Saw it on CNN last night. Looked pretty slick - the "dog" can right itself if it falls over, apparently it does respond to voice input. And, you lift up the tail and open a door to put in a long black battery pack.
I'll name my "Rags", after the robot dog in Woody Allen's Sleeper.
The gvmnt, in its infinite wisdom, has concocted the idea that some things are "born secret". That is that even if you were to independently come up with something that the gvmnt had already decided was secret, what you discovered would be secret by definition, and you could get in trouble for distributing it. The last time I saw it mentioned was in relation to people trying to independently engineer atomic weapons. Apparently somebody stumbled on something that the gvmnt had already declared "top secret", and they wouldn't let him publish.
The celeron uses the basic PII design, which only can coordinate two processors. If you want more, you have to go to a different processor, like the Xeon.
The public reason was that, supposedly, American-developed crypto was the best in the world, and letting it get into the hands of the "enemy" (which changed, depending on when and who you were talking to), was a Bad Thing. Since crypto developed outside the U.S. has gotten to be as good, that explanation has gotten incredibly weak. Many people put it up to inertia that the rules haven't changed. There's probably also an element of "We know what's best for you" from the government, and hiding things from the government is perceived to be bad (by the government, anyway).
I have also heard, with little support, that the gvmnt is worried that strong crypto will be used to enhance the underground economy, making it harder for the gvmnt to track (and presumably tax) money flows.
Uh, the FCC was created by the Communications Act of 1934. Television didn't start to appear, even on an experimental basis, until a couple of years after that.
If the theforce site did not have distribution rights, then you can't complain if they were forced to take the recording down. Do you know if theforce.com has distribution rights? For that matter, do you have distribution rights? If not, then what the hell do you think you're doing?
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Back in the days when the phones were owned by the phone company and it was bad news if you messed with the insides (still had to use acoustic couplers in 1974), my college roommates and I rented our first apartment and got our first phone of our own. We then proceeded to dismantle the thing completely. We traced the wires out, then mounted all the hardware on a board and rewired it. (Wall art.) It worked, but for one problem: the hook buttons on an original model 500 phone operated switch contacts via a lever mechanism that was pressed and released by the buttons, and the "wall phone" didn't have the levers. So, we got ahold of an obnoxiously large power supply and a multi-contact relay, and wired the relay into the circuitry. To answer the phone, we had to turn on the power supply. (And for those times of power failure, we had a toothpick on stand-by to jamb into the relay to make it pick up the phone.) When the lease was up and we had to give the phone back to the telco, we put the thing back together with pop-rivets and the phone clerks never knew the difference.
That was tough. Motherboards today are just a handful of ribbon cables. (And we had to walk uphill both ways!)
You don't use Office, so nobody should care about Office? If you truely think that, you need to get a job in the real world. There's one hell of a lot of Office installed out there. Regardless if you happen to think it's boring or not, the majority of computers are installed in business.
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This means that we *don't* allow insects to adapt.
Good luck stopping it. The only way would be to kill them all off instantly. Miss one - it adapts.
Perception is everything. If the article is written through the eyes of Jesse and Eric, and Jesse and Eric see Idaho as a wasteland, so it goes. That's not Jon's fault.
You need to read a little deeper. The Jargon File is not an attempt to hang jargony names on to things. It's more a description of usage. ESR is cataloging words and phrases that are (or were) already in use.
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What you'd get if you crossed Aibo with Furby?
...phil
Saw it on CNN last night. Looked pretty slick - the "dog" can right itself if it falls over, apparently it does respond to voice input. And, you lift up the tail and open a door to put in a long black battery pack.
I'll name my "Rags", after the robot dog in Woody Allen's Sleeper.
...phil
They can use TEMPEST vans to read a suspect's outgoing e-mail before encryption and incoming e-mail after decryption.
Uh, that's called "Van Eck". "Tempest" is the gvmnt name of the technology to prevent Van Eck monitoring from working.
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The gvmnt, in its infinite wisdom, has concocted the idea that some things are "born secret". That is that even if you were to independently come up with something that the gvmnt had already decided was secret, what you discovered would be secret by definition, and you could get in trouble for distributing it. The last time I saw it mentioned was in relation to people trying to independently engineer atomic weapons. Apparently somebody stumbled on something that the gvmnt had already declared "top secret", and they wouldn't let him publish.
