What this should mean is greater conductivity between elements, due to less electron resistance or lower effective mass, which could lead to faster rw times.
Ahh yes, the lame, "I don't care because I don't do anything that they would care about", excuse. Well when they do care about what you care about, and the soapbox has been closed (ala Patriot Act), and the ballot box has been "suspended" (ala "possible terrorist attacks" [sick]), and your ammo box gets near empty, I hope you remember these words.
If you do not care to protect your neighbors rights, your neighbor will not care to protect yours.
After all, aren't you guys the ones always touting social responsibility? Well voting against any infringements on rights is your civic duty and social responsibility.
No one has mentioned this: http://www.mtt.org/awards/WCB's%20distinguished%20 career.htm
What you have here is power derived from a 2.4 GHz Wireless signal. What with wireless networking making it's way through the industry, you could setup a wireless power network, a bunch of small ones, and just spread the power. Drop in mesh networking and you have one hell of a stable network that can be used to pass data and power.
Wires are our real problem. Build something that doesn't cost billions and get outdated so quickly.
It would cost $85k (I have a printable quote from some manufactures on my laptop as I type) to make a mesh 5x5 miles(!) of reliable power distribution. And all of this can be changed and adapted very easy.
Some modifications to think about would be to work in storage/starter batteries to place this in areas with little to no power, weatherproofing them against every temperature variation, etc... Very easy solutions if one put his head to it.
It could even become a community project with enough local interest.
Well I said my peace and just pretty much gave away an idea I'm looking at funding for. The answer was so obvious though, and so overlooked (it was even reported in earlier/.'s), that I couldn't help it. Make what you will with it.
Honestly there were 2 things that made the internet grow so fast:
the proliferation of phone lines
the low cost of modems; and it really boomed when they're was a proliferation of preinstalled modems
Standards based wireless ISP's, using mesh networking, will make this happen again. Think of all the computers coming standard with an 802.11b/g card. Now think of meshes spanning the nation.
That would be awesome if they made Ender's Game into a movie! Even better if they did the whole series and included the ender's shadow series. Of course I doubt any movie would do it justice.
Just in for the record:). This is an awesome thing that's been done. However it's not useful if it's not willingly done; referring to the source code being revealed. They should do it voluntarilly so they can get the good press and good coders in on it. Now it will only get bad press and anyone who happens to have the source and makes fixes will be too scared to release it; even to MS. Shame... well maybe MS will spin this properly.
This means victory. Of course they don't want it to look that way but here's the deal.
Gator's been getting ton's a bad publicity. They need people to want to advertise with them, but no one wants bad publicity. They can sue the public into giving good publicity to them, that would be impossible. So the only thing they can do is pretend that they have come out with a better way of making people believe they are good, gaining good customers along the way, while in the background losing the gator stigma.
The only way to get rid of them for good is to keep giving them a bad name. Instead of Gator is bad now we need to push Claria is bad. They're in a public arena and when the public looks to them as bad they can't sell ads for the public. When they can't sell ads they go out of business.
So round one is done and we've won. Now onto round two.
Does ripping things out of the ground by their hair, skinning them, slicing them, then dipping them in a hideous ranch dip while they are still alive and possibly screaming sound more humane?
Well if it does I'd hate to be a carrot in your garden!
This post is completely true despite the following post claiming you have an appalling lack of a grasp on historical facts. On the contrary I think you summarized it well.
Now for a response to both. Europeans did come to the New World to escape religious oppression, taxes, and human rights (aka having the right to keep said relations out of stupid wars, etc..., for the safety of the family). While it is true that they were not sovereign under their own country at this point, they were ok with that because they were far enough away from the mainland that they could exercise a certain amount of freedom without fear of retribution: this is shown by the open speeches and print that became know as the newspaper that was released often. It wasn't until England started forcing these on the New World, had an appalling lack of care over the protection of said citizens, as is journalized by Benjamin Franklin and other historians and printers of the time, from the forces of the French, disallowing said people to form militias for the purpose of protection against the french, and pressing said people into the service of the English army (even if it meant the destruction of the persons farm, death of family and destruction of property), etc..., that The People Revolted! The following post (posted before but below this post hereby known as "the following post") does not take into account the actual history that lead to his version of history.
That aside I must argue against another part of what I have called "the following post". The fact is he is right that modern day liberals do argue against the statist "big" government and against monarchies. What he has failed to include though is the fact that they promote a different "big" government. What they propose is a large socialistic government in which the government provides all the peoples needs. They do this at the risk or privacy, freedom, etc...
