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for 20 hours so you can use it for the other 4 hours is causing more damage than anything else can
I think not, most electronics break from the heating and cooling of the ICs. Ever notice how things rarly break while using em, but right when you turn em on? Turning it on and off several times a day because you walk away for 30 minutes is causing a lot more harm then running 24/7. Not only that the light bulb principle applys as well, it takes more power to turn the light on then it does to let it run for a little while.
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Forgive me if im reading your post wrong, but just because youve "saved your settings" dosnt mean its been put on the hard disk yet, your settings may still be in the buffer (the memory in the hard drive) waiting to be put on the actuall disk. So just turning off the system without a proper shut down will not flush the buffer to the disk. Now if your machine is setup and you tap the power button to initiate the shutdown sequence no problem, but otherwise your waiting for trouble.
I also remember signing a privacy statement that goes along the lines of them not just giving out info without court order, generally only givin with good reason.
The belive the point here is that this practice slowly fading away and the feds rules are changing to we dont really need a good reason anymore, we'll just listen to whatever we want whether or not we have good reason to.
This was the best site i could find: (little blurb from the article)
Virtual dragnet programs like TIA and CAPS II are based on the premise that the best way to protect America against terrorism is to for the government to collect as much information as it can about everyone - and these days, that is a LOT of information. They could incorporate not only government records of all kinds but individuals' medical and financial records, political beliefs, travel history, prescriptions, buying habits, communications (phone calls, e-mails and Web surfing), school records, personal and family associations, and so on.
In the last decade we have witnessed an enormous explosion in the amount of tracking and information of individuals in the United States, due mainly to two factors... READ MORE
What can I do to help stop this program?
There are at least four things you can do to help stop the blatantly un-American goal of "Total Information Awareness"
* Educate yourself about this program and tell your friends about it.
* Use the ACLU's "Action Alert" page to send a free and easy fax to President Bush asking him to pull the plug on this research.
* Let your member of Congress know how you feel (locate your member here and check out tips on writing your elected representatives.
* Support the ACLU's efforts to fight this program by joining us .
So I/dont/ have the right to assume no one is watching my every move, reading ever letter i write to my friends and family, listening to every conversation i have NOT in a public setting? Out in public is one thing, but in a private setting come on!? I want some of what your smoking...
Lets see: Privacy is not a basic right, and your obviously smoking something, what office was it you were running for again?
Could someone give a break down on how all this "nano-stuff" is going to actually help me one day? Ive heard talk of self replicating devices to repair things and the like, but that seems a LONG time away. When (and if currently how) are these "nano-anythings" going to help me out in my day to day life? In the hospital? At work?
Dont get me wrong im not implying that if its not helping me they shouldnt be working on it, id just like to know what and when its going to be usefull.
Sept 5, 2003 -- Carbon nanotubes, recently created cylinders of tightly bonded carbon atoms, have dazzled scientists and engineers with their seemingly endless list of special abilities--from incredible tensile strength to revolutionizing computer chips. In today's issue of Science, two University of Rochester researchers add another feat to the nanotubes' list: ideal photon emission.
"The emission bandwidth is as narrow as you can get at room temperature," says Lukas Novotny, professor of optics at Rochester and co-author of the study. Such a narrow and steady emission can make such fields as quantum cryptography and single-molecule sensors a practical reality.
The emission profile came as a surprise to Todd Krauss, assistant professor of chemistry at the University, and Novotny. They had set out to simply define the emission, or fluorescence, of a single carbon nanotube. By using a technique called confocal microscopy, the team illuminated a single nanotube with a strongly focused laser beam. The tube absorbed the light from the laser and then re-emitted light at new frequencies that carried information about the tube's physical characteristics and its surroundings.
The light emitted from the nanotube was in precise, discrete wavelengths, unlike most objects like molecules that radiate into a broader (i.e. more "fuzzy") range of wavelengths at room temperature.
But a greater surprise was in store for the team.
"The emission wasn't just perfectly narrow, it was steady as far as we could measure," says Krauss. In a strange quirk of quantum physics, molecules usually emit their photons for a certain time and then cease, only to resume again later, like a telegraph signal. The tubes that Krauss and Novotny measured, however, remained steady beacons to the limits of their instruments' sensitivity. "This is very exciting because for any application in quantum optics, you want a steady and precise photon emitter," says Novotny.
