I can think of two possibilities on how this works:
The piezo-electric material moves a small piece of magnetic material containing maybe several domains across a read/write head.
The data is stored as a vibration - LCDs work by twisting a crystal, maybe data is stored by twisting the crystal so that the vibration is perpendicular to the read head.
IMHO (1) doesn't make any sense - making an array of closely packed magneto-resistive heads would be very expensive. (2) I don't see working unless they have a new type of liquid crystal that retains it's orientation after the power has been turned off, and you would still need some way of detecting the vibration.
It all seems like a grab for venture capital too me.
If you are going to quote physics - then please understand what you are talking about first.
If coulomb barriers required all the energy needed to overcome them, then you wouldn't be using an electronic computer to read this website. A process called quantum tunnelling allows the barrier to be overcome by temporarily borrowing the energy required (in basic terms).
I believe that cold fusion works by the paladium acting as a catalyst, packing the D closer togther increasing the probability that quantum tunnelling will take place.
Maybe webmasters of Wiki sites should exclude the sandbox from search engines in their robot.txt files - afterall the whole purpose of the sandbox is an unmoderated test area.
Alternately, only include links in page rankings that have a recipical link back.
Network support for streamed media and smb shares of media files
PVR functionality
Browser
Of course, this is basically an embedded OS at this point, so why not simply do that, allow the BIOS to boot to an embedded OS for instant-on functions.
Personally, I would wait for MRAM to become commercially available - instant-on with ANY OS you care to install.
Actually, use an embedded java app to get the image from the sign-up server and make the request encrypted. Then it's a simple case of comparing the IP address of where the image was requested from to the answer.
This foils the spammers because they would not have direct access to the image, if they passed on the java app, the answer's ip address won't match the request's ip address.
You don't need to send the return fuel to Mars - there is plenty of water there - just disassociate it into Hydrogen and Oxygen, compress and you have all the fuel you would need.
You could even send the equipment ahead of time to start the process before a manned mission gets underway - that way they could get back immediately if there was a problem.
Sending the small nuclear reactor needed for this would be more an issue than anything else. Although it might be possible to use wind-turbines as an energy source instead.
But should they have these rights? It's not as though they're self-evident.
As we don't live in a socialist utopia, of course anyone who produces, for want of a better word, intangiable products has the right to be able to make a living from them. It definitely can be argued that the artist's lifetime + 70 years (or whatever it stands at now) is way to long and is only there for the benefit of corporations, not artists. Just what percentage of the music available on the P2P networks are from dead artists where it can be claimed the song should be in the public domain? Practically zero.
The laws need to be there in one form or another to allow artists to produce works that others can then enjoy - and it's not just for entertainment, but also for "useful" products as well.
Let people make a payment for music that they've downloaded, but leave the distribution channel alone - they would make far more money that way.
Except no politician will bite the hand that feeds. Look at how many of those ex-hippies are calling for the legalization of pot.
Besides, I don't see this as the Copyright Wars. The RIAA and artists have the right to protect their livelihoods, just as I would have the right to go after anyone copying software that I wrote.
However, I think their reasoning is wrong. It's not that people don't want to pay for music, otherwise iTunes would have tanked, rather it's the ease of acquisition people like, and the broad choice available (look how well those Now XXX compilations sell).
Someone-else mentioned this, but I think it's worth repeating - artists should set up online tip-jars, or the RIAA/labels should set up sites where people can buy a 50c license for each song they've downloaded.
A little offtopic, but pro-pot advocates have been saying the same about the drug laws for years, and look at where that's go them.
While you have the government in the pocket of corporations (whether music or law-enforcement) you'll get no changes to the status-quo. If we fix campaign financing, then initiatives to change laws will actually get a chance.
The article does refer to the simularities with prohibition, but one of the reasons for it's repeal was that politicos liked a drink as much as the rest of us - I don't see many downloading the latest boy-band.
It seems from peoples comments here, that this simply will not work. If nothing else, you'll appear to be a relay and will get blacklisted.
So, how about this... change smtp servers so that it appears that the server is on a slow connection. This could be done by putting in a delay before send the ACK for each packet recieved. For legit messages, this wouldn't be much of a problem as volumes would be low. However, for spammers, who are relying on sending 1000s of messages per second, the added delay would become a problem for them.
Of course there is a problem with long legit messages. But in this case, just make the deley dynamic - the more packets recieved for a message, the shorter the delay.
You're missing the point entirely - it doesn't matter which scheme is used to encyrpt the passwords - they can just as easily create MD5 strings instead of crypt() hashs. It just (possibly) takes a little longer and more storage.
Better crypto isn't the answer, better passwords are. I would bet that most users have less than 8 characters in their passwords, and most of those would fall the a dictionary attack pretty quickly.
Looking at the image of the device, I would say that the laser- and photo- diodes are probably bonded or even made on the same substrate that makes up the array, so it would be very resilient to vibration.
M$ won't let this happen - I doubt that lawmakers would be able to write a bill so narrow in scope, so would have to make software companies more liable for their software, period.
Besides, WMPlayer can rip CDs, therefore would fall under such a narrow law.
Mind you, watching RIAA and M$ have a go at each other might prove interesting.
So, here's an solution for the RIAA - create their own version of p2p software, using encryption so that you have to use their software, then charge a monthly fee.
Sure, you'll always get some pirates, but the idea is to minimise the damage they do to your business.
This isn't a replacement filesystem, just a document-storage system - you won't be able to access your documents easily from a shell.
It is a good starting point though, once working, the next step would be to compile it into the kernel, so that you can create Storage partitions, etc. and be able to do something like:
Slashdot Mirror
IMHO (1) doesn't make any sense - making an array of closely packed magneto-resistive heads would be very expensive. (2) I don't see working unless they have a new type of liquid crystal that retains it's orientation after the power has been turned off, and you would still need some way of detecting the vibration.
