It would seem to me that asserting that I have a higher probability of committing a crime in the future might be libel. Would it be possible to get this list (based on an FOIA suit), then organize a class-action libel suit?
Given that SGI is a very ACTIVE contributor to the Linux kernel development, I would suspect that SGI patented these ideas in self defense, and will grant license to use them in the Linux kernel. It's probably more a case of "hey, this is a good idea - let's make sure certain parties don't steal it..."
As I said in my previous post, I realize that the memory controller section of the chip can be redesigned. I realize that AMD would rather have a good way to sunset the current chips when a new memory design comes out. I largely wanted to make sure that I wasn't the ONLY one to realize this.
However, look at what happened during the transition from SDR to DDR, or from DDR to RDRAM - all that had to be redesigned was the external memory controller chip, which allowed the release of mobos that supported the new RAM standards fairly quickly. How quickly would they have been supported if the Celeron/Duron chips had not had external memory controllers?
Also, something that occurred to me as I slept - how do they handle memory coherency in a multiprocessor system? Does each CPU have its own memory, and they coordinate cachelines? (sort of a ccNUMA type arrangement) Or do they have a single external memory controller that all the CPUs talk to (and take the speed hit)?
If the former, that would have a pretty large impact on Linux. If the latter, then a SMP machine would take a large speed hit relative to a UMP machine due to the slower memory access.
I have to wonder about the lifespan of a CPU that has an integrated memory controller of any type - not just DDR, but RDRAM, or FOORAM, or NARFRAM. What happens to the family when a new RAM interface comes along?
Now, for high-integration CPUs designed for embedded style apps I can see it, but for a main-line CPU it seems to me that tying the memory controller to the CPU limits the lifespan of the design.
I realize that should POITRAM become the new speed king that the RAM controller block of the CPU can be redesigned, and I understand that putting the RAM controller in the chip can increase the memory bandwidth to the CPU.
One reason engineering students don't take more courses out of major (like humanities) is there isn't enough time.
Please allow me to use myself as a case-in-point: I got my BSEE in eight semesters, and was carrying close to the maximum allowed classload every semester (as in, "If you want to take any more classes, you will have to go to the college administration for approval"). This is IN ADDITION TO taking several college courses in high school, getting the equivelent of a semester out of the way even before I graduated from high school. I was on academic scholarships that were limited to eight semesters, so had I not graduated in 4 years I would have had great hardship in continuing my schooling.
I didn't have time to take anything that wasn't absolutely required for my major.
Now, had I been allowed to have two more semesters to get my degree, then I would have been able to take more classes outside of my narrow focus.
My question is, "How long will it take to get an accredited degree from this univeristy?"
While generators may be popular with the RV crowd, they are not very popular with the crowd that camps AROUND the RV crowd.
Also, the efficency of a generator powering a small load is TERRIBLE! If you are running loads totaling a couple of KW gens are bad, but for a 200 watt computer the generator will not run well at all.
My advice is: For something small and simple, that takes a single DC voltage at low current, buy one of the better 12 adaptors you see at Radio Shack or Wal-mart.
If it takes more than one voltage, or takes a lot of current, just use an inverter. Designing a DC-DC converter to be a) low noise, b) efficent, c) well-regulated, and d) reliable is a tricky task - there are whole companies that make a very good living selling this sort of thing. The efficency of a modern inverter is very high, and the total loss of going 12VDC -> 120VAC -> 17VDC or whatever your laptop wants is not much - you would save more power by picking the right computer than by trying to fink around with a power supply.
First, I suggest you look up the definition of "troll" as applied to message boards - that which you do not agree with is not ipso-facto a troll.
Second, in response to your assertion that hams would not do as I've described, I have a three word response: seventy-five meters.
No poetry, but some questions.
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Is this any different than copyrighting my e-mail address?
Is this any different than copyrighting the expression "Hey Wowbagger, Open Says Me!" and requiring anybody who sends me an email to send that as part of the mail (along with the trademark)?
In short, what is this company's business model? How do they plan on making money on this idea? Or is this just a late entry into the.COM craze?
You miss the point. The point is to convice Starbucks to "play nice", by demonstrating the consiquences of not playing nice.