Narrow emissions and a complete absence of blinking have tempting implications for single photon emitters--devices needed to dependably release a single photon on command. The U.S. Department of Defense is very interested in developing quantum cryptography, a theoretically unbreakable method of coding information, which necessitates a reliable way to deliver single photons on demand.
Other applications come in the form of sensors so sensitive they can detect a single molecule of a substance. For example, when a biological molecule such as a protein binds to a nanotube, the nanotube's perfect emission changes, revealing the presence and characteristics of the molecule. Detecting the change would be impossible if it weren't for the remarkably steady nature of the nanotube emission, because a researcher wouldn't know for certain if a sudden change in the emission was just a blink, or was meant to indicate the presence of the target molecule.
Until just a few months ago, determining the emission characteristics of a nanotube was impossible. Carbon nanotubes cannot be made individually-rather they come as a jumble like a pile of spaghetti. Trying to measure the photon emission of a tube in the jumble is impossible because the tube will pass the photons it absorbs to other tubes instead of re-emitting them in its telltale fashion. What scientists end up with is a sort of average of what the collection of tubes will emit--not the emission characteristics of a single tube. Only within the past few months have researchers figured out how to remove a single nanotube from the pile of spaghetti in order to study its properties as an individual.
Krauss and Novotny are now devising experiments to test the steadiness of the nanotube fluorescence beyond the range of the initial experiments, and are pursuing studies aimed at determining the ultimate minimum possible emission bandwidth at ultracold temperatures.
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Research Corporation, and the New York State Office of Science and Academic Research.
Editor's Note: The original news release can be found here.
This story has been adapted from a news release issued by University Of Rochester.
They stated "it ultimately protects consumers' right to control what they see on their computer screens."
Does this mean microsofts entire plan of controlling your desktop or other companies that remove software because of DRM are now invalid as well? After all i decided to look at the pirated software on my computer, according to this rulling they still have no right to remove it from my computer, right?
Yeah i know thats a bit optomistic, im guessing this case is only ruling on advertising (no i havnt been able to RTFA)
I think someone should give the above a try, techinicly it will be legal but after that the general public is (eh, i guess/should/ is a better word) be made quite a bit more aware of the dangers of these assinine eulas.
Even better would be a self-propigating worm with a click-through eula that pops up when you get infected (your average user wont think anythings wrong and will more then likly think they asked it to pop-up) and then do the above. Itd be quite a problem when the new york times has to either not put out a paper or put one out with no stories because theyve all been changed to ads.
I dont really understand this ruling since the judge is basically saying that anyone can overwrite another's ad's. Now what about television.. networks pay millions for ad's just like they do in the internet so what's different.. is it now okay for directtv to overwrite ad's on CNN to advertis Foxnews?
The cable company here does it, and so does direct tv, if you watch discoverey or other cable network youll notice that local ads takes place, where as on direct tv they display either national or direct tv ads.
I belive there are rules about directv showing out of market ads which prevents them from ofering LA broadcasts to the chicago or ny area.
Its a shame because i would actually convert from cable to direct tv if i could just buy all the local channels (including out of market locals.
I gotta disagree with ya, the original experiment was conducted in a factory. The test included one simple thing: lighting. The plant manager wanted to know if increasing the lighting would create a boost in productivity. The control group stayed in the dimly lit factory while they took the other group to a brightly lit office. Their productivity increased. They brightened it more, their productivity increased. They did this several more times before turning the lighting back down, productivity/increased/! They discovered the cause for the continued increase was that the workers were having more attention paied to em, result moral went up and so did produtivity
Other then that right on =)
Although im sure they conducted similar experiments to the one you described, i belive the first test was done in the factory.
My source: My book i need to sell back for my last buisness class. In fact i just opend the book and the study was conducted at western electrics hawthorne plant lead by elton mayo and a group from harvard.
