I've got it! We can create our own open source network lines. Each person will go to the hardware store and buy 10 meters of fibreoptic cable and dig a trench in front of their house. We can take our spare parts and combine them and make servers! Power to the people! Stickin it to the man! Yeah!!!
You could do something like that, like Fon tried to do some time back in the US and parts of Europe with WiFi (whatever happened to that? I wound up reformatting my router and using standard images because their OS was so unstable).
Not surprisingly, the Wall Street Journal has this completely wrong.
The DPI software/hardware does *not* do the broadband filtration that the WSJ says it does. At SALabs, our R&D arm of the SiliconANGLE blog, we've done some pretty extensive research, and it's plain to us (and likely most of the IT audience here at Slashdot) that the type of censorship taking place in Iran is unsophisticated and isn't the result of DPI techniques.
We have several articles going into this matter on the site.
(http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5972) (http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5925) and (http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5919).
The bottom line is that this stuff is good old fashioned gateway blocking of addresses. The DPI software that Nokia sells is for mobile network packet shaping only, and not useful for censoring an entire country's information infrastructure.
Actually, I must say that a number of my friends who would otherwise be quite prolific pirates have completely refrained from file sharing utilities, and have turned to much safer methods of inducting music into their sizeable collections (15,000 + songs). I wouldn't exactly say it impinges on their conscious, per se, but laws and precedents in the audio arena are, unfortunately, having an effect on behavior./rizzn
>>Serenity [...] follows a group of outlaws in a unique
>>space-western universe. While there are no aliens or temporal
>>anomalies, the stage is set for our group of heros to out-wit and
>>out-strategize the giant and evil Alliance.
>So basically live-action Cowboy Bebop minus the bounty hunting?
Yes, but with more humor and language play mixed in. I'm a fan of Whedon and of Cowboy BeeBop... If you like BeeBop, chances are you'll like this.
Last Tuesday, Universal Studios invited me down to North Miami to see a special 'blogger invite only' version of the show. Apparently it was co-sponsored by the local Clearchanel hip hop station, and I had to sit through their corporate whoring for a bit, but after that was done, I saw the movie, and liked what I saw. I posted a review on my blog (http://www.rizzn.com/2005/09/migratory-patterns-o f-soccerballs-and.asp). I can't say enough goood things about the flick. Very enjoyable, possibly one of the top 5 or 10 of the year (not that's saying much this year).
As did I. Apparently, the organisation's name that sponsors the awards is the "Academy of Television Arts and Sciences" which, at least in its name, awards it a certain lattitude in giving awards out to things like this.
Question in my mind is does the PS2 really deserve the Emmy? Sure it's a great platform and we all enjoy playing on it, but seems to me they're end result has fallen significantly short of their goal. When they came out with the PS2, it was supposed to usher in an era of entertainment in which PS2's were the only gaming/dvd/video/internet device we'd ever buy again. I still don't own a PS2, and I play video games, watch DVDs, and browse the web on a daily basis.
For the record, I'm an oppressed majority in Broward County, I originate from the cockels of East Texas, and I know urban and rural culture quite well.
And I'm telling you, if you are a gay couple, you have to be on crack to think that even if the law were to your favor you would have any sort of life in a rural red state.
In other words, you'd have to be an idiot.
I'm not saying its fscking fair, I'm just saying hey, that's how it is. Don't expect a whole lot of reform to come from people who are culturally set in their ways.. if you are truly from rural areas like you two proclaim, you know that.
RTFA... it was adaptation, not modification. Unless I completely misread the article: Four weeks later, the scientist sends me an email saying that he has completed the DNA analysis and found no evidence of modification. He tested specifically for the presence of CP4 - a telltale indicator of the Roundup Ready modification - as well as for the cauliflower mosaic virus, the gene most commonly used to insert foreign DNA into a plant. It is still possible that the plant has been genetically modified using other genes, but not likely.
