Hopefully I don't have to tell the 30 percent of slashdot readers who actually do unix system administration that this is a terrible idea to add this to your web sites. Distributed computing is fine for client boxes, but for servers...if your server wants to implement any extra complication and/or CPU, you're doing something wrong.
As someone who works in this industry, I thought I'd share some of the future of telecomm for those who aren't 'in the know'. All communication lines going to any endpoint (home, business, sensors, etc) are quickly moving to an IP based data network. Unfortunately, there are two problems that governments and current telephone companies face: 1) Roughly 50% of their voice revenue stream comes from per minute connection charges, other carrier access charges, & regulation charges (govn't). These will evaporate when subscribers move to data driven VoIP (ie: you pay a flat fee for DSL or cable modem bandwidth now, and it can run all your voice calls to anywhere in the world). Eventually the PSTN connection part will no longer be necessary, so Vonage will disappear as we know it today, but it has finally woken up the telcos to what the future will bring. 2) Pretty much the other half of their revenue stream comes from the 'premium' voice feature services (call waiting, text messaging, etc), all of which are quickly moving from the class 5 switch into the phones themselves (aka: free).
What do you do when your primary revenue stream evaporates? Fight it in the courts or with govn't officials. Remember, govn'ts have been taking a nice chunk of that revenue for themselves as well.
We will have to move to a bandwidth & quality of service (QoS) based payment style. A minimum bandwidth is given for a flat rate (which will include -all- voice), and extra bandwidth will be provided on demand at an agreed QoS. The higher the bandwidth & QoS, the higher the fee.
Things to watch out for: VoIP everywhere, SIP phones/services, VoWLAN, current voice carriers moving their infrastructure to their IP networks, and govn't regulations dictating that comm lines (called data services & unregulated) become regulated for QoS.
The companies that move to this model last will not survive. They aren't going to like this.:-)
It's not about carrying voice traffic over TCP/IP, though that is what the name implies. What these VOIP companies are doing is tying their internet operations into local REAL telephone connections. They are using normal, dialable 7/10 digit numbers to identify destinations, and they are crossing traffic over between internet and telephone networks.
AOL Talk, MS Netmeeting, heck even Battlecom allow you to carry voice over IP. But the difference is you can't dial up you phone number from Battlecom and make your phone ring.
The VOIP in these cases are companies that tie into real telephone networks. They issue real telephone numbers to their customers. You can use a normal telephone to reach them. That means they are regulatable by the same standards as normal telephone. The regulators own the address space, not just the service standards.
The easiest way to avoid this regulation and fees is not to tie into the telephone network, don't use the same 7/10 digit address space and don't claim you can call normal telephones. You do that and there's no fees and no regulation.
The problem with every software that I have used that tries to decipher human language (like Zork or the game included with emacs for X) is that you have to know what words the software understands and in what context.
I have seen the same problems with automated phone systems that are supposed to recognize a generic voice and I can see the same thing happening here.
The main difference here though, is that when entering text, you know exactly what you input before pressing enter. With voice recognition software, how do you know that the software "hears" exactly what you say? If you say somethign like "What are my appointments for the thirteenth?" and it hears, "What are my appointments for the thirtieth?" you would be receiving the wrong information.
I hope this is a success but I don't have my hopes up.
It strikes me that national power systems often have dangerous reliance on a small number of big power-providers - large coal/gas/oil/nuclear stations, with electricity imported/transported down a few very large critical power lines. Alternative energy may provide a solution, because by its nature it needs a higher level of redundancy and a more intelligent and distributed power supply model. And its good for the planet too.. Wind energy has really started to prove its use here in the UK, and is set to take off in the USA too. In the UK we should have 20% of national power from the Wind by 2020, and we have the offshore sites to get 100% eventually if we wanted. Add to that Solar, Tidal, etc.. Because of the very nature of these resources local/national distribution must be better, and include mechanisms to regulate in the case of a drop in power..
Oh, and what do you do when you have excess production? Turn the electricity into Hydrogen for your cars!
