I've been working in this biz for something like 30 years now - there's a continued 5-7 year up/down cycle or which the.com boom/bust was just one example - crying "the sky is falling" without adding "yet again" is a bit silly
I have to admit that my TSA experiences have been almost universally unpleasant, including full body searches, missing flights, having all my work tools confiscated, the dread SSS on each and every leg of long business trips etc.... I really do want an optional air-traffic system - perhaps 'terrorist and long suffering passenger class' for those of us past caring if there's a terrorist on board.....
I'm particularly pissed by the fact that 1st class passengers get their own line through TSA - that just seems a wrong thing for a government department to be doing
However despite all this I have to give some kudos - while travelling into the US last month I was transitting thru SFO and got stuck in that horrible UA line that's been squished inot the busiest part of the check in area (the place where the two lines for TSA and check in keep getting entangled causing tempers to fray) - anyway TSA had one of their guys acting as a kind of carnival barker, cracking jokes, telling people what they could do to speed themselves through the process - a little bit of customer service, a smile, a laugh lowered everyone in the line's stress levels, got them talking to each other - and after travelling for 24 hours already certainly made my day
where I live we mark our choice on a piece of paper... when the polls close actual people open the boxes and count who voted for whom... scrutineers from both parties watch the counting to make sure all is well.... results are still in by 10pm.... our system even has a paper trail....
unless you have a really tiny laptop - providing an internet connection still wont let you actually open the thing when the person in front reclines their seat - remember the cross-pacific flights QANTAS runs are largely overnight
I think his point is that it doesn't matter, breaking the crypto is hard, there are easier ways - I can pull apart my LCD TV - oooh looky here 2000 odd wires along the top, 100 odd along the bottom, that and 3 8-bit A/Ds and I can recover an HD signal good enough to play back at full quality on another TV - doesn't even break and access method in the dmca sense since it's just sample data as it is - that's a fun weekend project for a bored hardware hacker, and a business proposition for a pirate
Point is it's not hard, IMHO crypto as a means to avoid piracy is a joke, there's no point until we DO get that encrypted tap straight into the brain - the reason it's there is to piss off and control the customer
Actually per-house pole filters for analog have been standard practice for years - a low pass filter for basic cable (under channel 30ish) - a notch filter to disable HBO etc etc
well think about it - there are photons kicking electrons/holes around - at some power density there will be more photons than electrons/holes available at any instant and the efficiency will drop - I suspect they are bragging that it still works with light at that intensity (as someone points out Ga is expensive...)
What isn't being trapped by jumping electrons (that other 60%) is going to go into heat - what we need is a heat engine on the back side of the cell recovering that other 60%...
our brains are highly parallel - we wouldn't be able to do such complex though processes with a bunch of meat otherwise.... streams of thought and reasoning are however pretty linear.
Up thread someone wondered if we'd make the same rates of progress in parallel programming as chip design (Moore's law).... guess what hardware design these days is largely programming, and highly programming at that.... and it's done by mere mortals. I have a decade in logic design and maybe 15 more years as a programmer - largely as a kernel hack and doing embedded systems - they're really all the same stuff - spending a lot of time doing logic helps you hone those parallel programming skills - after a while the deadlocks and places that need locks just start to become obvious....
Note to peanut gallery: favorite gdb debugging command "t a a bt"
Friend of mine recently found she couldn't unlock or start her toyota after parking outside a wifi cafe... eventually got the key close enough to the internal sensor to get in.
I saw something similar after parking outside a (different) internet cafe and couldn't lock my toyota..... worked great when I moved 1/2 a block down the street
Ah - but the Gold Law of Bureaucracy says that in war time private industry will always find ways to take all the gold from the bureaucracy - Iraq being just the latest example in a long history of war profiteering...
you don't decide "Republicans do A, Democrats do B, if we crack down on A we should crack down on B to be fair" that's wrong - you crack down on A and B because they are illegal no matter who did them, you don't enforce the law to push a particular political agenda, especially this one - this is one you enforce to protect democracy
Remember one of the reasons they were fired was because they wouldn't investigate bogus claims about Democrats ('bogus' because the looked into them and decided they were bogus)
sorry - I didn't mean to make that distinction personally - more I was more trying to point out that the rural jury might make that distinction and that Keith was denied the ability to talk about Scientology and their dirty tricks (which was the bulk of his case)
same here - I'm up for a new (probably Dell) high-end laptop this month and honestly, because of the drivers, ATI's getting the shove (and I'm a fan, I used to work for them) - if I'm spending $3000 for hardware I want some that will suspend and resume, shutdown without freezing etc etc simple things - though WoW would be nice too
suddenly Dell is shipping boxes with Linux.... a big customer to ATI.... and Dell is talking to Ubuntu.... "How do we know which of our boxes work well for Linux, will cause us the least amount of tech support grief'... Ubuntu guy says "well these drivers don't work so well.... they're not well supported by their manufacturers"..... Dell guy starts crossing boxes with ATI cards off the list.... and tells ATI marketting who start worrying that Dell will start to not buy ATI at all.....
and the judge didn't allow him to introduce the bulk of his evidence... he fled and claimed political asylum in Canada before sentencing....I suspect you're wrong about the amount of the judge's brain tied behind his back.
Keith may be a bid odd, but he's not crazy - he realized he'd been railroaded by political pressure on the local DA - it's a small town in the desert dominated by a Scientology compound - the locals hate them and if Keith had been allowed to put the fact that it was Scientology he was picketing (rather than making it sound like a real church) the jury would have acquitted him
of course is to burn a unique code into the space (not 1 bit on/off, say 8x8 64 bits) - hey presto - your disk only plays in your DVD player and has to be thrown away when your DVD player bites the dust....
