The Last HOPE was awesome. Adam gave a really fun talk and was really good from the front row! And when he came out with this information it was especially fun and really said something to the open flow of ideas at the conference. Hopefully, Discovery or any of the other companies don't give him any crap for it.
Cheers.
Some Last HOPE vids are available: http://hopetracker.donthax.me/
Did some searching on the following terms:
quantum computing "david deutsch" "seth lloyd"
When adding the 'OR' boolean operator and a set of parenthesis the amount of search results varied from a few hundred to several million. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but that just does not seem right. Clearly, as most of posters have pointed out, there are some bugs to be worked out.
Secondly, I wonder how long it is until we see some sweet Cuil hacks?
Third, the name is escaping me right now but there were two professors at Rutgers University who were working on a search engine for Ask.com a few years ago. Once that "development" engine was successfully deployed it was quickly integrated into Ask.com. I'm wondering if this might eventually wind up being a similar situation.
Point the first: If they think this won't get hacked, they're out of their freaking minds. Exactly.
What about just blocking the network traffic coming in that was controlling this bot? Would most vendors even consider implementing some type of authentication mechanism communicate with the offending software? Would it matter? Who the hell would use the crapware anyway?
It seems that the real problem is not necessarily an addiction to the internet, but an addiction to the things the internet provides. Everything described in TFA is already available outside of the 'net. Porn, gambling, shopping, whatever it may be has long established traditions in our culture. The internet is just the messenger. These people need to get help for their real problems. Is there a treatment option for "Stupidity"?
This reminds me of a high school history lesson, we were studying the turn of the 20th century and a patent office administrator had said something along the lines of "no more new patents need be issued", implying everything mankind could possibly invent has been invented. If only he knew. Just because one of IBM's VPs currently lacks a futuristic vision doesn't mean that there aren't many greater things to come. One need not look further than the front page of Slashdot every few hours to see this.
Oh, and btw, since when was innovation ever easy?
I'm sure there is going to be a constant battle against people who are going to spoof packets so that they are sped on through.
Having said that, I feel like this business idea is going to be successful for Bell South. And the big companies are going to be able to pay for the service, spammers are going to attempt to take advantage of it, and the average honest small businessman is going to get burned again. Hopefully, the mystical hand of the market will be able to stop this from occuring at other telcos and backbone providers, but that is doubtful.
What happens if this idea is implemented at EVERY telco? How much money is it going to cost to send data? How many telcos have to be paid?
Let's look at the history of the telcos. Compared to the telephone, the Internet is still in it's infancy. How long did the phone companies have brutal customer policies? I remember listening to Off the Hook when I was like 15 and just hearing horror stories. Granted, those are one side of the spectrum, but does anyone remember the state of telco's in the 80's.
I'm getting all verklempt.
Now if only we could implement some of these solutions on the highways and streets here in New Jersey. Even go a step further, how about the walkways at the mall.;-)
What happens if a shift gets left on the board with nobody willing to bid under the max posted?
It will run fine, whoever bids for the max price gets the time slot. It fails when nobody is willing to work AT (not under) the maximum. This problem is fixable by increasing the max rate. (However, it is probably not that easy.) Hopefully, the max rate is something close to a fair rate for a nurse at each particular hospital.
..did Univention have to give up in the settlement? Did they have to pay SCO to stop it's FUD? What are the details of this agreement? If SCO actually got some type of monetary compensation the German legal system just folded when they should've held and continued to let SCO's play up it's bluff.
My local Compact Disc World has just recently closed down. Granted, I haven't been there in quite some time, but I was a bit suprised. CD World generally had better prices, especially if you were in their club, and the ALWAYS had a much better selection of music than any of the big brick & mortar stores (Best Buy, Sam Goody, etc).
There is not a day that goes by where I do not have to clean up spyware on some computer at work. I try to recommend people to use Mozilla and they just say "No, I need to use Internet Explorer." AHHHH. My boss literally ordered a new computer because "it was running slow" due to an extreme amount of shitware on the computer.
Does anyone have any failsafe arguments in getting the boss to switch over?
These spyware companies need to be stopped....I heard they are harboring terrorists and PROBABLY have some WMD...[any moment now 1000 pound bombs will be hitting Claria HQ]
I was recently up in Vermont on a snowboard trip during the onset of the Northeast's current coldspell, and man, it was (and still is) COLD. The low temperature for the weekend I was up there was about -25 degrees Farenheit. Being out on the mountain with the "windchill" it felt about -55. When the group finally made it back to NJ it was about 20 degrees outside and we all rejoiced! However, adjusting back to NJ's normal temps came rather quickly....
Does anyone know of organizations out there monitoring P2P bandwidth usage? Basically, I would like to see if these court rulings have any effect on P2P users. I've been hearing there has been a dip in users since the whole RIAA/MPAA proceedings began. Any chance of seeing an upsurge in file trading on the popular networks like Kazaa or eDonkey?