I recently came across an article about something similar (person working at septic system noc) over at tubgirl tech archive...pretty interesting read.
Normally I'd agree, but in this case I'm trying to add some content (which I do feel bad about) to serve the cause by getting the word out about anti-slash. I pray that Allah will forgive me for adding that bit of signal, and that I can bring sheep to the Uma.
I'm not trying to troll here...but hear me out: People simply don't trust electronic voting...as a geek this makes me very sad, because voting is something that could and should be more automated.
Now, ask yourself, why is it that people don't trust comptuers?
Answer: Microsoft's abhorent trackrecord with regard to security has an awful lot to do with it. It's not the only factor, but it is *huge*.
All these windows bugs do effect us linux geeks: The perception of computers in general has suffered greatly.
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Imagine what your grandfather would be saying if he saw you now, siding with the axis. You should be ashamed of yourself.
You are right about one thing: The truth does not leave room for debate. I am absoluetely correct.
My young friend, please believe me when I say that a few years ago I might have been the one typing your mindless posts...so full of adoration for slashdot's editors, so quick to defend their "right" to run a site that claims to be a geek forum but is in truth a facade for their own megalomania and the corresponding stupidity of their masses.
And so, once again, I find myself acting as the flashlight of truth, sheading light on injustice, only to be switched off by the hand of man, too cowardly to face the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
I remember when I used to think like you...when I used to think that it was ok to sit by and do nothing while others were being oppressed. But consider this:
First they came for the Jews, and I did not speak because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the communists, and I did not speak because I was not a communist. Then they came for the homosexuals, and I did not speak because I was not a homosexual. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.
It's a shame to see such a promising young mind be infected with the same disease that lead so many people to their deaths.
I remember how important it used to be to me to get +5s and be popular...but I saw what I was doing; I saw that I was supporting censorship by helping slashdot's "nazi" editors by giving the illusion that this is a user-controlled site, when the fact is that it's a facist regime controlled by a few (sound familiar?)
I'm hopeful that you'll realize I'm write when you read this.
I stay to help people like you understand the injustice. I stay in the hope that I can wake the sheep from their slumber and flock them to a brighter tomorrow. If people never stood up against non-public entities, can you imagine what a condition the world would be at! Slashdot shapes and molds young geeky minds like yours, and it does so mired in censorship and conspiracy, and I will fight on until a the battle for your heart is won.
When the force you are working against scilences your voice, it is time to stop working from within and work from without. It is clear that slashdot's editors are unwilling to address their censorship publically; trying to convince them to do so only legitimizes them.
I really wish there were some kind of web site or organization that was committed to working against slashdot. I know in my home country such organizations are crucial in bringing about the great justice.
Let me tell you something, growing up and living in my home country of Belaruse has taught me one thing: People who say "tone down the rhetoric" are agents of something very sinister. Shame on you all.
Slashdot could do whatever it wants in terms of biased reporting and censorship, if they owned up to it. Have you seen slashdot's editors mention the mass banning of moderators who modded up the troll investigation? Me neither.
It is for these reasons that slashdot must be destroyed.
My limited experience with open source is summed up with this article sentence: ~~~ Not all open-source projects are alike, however. A small number of open-source projects have become well known, but the vast majority never get off the ground, according to Scacchi. ~~~ Open source is obviously faster/better/cheaper when 1000's of people donate their time to a single project. The only open source project I've been involved in was a collaboration among several corporations, all of which wanted to leverage each other's resources, but none of which could really contribute their own.
There's nothing like money to motivate people to work on a project for which people aren't willing to donate their time.
Personally, I'm not convinced speed is related to developer quantity. There's too big a variation in productivity between experienced and amateur developers.
I'm also not convinced open-source is right for all types of software. How many open-source developers you know that conduct large-scale usability tests? How many open-source developers go around interviewing end users? When the developer and product consumer is the same, open-source makes much more sense to me.
They are going to put these in tires. When you buy your tires the seller is going to be required to enter your information in a database.
One day when you are going a little too fast in a school zone or run a yellow that switches to red too fast an underground computer is going to sense the rfid in your tire, immediately reporting the number via rf link to police headquarters.