I managed to get a static out of my ISP by claiming that "my linux DHCP client wouldnt grab an IP from their server for whatever reason". At this point they were dumbfounded by tha fact that I use linux as my desktop and handed a static right over. The only draw back is I have to re-explain it anytime I have to call in-- and thats usually just to ask if the network is down or if it's just me, 99.9% of the time it's them;)
Blocking ports to internet traffic just stops one entry point, but as wireless becomes more popular, we'll probably see more worms spreading that way instead.
And the two are different how? They arent, they simply use a different medium, wired uses copper and wireless uses air. There is absolutly no difference in a worm spreading through either medium.
An access point is never really BEHIND a firewall, its all around it.
By reading the article im assuming all the normal functions still work, but by adding linux on top of it you are creating an advanced access point with logging, instrusion detection, and what ever else you can get away with running on it. I use a home made freebsd box as a nat/firewall, it gets to log all types of stuff, something you nromally dont get with the router only boxes, and if you did its more then likly no where near as configurable as this would be.
Do people really need to be taught its wrong to shoot at cars or people who arent breaking into your home or commiting other violent crimes against you? Ive always just thought that it was common sense.
Why can't I get on jury selection for stuff like this so when they ask me a question I can tell them what morons they are???
Better bite your tounge untill AFTER they choose you and are diliberating with the rest of the jurors, otherwise you wont get your chance to tell anyone how stupid it is except the offense and defense lawyers interviewing you.
ROFL, of all the redundantcies you could complain about you complain about the only usefull one...
All your base... I for one welcome our In soviet Russia.. You must be new.. Image an beo.... But does it run... Not to mention all the SCO crap, or all the other stupid rdundancies that occur in EVERY SINGLE article, at least we only have to put up with these redundancies in news site registration stories.
Two ppl have said that they do not spam you, or sell it so whats the point of them having my email address to hold on to? There not making money off of it because they arent selling it, so recouping bandwidth fees isnt the answer, so i guess if their not selling the info then their just using it to track the stories you read. Like drew said about skinimax and disney, thell put you on some kind of list if they dont like the combo of stories your reading. Althogh IF they were spamming you or selling it youd have an entirely different attitude towared it no doubt.
I treat my email address no different then my phone or mailing address. I dont go around telling everyone i buy items from my phone number or mailing address and see no reason why all these companies NEED an email address when one really isnt needed, heck for several of my classes our email address is listed for everyone to see but can be hidden. You can bet your ass my email is hidden. Why? no one from class needs to be able to just look up my email address, if they want it they can talk to me up close and personal and then ill decide if they need to contact me this way.
I know i enjoy downloading anything over 100K on dial-up.
Think of the big picture, its not practicle to use the internet for such a thing yet, for one upstream bandwidth is expensive and most broadband users have very little of it.
Im not arguing the usefullness of this device, i for one would throw stuff i need to take with me on a cd and be on my way, but it does have its uses and claiming the internet is a much better solution is just crazy (for now). When everyone can upload over 1mbit i would agree with you, to an extent, at that rate it might be alright for transfering a couple megs (10-15) but anymore then that and your still going to be waiting WAY to long to get anything done.
I see this device as something that after the "coolness" of having a new gadget around fades off you forget its around and then its just there, like another hard disk. You save your reports and presentations to your/home/mobile mounted directory (which requires no user intervention to mount (as long as its allowed to mount that is)) go off to work and open it from your/home/mobile mounted directory at work. Forgetting that you even carried the box with you.
So what if a worker slips a virus onto the computer somehow? What if there is a 1 in a million memory error (and with the number of elections and voters in America, you better believe there will be flaws). Power outages? No electricity at all? Open source is fantastic I agree, but you're using OSS zealotry where it's essentially irrelevant
And your reasons for using OSS is also irrelevant, the point the parent was trying to make is if the source was open someone would be able to report the virus, or even more importantly, notice the section of code that tells it to vote twice for a canadite every three votes.