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I'm (incorrectly?) assuming this comment was facetious. 100/35,214 (that's 99.71%) is a pretty damn good ratio when it comes to this type of thing.
What do you think the lawyers went after first: 1) Pulling advertisements 2) DMCA violation. I'm betting number 2 since that only hurts Discovery.
The Last HOPE was awesome. Adam gave a really fun talk and was really good from the front row! And when he came out with this information it was especially fun and really said something to the open flow of ideas at the conference. Hopefully, Discovery or any of the other companies don't give him any crap for it. Cheers. Some Last HOPE vids are available: http://hopetracker.donthax.me/
Secondly, I wonder how long it is until we see some sweet Cuil hacks? Third, the name is escaping me right now but there were two professors at Rutgers University who were working on a search engine for Ask.com a few years ago. Once that "development" engine was successfully deployed it was quickly integrated into Ask.com. I'm wondering if this might eventually wind up being a similar situation.
What about just blocking the network traffic coming in that was controlling this bot? Would most vendors even consider implementing some type of authentication mechanism communicate with the offending software? Would it matter? Who the hell would use the crapware anyway?
It seems that the real problem is not necessarily an addiction to the internet, but an addiction to the things the internet provides. Everything described in TFA is already available outside of the 'net. Porn, gambling, shopping, whatever it may be has long established traditions in our culture. The internet is just the messenger. These people need to get help for their real problems. Is there a treatment option for "Stupidity"?
This reminds me of a high school history lesson, we were studying the turn of the 20th century and a patent office administrator had said something along the lines of "no more new patents need be issued", implying everything mankind could possibly invent has been invented. If only he knew. Just because one of IBM's VPs currently lacks a futuristic vision doesn't mean that there aren't many greater things to come. One need not look further than the front page of Slashdot every few hours to see this.
Oh, and btw, since when was innovation ever easy?
I'm sure there is going to be a constant battle against people who are going to spoof packets so that they are sped on through.
Having said that, I feel like this business idea is going to be successful for Bell South. And the big companies are going to be able to pay for the service, spammers are going to attempt to take advantage of it, and the average honest small businessman is going to get burned again. Hopefully, the mystical hand of the market will be able to stop this from occuring at other telcos and backbone providers, but that is doubtful.
What happens if this idea is implemented at EVERY telco? How much money is it going to cost to send data? How many telcos have to be paid?
Let's look at the history of the telcos. Compared to the telephone, the Internet is still in it's infancy. How long did the phone companies have brutal customer policies? I remember listening to Off the Hook when I was like 15 and just hearing horror stories. Granted, those are one side of the spectrum, but does anyone remember the state of telco's in the 80's.
I'm getting all verklempt.
Now if only we could implement some of these solutions on the highways and streets here in New Jersey. Even go a step further, how about the walkways at the mall. ;-)
And the problem with that is.... ;-)
According to this bbc picture Colombo, Sri Lanka also saw some destruction.r es/4125643.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictu
goto picture 10.
so what is to stop me from just disabling the gps device?
job qualifications.
:-)
It will run fine, whoever bids for the max price gets the time slot. It fails when nobody is willing to work AT (not under) the maximum. This problem is fixable by increasing the max rate. (However, it is probably not that easy.) Hopefully, the max rate is something close to a fair rate for a nurse at each particular hospital.
If I am wrong, someone please help clarify.
The patent was filed July 29, 1998. As detailed at the USPTO .
Oh well, and so is the price of change.
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These spyware companies need to be stopped....I heard they are harboring terrorists and PROBABLY have some WMD...[any moment now 1000 pound bombs will be hitting Claria HQ]
I think it would be Scroogle
I was recently up in Vermont on a snowboard trip during the onset of the Northeast's current coldspell, and man, it was (and still is) COLD. The low temperature for the weekend I was up there was about -25 degrees Farenheit. Being out on the mountain with the "windchill" it felt about -55. When the group finally made it back to NJ it was about 20 degrees outside and we all rejoiced! However, adjusting back to NJ's normal temps came rather quickly....
Aerogel anyone?
A dating network of a bunch of fat overweight nerds who still live in their mother's basement.........c'mon how successful will that be?
::thought bubble::
On the other hand...
[ LAN parties w/ mom's homemade mini-weinies and amry sized portions of jolt cola ]
may we all now bow to our 2.6.0 overlords.
Does anyone know of organizations out there monitoring P2P bandwidth usage? Basically, I would like to see if these court rulings have any effect on P2P users. I've been hearing there has been a dip in users since the whole RIAA/MPAA proceedings began. Any chance of seeing an upsurge in file trading on the popular networks like Kazaa or eDonkey?