right smack in the middle of the 902-928 MHz Ham radio band (it's a shared allocation). There are a number of ham radio folks looking at boosting the power and modifying the antenna system (legal to do only if you have a Tech or higher ham license). It shouldn't be too difficult to pump the power up to the point where the usable range is something on the order of a mile or so. Then, things ought to start getting interesting.
Because "non-military" sets are turning up as essential navigation equipment in places like ships and airplanes, where +/- 100 meter accuracy would be a disaster waiting to happen.
That plus they can now selectively degrade the accuracy in a small region, plus jam it in even smaller regions, means they don't need to worry so much about degrading non-military GPS.
Well, why don't you ASK 'em? (Or maybe do a little research on the topic.) Astronomers have been working for decades on techniques of more and more efficiently capturing photons. Supercooled charged-coupled devices are now all the rage. And don't forget, they are using telescopes with lenses 8 meters across, thus a LOT more light-gathering power.
Not quite. All observers will measure the same pulse of light as travelling at the same speed. That's not quite the same thing.
First of all, what makes you think they're all that sure?
Second, do you remember how science works? Collect evidence, formulate a theory, use the theory to suggest more evidence to look for, look for that evidence, lather, rinse, repeat. All you're seeing is the output of that cycle. Doesn't mean the answer is RIGHT, it just means that it's an answer that fits the evidence. Got a better answer that fits all the evidence? Bring it on!
Any sign of a Starbucks?