On a side note, i cant wait to have a paper trail so i can have an "accident" after voting the wrong way... i know this is pretty idealistic but i shouldnt have to worry about my vote being tampered with, i should have no need to check on my vote, i would definitly feel a little more at ease knowing that at least the software handling the vote (read: The software should be OSS from begining to end, with any us citizen able to review the code) is being read by someone other then heavily nda'ed consultants and auditors and the like. I would assume it would be fairly easy for someone to buy out a few ppl to give the thumbs up if they were in such a position to want to tamper with the votes, but impossible to buy out every citizen who reviews and understands the code.
and just incase more ppl actually follow in story links then i belive ill mirror some basic info from the site:
What is an iButton? The iButton(R) is a computer chip enclosed in a 16mm stainless steel can. Because of this unique and durable stainless steel can, up-to-date information can travel with a person or object anywhere they go. The steel button can be mounted virtually anywhere because it is rugged enough to withstand harsh environments, indoors or outdoors. It is durable enough to attach to a key fob, ring, watch, or other personal items and used daily for applications such as access control to buildings and computers.
iButton Components
The Can and Grommet All iButtons use their stainless steel "Can" for their electronic communications interface. Each "Can" has a data contact which is called the "Lid" and a ground contact which is called the "Base". Each of these contacts is connected to the silicon chip inside. The "Lid" is the top of the "Can" and the "Base" forms the sides and the bottom of the "Can" and includes a flange for easily attaching the button to just about anything. The two contacts are separated by a polypropylene grommet.
The 1-Wire Interface By simply touching each of the two contacts you can communicate to any of the iButtons by using our 1-Wire(R) protocol. The 1-Wire interface has two communication speeds. Standard mode at 16kbps and overdrive mode at 142kbps. See App. Note 74 for all 1-Wire Interface details.
The Address Each iButton has a unique and unalterable address that is laser etched onto its chip inside the can. The address can be used as a key or identifier for each iButton. 2700000095C33108
From these basics we have expanded the iButton product line into over 20 different products by adding different functionality to the basic button. iButtons come in the following different varieties.
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for 20 hours so you can use it for the other 4 hours is causing more damage than anything else can
I think not, most electronics break from the heating and cooling of the ICs. Ever notice how things rarly break while using em, but right when you turn em on? Turning it on and off several times a day because you walk away for 30 minutes is causing a lot more harm then running 24/7. Not only that the light bulb principle applys as well, it takes more power to turn the light on then it does to let it run for a little while.
Forgive me if im reading your post wrong, but just because youve "saved your settings" dosnt mean its been put on the hard disk yet, your settings may still be in the buffer (the memory in the hard drive) waiting to be put on the actuall disk. So just turning off the system without a proper shut down will not flush the buffer to the disk. Now if your machine is setup and you tap the power button to initiate the shutdown sequence no problem, but otherwise your waiting for trouble.
If the above post is incorrect please correct me.
I also remember signing a privacy statement that goes along the lines of them not just giving out info without court order, generally only givin with good reason.
The belive the point here is that this practice slowly fading away and the feds rules are changing to we dont really need a good reason anymore, we'll just listen to whatever we want whether or not we have good reason to.
This was the best site i could find:
(little blurb from the article)
Virtual dragnet programs like TIA and CAPS II are based on the premise that the best way to protect America against terrorism is to for the government to collect as much information as it can about everyone - and these days, that is a LOT of information. They could incorporate not only government records of all kinds but individuals' medical and financial records, political beliefs, travel history, prescriptions, buying habits, communications (phone calls, e-mails and Web surfing), school records, personal and family associations, and so on.
In the last decade we have witnessed an enormous explosion in the amount of tracking and information of individuals in the United States, due mainly to two factors... READ MORE
What can I do to help stop this program?
There are at least four things you can do to help stop the blatantly un-American goal of "Total Information Awareness"
* Educate yourself about this program and tell your friends about it.
* Use the ACLU's "Action Alert" page to send a free and easy fax to President Bush asking him to pull the plug on this research.
* Let your member of Congress know how you feel (locate your member here and check out tips on writing your elected representatives.
* Support the ACLU's efforts to fight this program by joining us .
Privacy is not a basic human right.
/dont/ have the right to assume no one is watching my every move, reading ever letter i write to my friends and family, listening to every conversation i have NOT in a public setting? Out in public is one thing, but in a private setting come on!? I want some of what your smoking...
So I
Lets see: Privacy is not a basic right, and your obviously smoking something, what office was it you were running for again?