You jam them off the air, accepting that you won't be able to use the frequency either. You then demonstrate to them that this is the classical Prisoner's Dilemma - if we both are nice, we both win. If we both are nasty, we both lose. If one is nasty and one is nice, nasty wins.
The long-term winning strategy is "Nice first, the whatever the other guy does." PT started out nice, Starbucks started out nasty. So PT goes REALLY nasty. If Starbucks goes nice (by moving to a different channel), then PT goes nice.
Of course, since PT is providing a better service than Starbucks, Starbuck's cannot win playing nice UNLESS they shift their paradigm - perhaps co-operating wit PT in this one area to provide better coverage (e.g. Starbucks pays PT for a share of their T1 bandwidth in exchange for allowing Starbucks users in. Sure, in that locatilty you can get in free, but in other areas you cannot - so if you are a traveler you are better off subscribing.)
This just goes to show the flaw in all business thinking now-a-days - everybody treats the world as a zero-sum game ("For me to win, others must lose") rather than looking for non-zero-sum solutions ("Here's how we can ALL win"). Starbucks could have easily made this a win-win situation ("We'll kick in for bandwidth, you let our customers in, but also let anybody else in too.").
First of all, among equal level licencees, he who is first wins - since both parties are operating under part 15 rules, the Personal T. folks would win in an FCC action as they were on frequency first, and can prove it.
Second, he with the better license wins. Since 802.11b is FCC part 15 in a band that Hams occupy, get a licensed amateur to set up a station in that band, running max legal, and simply STOMP Starbucks out. Since a ham operates under FCC part 97, which trumps part 15, when Starbucks complains the ham can say "Sorry, but you have to ACCEPT all interference from my system - you are part 15, look at your license. Also, you are CAUSING interference in my system - stop immediately, as you are in violation of part 15."
While this sort of thing is frowned upon by the Amateur Radio Relay League, this may be what is needed to drive the message home to the companies that CASH does not make RIGHT.
It is unlikely you will see an effective Xserver for this card any time soon. While nVidia may only provide closed-source drivers (save for the barest minimum source-level shim to allow their drivers to work with a few different kernels), at least nVidia pays programmers to support their cards under !MSWindows.
ATI will provide some documentation to selected members of the XFree development team, but they do not release all the programming information to the world, nor do they pay anybody to support their cards.
Perhaps that might change if enough people make it clear to ATI that Free Software drivers for XFree, source on the CD that comes with the card and pre-compiled binary modules for the current releases of XFree will sell more cards.
Of course, the odds of this happening any time soon are roughly 2-to-the-9421 power, and falling...
"In the beginning, God Said, Let there Be Lips... deedle-deedle-deedle-deedle
Funny, but in all the showings I've been too this has never happened. I wonder what would happen - would the entire audience turn to the offending virgin (a true slut would NEVER allow this to happen) and shout "Turn the FUCKING PHONE OFF VIRGIN!"
Many of the comments have been of the form "$OtherCompany has created UGs for $OtherProduct, so what's the big deal?" And I agree, if that is all this is, then more power to them.
However, given Microsoft's long history of AstroTurfing, I think folks are right to be suspicious of this - is this real grassroots support or is this manicured AstroTurf?
Remember, real grass gets weeds, Astroturf doesn't. If these are REAL UG's, then there will be plenty of "Hey, this (doesn't work | sucks | is too hard)" type complaints, both in the meetings and on the web sites. If this is AstroTurf, then it will be all smiles and roses and drink the KoolAid, and Microsoft will point to these pseudo-UGs and say "See all the support you get from the user community? Just like Open Source!"
To speed up the encryption process, most of the files is already encrypted and only a cached portion is automatically decrypted when the user is in range. This means it takes around six seconds to encrypt and decrypt data.
So while most files stay encrypted (and note: I did not imply the whole drive was being decrypted, a fact you would have noticed had you read my short post as well as I had read the article), the system decrypts some files automatically. I doubt the system is decrypting to RAM only - six seconds is a long time for a modern system, so I would infer that the system is decrypting all open files to shadow copies on disk. If it were simply decrypting the files as they were read into RAM, then I would expect the process to add fractions of a second.
The point of my post is that systems like this are much like locking the doors on a convertable - while you might feel safer, in true all you are doing is fooling yourself. REAL security is hard, it gets in the way, and it therefor unacceptable to most folks. You want to see real secure work, work with the spooks.