You would think that this would be for the purpose of giving you a ticket. You're right, you will get a ticket. But that is not the end the trail for your rfid number.
It immediately gets sent to the state government where it checks to make sure you are not a deadbeat dad that the wherabouts of are unknown. Simultaneously sending it to the FBI to see if you are a name on the "patriot" act watchlist and indexes your location. If you drive on the same street on a regular basis they will know where to find you.
You're not a deadbeatdad, lawbreaker, or terrorist you say??? Well the trail that your rfid number takes does not end there. Your rfid number is sold by cashed-strapped states to a commercial database under the auspices of "risk mitigation" that insurance companies subscribe to. Because you were speeding, you are at an increased risk and your car insurance rates are subsquently raised. Because you drive dangerously, your health insurance rates are also raised. Maybe they cancel your policy outright.
You're thinking I'll just remove the rfid. No you won't. Driving with unregistered tires is against the law, and if the police can't scan you as you drive past his cruiser he pulls you over and immediately suspends your license and impounds your car. But you won't be able to remove it anyway, without destroying the tire, as it is purposefully integrated with the "steel belt".
Does the trail end for your rfid tire number now? No, it most certainly doesn't. To see where it leads further, you are going to have to talk to my patent attorney.
Solaris/Intel is just a toy that grabs a few extra customers that Sun would have lost otherwise. Boy, you should see it when linux noobs get their hands on it. They get really angry when you tell them "your hardware must be listed on the Hardware Compatibility List". I've seen venomous diatribes directed at "sucky" Sun and its "sucky" OS for not having video drivers for whatever the most expensive game-playing graphics board is these days. And if they actually get the system to install and they see CDE...oh man.
I don't hang on #solaris any more, but damn we would get the same reactions over, and over, and over about Solaris/Intel.
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Hopefully I don't have to tell the 30 percent of slashdot readers who actually do unix system administration that this is a terrible idea to add this to your web sites. Distributed computing is fine for client boxes, but for servers...if your server wants to implement any extra complication and/or CPU, you're doing something wrong.
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I saw a story about this a few days ago over at tubgirl tech archive
There's another writeup of this distro over at tubgirl tech archive
As someone who works in this industry, I thought I'd share some of the future of telecomm for those who aren't 'in the know'. All communication lines going to any endpoint (home, business, sensors, etc) are quickly moving to an IP based data network. Unfortunately, there are two problems that governments and current telephone companies face:
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1) Roughly 50% of their voice revenue stream comes from per minute connection charges, other carrier access charges, & regulation charges (govn't). These will evaporate when subscribers move to data driven VoIP (ie: you pay a flat fee for DSL or cable modem bandwidth now, and it can run all your voice calls to anywhere in the world). Eventually the PSTN connection part will no longer be necessary, so Vonage will disappear as we know it today, but it has finally woken up the telcos to what the future will bring.
2) Pretty much the other half of their revenue stream comes from the 'premium' voice feature services (call waiting, text messaging, etc), all of which are quickly moving from the class 5 switch into the phones themselves (aka: free).
What do you do when your primary revenue stream evaporates? Fight it in the courts or with govn't officials. Remember, govn'ts have been taking a nice chunk of that revenue for themselves as well.
We will have to move to a bandwidth & quality of service (QoS) based payment style. A minimum bandwidth is given for a flat rate (which will include -all- voice), and extra bandwidth will be provided on demand at an agreed QoS. The higher the bandwidth & QoS, the higher the fee.
Things to watch out for: VoIP everywhere, SIP phones/services, VoWLAN, current voice carriers moving their infrastructure to their IP networks, and govn't regulations dictating that comm lines (called data services & unregulated) become regulated for QoS.
The companies that move to this model last will not survive. They aren't going to like this.
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It's not about carrying voice traffic over TCP/IP, though that is what the name implies. What these VOIP companies are doing is tying their internet operations into local REAL telephone connections. They are using normal, dialable 7/10 digit numbers to identify destinations, and they are crossing traffic over between internet and telephone networks.