Thanks, Appreciate it =)
Could someone give a break down on how all this "nano-stuff" is going to actually help me one day? Ive heard talk of self replicating devices to repair things and the like, but that seems a LONG time away. When (and if currently how) are these "nano-anythings" going to help me out in my day to day life? In the hospital? At work?
Dont get me wrong im not implying that if its not helping me they shouldnt be working on it, id just like to know what and when its going to be usefull.
Nanotubes Surprise Again: Ideal Photon Emission
Sept 5, 2003 -- Carbon nanotubes, recently created cylinders of tightly bonded carbon atoms, have dazzled scientists and engineers with their seemingly endless list of special abilities--from incredible tensile strength to revolutionizing computer chips. In today's issue of Science, two University of Rochester researchers add another feat to the nanotubes' list: ideal photon emission.
"The emission bandwidth is as narrow as you can get at room temperature," says Lukas Novotny, professor of optics at Rochester and co-author of the study. Such a narrow and steady emission can make such fields as quantum cryptography and single-molecule sensors a practical reality.
The emission profile came as a surprise to Todd Krauss, assistant professor of chemistry at the University, and Novotny. They had set out to simply define the emission, or fluorescence, of a single carbon nanotube. By using a technique called confocal microscopy, the team illuminated a single nanotube with a strongly focused laser beam. The tube absorbed the light from the laser and then re-emitted light at new frequencies that carried information about the tube's physical characteristics and its surroundings.
The light emitted from the nanotube was in precise, discrete wavelengths, unlike most objects like molecules that radiate into a broader (i.e. more "fuzzy") range of wavelengths at room temperature.
But a greater surprise was in store for the team.
"The emission wasn't just perfectly narrow, it was steady as far as we could measure," says Krauss. In a strange quirk of quantum physics, molecules usually emit their photons for a certain time and then cease, only to resume again later, like a telegraph signal. The tubes that Krauss and Novotny measured, however, remained steady beacons to the limits of their instruments' sensitivity. "This is very exciting because for any application in quantum optics, you want a steady and precise photon emitter," says Novotny.
Narrow emissions and a complete absence of blinking have tempting implications for single photon emitters--devices needed to dependably release a single photon on command. The U.S. Department of Defense is very interested in developing quantum cryptography, a theoretically unbreakable method of coding information, which necessitates a reliable way to deliver single photons on demand.
Other applications come in the form of sensors so sensitive they can detect a single molecule of a substance. For example, when a biological molecule such as a protein binds to a nanotube, the nanotube's perfect emission changes, revealing the presence and characteristics of the molecule. Detecting the change would be impossible if it weren't for the remarkably steady nature of the nanotube emission, because a researcher wouldn't know for certain if a sudden change in the emission was just a blink, or was meant to indicate the presence of the target molecule.
Until just a few months ago, determining the emission characteristics of a nanotube was impossible. Carbon nanotubes cannot be made individually-rather they come as a jumble like a pile of spaghetti. Trying to measure the photon emission of a tube in the jumble is impossible because the tube will pass the photons it absorbs to other tubes instead of re-emitting them in its telltale fashion. What scientists end up with is a sort of average of what the collection of tubes will emit--not the emission characteristics of a single tube. Only within the past few months have researchers figured out how to remove a single nanotube from the pile of spaghetti in order to study its properties as an individual.
Krauss and Novotny are now devising experiments to test the steadiness of the nanotube fluorescence beyond the range of the initial experiments, and are pursuing studies aimed at determining the ultimate minimum possible emission bandwidth at ultracold temperatures.
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Research Corporation, and the New York State Office of Science and Academic Research.
Editor's Note: The original news release can be found here.
This story has been adapted from a news release issued by University Of Rochester.
They stated "it ultimately protects consumers' right to control what they see on their computer screens."
Does this mean microsofts entire plan of controlling your desktop or other companies that remove software because of DRM are now invalid as well? After all i decided to look at the pirated software on my computer, according to this rulling they still have no right to remove it from my computer, right?
Yeah i know thats a bit optomistic, im guessing this case is only ruling on advertising (no i havnt been able to RTFA)
I think someone should give the above a try, techinicly it will be legal but after that the general public is (eh, i guess /should/ is a better word) be made quite a bit more aware of the dangers of these assinine eulas.