The problem is that the data is kept unencrypted UNTIL the user leaves. What if the machine goes down, say due to a battery going flat? Then you have unencrypted data setting on the hard drive.
The only SAFE way to do this is to keep ALL data in non-volatile storage encrypted, and only decrypt into volatile RAM. The keys for the decryption need to be physically seperate from the machine (in the "watch" that the user wears), and the means of communicating those keys to the machine needs to be as secure as possible (i.e. no Bluetooth, no IrDA - preferably a capacitively coupled system requiring the user to touch the machine to transfer the keys.) And there should be a passphrase required to unlock the keys from the watch, so that even if the watch is stolen, without the user's passphrase it is useless.
The machine needs to "zeroize" (that's the industry accepted term, but gak! I hate it!) as soon as the user breaks connection with the machine - that means IMMEDIATELY flush all RAM!
Otherwise, this is little better than a locking screen saver and some token security - it can and will fail because the weakest link (the user) will screw up at some point - he will leave the machine and watch in the hotel room while he (swims|showers...) and BANG - there's your window of opportunity.
Additional data - not only is there HTTPS server bogging bigtime right now, but it will reject any packets with the Explicit Congestion Notify bit set - so if you are running a real OS that actually implements the TCP standard, you may need to
(Tough break about the cut. Perhaps you can post the scene script when the movie it out...)
But enough about CleverNickName... It seems that Creative's HTTPS order transaction server is also/.'ed into the stone age. I'm trying to order a couple of VOIP Blasters, and while I can do the non-secure part of the system great, all I get when I try to proceed to checkout is "Server timed out".
Hmmmm. Just like a brick and mortar - Plenty of stuff in the store, but not enough damn cashiers....
Something kind of like this happened to me...
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I started receiving an unsolicted magazine, "Home Mechanix". Ninty or more percent of the magazine was junk, so I'd just toss them.
One day, I get a bill in the mail, saying I owed them for the subscription, and that if I didn't pay they'd forward it to Collections.
I wrote back, informing them that
I'd never subscribed for the magazine
They were in violation of the US postal code
If this ever showed up on any credit report of mine, I'd bring criminal charges of mail fraud against them as well as civil charges.
<voice font="Jim Nabors">Sur-Prize Sur-Prize Sur-Prize!</voice> I got a mail back from them saying "Uhhh, we checked our records, and we can find no evidence you ever signed up for this. Our collections is purely internal, and never would have shown up on your report. We're sorry, please don't kill us!". I figure it was the old "send them crap and bill them" scam, and when they found out that I wasn't going to play, they backpedaled faster than BillG on Palladium being DRM....
So, here's how to screw them over
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Mark the book "Refused - return to sender", and put it back in the mail box. The USPS will return the book to the sender and charge them for doing so, thus costing the sender more money. Plus, they now have all these books to get rid of.
I have the fortune to live near The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas. They are one of the leading space museums (in the same league as the Smithsonian), and their biggest claim to fame is the fact that they have the largest collection of Russian Space artifacts outside Russia. This is in large part due to their main exhibit, the Hall Of Space.
The Hall of Space shows the evolution of the Space Race, from World War II (including a fully restored V2 rocket) to the modern day. But rather than being a "rah rah rah, we beat you to the M-ooon! Nyah-Nyah!" it is a very balanced portrail of just how close the race was, and just how bad the Russians were kicking our asses at first. Thus, the Russians really like the Cosmosphere, and when they are looking for a place outside their own museums to house artifacts they call the Cosmosphere first.
In the Hall of Space they make a point I've not seen made anywhere else - they point out that JFK was trying to find a means of competition between the USSR and the USA that didn't involve building large amounts of weapons, so he started the space race to "drain off" some of the competition, hoping to keep both sides working on that rather than destroying the world.
And it seems to have worked.
So in a very real way the space race was "mankind racing against itself" - racing to mature away from the need to destroy itself.
Really, if you are ever to be anywhere within 200 miles of the Cosmosphere, I urge you to go there. If you are crossing the US on either I40 or I70, then you owe yourself the side trip.
(No, I neither work for the Cosmosphere nor own any interest in it.)