...phil
IANAL, but I believe that technically you can only be tried for treason if the country is in a state of war.
...phil
The celeron uses the basic PII design, which only can coordinate two processors. If you want more, you have to go to a different processor, like the Xeon.
...phil
Right now, this ruling applies only to the area covered by the 9th Circuit. I hope you're in that location.
...phil
The public reason was that, supposedly, American-developed crypto was the best in the world, and letting it get into the hands of the "enemy" (which changed, depending on when and who you were talking to), was a Bad Thing. Since crypto developed outside the U.S. has gotten to be as good, that explanation has gotten incredibly weak. Many people put it up to inertia that the rules haven't changed. There's probably also an element of "We know what's best for you" from the government, and hiding things from the government is perceived to be bad (by the government, anyway).
I have also heard, with little support, that the gvmnt is worried that strong crypto will be used to enhance the underground economy, making it harder for the gvmnt to track (and presumably tax) money flows.
...phil
Tim Berners-Lee gets my vote. He invented the WWW out of nothing.
Actually, if you look, you'll find lots of similarities between early versions of www and Gopher. WWW is Gopher, rev 2.
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K&R didn't work much on PCs, which is the focus of this article.
...phil
Hey, Austin Powers wasn't very popular when it came out, but now it's a classic.
No, it's not a classic. It's a fad. Check back in 20 years, then tell me if it's a classic or not.
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Hell, I was in Target last night and saw Jar-Jar bandaids.
...phil
Why bother with the PGP key? Go after IDEAS directly. It's key is 128 bits.
...phil
Why would talanted programmers give away their work?
Glory? Emotional satisfaction? Practice?
...phil
Uh, the FCC was created by the Communications Act of 1934. Television didn't start to appear, even on an experimental basis, until a couple of years after that.
...phil
If the theforce site did not have distribution rights, then you can't complain if they were forced to take the recording down. Do you know if theforce.com has distribution rights? For that matter, do you have distribution rights? If not, then what the hell do you think you're doing?
...phil
Back in the days when the phones were owned by the phone company and it was bad news if you messed with the insides (still had to use acoustic couplers in 1974), my college roommates and I rented our first apartment and got our first phone of our own. We then proceeded to dismantle the thing completely. We traced the wires out, then mounted all the hardware on a board and rewired it. (Wall art.) It worked, but for one problem: the hook buttons on an original model 500 phone operated switch contacts via a lever mechanism that was pressed and released by the buttons, and the "wall phone" didn't have the levers. So, we got ahold of an obnoxiously large power supply and a multi-contact relay, and wired the relay into the circuitry. To answer the phone, we had to turn on the power supply. (And for those times of power failure, we had a toothpick on stand-by to jamb into the relay to make it pick up the phone.) When the lease was up and we had to give the phone back to the telco, we put the thing back together with pop-rivets and the phone clerks never knew the difference.
That was tough. Motherboards today are just a handful of ribbon cables. (And we had to walk uphill both ways!)
...phil
"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." -- Santanya (I think)
...phil
You don't use Office, so nobody should care about Office? If you truely think that, you need to get a job in the real world. There's one hell of a lot of Office installed out there. Regardless if you happen to think it's boring or not, the majority of computers are installed in business.
...phil
This means that we *don't* allow insects to adapt.
Good luck stopping it. The only way would be to kill them all off instantly. Miss one - it adapts.
...phil
Perception is everything. If the article is written through the eyes of Jesse and Eric, and Jesse and Eric see Idaho as a wasteland, so it goes. That's not Jon's fault.
...phil
That's out there too. Gads. Talk about putting a bandaid on a ruptured spleen...
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Yes. When you see the words "Jon Katz", move on.
...phil
ESR's done more true hacking for longer than you've probably been alive. He's from the original cadre.
...phil
You need to read a little deeper. The Jargon File is not an attempt to hang jargony names on to things. It's more a description of usage. ESR is cataloging words and phrases that are (or were) already in use.
...phil