I think something like Logitech's Orbit would be far more interesting, where it keeps an eye on you as you move around.
Sure it might not be any better as far as actually seeing what is happening (potentially worse, since it can be tricked), but the creepyness of actually being "watched" could be worth it.
Sure, except that 256Kb/s upload can stay up for many moons, whereas the download stops once it's complete.
This means that initially, when a movie distribution first starts, the downloads will be slow OR the studios own seeds will distribute most of the content. Once the initial flurry of downloads finish though, there will be a ton of slow seeds all contributing to fill that 2200Kb/s of each new downloader, and the studios seeds can move on to the next big release.
It IS possible, as long as people are willing to seed longer term then the initial movie. Some sort of incentive towards a future purchase will go a long way here, I suspect.
I push 3Mb/s of bittorrent traffic out from my serverbeach server 24/7/365, which also happens to run a small company's web and mail traffic on a 100Mb port.
It could be as simple as 10% off your next movie purchase for every 100% of an already downloaded movie you upload.
Personally, I'd never pay for a movie again. The studios would get a free mirror @ 40Mb/s or higher that I'd pretty much just leave running forever racking up free credits for future movies so it's a win-win.
Except the timing has changed -- We don't need to destroy the data between when an emergency is identified and when a crash happens, now the data destruction (of the pad) can begin as soon as the data is written (to the drive)
If the data is intended to be written once, and only read when the drone returns to it's home (and never needs to be read in flight), there are some more fun possibilities here.
The pad's data needs to be the same size as the data you're carrying, but it doesn't need to be the same format. Say you need to store 100GB of data, but store the pad using 100MB chips which can be independantly destroyed (or dumped) in a matter of minutes or seconds. Each chip would be destroyed as it is written, making the maximum amount of recoverable data 100MB even if nobody pulls the plug.
Micro ROM chips with individiual micro explosives, designed to "eject" the dust size remains into the intake of the jet engines would probably be amusing to recover.
June 6th, 2006: The people in the pictures below have my friend's T-Mobile Sidekick. Instead of doing the honorable thing when finding someone's phone in a taxi, they instead kept it.
I have found 8 cell phones in the last couple years in taxis. EVERY single one I have contacted the owner (by leaving a message on their voice mail or by answering their phone and telling their friends that I have the phone) and returned it promptly. When people have found my phone, they have also in turn returned it.
When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. There was no response. After a day of waiting, she had to go to the store and spend over $300 on a new Sidekick. When she put her SIM card in, she saw that the person(s) that had taken the phone had not only signed on to AOL leaving their name and password in the phone, but they had taken pictures of themselves.
I immediately contacted the AOL name: Sashacristal8905 and requested that the Sidekick be returned. I was immediately told that my "white ass" didn't deserve it back. That she was not a "white bitch" (my friend who is a blonde white girl had pics on the phone this person had obviously seen) stupid enough to return a phone she found. After lots of threats, she said she and her boy would wait for me at:
Sashacristal8905: i got ball this is my adress 108 20 37 av corona come n do it iam give u the sidekick so I can hit you wit it
So, anyways..this is my story. If you happen to know these people in the picture please let me know at: stolensidekick@gmail.com I am not going to go to the address posted above, because a.) Not going to waste my time going to a probable fake address b.) If it is real, there will be a physical altercation and I would probably wind up arrested which would do no good to anyone. I'd rather just embarrass the thief as much as possible. Teach them a lesson on the etiquette of returning peoples lost belongings.
UPDATE #2: Some people are asking how we have their pics and AOL name. The way a Sidekick works, is that when you use it, all the data on it get's uploaded automatically to the T-Mobile server. So pictures you have taken, AOL names and passwords u have used, etc are all on the server. So when my friend turned on her new Sidekick and put her new SIM card in, all the data downloaded on to her phone. And that's how we have everything.
Some people also suggested this may be a ploy of some kind. If you notice, there are NO ads on this website. There are NO outside links besides the one to their MySpace page. I am only doing this to bring embarrassment to people who have no moral value in this world.