If you are interested, drop me a line in my journal, and I'll give you more detailed advise.
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All that would cover would be the REASON an individual was listed - not the fact the individual was listed.
At the worst, you might have to file an initial FOIA on each person to find out if they ARE on the list.
It would seem to me that asserting that I have a higher probability of committing a crime in the future might be libel. Would it be possible to get this list (based on an FOIA suit), then organize a class-action libel suit?
Given that SGI is a very ACTIVE contributor to the Linux kernel development, I would suspect that SGI patented these ideas in self defense, and will grant license to use them in the Linux kernel. It's probably more a case of "hey, this is a good idea - let's make sure certain parties don't steal it..."
As I said in my previous post, I realize that the memory controller section of the chip can be redesigned. I realize that AMD would rather have a good way to sunset the current chips when a new memory design comes out. I largely wanted to make sure that I wasn't the ONLY one to realize this.
However, look at what happened during the transition from SDR to DDR, or from DDR to RDRAM - all that had to be redesigned was the external memory controller chip, which allowed the release of mobos that supported the new RAM standards fairly quickly. How quickly would they have been supported if the Celeron/Duron chips had not had external memory controllers?
Also, something that occurred to me as I slept - how do they handle memory coherency in a multiprocessor system? Does each CPU have its own memory, and they coordinate cachelines? (sort of a ccNUMA type arrangement) Or do they have a single external memory controller that all the CPUs talk to (and take the speed hit)?
If the former, that would have a pretty large impact on Linux. If the latter, then a SMP machine would take a large speed hit relative to a UMP machine due to the slower memory access.
I have to wonder about the lifespan of a CPU that has an integrated memory controller of any type - not just DDR, but RDRAM, or FOORAM, or NARFRAM. What happens to the family when a new RAM interface comes along?
Now, for high-integration CPUs designed for embedded style apps I can see it, but for a main-line CPU it seems to me that tying the memory controller to the CPU limits the lifespan of the design.
I realize that should POITRAM become the new speed king that the RAM controller block of the CPU can be redesigned, and I understand that putting the RAM controller in the chip can increase the memory bandwidth to the CPU.
But it does cause me to think....
One reason engineering students don't take more courses out of major (like humanities) is there isn't enough time.
Please allow me to use myself as a case-in-point: I got my BSEE in eight semesters, and was carrying close to the maximum allowed classload every semester (as in, "If you want to take any more classes, you will have to go to the college administration for approval"). This is IN ADDITION TO taking several college courses in high school, getting the equivelent of a semester out of the way even before I graduated from high school. I was on academic scholarships that were limited to eight semesters, so had I not graduated in 4 years I would have had great hardship in continuing my schooling.
I didn't have time to take anything that wasn't absolutely required for my major.
Now, had I been allowed to have two more semesters to get my degree, then I would have been able to take more classes outside of my narrow focus.
My question is, "How long will it take to get an accredited degree from this univeristy?"
While generators may be popular with the RV crowd, they are not very popular with the crowd that camps AROUND the RV crowd.
Also, the efficency of a generator powering a small load is TERRIBLE! If you are running loads totaling a couple of KW gens are bad, but for a 200 watt computer the generator will not run well at all.
My advice is: For something small and simple, that takes a single DC voltage at low current, buy one of the better 12 adaptors you see at Radio Shack or Wal-mart.
If it takes more than one voltage, or takes a lot of current, just use an inverter. Designing a DC-DC converter to be a) low noise, b) efficent, c) well-regulated, and d) reliable is a tricky task - there are whole companies that make a very good living selling this sort of thing. The efficency of a modern inverter is very high, and the total loss of going 12VDC -> 120VAC -> 17VDC or whatever your laptop wants is not much - you would save more power by picking the right computer than by trying to fink around with a power supply.
First, I suggest you look up the definition of "troll" as applied to message boards - that which you do not agree with is not ipso-facto a troll.
Second, in response to your assertion that hams would not do as I've described, I have a three word response: seventy-five meters.
Is this any different than copyrighting my e-mail address?
.COM craze?
Is this any different than copyrighting the expression "Hey Wowbagger, Open Says Me!" and requiring anybody who sends me an email to send that as part of the mail (along with the trademark)?