AOL Talk, MS Netmeeting, heck even Battlecom allow you to carry voice over IP. But the difference is you can't dial up you phone number from Battlecom and make your phone ring.
The VOIP in these cases are companies that tie into real telephone networks. They issue real telephone numbers to their customers. You can use a normal telephone to reach them. That means they are regulatable by the same standards as normal telephone. The regulators own the address space, not just the service standards.
The easiest way to avoid this regulation and fees is not to tie into the telephone network, don't use the same 7/10 digit address space and don't claim you can call normal telephones. You do that and there's no fees and no regulation.
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Read more about it at anti-slash
This is another great example of slashdot's editors twisting the facts to make a story more interesting.
For this and many other transgressions, I humbly submit that the answer be found in sacred jihad against slashdot's editors. Join anti-slash.
you were modded down as redundant.
It seems as though the Uma is coming alive with the fire of sacred jihad.
The problem with every software that I have used that tries to decipher human language (like Zork or the game included with emacs for X) is that you have to know what words the software understands and in what context.
I have seen the same problems with automated phone systems that are supposed to recognize a generic voice and I can see the same thing happening here.
The main difference here though, is that when entering text, you know exactly what you input before pressing enter. With voice recognition software, how do you know that the software "hears" exactly what you say? If you say somethign like "What are my appointments for the thirteenth?" and it hears, "What are my appointments for the thirtieth?" you would be receiving the wrong information.
I hope this is a success but I don't have my hopes up.
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It strikes me that national power systems often have dangerous reliance on a small number of big power-providers - large coal/gas/oil/nuclear stations, with electricity imported/transported down a few very large critical power lines. Alternative energy may provide a solution, because by its nature it needs a higher level of redundancy and a more intelligent and distributed power supply model. And its good for the planet too.. Wind energy has really started to prove its use here in the UK, and is set to take off in the USA too. In the UK we should have 20% of national power from the Wind by 2020, and we have the offshore sites to get 100% eventually if we wanted. Add to that Solar, Tidal, etc.. Because of the very nature of these resources local/national distribution must be better, and include mechanisms to regulate in the case of a drop in power..
Oh, and what do you do when you have excess production? Turn the electricity into Hydrogen for your cars!
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I recently came across an article about something similar (person working at septic system noc) over at tubgirl tech archive...pretty interesting read.
There's another review of this book over at tubgirl tech archive
Normally I'd agree, but in this case I'm trying to add some content (which I do feel bad about) to serve the cause by getting the word out about anti-slash. I pray that Allah will forgive me for adding that bit of signal, and that I can bring sheep to the Uma.
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I'm not trying to troll here...but hear me out: People simply don't trust electronic voting...as a geek this makes me very sad, because voting is something that could and should be more automated.
Now, ask yourself, why is it that people don't trust comptuers?
Answer: Microsoft's abhorent trackrecord with regard to security has an awful lot to do with it. It's not the only factor, but it is *huge*.
All these windows bugs do effect us linux geeks: The perception of computers in general has suffered greatly.
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This post is ripped off from this post
I'll have you know that the post you linked to was posted by another account of *mine*, thank you very much.
Go on promoting the facists, I'll go on fighting for freedom.
Imagine what your grandfather would be saying if he saw you now, siding with the axis. You should be ashamed of yourself.
You are right about one thing: The truth does not leave room for debate. I am absoluetely correct.
My young friend, please believe me when I say that a few years ago I might have been the one typing your mindless posts...so full of adoration for slashdot's editors, so quick to defend their "right" to run a site that claims to be a geek forum but is in truth a facade for their own megalomania and the corresponding stupidity of their masses.
And so, once again, I find myself acting as the flashlight of truth, sheading light on injustice, only to be switched off by the hand of man, too cowardly to face the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
It's a shame to see such a promising young mind be infected with the same disease that lead so many people to their deaths.
I remember how important it used to be to me to get +5s and be popular...but I saw what I was doing; I saw that I was supporting censorship by helping slashdot's "nazi" editors by giving the illusion that this is a user-controlled site, when the fact is that it's a facist regime controlled by a few (sound familiar?) I'm hopeful that you'll realize I'm write when you read this.