(what you were going to patent that as a business plan? and I just gave it away by publishing prior art? oh how sad)
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I've been working in this biz for something like 30 years now - there's a continued 5-7 year up/down cycle or which the .com boom/bust was just one example - crying "the sky is falling" without adding "yet again" is a bit silly
I have to admit that my TSA experiences have been almost universally unpleasant, including full body searches, missing flights, having all my work tools confiscated, the dread SSS on each and every leg of long business trips etc .... I really do want an optional air-traffic system - perhaps 'terrorist and long suffering passenger class' for those of us past caring if there's a terrorist on board .....
I'm particularly pissed by the fact that 1st class passengers get their own line through TSA - that just seems a wrong thing for a government department to be doing
However despite all this I have to give some kudos - while travelling into the US last month I was transitting thru SFO and got stuck in that horrible UA line that's been squished inot the busiest part of the check in area (the place where the two lines for TSA and check in keep getting entangled causing tempers to fray) - anyway TSA had one of their guys acting as a kind of carnival barker, cracking jokes, telling people what they could do to speed themselves through the process - a little bit of customer service, a smile, a laugh lowered everyone in the line's stress levels, got them talking to each other - and after travelling for 24 hours already certainly made my day
where I live we mark our choice on a piece of paper ... when the polls close actual people open the boxes and count who voted for whom ... scrutineers from both parties watch the counting to make sure all is well .... results are still in by 10pm .... our system even has a paper trail ....
There's a report here that "Flesh-eating zombies are prowling the streets"
unless you have a really tiny laptop - providing an internet connection still wont let you actually open the thing when the person in front reclines their seat - remember the cross-pacific flights QANTAS runs are largely overnight
"silicone"? what are you building exactly ....
I swear that's Thatcher
is Margaret Thatcher modelling it?
don't be silly - ILM will be doing the FAKE moon landing challenge
Point is it's not hard, IMHO crypto as a means to avoid piracy is a joke, there's no point until we DO get that encrypted tap straight into the brain - the reason it's there is to piss off and control the customer
Actually per-house pole filters for analog have been standard practice for years - a low pass filter for basic cable (under channel 30ish) - a notch filter to disable HBO etc etc
this is to shunt the really annoying tech support callers quickly to the waste bin ....
The full quote is "he's dead Jim, you get his phaser, I'll get his wallet"
There are 5 types of reptiles: lizards, snakes, turtles, crocs and tuataras ...
What isn't being trapped by jumping electrons (that other 60%) is going to go into heat - what we need is a heat engine on the back side of the cell recovering that other 60% ...
Up thread someone wondered if we'd make the same rates of progress in parallel programming as chip design (Moore's law) .... guess what hardware design these days is largely programming, and highly programming at that .... and it's done by mere mortals. I have a decade in logic design and maybe 15 more years as a programmer - largely as a kernel hack and doing embedded systems - they're really all the same stuff - spending a lot of time doing logic helps you hone those parallel programming skills - after a while the deadlocks and places that need locks just start to become obvious ....
Note to peanut gallery: favorite gdb debugging command "t a a bt"
I saw something similar after parking outside a (different) internet cafe and couldn't lock my toyota ..... worked great when I moved 1/2 a block down the street
Ah - but the Gold Law of Bureaucracy says that in war time private industry will always find ways to take all the gold from the bureaucracy - Iraq being just the latest example in a long history of war profiteering ...
which also includes a steam engine ....
you don't decide "Republicans do A, Democrats do B, if we crack down on A we should crack down on B to be fair" that's wrong - you crack down on A and B because they are illegal no matter who did them, you don't enforce the law to push a particular political agenda, especially this one - this is one you enforce to protect democracy Remember one of the reasons they were fired was because they wouldn't investigate bogus claims about Democrats ('bogus' because the looked into them and decided they were bogus)
sorry - I didn't mean to make that distinction personally - more I was more trying to point out that the rural jury might make that distinction and that Keith was denied the ability to talk about Scientology and their dirty tricks (which was the bulk of his case)
same here - I'm up for a new (probably Dell) high-end laptop this month and honestly, because of the drivers, ATI's getting the shove (and I'm a fan, I used to work for them) - if I'm spending $3000 for hardware I want some that will suspend and resume, shutdown without freezing etc etc simple things - though WoW would be nice too
suddenly Dell is shipping boxes with Linux .... a big customer to ATI .... and Dell is talking to Ubuntu .... "How do we know which of our boxes work well for Linux, will cause us the least amount of tech support grief' ... Ubuntu guy says "well these drivers don't work so well .... they're not well supported by their manufacturers" ..... Dell guy starts crossing boxes with ATI cards off the list .... and tells ATI marketting who start worrying that Dell will start to not buy ATI at all .....
and the judge didn't allow him to introduce the bulk of his evidence ... he fled and claimed political asylum in Canada before sentencing ....I suspect you're wrong about the amount of the judge's brain tied behind his back.
Keith may be a bid odd, but he's not crazy - he realized he'd been railroaded by political pressure on the local DA - it's a small town in the desert dominated by a Scientology compound - the locals hate them and if Keith had been allowed to put the fact that it was Scientology he was picketing (rather than making it sound like a real church) the jury would have acquitted him
of course is to burn a unique code into the space (not 1 bit on/off, say 8x8 64 bits) - hey presto - your disk only plays in your DVD player and has to be thrown away when your DVD player bites the dust ....
(what you were going to patent that as a business plan? and I just gave it away by publishing prior art? oh how sad)