In short, what is this company's business model? How do they plan on making money on this idea? Or is this just a late entry into the
You miss the point. The point is to convice Starbucks to "play nice", by demonstrating the consiquences of not playing nice.
You jam them off the air, accepting that you won't be able to use the frequency either. You then demonstrate to them that this is the classical Prisoner's Dilemma - if we both are nice, we both win. If we both are nasty, we both lose. If one is nasty and one is nice, nasty wins.
The long-term winning strategy is "Nice first, the whatever the other guy does." PT started out nice, Starbucks started out nasty. So PT goes REALLY nasty. If Starbucks goes nice (by moving to a different channel), then PT goes nice.
Of course, since PT is providing a better service than Starbucks, Starbuck's cannot win playing nice UNLESS they shift their paradigm - perhaps co-operating wit PT in this one area to provide better coverage (e.g. Starbucks pays PT for a share of their T1 bandwidth in exchange for allowing Starbucks users in. Sure, in that locatilty you can get in free, but in other areas you cannot - so if you are a traveler you are better off subscribing.)
This just goes to show the flaw in all business thinking now-a-days - everybody treats the world as a zero-sum game ("For me to win, others must lose") rather than looking for non-zero-sum solutions ("Here's how we can ALL win"). Starbucks could have easily made this a win-win situation ("We'll kick in for bandwidth, you let our customers in, but also let anybody else in too.").
Granted, part 15 doesn't say ANYTHING about that, but the accepted industry practice is "first come, first claim".
First of all, among equal level licencees, he who is first wins - since both parties are operating under part 15 rules, the Personal T. folks would win in an FCC action as they were on frequency first, and can prove it.
Second, he with the better license wins. Since 802.11b is FCC part 15 in a band that Hams occupy, get a licensed amateur to set up a station in that band, running max legal, and simply STOMP Starbucks out. Since a ham operates under FCC part 97, which trumps part 15, when Starbucks complains the ham can say "Sorry, but you have to ACCEPT all interference from my system - you are part 15, look at your license. Also, you are CAUSING interference in my system - stop immediately, as you are in violation of part 15."
While this sort of thing is frowned upon by the Amateur Radio Relay League, this may be what is needed to drive the message home to the companies that CASH does not make RIGHT.
It is unlikely you will see an effective Xserver for this card any time soon. While nVidia may only provide closed-source drivers (save for the barest minimum source-level shim to allow their drivers to work with a few different kernels), at least nVidia pays programmers to support their cards under !MSWindows.
ATI will provide some documentation to selected members of the XFree development team, but they do not release all the programming information to the world, nor do they pay anybody to support their cards.
Perhaps that might change if enough people make it clear to ATI that Free Software drivers for XFree, source on the CD that comes with the card and pre-compiled binary modules for the current releases of XFree will sell more cards.
Of course, the odds of this happening any time soon are roughly 2-to-the-9421 power, and falling...
Funny, but in all the showings I've been too this has never happened. I wonder what would happen - would the entire audience turn to the offending virgin (a true slut would NEVER allow this to happen) and shout "Turn the FUCKING PHONE OFF VIRGIN!"
Many of the comments have been of the form "$OtherCompany has created UGs for $OtherProduct, so what's the big deal?" And I agree, if that is all this is, then more power to them.
However, given Microsoft's long history of AstroTurfing, I think folks are right to be suspicious of this - is this real grassroots support or is this manicured AstroTurf?
Remember, real grass gets weeds, Astroturf doesn't. If these are REAL UG's, then there will be plenty of "Hey, this (doesn't work | sucks | is too hard)" type complaints, both in the meetings and on the web sites. If this is AstroTurf, then it will be all smiles and roses and drink the KoolAid, and Microsoft will point to these pseudo-UGs and say "See all the support you get from the user community? Just like Open Source!"
So while most files stay encrypted (and note: I did not imply the whole drive was being decrypted, a fact you would have noticed had you read my short post as well as I had read the article), the system decrypts some files automatically. I doubt the system is decrypting to RAM only - six seconds is a long time for a modern system, so I would infer that the system is decrypting all open files to shadow copies on disk. If it were simply decrypting the files as they were read into RAM, then I would expect the process to add fractions of a second.