UPDATE #3: More questions answered. My friend left her Sidekick II in a taxi inManhattan (where we live). The person(s) that took it live in Corona Queens which is part of NYC. As for contacting the police, a NYPD officer has contacted me already (he found this link on a blog) and informed me how to handle this situation. My friend and I will stop by a police station tomorrow with the receipt and serial. Another friend at T-Mobile has already gotten us the records we need to prove that these people took the phone as well as the numbers that they called with it. Right now, I am more concerned about spreading this story. I want people to realize that what goes around, comes around. If you find a phone in a taxi or elsewhere.. it is NOT yours.. return it....and when u lose an item, then the same will happen for u.
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Except that the RIAA/MPAA is trying to use the legal system to force their business model to continue.
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Unfortunately, until you actually use a PVR it's tough to really understand how liberating it is to no longer be a slave to network scheduling, commercials, or any of the other offensive things networks do to attempt to annoy their customer base.
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Unfortunately, your country is trying (through negotiation) to impact the law in other countries too, and to push similar crap out to the rest of the planet.
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They don't... There is no constitutional (or any other) right to maintain a poorly thought out business model.
Ask for your old parts back and dispose of them yourself. Odds of someone dumpster diving AND having the resources to fix a water-logged drive aren't good, whereas odds of a Best Buy-type store not properly disposing of the drive are substantially better.
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I think something like Logitech's Orbit would be far more interesting, where it keeps an eye on you as you move around.
Sure it might not be any better as far as actually seeing what is happening (potentially worse, since it can be tricked), but the creepyness of actually being "watched" could be worth it.
Sure, except that 256Kb/s upload can stay up for many moons, whereas the download stops once it's complete.
This means that initially, when a movie distribution first starts, the downloads will be slow OR the studios own seeds will distribute most of the content. Once the initial flurry of downloads finish though, there will be a ton of slow seeds all contributing to fill that 2200Kb/s of each new downloader, and the studios seeds can move on to the next big release.
It IS possible, as long as people are willing to seed longer term then the initial movie. Some sort of incentive towards a future purchase will go a long way here, I suspect.
I push 3Mb/s of bittorrent traffic out from my serverbeach server 24/7/365, which also happens to run a small company's web and mail traffic on a 100Mb port.
Works great, never run into any issues.
It could be as simple as 10% off your next movie purchase for every 100% of an already downloaded movie you upload.
Personally, I'd never pay for a movie again. The studios would get a free mirror @ 40Mb/s or higher that I'd pretty much just leave running forever racking up free credits for future movies so it's a win-win.
Can we trigger them in your basement and see how long you live?
The "Best before" date indicates the date after which the weapons aren't reliable, not after which they're completely ineffective.
Ahh -- But even if you get the truth out of everyone you capture, as long as THEY don't have the truth, you still don't get anywhere.
Oh, and who minds a little torture here and there anyway, no?
My deepest sympathies...
Lets say in 6 months from now, some math whiz finds a way to reduce the keyspace down to an 8 bit key?
Quick rule: You can't decrypt what you don't have.
Sure, this time... But that may or may not be the case next time.
Sure... Unless you pad the shorter messages with nulls and use a uniform pad length...
Except the timing has changed -- We don't need to destroy the data between when an emergency is identified and when a crash happens, now the data destruction (of the pad) can begin as soon as the data is written (to the drive)
If the data is intended to be written once, and only read when the drone returns to it's home (and never needs to be read in flight), there are some more fun possibilities here.
The pad's data needs to be the same size as the data you're carrying, but it doesn't need to be the same format. Say you need to store 100GB of data, but store the pad using 100MB chips which can be independantly destroyed (or dumped) in a matter of minutes or seconds. Each chip would be destroyed as it is written, making the maximum amount of recoverable data 100MB even if nobody pulls the plug.
Micro ROM chips with individiual micro explosives, designed to "eject" the dust size remains into the intake of the jet engines would probably be amusing to recover.
Drop the hard drive in the ocean. While someone _may_ eventually find it, it is unlikely.
Sure, that will work when a plane is over Chinese airspace and needs to make an emergency landing...
*sigh*
Unless, of course, you're worried about the encryption scheme being broken in the near term.