I find this highly insulting in the fact that in order to bring this about they strip everyone of any constitutional rights under the guise of the constitution itself. They also need a massive amount of control and statism to pull this off. In essence we can have all these "benefits" if we forego all rights to use the benefits as we deem them to be used. It is a form of slavery that is even more subtle and deceptive than the monarchistic form of control; at least with a monarchy we can see who is in charge and know what we are facing: with this it is all hidden for our benefit. Not only that but it strips the power from the people and causes them to not even own the fruit of their labor(see Uniformed Commercial Code). This essentially means that our work is considered the governments, in return for benefits forced on us that we didn't want, So that the government can then borrow on our productivity to keep our dollar afloat in the international market. Of course the Republicans want the same but take a different approach to it. We are being made slaves for the sake of money, which we know doesn't return to us for our uses and is mostly wasted in efforts to force more benefits on us! What happened to government by the people, for the people?
Now for my final rant. I believe that you speak sir as a lover of liberty, not as a partisan lackey. Even if you do not enjoy the real benefits of freedom, it is obvious that you understand them. So I salute you.
I take it you have read Dr. Mark A. Ludwig's[ameaglepubs.com/free_virus.html] Books yet?
In short, anyone could write such a virus but they choose not to.
Virus writing today has been compared to childs play by people (geeks,/.'ers, et cetera) of late. I think that it is one of most underestimated, misunderstood technologies of this time. Think about the latest "BIG" virus, blaster (the same virus that we're talking about being cloned here). Sure it was written sloppy, that in itself was for a purpose I will discuss later, but it contained a definate message.
The message was in several parts (some of which aren't discussed here: "billy, stop collecting money and fix your software" and it was sent to all the "new", "unbreakable", "secure" OS's that Microsoft has staked their claim on. The fact that it was written sloppily showed that the writer was showing constraint; he only wanted to get a message across, not damage, for real, computers and the users of them.
The media may even know the real purpose of this, but of course they can't let on to it because it would ruin there agenda of hype to sell papers/airtime/etc...: it would bring virus's down to a rational level that even backwoods rural people could understand. I'm sure most/.'ers realize this too, but I thought I should balance off the hype that is/. sometimes with some reality. For a fact I know that consumers in general don't know this.
A case in point, I had a customer walk in to my WISP yesterday and he wanted to sign up with me because he got the worm and his other ISP didn't protect him from it. What were his claims of protection based on? The fact that he bought McAfee and he still got this virus. Somehow he thought it was the ISP's fault that his virus software couldn't stop this from happening.
A side not, if you ever think about taking advantage of situations like this, don't! It is in your best interest to keep the customer informed on what the real problem is; even if this means you don't gain them as a customer now, you probably will later, and when you do he'll know what is your fault or his.
This guy wasn't dumb, he was in his 60's and an established stock broker (I'm not sure if that rates as dumb or not;), but he just didn't understand why he paid money for something that can't protect against new virus'.
My point is that the general public needs made aware of what a virus is and why it works along with a list of other things related. If virus writers wanted to we could have to live with stuff like this on a constant basis. It isn't that way because virus writers have more sense than they are given credit for: they don't want to live in that kind of an environment: it only destroys a healthy economy having the same effects as decades of constant war/terrorism. Think of these guys not as graffiti artist only, but as modern day activist.
So next time you hear of a virus or one crosses your path, take time to try and find the message in it. Not wonder why it was more destructive or why it doesn't live longer (which btw the life span of virus' is measured in years/decades not months as the media/Symantic/McAfee would like you to think).
I might also add that we don't want usenet to show up on the radar of the internet public. This is one of the few private sanctuaries we have left on the net.
Amen. I totally agree with this post. Also we must think. Do we really want Microsoft's hand in the cookie jar of usenet. Just think about the consequences.
A large corporation w/ the only morals of whatever makes them more $ their going to do; and do so, I might add, with the least amount of effort put into it, because effort cost money.
Their, already, main initiative is "security" (aside from world domination and $): what do suppose they would try to do to usenet to make it secure!
They would have to dumb it down and make it kid friendly so that bans a lot of usenet traffic.
Usenet is not very anonymous to the normal user, and this company loves to collect traffic information: hey why not build it into the client; as if the client already doesn't do this.
Microsoft do for usenet what it did for email? So this means ton's of virus' and spam: which you can stop if you pay them so much money per month.
I needn't go further. Any non-MS-slave could know right away that this has huge implications! Anyways this isn't a troll so I'll shut up.
It sounds like broadband is fairly decent, except for the monthly bandwidth cap, in PA where you can find it. Is there anyone that's paying exorbitant fee's for a crappy service? Or how many people can't get broadband?
Slashdot Mirror
Probably because that is one ugly looking case!
