There has been an ill fated attempt by sony at SACD (Super Audio CD) which never caught on. Then there is DVDA - which has/will not catch on either.
The reason people bought CD's to replace vinyl and tapes is because CD's were a breakthrough in technology (i.e. convenience) - there was the value added for the consumers to buy into it. About the same as MP3's/AAC is now - new technology will only succeed if it adds something new and useful, regardless of whether it is driven by the record companies or not.
I agree, it is "it is a privilege to come to this country" and you do need to "make sure they'll appreciate it". A potential solution would be to make all foreigners wear a distinctive id - how about a yellow star? So everyone else knows that they are the ones responsible for all of USA's problems. And if any of them protest - just send them to the camp in Guantanamo. This will also allow not to falsely identify "caucasian suburban minors" for "the U.S.'s hitlist".
How are they planning to deal with the large numbers of false positives a system like this will generate? In my experience when you try to predict such low probability events as being a terrorist (no matter what you 'should' believe, even 100,000 terrorists in the US is only 0.0004%) the number of false positives far exceeds the number of true ones (or even the potentially true ones if you picked them all up).
And I really don't think a 'fly' list is the solution - if it automatically lets you fly, and considering that suicide bombers rarely have a history, it would be too obvious a back door.
First of all, EULA's are hardly enforceable. And yes, virus scanners do something reasonably similar - so depends who the program is by and how much it pisses of the creators of the binaries.
Now, somebody run a copy of Windows through this thing.
It's not illegal, and it's not price fixing (setting prices above a competitive level). Levels of (2nd degree) price discrimination (although supported by limited quality differentiation) are widely practiced by airlines (last minute business traveler fares anyone?).
In fact it has been attempted on a consumer-by-consumer (3rd degree) basis by Amazon not too long ago. What happened is people found out through discussion in forums, consumer outcry followed and Amazon stopped it (search for the articles/blogs if you want).
In other news [a few years from now]: The large number of crashed of US made equipment used in other parts of the world has been attributed to the use of the wrong IP version and lack of conversion.
NASA has been tapped for their experience in the field.
MIT needs those IP's so it can assign them to things like this scanner.
The setup of the scanner you suggest will require more IP's which have not been planned for by MIT, and so will only be designed if you are willing to donate some IP's.
That's true, from the photos it looks like it just rolled along a pretty much flat field.
The setup simply looks too flimsy (assembled out of two bikes?) to go over any significant obstacles.
I do not doubt that the tracking system, etc. are impressive - they've just got to hook them onto a decent base and send it across a more challenging landscape. On the other hand that will seem like a military application then:)
No, really, didn't they think that the minority who are using the accounts in committing crimes will just move to (foreign) services that are not affected by this. While the legitimate users will be inconvenienced...
Do you suggest one construct a nuclear reactor using uranium ore purchased online, hook it up to a Gauss gun, and shoot the first RIAA lawyer that comes after you?
I'm sure they already know about Usenet and IRC and (insert other less prominent distribution methods here). It seems they are more concerned about scaring away the average person (who doesn't even know what Usenet is, or how to operate an IRC client) but just runs Kazaa or another easy to use Windows p2p client.
It's clear that all piracy can not be stopped - the intent few will always pirate through more obscure networks regardless of the level of litigation, this is just a question of going after the most prominent network with the least tech savvy users.
Random employees at a hospital - no it would not be ok. But how about a more likely scenario of your doctor (who has the righ to access) looking through their database and stumbling onto something like this. Or an even more likely case of a product database at [insert retailer/manufacturer name here].
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for privacy and security, this just seems like a method that will give far too many false positives (intrusions) for it to be effective.
Don't trust the parent, it may be an attempt to persuade people to substitute a potentially insecure K++ for the proven security features of tin foil hats.
Either way, a tin foil hat is still a good security supplement even if this hype is true.
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I hope they haven't recycled the imperial to numeric conversion code.
Somebody want to contribute an open source alternative to them?
There has been an ill fated attempt by sony at SACD (Super Audio CD) which never caught on. Then there is DVDA - which has/will not catch on either.
The reason people bought CD's to replace vinyl and tapes is because CD's were a breakthrough in technology (i.e. convenience) - there was the value added for the consumers to buy into it. About the same as MP3's/AAC is now - new technology will only succeed if it adds something new and useful, regardless of whether it is driven by the record companies or not.
Once the Linux port is done, and we have a wide selection of GUI's, there will be a USB driver written for the built in port.
Clearly, he just predicted the making of the prediction after his death.
You are kidding modding me 'Insightful' for this... right?
