I'd love a Spin Detector on my TV... so that whenever a politician's trying to spin something I can be warned......although I guess it would prove useless because the damn thing would be flashing all the time...
I'd be curious to know what the original statement of the project parameters were.
Also, it seems that the encoding on the student card may be the same as what we use; apparently the encoding of the social security number in my student card is the same as the encoding of the social security number at a local supermarket.
The summer I worked there, they had a group working around the same area as Validation, doing mathematical proofs of the chip designs. This group was relatively new at the time, and had been so successful at finding bugs they were given a huge vacation (to Europe? something like that). This was in 1999, so I don't know if it's still a big thing, but proofs are still considered worthwhile.
i had no problems viewing it... it's worth giving it a shot anyway. i'm wondering if there were any shots you could do to make it more interesting: most of it is blinding glare from the combustion.
American Airlines is based in Dallas/Ft.Worth (otherwise known as Tarrant County)... I seriously doubt it has anything to do with selective state laws. Dallas/Ft.Worth happens to be a rather large hub for them, so it makes sense for them to want laws there to be enforced since they know those best.
The product exists, at least, in the rudimentary stage... what they're trying to solve isn't as much a technology problem, it's more of a "users can't use it" problem. Sure, DOS was useful, but it created a huge divide between those that could operate it, and those that couldn't.
It was only Windows/Mac and the idea that the UI for a computer should use an object analogy that really openned it up to more casual users. The learning curve is rather large, and still the interfaces are clunky.
The original claim is that the technology exists. I believe (as does everyone else at Maya/MayaViz) that technology should be an implicit thing... as a user I shouldn't notice that I'm using technology. Obviously this is a religious thing, but way too often engineers (me included) will not take that particular view into account.
The point is that one should not have to "program" the remote. From a human interface standpoint it's insufficient to say "the learning curve is a bit high...". There should be no learning curve, not when it's a device for the masses. That's what the revolution is about... it's not about designing the hardware, it's about designing the interface.
"Maya and Carnegie Mellon claim people using their Personal Universal Controller, or PUC, could operate a stereo twice as fast and with half the errors that are made in running it manually -- without taking days to learn how."
For the record, I work for MayaViz, the sister company of Maya Design. (We share office space, though we work on different things).
There were complaints that the fresco in the Sistine Chapel had too much nudity, and as a result, later artists painted on slips of clothing over the genitalia of some of the characters.
Some people complained that one of Mozart's quartets (the "Dissonance" quartet, if you're familiar) was "offensive" in its use of tension in the opening bars, and so attempted to "fix" the problem.
Critique and editing of art is nothing new, although admittedly I think both of these examples were done by people who just didn't appreciate the clarity of the art in the first place.
a haiku cycle
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problem with having semantic meaning haiku- transmittal can fail.
haiku is supposed to have a season, color and an animal.
these lines do not have the proper prerequisites it is not artful.
so, that just defeats the reason one writes haiku- makes it mockery.
int'resting to note, it says that the mail sender certifies the mail.
violation for using the trademark wrongly is a simple suit.
this will only work if the spammer is truthful; not hiding headers.
it's interesting, that they specifically use the haiku format.
possibilities are quite endless. what next? using sonnet form?
How is what someone thinks a physical attribute? I can choose to think what I want... our mental capacity is such that we can surpress some thoughts and elevate others. Certainly there are those who can't control their thoughts... or have less capability to do so; and in that case it's physical, but it has less to do with what they're thinking, but more of the categorization that implies the thoughts. I'll address that in a moment.
The reason that we have security at airports, or regulations and ordinances in bus stations and other forms of mass transit, is to prevent an individual from harming the greater good. After all, that's what laws are meant for; to prevent an individual hellbent on taking away other people's rights to live.
In some cases, like in that of an airport, the stake is high enough such that airline pilots may refuse to carry any particular passenger if he/she feels threatened. Humans are funny things; they feel threatened when there are things around them they aren't familiar with. In order to allow the right of the airline pilot to refuse whomever he/she wants (after all, he/she's the one whose life is at stake in the event of a hijacking) then the right of that individual who is being instajudged is sacrificed.
If you expand this to a larger populace... we've decided we don't want people who are mentally unstable to be flying with us. Security reserves the right to refuse passage to anyone who they want to, based on whatever parameters they want. In most cases, they're reasonable, and they'll only refuse if you become belligerent or angry.