What this should mean is greater conductivity between elements, due to less electron resistance or lower effective mass, which could lead to faster rw times.
I feel left out! I can't get Safari to get this vulnerability... Damnit!!!
Damn good quote. Of course Jefferson can be used to refute himself, but still a damn good quote.
Ahh yes, the lame, "I don't care because I don't do anything that they would care about", excuse. Well when they do care about what you care about, and the soapbox has been closed (ala Patriot Act), and the ballot box has been "suspended" (ala "possible terrorist attacks" [sick]), and your ammo box gets near empty, I hope you remember these words. If you do not care to protect your neighbors rights, your neighbor will not care to protect yours. After all, aren't you guys the ones always touting social responsibility? Well voting against any infringements on rights is your civic duty and social responsibility.
I meant to post the previous post logged in. Sorry. It was me.
Very good idea. With a little work a business plan could be made out of it.
good sig.
No one has mentioned this: http://www.mtt.org/awards/WCB's%20distinguished%20 career.htm
/.'s), that I couldn't help it. Make what you will with it.
What you have here is power derived from a 2.4 GHz Wireless signal. What with wireless networking making it's way through the industry, you could setup a wireless power network, a bunch of small ones, and just spread the power. Drop in mesh networking and you have one hell of a stable network that can be used to pass data and power.
Wires are our real problem. Build something that doesn't cost billions and get outdated so quickly.
It would cost $85k (I have a printable quote from some manufactures on my laptop as I type) to make a mesh 5x5 miles(!) of reliable power distribution. And all of this can be changed and adapted very easy.
Some modifications to think about would be to work in storage/starter batteries to place this in areas with little to no power, weatherproofing them against every temperature variation, etc... Very easy solutions if one put his head to it.
It could even become a community project with enough local interest.
Well I said my peace and just pretty much gave away an idea I'm looking at funding for. The answer was so obvious though, and so overlooked (it was even reported in earlier
It had a wooden case,
And it was called Apple.
Honestly there were 2 things that made the internet grow so fast:
the proliferation of phone lines
the low cost of modems; and it really boomed when they're was a proliferation of preinstalled modems
Standards based wireless ISP's, using mesh networking, will make this happen again. Think of all the computers coming standard with an 802.11b/g card. Now think of meshes spanning the nation.
End of story.
here here!
That would be awesome if they made Ender's Game into a movie! Even better if they did the whole series and included the ender's shadow series. Of course I doubt any movie would do it justice.
Actually have you ever heard of wtp. Google it and you might think twice about wiring anything.
Just in for the record :). This is an awesome thing that's been done. However it's not useful if it's not willingly done; referring to the source code being revealed. They should do it voluntarilly so they can get the good press and good coders in on it. Now it will only get bad press and anyone who happens to have the source and makes fixes will be too scared to release it; even to MS. Shame... well maybe MS will spin this properly.
Republicans: party of big gov't Democrats: party of really big gov't I quit.
Try Libertarian.
lol, here we go again...
dumbArgument == slashdot
This means victory. Of course they don't want it to look that way but here's the deal. Gator's been getting ton's a bad publicity. They need people to want to advertise with them, but no one wants bad publicity. They can sue the public into giving good publicity to them, that would be impossible. So the only thing they can do is pretend that they have come out with a better way of making people believe they are good, gaining good customers along the way, while in the background losing the gator stigma. The only way to get rid of them for good is to keep giving them a bad name. Instead of Gator is bad now we need to push Claria is bad. They're in a public arena and when the public looks to them as bad they can't sell ads for the public. When they can't sell ads they go out of business. So round one is done and we've won. Now onto round two.
Does ripping things out of the ground by their hair, skinning them, slicing them, then dipping them in a hideous ranch dip while they are still alive and possibly screaming sound more humane?
Well if it does I'd hate to be a carrot in your garden!
This post is completely true despite the following post claiming you have an appalling lack of a grasp on historical facts. On the contrary I think you summarized it well.
Now for a response to both. Europeans did come to the New World to escape religious oppression, taxes, and human rights (aka having the right to keep said relations out of stupid wars, etc..., for the safety of the family). While it is true that they were not sovereign under their own country at this point, they were ok with that because they were far enough away from the mainland that they could exercise a certain amount of freedom without fear of retribution: this is shown by the open speeches and print that became know as the newspaper that was released often. It wasn't until England started forcing these on the New World, had an appalling lack of care over the protection of said citizens, as is journalized by Benjamin Franklin and other historians and printers of the time, from the forces of the French, disallowing said people to form militias for the purpose of protection against the french, and pressing said people into the service of the English army (even if it meant the destruction of the persons farm, death of family and destruction of property), etc..., that The People Revolted! The following post (posted before but below this post hereby known as "the following post") does not take into account the actual history that lead to his version of history.