I agree, it is "it is a privilege to come to this country" and you do need to "make sure they'll appreciate it". A potential solution would be to make all foreigners wear a distinctive id - how about a yellow star? So everyone else knows that they are the ones responsible for all of USA's problems. And if any of them protest - just send them to the camp in Guantanamo. This will also allow not to falsely identify "caucasian suburban minors" for "the U.S.'s hitlist".
Haven't you heard, driving and therefore using up gas funds terrorism.
How are they planning to deal with the large numbers of false positives a system like this will generate? In my experience when you try to predict such low probability events as being a terrorist (no matter what you 'should' believe, even 100,000 terrorists in the US is only 0.0004%) the number of false positives far exceeds the number of true ones (or even the potentially true ones if you picked them all up).
And I really don't think a 'fly' list is the solution - if it automatically lets you fly, and considering that suicide bombers rarely have a history, it would be too obvious a back door.
First of all, EULA's are hardly enforceable. And yes, virus scanners do something reasonably similar - so depends who the program is by and how much it pisses of the creators of the binaries.
Now, somebody run a copy of Windows through this thing.
It's not illegal, and it's not price fixing (setting prices above a competitive level). Levels of (2nd degree) price discrimination (although supported by limited quality differentiation) are widely practiced by airlines (last minute business traveler fares anyone?).
In fact it has been attempted on a consumer-by-consumer (3rd degree) basis by Amazon not too long ago. What happened is people found out through discussion in forums, consumer outcry followed and Amazon stopped it (search for the articles/blogs if you want).
www.petsorfood.com on the other hand is still going strong
In other news [a few years from now]: The large number of crashed of US made equipment used in other parts of the world has been attributed to the use of the wrong IP version and lack of conversion.
NASA has been tapped for their experience in the field.
MIT needs those IP's so it can assign them to things like this scanner.
The setup of the scanner you suggest will require more IP's which have not been planned for by MIT, and so will only be designed if you are willing to donate some IP's.
That's true, from the photos it looks like it just rolled along a pretty much flat field.
:)
The setup simply looks too flimsy (assembled out of two bikes?) to go over any significant obstacles.
I do not doubt that the tracking system, etc. are impressive - they've just got to hook them onto a decent base and send it across a more challenging landscape. On the other hand that will seem like a military application then
No, the tower is not for self defense (what!??!?!) or to dry yourself (as indeed hotels do provide towels last time I checked)
For the unenlightened, this is from South Park (S5E8 - 8 Aug 01 - Towelie)
http://www.tvtome.com/SouthPark/season5.html#ep73
13.6sec * 4096 = 55705.6sec
= 928.4...min
= 15h 28min 25.6 sec
What hardware are they running this on (here is where someone replies RTFA). I would have hoped that it would take longer...
So now, let's tell them that they can be tracked down... so next time they know better and don't get caught
What is the point of something like this?
No, really, didn't they think that the minority who are using the accounts in committing crimes will just move to (foreign) services that are not affected by this. While the legitimate users will be inconvenienced...
Do you suggest one construct a nuclear reactor using uranium ore purchased online, hook it up to a Gauss gun, and shoot the first RIAA lawyer that comes after you?
I'm sure they already know about Usenet and IRC and (insert other less prominent distribution methods here). It seems they are more concerned about scaring away the average person (who doesn't even know what Usenet is, or how to operate an IRC client) but just runs Kazaa or another easy to use Windows p2p client.
It's clear that all piracy can not be stopped - the intent few will always pirate through more obscure networks regardless of the level of litigation, this is just a question of going after the most prominent network with the least tech savvy users.
Random employees at a hospital - no it would not be ok. But how about a more likely scenario of your doctor (who has the righ to access) looking through their database and stumbling onto something like this. Or an even more likely case of a product database at [insert retailer/manufacturer name here].
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for privacy and security, this just seems like a method that will give far too many false positives (intrusions) for it to be effective.
I agree, it's just too likely that it will be people from within the organization just 'poking around' with no ill intent.
:)
It's just human nature - same as having to open a box with the sign 'do not open' on it
Add to this that authorized workers will likely be told about these and told to keep out - causing a flood of 'I wonder what's in there...'
Don't trust the parent, it may be an attempt to persuade people to substitute a potentially insecure K++ for the proven security features of tin foil hats.
Either way, a tin foil hat is still a good security supplement even if this hype is true.
How about butane in lighters? The airlines allow lighters onboard without any problems.
Maybe it will come down to lobbying by the manufacturers though to get the cells approved on planes
But I can't resists... imagine a bunch of terrorists with a beowulf cluster of those on a plane
Hey, the chinese are building a secret moon base as we speak, and you forgot the volcano layer:
3 0/1227223
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/