It all seems like a grab for venture capital too me.
Give us geeks a choice between voting and women, and there can only be one result...
If you are going to quote physics - then please understand what you are talking about first.
If coulomb barriers required all the energy needed to overcome them, then you wouldn't be using an electronic computer to read this website. A process called quantum tunnelling allows the barrier to be overcome by temporarily borrowing the energy required (in basic terms).
I believe that cold fusion works by the paladium acting as a catalyst, packing the D closer togther increasing the probability that quantum tunnelling will take place.
From the Kapersky Labs web site...
"Download this App to monitor for DDOS attachs."
I remember the first Doom had co-operative multiplayer mode, something that is sadly missing from D3
Alternately, only include links in page rankings that have a recipical link back.
Easy - it's a windows CE device running VMWare running linux...
Easy - RAID 5
Isn't this SCO's business model as well?
I have a couple of further requests:
- Network support for streamed media and smb shares of media files
- PVR functionality
- Browser
Of course, this is basically an embedded OS at this point, so why not simply do that, allow the BIOS to boot to an embedded OS for instant-on functions.Personally, I would wait for MRAM to become commercially available - instant-on with ANY OS you care to install.
Actually, use an embedded java app to get the image from the sign-up server and make the request encrypted. Then it's a simple case of comparing the IP address of where the image was requested from to the answer.
This foils the spammers because they would not have direct access to the image, if they passed on the java app, the answer's ip address won't match the request's ip address.
You don't need to send the return fuel to Mars - there is plenty of water there - just disassociate it into Hydrogen and Oxygen, compress and you have all the fuel you would need.
You could even send the equipment ahead of time to start the process before a manned mission gets underway - that way they could get back immediately if there was a problem.
Sending the small nuclear reactor needed for this would be more an issue than anything else. Although it might be possible to use wind-turbines as an energy source instead.
But should they have these rights? It's not as though they're self-evident.
As we don't live in a socialist utopia, of course anyone who produces, for want of a better word, intangiable products has the right to be able to make a living from them. It definitely can be argued that the artist's lifetime + 70 years (or whatever it stands at now) is way to long and is only there for the benefit of corporations, not artists. Just what percentage of the music available on the P2P networks are from dead artists where it can be claimed the song should be in the public domain? Practically zero.
The laws need to be there in one form or another to allow artists to produce works that others can then enjoy - and it's not just for entertainment, but also for "useful" products as well.
Let people make a payment for music that they've downloaded, but leave the distribution channel alone - they would make far more money that way.
Some would say it's the same group...
Except no politician will bite the hand that feeds. Look at how many of those ex-hippies are calling for the legalization of pot.
Besides, I don't see this as the Copyright Wars. The RIAA and artists have the right to protect their livelihoods, just as I would have the right to go after anyone copying software that I wrote.
However, I think their reasoning is wrong. It's not that people don't want to pay for music, otherwise iTunes would have tanked, rather it's the ease of acquisition people like, and the broad choice available (look how well those Now XXX compilations sell).
Someone-else mentioned this, but I think it's worth repeating - artists should set up online tip-jars, or the RIAA/labels should set up sites where people can buy a 50c license for each song they've downloaded.
What? Pot smokers are a minority ???
A little offtopic, but pro-pot advocates have been saying the same about the drug laws for years, and look at where that's go them.
While you have the government in the pocket of corporations (whether music or law-enforcement) you'll get no changes to the status-quo. If we fix campaign financing, then initiatives to change laws will actually get a chance.
The article does refer to the simularities with prohibition, but one of the reasons for it's repeal was that politicos liked a drink as much as the rest of us - I don't see many downloading the latest boy-band.
It seems from peoples comments here, that this simply will not work. If nothing else, you'll appear to be a relay and will get blacklisted.
So, how about this... change smtp servers so that it appears that the server is on a slow connection. This could be done by putting in a delay before send the ACK for each packet recieved. For legit messages, this wouldn't be much of a problem as volumes would be low. However, for spammers, who are relying on sending 1000s of messages per second, the added delay would become a problem for them.
Of course there is a problem with long legit messages. But in this case, just make the deley dynamic - the more packets recieved for a message, the shorter the delay.
You're missing the point entirely - it doesn't matter which scheme is used to encyrpt the passwords - they can just as easily create MD5 strings instead of crypt() hashs. It just (possibly) takes a little longer and more storage.
Better crypto isn't the answer, better passwords are. I would bet that most users have less than 8 characters in their passwords, and most of those would fall the a dictionary attack pretty quickly.
Looking at the image of the device, I would say that the laser- and photo- diodes are probably bonded or even made on the same substrate that makes up the array, so it would be very resilient to vibration.
M$ won't let this happen - I doubt that lawmakers would be able to write a bill so narrow in scope, so would have to make software companies more liable for their software, period.
Besides, WMPlayer can rip CDs, therefore would fall under such a narrow law.
Mind you, watching RIAA and M$ have a go at each other might prove interesting.
So, here's an solution for the RIAA - create their own version of p2p software, using encryption so that you have to use their software, then charge a monthly fee.
Sure, you'll always get some pirates, but the idea is to minimise the damage they do to your business.
It's better than alienating your customers.
Not true.
This isn't a replacement filesystem, just a document-storage system - you won't be able to access your documents easily from a shell.
It is a good starting point though, once working, the next step would be to compile it into the kernel, so that you can create Storage partitions, etc. and be able to do something like:
cd music by U2Now that would be cool
Not if the image needs to be signed before being loaded onto the flash.
I can see it now...