Even better would be a self-propigating worm with a click-through eula that pops up when you get infected (your average user wont think anythings wrong and will more then likly think they asked it to pop-up) and then do the above. Itd be quite a problem when the new york times has to either not put out a paper or put one out with no stories because theyve all been changed to ads.
I dont really understand this ruling since the judge is basically saying that anyone can overwrite another's ad's. Now what about television.. networks pay millions for ad's just like they do in the internet so what's different.. is it now okay for directtv to overwrite ad's on CNN to advertis Foxnews?
The cable company here does it, and so does direct tv, if you watch discoverey or other cable network youll notice that local ads takes place, where as on direct tv they display either national or direct tv ads.
I belive there are rules about directv showing out of market ads which prevents them from ofering LA broadcasts to the chicago or ny area.
Its a shame because i would actually convert from cable to direct tv if i could just buy all the local channels (including out of market locals.
I gotta disagree with ya, the original experiment was conducted in a factory. The test included one simple thing: lighting. The plant manager wanted to know if increasing the lighting would create a boost in productivity. The control group stayed in the dimly lit factory while they took the other group to a brightly lit office. Their productivity increased. They brightened it more, their productivity increased. They did this several more times before turning the lighting back down, productivity /increased/! They discovered the cause for the continued increase was that the workers were having more attention paied to em, result moral went up and so did produtivity
Other then that right on =)
Although im sure they conducted similar experiments to the one you described, i belive the first test was done in the factory.
My source: My book i need to sell back for my last buisness class. In fact i just opend the book and the study was conducted at western electrics hawthorne plant lead by elton mayo and a group from harvard.
yeah, we were enjoying it, then you go and blow the whole thing... ;)
Is running an insecure box something you REALLY want to be telling the entire slashdot community?
I managed to get a static out of my ISP by claiming that "my linux DHCP client wouldnt grab an IP from their server for whatever reason". At this point they were dumbfounded by tha fact that I use linux as my desktop and handed a static right over. The only draw back is I have to re-explain it anytime I have to call in-- and thats usually just to ask if the network is down or if it's just me, 99.9% of the time it's them ;)
hmm.. maybe i should have posted this as anon...
Blocking ports to internet traffic just stops one entry point, but as wireless becomes more popular, we'll probably see more worms spreading that way instead.
And the two are different how? They arent, they simply use a different medium, wired uses copper and wireless uses air. There is absolutly no difference in a worm spreading through either medium.
An access point is never really BEHIND a firewall, its all around it.
By reading the article im assuming all the normal functions still work, but by adding linux on top of it you are creating an advanced access point with logging, instrusion detection, and what ever else you can get away with running on it. I use a home made freebsd box as a nat/firewall, it gets to log all types of stuff, something you nromally dont get with the router only boxes, and if you did its more then likly no where near as configurable as this would be.
or for not teaching them to not shoot at cars
Do people really need to be taught its wrong to shoot at cars or people who arent breaking into your home or commiting other violent crimes against you? Ive always just thought that it was common sense.
Why can't I get on jury selection for stuff like this so when they ask me a question I can tell them what morons they are???
Better bite your tounge untill AFTER they choose you and are diliberating with the rest of the jurors, otherwise you wont get your chance to tell anyone how stupid it is except the offense and defense lawyers interviewing you.
without there being 20 stupid redundant posts.
ROFL, of all the redundantcies you could complain about you complain about the only usefull one...
All your base...
I for one welcome our
In soviet Russia..
You must be new..
Image an beo....
But does it run...
Not to mention all the SCO crap, or all the other stupid rdundancies that occur in EVERY SINGLE article, at least we only have to put up with these redundancies in news site registration stories.
Why should I have to sign up?
Two ppl have said that they do not spam you, or sell it so whats the point of them having my email address to hold on to? There not making money off of it because they arent selling it, so recouping bandwidth fees isnt the answer, so i guess if their not selling the info then their just using it to track the stories you read. Like drew said about skinimax and disney, thell put you on some kind of list if they dont like the combo of stories your reading. Althogh IF they were spamming you or selling it youd have an entirely different attitude towared it no doubt.