Bingo. Short-term might not even be all that short, information from 9-12 months ago might still be useful in some cases...
What could go wrong?
It's still up now... *blink*
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June 6th, 2006: The people in the pictures below have my friend's T-Mobile Sidekick. Instead of doing the honorable thing when finding someone's phone in a taxi, they instead kept it.
I have found 8 cell phones in the last couple years in taxis. EVERY single one I have contacted the owner (by leaving a message on their voice mail or by answering their phone and telling their friends that I have the phone) and returned it promptly. When people have found my phone, they have also in turn returned it.
When my friend realized that she had left the Sidekick in the taxi she asked me to immediately send a message to the phone saying that we would give a reward for the phone. There was no response. After a day of waiting, she had to go to the store and spend over $300 on a new Sidekick. When she put her SIM card in, she saw that the person(s) that had taken the phone had not only signed on to AOL leaving their name and password in the phone, but they had taken pictures of themselves.
I immediately contacted the AOL name: Sashacristal8905 and requested that the Sidekick be returned. I was immediately told that my "white ass" didn't deserve it back. That she was not a "white bitch" (my friend who is a blonde white girl had pics on the phone this person had obviously seen) stupid enough to return a phone she found. After lots of threats, she said she and her boy would wait for me at:
Sashacristal8905: i got ball this is my adress 108 20 37 av corona come n do it iam give u the sidekick so I can hit you wit it
So, anyways..this is my story. If you happen to know these people in the picture please let me know at: stolensidekick@gmail.com I am not going to go to the address posted above, because a.) Not going to waste my time going to a probable fake address b.) If it is real, there will be a physical altercation and I would probably wind up arrested which would do no good to anyone. I'd rather just embarrass the thief as much as possible. Teach them a lesson on the etiquette of returning peoples lost belongings.
UPDATE #1: Thanx to some cyberwork of friends, found out they have a Myspace acct: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=us er.viewprofile&friendID=78722066
UPDATE #2: Some people are asking how we have their pics and AOL name. The way a Sidekick works, is that when you use it, all the data on it get's uploaded automatically to the T-Mobile server. So pictures you have taken, AOL names and passwords u have used, etc are all on the server. So when my friend turned on her new Sidekick and put her new SIM card in, all the data downloaded on to her phone. And that's how we have everything.
Some people also suggested this may be a ploy of some kind. If you notice, there are NO ads on this website. There are NO outside links besides the one to their MySpace page. I am only doing this to bring embarrassment to people who have no moral value in this world.
UPDATE #3: More questions answered. My friend left her Sidekick II in a taxi inManhattan (where we live). The person(s) that took it live in Corona Queens which is part of NYC. As for contacting the police, a NYPD officer has contacted me already (he found this link on a blog) and informed me how to handle this situation. My friend and I will stop by a police station tomorrow with the receipt and serial. Another friend at T-Mobile has already gotten us the records we need to prove that these people took the phone as well as the numbers that they called with it. Right now, I am more concerned about spreading this story. I want people to realize that what goes around, comes around. If you find a phone in a taxi or elsewhere.. it is NOT yours.. return it....and when u lose an item, then the same will happen for u.
Except that the RIAA/MPAA is trying to use the legal system to force their business model to continue.
Unfortunately, until you actually use a PVR it's tough to really understand how liberating it is to no longer be a slave to network scheduling, commercials, or any of the other offensive things networks do to attempt to annoy their customer base.
Unfortunately, your country is trying (through negotiation) to impact the law in other countries too, and to push similar crap out to the rest of the planet.
They don't... There is no constitutional (or any other) right to maintain a poorly thought out business model.
For a warranty complaint, I can see that. For anything else, that's just a reason to not use Best Buy...
Ask for your old parts back and dispose of them yourself. Odds of someone dumpster diving AND having the resources to fix a water-logged drive aren't good, whereas odds of a Best Buy-type store not properly disposing of the drive are substantially better.
Cite?
Not on the phone, the Palm...
Not the fee that you the consumer pay, but rather, the fees that merchants pay...
If you only use the built-in apps, it's not TOO far off...
:)
Luckily, there are more choices then the built-in apps