That aside I must argue against another part of what I have called "the following post". The fact is he is right that modern day liberals do argue against the statist "big" government and against monarchies. What he has failed to include though is the fact that they promote a different "big" government. What they propose is a large socialistic government in which the government provides all the peoples needs. They do this at the risk or privacy, freedom, etc...
I find this highly insulting in the fact that in order to bring this about they strip everyone of any constitutional rights under the guise of the constitution itself. They also need a massive amount of control and statism to pull this off. In essence we can have all these "benefits" if we forego all rights to use the benefits as we deem them to be used. It is a form of slavery that is even more subtle and deceptive than the monarchistic form of control; at least with a monarchy we can see who is in charge and know what we are facing: with this it is all hidden for our benefit. Not only that but it strips the power from the people and causes them to not even own the fruit of their labor(see Uniformed Commercial Code). This essentially means that our work is considered the governments, in return for benefits forced on us that we didn't want, So that the government can then borrow on our productivity to keep our dollar afloat in the international market. Of course the Republicans want the same but take a different approach to it. We are being made slaves for the sake of money, which we know doesn't return to us for our uses and is mostly wasted in efforts to force more benefits on us! What happened to government by the people, for the people?
Now for my final rant. I believe that you speak sir as a lover of liberty, not as a partisan lackey. Even if you do not enjoy the real benefits of freedom, it is obvious that you understand them. So I salute you.
I take it you have read Dr. Mark A. Ludwig's[ameaglepubs.com/free_virus.html] Books yet?
In short, anyone could write such a virus but they choose not to.
Virus writing today has been compared to childs play by people (geeks,The message was in several parts (some of which aren't discussed here: "billy, stop collecting money and fix your software" and it was sent to all the "new", "unbreakable", "secure" OS's that Microsoft has staked their claim on. The fact that it was written sloppily showed that the writer was showing constraint; he only wanted to get a message across, not damage, for real, computers and the users of them.
The media may even know the real purpose of this, but of course they can't let on to it because it would ruin there agenda of hype to sell papers/airtime/etc...: it would bring virus's down to a rational level that even backwoods rural people could understand. I'm sure most /.'ers realize this too, but I thought I should balance off the hype that is /. sometimes with some reality. For a fact I know that consumers in general don't know this.
A case in point, I had a customer walk in to my WISP yesterday and he wanted to sign up with me because he got the worm and his other ISP didn't protect him from it. What were his claims of protection based on? The fact that he bought McAfee and he still got this virus. Somehow he thought it was the ISP's fault that his virus software couldn't stop this from happening.
A side not, if you ever think about taking advantage of situations like this, don't! It is in your best interest to keep the customer informed on what the real problem is; even if this means you don't gain them as a customer now, you probably will later, and when you do he'll know what is your fault or his.
This guy wasn't dumb, he was in his 60's and an established stock broker (I'm not sure if that rates as dumb or not;), but he just didn't understand why he paid money for something that can't protect against new virus'.
My point is that the general public needs made aware of what a virus is and why it works along with a list of other things related. If virus writers wanted to we could have to live with stuff like this on a constant basis. It isn't that way because virus writers have more sense than they are given credit for: they don't want to live in that kind of an environment: it only destroys a healthy economy having the same effects as decades of constant war/terrorism. Think of these guys not as graffiti artist only, but as modern day activist.
So next time you hear of a virus or one crosses your path, take time to try and find the message in it. Not wonder why it was more destructive or why it doesn't live longer (which btw the life span of virus' is measured in years/decades not months as the media/Symantic/McAfee would like you to think).
I might also add that we don't want usenet to show up on the radar of the internet public. This is one of the few private sanctuaries we have left on the net.
- A large corporation w/ the only morals of whatever makes them more $ their going to do; and do so, I might add, with the least amount of effort put into it, because effort cost money.
- Their, already, main initiative is "security" (aside from world domination and $): what do suppose they would try to do to usenet to make it secure!
- They would have to dumb it down and make it kid friendly so that bans a lot of usenet traffic.
- Usenet is not very anonymous to the normal user, and this company loves to collect traffic information: hey why not build it into the client; as if the client already doesn't do this.
- Microsoft do for usenet what it did for email? So this means ton's of virus' and spam: which you can stop if you pay them so much money per month.
I needn't go further. Any non-MS-slave could know right away that this has huge implications! Anyways this isn't a troll so I'll shut up.It sounds like broadband is fairly decent, except for the monthly bandwidth cap, in PA where you can find it. Is there anyone that's paying exorbitant fee's for a crappy service? Or how many people can't get broadband?