I treat my email address no different then my phone or mailing address. I dont go around telling everyone i buy items from my phone number or mailing address and see no reason why all these companies NEED an email address when one really isnt needed, heck for several of my classes our email address is listed for everyone to see but can be hidden. You can bet your ass my email is hidden. Why? no one from class needs to be able to just look up my email address, if they want it they can talk to me up close and personal and then ill decide if they need to contact me this way.
The government can mandate anything they want, Microsoft complies, and the users don't get a choice.
I think this ment to read:
Micorosft can mandate anything they want, the government complies, and the users don't get a choice.
I know i enjoy downloading anything over 100K on dial-up.
/home/mobile mounted directory (which requires no user intervention to mount (as long as its allowed to mount that is)) go off to work and open it from your /home/mobile mounted directory at work. Forgetting that you even carried the box with you.
Think of the big picture, its not practicle to use the internet for such a thing yet, for one upstream bandwidth is expensive and most broadband users have very little of it.
Im not arguing the usefullness of this device, i for one would throw stuff i need to take with me on a cd and be on my way, but it does have its uses and claiming the internet is a much better solution is just crazy (for now). When everyone can upload over 1mbit i would agree with you, to an extent, at that rate it might be alright for transfering a couple megs (10-15) but anymore then that and your still going to be waiting WAY to long to get anything done.
I see this device as something that after the "coolness" of having a new gadget around fades off you forget its around and then its just there, like another hard disk. You save your reports and presentations to your
So what if a worker slips a virus onto the computer somehow? What if there is a 1 in a million memory error (and with the number of elections and voters in America, you better believe there will be flaws). Power outages? No electricity at all? Open source is fantastic I agree, but you're using OSS zealotry where it's essentially irrelevant
And your reasons for using OSS is also irrelevant, the point the parent was trying to make is if the source was open someone would be able to report the virus, or even more importantly, notice the section of code that tells it to vote twice for a canadite every three votes.
On a side note, i cant wait to have a paper trail so i can have an "accident" after voting the wrong way... i know this is pretty idealistic but i shouldnt have to worry about my vote being tampered with, i should have no need to check on my vote, i would definitly feel a little more at ease knowing that at least the software handling the vote (read: The software should be OSS from begining to end, with any us citizen able to review the code) is being read by someone other then heavily nda'ed consultants and auditors and the like. I would assume it would be fairly easy for someone to buy out a few ppl to give the thumbs up if they were in such a position to want to tamper with the votes, but impossible to buy out every citizen who reviews and understands the code.
http://www.ibutton.com/
and just incase more ppl actually follow in story links then i belive ill mirror some basic info from the site:
What is an iButton?
The iButton(R) is a computer chip enclosed in a 16mm stainless steel can. Because of this unique and durable stainless steel can, up-to-date information can travel with a person or object anywhere they go. The steel button can be mounted virtually anywhere because it is rugged enough to withstand harsh environments, indoors or outdoors. It is durable enough to attach to a key fob, ring, watch, or other personal items and used daily for applications such as access control to buildings and computers.
iButton Components
The Can and Grommet
All iButtons use their stainless steel "Can" for their electronic communications interface. Each "Can" has a data contact which is called the "Lid" and a ground contact which is called the "Base". Each of these contacts is connected to the silicon chip inside. The "Lid" is the top of the "Can" and the "Base" forms the sides and the bottom of the "Can" and includes a flange for easily attaching the button to just about anything. The two contacts are separated by a polypropylene grommet.
The 1-Wire Interface
By simply touching each of the two contacts you can communicate to any of the iButtons by using our 1-Wire(R) protocol. The 1-Wire interface has two communication speeds. Standard mode at 16kbps and overdrive mode at 142kbps. See App. Note 74 for all 1-Wire Interface details.
The Address
Each iButton has a unique and unalterable address that is laser etched onto its chip inside the can. The address can be used as a key or identifier for each iButton.
2700000095C33108
From these basics we have expanded the iButton product line into over 20 different products by adding different functionality to the basic button. iButtons come in the following different varieties.