Here's the catch. Many people, when doubted, become angry and indignant. This further ratchets up the scale of suspectibility. After all, how do they know if you're being indignant because you have something to hide? Or if you're really just tired of their shit?
Now, if there's a passenger who is incapable of controlling his/her thoughts, or his/her actions, then he/she may very well become a hazard to passengers around him/her. In that case, it may be for the good of the remainder of the passengers if this one is denied boarding.
A society is built on sacrificing certain amounts of your "rights" such that everyone can on average enjoy the same level of rights, since very often one's desires and beliefs will infringe on others.
There is no way for the law to be equally ethical for everyone. And this is one of the compromises we must make.
The court case dealt with a guys' activity inside his own home... the police deduced that he was growing marijuana by the amount of heat his house was giving off in the basement (if I remember correctly) seemed to indicate that he had heat lamps on at night.
In this case it is the home. But just as it is illegal for the police to search your home if there's no suspicions (4th amendment), they're not allowed to search your car, nor your person.
In the case of the airport, it's a little bit unclear, since submitting to a search could be a prerequisite for them to allow you on a plane. You don't have a right to ride an airplane, they just can't necessarily arrest you for violating the law due to these search techniques.
So, while you're technically right, that you're submitting yourself to search... it's not because it's public, but because it's at an airport. If the nations' airports become even more federalized, or if the security at airports can arrest you for specific "intent" before action; that's when it becomes a constitutional matter.
I don't recall if there's anything in the law books that allows for punishment of intended crime even if nothing is acted on...
When you say "If X, I'll eat my shorts"... you will inevitably be forced to eat your shorts, as X will inevitably be true.
My shorts-eating incident...
Japan, and many other countries in Asia already had a "family registry" system in place. Taiwan has one too, although their system has always been a national system. It's not particularly unusual. The only thing that's different here than the system already in place is that the information gathered is slightly more, and better tracked on a national scale.
One thing I find rather amusing about this whole affair is that the fact Japan is standardizing what local municipalities have been doing is causing a ruckus, and that the whole "mandatory" aspect of it is trumped up. Japanese citizenship is particularly restrictive already, and given the heavy government involvement in the nationalized school system, etc. it should be no surprise that something such as an identity number should make such a big deal.
Having the information of who lives where is not harmful in of itself, as long as there are severe checks in place as to who can access it and under what circumstances one can access that information. Understandably many in this forum perhaps distrust anyone with this sort of information, but at some level there needs to be some standard of information for every individual in order to do anomaly detection (read: finding terrorists).
I think those of us in countries with a very heavy emphasis on "individual rights" as opposed to "group rights" have a rather strong tendency to look at everything in the view of "self over society" as opposed to particularly respecting other nation-systems and such. Given that it seems the legislation passed, I doubt that the majority does not support this action.
That being said, the United States could not (at this time anyway) pass anything resembling that... people are way too enamored with states rights for anything to ever become nationalized.
In regards to the screenshot, it seems that it's quite possible the apple.com site could have been hacked. Why else would the iTunes tab be currently unavailable? I seriously doubt any company would be so stupid as to reveal something early without market research.
Call me paranoid, but I still believe this is a set up of some sort.
Observation 1. If you look at who Steve Mason is, you'll find that he does a decent amount of design and graphics work.
Observation 2. The site was posted on http://mac.com/1... which is an awfully suspect link in the first place.
Observation 3. The screenshot he has of the page shows the tab for the ".mac" stuff being in a "metal" look and feel. From a design point of view, it's completely inconsistent with the remainder of Apple's site. Given that Apple is very much a Design-centric shop, there's no way they would have that tab completely different than the others.
Observation 4. Apple has cracked down on people that run sites that leak news that's to come. I believe that that sort of rather stringent behavior would piss off people who thrive on that sort of early news.
Observation 5. Steve Mason seems to run such a site.
Conclusion: The page was doctored up by Mr. Mason, being somewhat bitter by the fact he's been barred from the proceedings that're going to happen today, and what better forum to get a whole bunch of people worked up than to post this to slashdot. I will EAT MY SHORTS if this turns out to be true, and not a hoax.
Not only is the direct military application area going to be hot these few years, but any of the incidentals... including internal and external espionage, signal processing, information crunching, profiling, and any other vaguely morally objectionable fields that use technology to get around due process... these are the fields that are in the process of receiving huge amounts of research money. At some point the companies doing this research will want to expand away from government projects, and I can guarantee that the information gathering and privacy invading technologies will be rather sought after by marketing firms and such.