The point of my post is that systems like this are much like locking the doors on a convertable - while you might feel safer, in true all you are doing is fooling yourself. REAL security is hard, it gets in the way, and it therefor unacceptable to most folks. You want to see real secure work, work with the spooks.
The problem is that the data is kept unencrypted UNTIL the user leaves. What if the machine goes down, say due to a battery going flat? Then you have unencrypted data setting on the hard drive.
The only SAFE way to do this is to keep ALL data in non-volatile storage encrypted, and only decrypt into volatile RAM. The keys for the decryption need to be physically seperate from the machine (in the "watch" that the user wears), and the means of communicating those keys to the machine needs to be as secure as possible (i.e. no Bluetooth, no IrDA - preferably a capacitively coupled system requiring the user to touch the machine to transfer the keys.) And there should be a passphrase required to unlock the keys from the watch, so that even if the watch is stolen, without the user's passphrase it is useless.
The machine needs to "zeroize" (that's the industry accepted term, but gak! I hate it!) as soon as the user breaks connection with the machine - that means IMMEDIATELY flush all RAM!
Otherwise, this is little better than a locking screen saver and some token security - it can and will fail because the weakest link (the user) will screw up at some point - he will leave the machine and watch in the hotel room while he (swims|showers...) and BANG - there's your window of opportunity.
(in addition to preview being your friend... Drat!)
They don't seem to handle ZIP+4 correctly, so you need to give them just the standard ZIP code.
Additional data - not only is there HTTPS server bogging bigtime right now, but it will reject any packets with the Explicit Congestion Notify bit set - so if you are running a real OS that actually implements the TCP standard, you may need to
echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn
before you place your order.
(Tough break about the cut. Perhaps you can post the scene script when the movie it out...)
/.'ed into the stone age. I'm trying to order a couple of VOIP Blasters, and while I can do the non-secure part of the system great, all I get when I try to proceed to checkout is "Server timed out".
But enough about CleverNickName... It seems that Creative's HTTPS order transaction server is also
Hmmmm. Just like a brick and mortar - Plenty of stuff in the store, but not enough damn cashiers....
"Can you hear me now? GOOD!"
One day, I get a bill in the mail, saying I owed them for the subscription, and that if I didn't pay they'd forward it to Collections.
I wrote back, informing them that
<voice font="Jim Nabors">Sur-Prize Sur-Prize Sur-Prize!</voice> I got a mail back from them saying "Uhhh, we checked our records, and we can find no evidence you ever signed up for this. Our collections is purely internal, and never would have shown up on your report. We're sorry, please don't kill us!". I figure it was the old "send them crap and bill them" scam, and when they found out that I wasn't going to play, they backpedaled faster than BillG on Palladium being DRM....
Mark the book "Refused - return to sender", and put it back in the mail box. The USPS will return the book to the sender and charge them for doing so, thus costing the sender more money. Plus, they now have all these books to get rid of.
I have the fortune to live near The Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas. They are one of the leading space museums (in the same league as the Smithsonian), and their biggest claim to fame is the fact that they have the largest collection of Russian Space artifacts outside Russia. This is in large part due to their main exhibit, the Hall Of Space.
The Hall of Space shows the evolution of the Space Race, from World War II (including a fully restored V2 rocket) to the modern day. But rather than being a "rah rah rah, we beat you to the M-ooon! Nyah-Nyah!" it is a very balanced portrail of just how close the race was, and just how bad the Russians were kicking our asses at first. Thus, the Russians really like the Cosmosphere, and when they are looking for a place outside their own museums to house artifacts they call the Cosmosphere first.
In the Hall of Space they make a point I've not seen made anywhere else - they point out that JFK was trying to find a means of competition between the USSR and the USA that didn't involve building large amounts of weapons, so he started the space race to "drain off" some of the competition, hoping to keep both sides working on that rather than destroying the world.
And it seems to have worked.
So in a very real way the space race was "mankind racing against itself" - racing to mature away from the need to destroy itself.
Really, if you are ever to be anywhere within 200 miles of the Cosmosphere, I urge you to go there. If you are crossing the US on either I40 or I70, then you owe yourself the side trip.
(No, I neither work for the Cosmosphere nor own any interest in it.)
If you are interested, drop me a line in my journal, and I'll give you more detailed advise.