I stay to help people like you understand the injustice. I stay in the hope that I can wake the sheep from their slumber and flock them to a brighter tomorrow. If people never stood up against non-public entities, can you imagine what a condition the world would be at! Slashdot shapes and molds young geeky minds like yours, and it does so mired in censorship and conspiracy, and I will fight on until a the battle for your heart is won.
When the force you are working against scilences your voice, it is time to stop working from within and work from without. It is clear that slashdot's editors are unwilling to address their censorship publically; trying to convince them to do so only legitimizes them.
I really wish there were some kind of web site or organization that was committed to working against slashdot. I know in my home country such organizations are crucial in bringing about the great justice.
Let me tell you something, growing up and living in my home country of Belaruse has taught me one thing: People who say "tone down the rhetoric" are agents of something very sinister. Shame on you all.
Slashdot could do whatever it wants in terms of biased reporting and censorship, if they owned up to it. Have you seen slashdot's editors mention the mass banning of moderators who modded up the troll investigation? Me neither.
It is for these reasons that slashdot must be destroyed.
My limited experience with open source is summed up with this article sentence:
~~~
Not all open-source projects are alike, however. A small number of open-source projects have become well known, but the vast majority never get off the ground, according to Scacchi.
~~~
Open source is obviously faster/better/cheaper when 1000's of people donate their time to a single project. The only open source project I've been involved in was a collaboration among several corporations, all of which wanted to leverage each other's resources, but none of which could really contribute their own.
There's nothing like money to motivate people to work on a project for which people aren't willing to donate their time.
Personally, I'm not convinced speed is related to developer quantity. There's too big a variation in productivity between experienced and amateur developers.
I'm also not convinced open-source is right for all types of software. How many open-source developers you know that conduct large-scale usability tests? How many open-source developers go around interviewing end users? When the developer and product consumer is the same, open-source makes much more sense to me.
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They are going to put these in tires. When you buy your tires the seller is going to be required to enter your information in a database.
One day when you are going a little too fast in a school zone or run a yellow that switches to red too fast an underground computer is going to sense the rfid in your tire, immediately reporting the number via rf link to police headquarters.
You would think that this would be for the purpose of giving you a ticket. You're right, you will get a ticket. But that is not the end the trail for your rfid number.
It immediately gets sent to the state government where it checks to make sure you are not a deadbeat dad that the wherabouts of are unknown. Simultaneously sending it to the FBI to see if you are a name on the "patriot" act watchlist and indexes your location. If you drive on the same street on a regular basis they will know where to find you.
You're not a deadbeatdad, lawbreaker, or terrorist you say??? Well the trail that your rfid number takes does not end there. Your rfid number is sold by cashed-strapped states to a commercial database under the auspices of "risk mitigation" that insurance companies subscribe to. Because you were speeding, you are at an increased risk and your car insurance rates are subsquently raised. Because you drive dangerously, your health insurance rates are also raised. Maybe they cancel your policy outright.
You're thinking I'll just remove the rfid. No you won't. Driving with unregistered tires is against the law, and if the police can't scan you as you drive past his cruiser he pulls you over and immediately suspends your license and impounds your car. But you won't be able to remove it anyway, without destroying the tire, as it is purposefully integrated with the "steel belt".
Does the trail end for your rfid tire number now? No, it most certainly doesn't. To see where it leads further, you are going to have to talk to my patent attorney.
Solaris/Intel is just a toy that grabs a few extra customers that Sun would have lost otherwise. Boy, you should see it when linux noobs get their hands on it. They get really angry when you tell them "your hardware must be listed on the Hardware Compatibility List". I've seen venomous diatribes directed at "sucky" Sun and its "sucky" OS for not having video drivers for whatever the most expensive game-playing graphics board is these days. And if they actually get the system to install and they see CDE...oh man.
I don't hang on #solaris any more, but damn we would get the same reactions over, and over, and over about Solaris/Intel.