What I meant by "not using repeaters" was that they don't use multiple repeaters. The implication from the article seems to say that they have a single repeater that goes to the home, connected to a central office within 20 miles of the house.
-k
(4) They don't use 802.11b, they've hacked it with a p2p solution to the home.
Their secret weapon is a technology known as a "software-designed radio," which has permitted them to create an inexpensive repeater antenna that can be attached to the outside of a customer's home. The device, which the Etherlinx executives said they believe can be built in quantity for less than $150 each, would communicate with a central antenna and then convert the signals into the industry-standard Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity, signal for reception inside the home.
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(2-3) They don't use repeaters, (see above comment).
Today, while most of the Wi-Fi industry is working on a more complex technology known as "mesh routing," which involves lashing together hundreds or even thousands of short-range transceivers, the Etherlinx developers believe they have found a crude, cost-effective approach that is capable of leapfrogging the last-mile problem.
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(1) They don't require line of sight.
Etherlinx is by no means alone in its approach.
Several other companies are also beginning to explore alternatives not requiring line-of-sight that they believe will be more resistant to interference and will be easy for customers to install without expensive on-site help.
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I believe they've already overcome all the problems you claim they need to.
-k
Microsoft doesn't have a hardware side to make profits out of. Remember, Apple writes software to sell hardware, whereas Microsoft doesn't have that option.
Note that when Intel tried to write software to help them sell more MMX functions, MS told them to stop, because it would be construed as competition.
Um, no. Japan was negotiating terms of surrender not to the Allies, but to Russia, specifically. I don't claim to make judgement to whether the U.S. government's understanding of this at the time was correct or not, but I believe the administration needed to keep Japan from being occupied by Russia; everyone could read the handwriting on the wall that after this it was going to be Communists vs. Capitalists.
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With some, in order to actually get a haze of lager, it might get a bit more expensive.
-k
Well, no, it's more like $25,430... all of the other things come with tuition at NYU, presumably ;)
I'd love a Spin Detector on my TV... so that whenever a politician's trying to spin something I can be warned... ...although I guess it would prove useless because the damn thing would be flashing all the time...
I'd be curious to know what the original statement of the project parameters were.
Also, it seems that the encoding on the student card may be the same as what we use; apparently the encoding of the social security number in my student card is the same as the encoding of the social security number at a local supermarket.
The summer I worked there, they had a group working around the same area as Validation, doing mathematical proofs of the chip designs. This group was relatively new at the time, and had been so successful at finding bugs they were given a huge vacation (to Europe? something like that). This was in 1999, so I don't know if it's still a big thing, but proofs are still considered worthwhile.
-k
i had no problems viewing it... it's worth giving it a shot anyway. i'm wondering if there were any shots you could do to make it more interesting: most of it is blinding glare from the combustion.
-k
American Airlines is based in Dallas/Ft.Worth (otherwise known as Tarrant County)... I seriously doubt it has anything to do with selective state laws. Dallas/Ft.Worth happens to be a rather large hub for them, so it makes sense for them to want laws there to be enforced since they know those best.
Gah, people and their conspiracy theories...
The product exists, at least, in the rudimentary stage... what they're trying to solve isn't as much a technology problem, it's more of a "users can't use it" problem. Sure, DOS was useful, but it created a huge divide between those that could operate it, and those that couldn't.
It was only Windows/Mac and the idea that the UI for a computer should use an object analogy that really openned it up to more casual users. The learning curve is rather large, and still the interfaces are clunky.
The original claim is that the technology exists. I believe (as does everyone else at Maya/MayaViz) that technology should be an implicit thing... as a user I shouldn't notice that I'm using technology. Obviously this is a religious thing, but way too often engineers (me included) will not take that particular view into account.
The point is that one should not have to "program" the remote. From a human interface standpoint it's insufficient to say "the learning curve is a bit high...". There should be no learning curve, not when it's a device for the masses. That's what the revolution is about... it's not about designing the hardware, it's about designing the interface.
"Maya and Carnegie Mellon claim people using their Personal Universal Controller, or PUC, could operate a stereo twice as fast and with half the errors that are made in running it manually -- without taking days to learn how."
For the record, I work for MayaViz, the sister company of Maya Design. (We share office space, though we work on different things).
There were complaints that the fresco in the Sistine Chapel had too much nudity, and as a result, later artists painted on slips of clothing over the genitalia of some of the characters.
Some people complained that one of Mozart's quartets (the "Dissonance" quartet, if you're familiar) was "offensive" in its use of tension in the opening bars, and so attempted to "fix" the problem.
Critique and editing of art is nothing new, although admittedly I think both of these examples were done by people who just didn't appreciate the clarity of the art in the first place.
problem with having
semantic meaning haiku-
transmittal can fail.
haiku is supposed
to have a season, color
and an animal.
these lines do not have
the proper prerequisites
it is not artful.
so, that just defeats
the reason one writes haiku-
makes it mockery.
int'resting to note,
it says that the mail sender
certifies the mail.
violation for
using the trademark wrongly
is a simple suit.
this will only work
if the spammer is truthful;
not hiding headers.
it's interesting,
that they specifically use
the haiku format.
possibilities
are quite endless. what next?
using sonnet form?
-k
How is what someone thinks a physical attribute? I can choose to think what I want... our mental capacity is such that we can surpress some thoughts and elevate others. Certainly there are those who can't control their thoughts... or have less capability to do so; and in that case it's physical, but it has less to do with what they're thinking, but more of the categorization that implies the thoughts. I'll address that in a moment.
The reason that we have security at airports, or regulations and ordinances in bus stations and other forms of mass transit, is to prevent an individual from harming the greater good. After all, that's what laws are meant for; to prevent an individual hellbent on taking away other people's rights to live.
In some cases, like in that of an airport, the stake is high enough such that airline pilots may refuse to carry any particular passenger if he/she feels threatened. Humans are funny things; they feel threatened when there are things around them they aren't familiar with. In order to allow the right of the airline pilot to refuse whomever he/she wants (after all, he/she's the one whose life is at stake in the event of a hijacking) then the right of that individual who is being instajudged is sacrificed.
If you expand this to a larger populace... we've decided we don't want people who are mentally unstable to be flying with us. Security reserves the right to refuse passage to anyone who they want to, based on whatever parameters they want. In most cases, they're reasonable, and they'll only refuse if you become belligerent or angry.
Here's the catch. Many people, when doubted, become angry and indignant. This further ratchets up the scale of suspectibility. After all, how do they know if you're being indignant because you have something to hide? Or if you're really just tired of their shit?
Now, if there's a passenger who is incapable of controlling his/her thoughts, or his/her actions, then he/she may very well become a hazard to passengers around him/her. In that case, it may be for the good of the remainder of the passengers if this one is denied boarding.
A society is built on sacrificing certain amounts of your "rights" such that everyone can on average enjoy the same level of rights, since very often one's desires and beliefs will infringe on others.
There is no way for the law to be equally ethical for everyone. And this is one of the compromises we must make.
The court case dealt with a guys' activity inside his own home... the police deduced that he was growing marijuana by the amount of heat his house was giving off in the basement (if I remember correctly) seemed to indicate that he had heat lamps on at night.
In this case it is the home. But just as it is illegal for the police to search your home if there's no suspicions (4th amendment), they're not allowed to search your car, nor your person.
In the case of the airport, it's a little bit unclear, since submitting to a search could be a prerequisite for them to allow you on a plane. You don't have a right to ride an airplane, they just can't necessarily arrest you for violating the law due to these search techniques.
So, while you're technically right, that you're submitting yourself to search... it's not because it's public, but because it's at an airport. If the nations' airports become even more federalized, or if the security at airports can arrest you for specific "intent" before action; that's when it becomes a constitutional matter.
I don't recall if there's anything in the law books that allows for punishment of intended crime even if nothing is acted on...
-k
When you say "If X, I'll eat my shorts"... you will inevitably be forced to eat your shorts, as X will inevitably be true. My shorts-eating incident...
Japan, and many other countries in Asia already had a "family registry" system in place. Taiwan has one too, although their system has always been a national system. It's not particularly unusual. The only thing that's different here than the system already in place is that the information gathered is slightly more, and better tracked on a national scale.
One thing I find rather amusing about this whole affair is that the fact Japan is standardizing what local municipalities have been doing is causing a ruckus, and that the whole "mandatory" aspect of it is trumped up. Japanese citizenship is particularly restrictive already, and given the heavy government involvement in the nationalized school system, etc. it should be no surprise that something such as an identity number should make such a big deal.
Having the information of who lives where is not harmful in of itself, as long as there are severe checks in place as to who can access it and under what circumstances one can access that information. Understandably many in this forum perhaps distrust anyone with this sort of information, but at some level there needs to be some standard of information for every individual in order to do anomaly detection (read: finding terrorists).
I think those of us in countries with a very heavy emphasis on "individual rights" as opposed to "group rights" have a rather strong tendency to look at everything in the view of "self over society" as opposed to particularly respecting other nation-systems and such. Given that it seems the legislation passed, I doubt that the majority does not support this action.
That being said, the United States could not (at this time anyway) pass anything resembling that... people are way too enamored with states rights for anything to ever become nationalized.
-k
Connecticut is suing Stanley Works to prevent them from incorperating in Bermuda, since companies incorperated in Bermuda don't pay any taxes.
Devouring shorts now. Yum.
:)
Oh well. So much for positive thinking
-k
In regards to the screenshot, it seems that it's quite possible the apple.com site could have been hacked. Why else would the iTunes tab be currently unavailable? I seriously doubt any company would be so stupid as to reveal something early without market research.
Call me paranoid, but I still believe this is a set up of some sort.
-k
Observation 1. If you look at who Steve Mason is, you'll find that he does a decent amount of design and graphics work.
... which is an awfully suspect link in the first place.
Observation 2. The site was posted on http://mac.com/1
Observation 3. The screenshot he has of the page shows the tab for the ".mac" stuff being in a "metal" look and feel. From a design point of view, it's completely inconsistent with the remainder of Apple's site. Given that Apple is very much a Design-centric shop, there's no way they would have that tab completely different than the others.
Observation 4. Apple has cracked down on people that run sites that leak news that's to come. I believe that that sort of rather stringent behavior would piss off people who thrive on that sort of early news.
Observation 5. Steve Mason seems to run such a site.
Conclusion: The page was doctored up by Mr. Mason, being somewhat bitter by the fact he's been barred from the proceedings that're going to happen today, and what better forum to get a whole bunch of people worked up than to post this to slashdot. I will EAT MY SHORTS if this turns out to be true, and not a hoax.
-k
Not only is the direct military application area going to be hot these few years, but any of the incidentals... including internal and external espionage, signal processing, information crunching, profiling, and any other vaguely morally objectionable fields that use technology to get around due process... these are the fields that are in the process of receiving huge amounts of research money. At some point the companies doing this research will want to expand away from government projects, and I can guarantee that the information gathering and privacy invading technologies will be rather sought after by marketing firms and such.
-k
What I meant by "not using repeaters" was that they don't use multiple repeaters. The implication from the article seems to say that they have a single repeater that goes to the home, connected to a central office within 20 miles of the house.
-k
(4) They don't use 802.11b, they've hacked it with a p2p solution to the home.
Their secret weapon is a technology known as a "software-designed radio," which has permitted them to create an inexpensive repeater antenna that can be attached to the outside of a customer's home. The device, which the Etherlinx executives said they believe can be built in quantity for less than $150 each, would communicate with a central antenna and then convert the signals into the industry-standard Wi-Fi, or wireless fidelity, signal for reception inside the home.
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(2-3) They don't use repeaters, (see above comment).
Today, while most of the Wi-Fi industry is working on a more complex technology known as "mesh routing," which involves lashing together hundreds or even thousands of short-range transceivers, the Etherlinx developers believe they have found a crude, cost-effective approach that is capable of leapfrogging the last-mile problem.
---
(1) They don't require line of sight.
Etherlinx is by no means alone in its approach. Several other companies are also beginning to explore alternatives not requiring line-of-sight that they believe will be more resistant to interference and will be easy for customers to install without expensive on-site help.
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I believe they've already overcome all the problems you claim they need to.
-k
Yeah, the Security Firm is called the People's Liberation Army.
Microsoft doesn't have a hardware side to make profits out of. Remember, Apple writes software to sell hardware, whereas Microsoft doesn't have that option.
Note that when Intel tried to write software to help them sell more MMX functions, MS told them to stop, because it would be construed as competition.
Um, no. Japan was negotiating terms of surrender not to the Allies, but to Russia, specifically. I don't claim to make judgement to whether the U.S. government's understanding of this at the time was correct or not, but I believe the administration needed to keep Japan from being occupied by Russia; everyone could read the handwriting on the wall that after this it was going to be Communists vs. Capitalists.