1. Do all herbacides rely on the Round-Up active ingredients? 2. If not, is the herbacide in question something other than agent orange (or something similarly damaging to the environment/humanity)? 3. Can we use that instead?
Furthermore: 4. What weaknesses were created in the plant through this adaptation? Just because it has become impervious to Round-Up doesn't mean that at the same time other alterations to it's code didn't occur during it's adaptation. There's more than likely a chink in the armor (so to speak), and if this strain gets spread to 100% of the coca growing community, that chink in the armor could become a large puncture wound.
Another question I'm left with is with all that money, why the hell haven't cocaine cartels decided to invest in some genetic modification before now?
Just as a point of clarification, 11 states did not vote to ban gay marriage, only define marriage as between a man and a woman. This still allows for civil unions, if my understanding is correct.
This is to be perfectly expected given the gay lobby's irrational concentration on the inpenetrable northwest with their campaign dollars instead of spreading it around the country and the weak precincts.
I've always been of the opinion that if you are a gay couple, and you pick a state like Alabama or Georgia or Mississippi to settle down in, getting your marriage recognized is likely the least of your worries./rizzn
A company called Onsite-Technologies is working on a project that allows an individual to listen to internet radio. There's no telling what the final product will be like but the current plan is to offer it without subscription fees. There is no information on that project listed online, but there is contact numbers for anyone wanting to investigate further.
the mirror was slashdotted already -- I tried a few more times and grabbed it from the original site. I put it here in case anyone is unable to get the first two - [www.rizzn.com/cubehouse]
This is all well and good for most of the world, but they could be looking at patent infringement from Airborne Autonomous Systems who's utility patent on what they call the SFD (semi-autonomous flight director) covers functionality of a Flight Director (whether or not it's called AI) in an unmanned aircraft.
Regardless, though, the FAA has made it clear before that commercial UAVs must not have exposed rotor blades, so it is unlikely that something like this will ever be sold or used in America.
(partial repost from rizzn.com)
Actually, there's no public information about it right now, but there's a mobile device that is supposed to function on both WiFi and GSM that either will pull shoutcast streams or other MP3/Streaming audio streams down for either car or home stereos being worked on by a company called Onsite Technology. Their project list (such as it is) can be found here./rizzn
There used to be a tagline back in my BBS'ing and FidoNet days that said something like: "You bought a 486 for your kid? I launch satellites with my 486!"
[I suppose if the President of the U.S. was arrested for drunk driving and CNN decided to report on it, that that would be "pathetic" and "anti-Bush?"]
Actually -- have you seen the state of political commentary these days?
Like I said before, I am not an aerospace engineer. I'm primarily a software engineer. The aerospace project I refer to is something I moonlight with. My role in the project has very little to do with aerospace, and more to do with the software side of the computer systems onboard, and some of the business management aspects. Hence I know a whole lot about my corner of the world in UAVs and flight director software, but very little outside of it. (take a look at my resume to see what my background is -- I generally don't even list this project since it hasn't gone into production yet).
In answer to your other questions, yes. Without going into the long pitch and dissertation on the whole project, what we do is tried and proven technology applied in a very innovative manner. The prototype built in 1999 proved the concept, but our backers were based out of the WTC, and had to pull out in 2001. We are currently seeking alternative sources of funding, but there are a lot of politics that honestly blow my mind when working in defense contracting circles. At this point, we are attempting to seek funding from foreign US allied governments with slightly more success.
Well, I might as well qualify my statements with the following: I'm not an aerospace engineer. I'm simply a software developer, and I know little about the politics of the aerospace industry, I simply know what the experts in the company tell me about. The chief engineers in the company have a very successful track record at Lockheed, Raytheon and other defense contractors. They aren't superstars, like Rutan is apparently, but they are competent inventors and engineers.
I've been a consultant for an aircraft project for about eight years, and one of the problems we've run into over and over again is funding. Whenever an aerospace idea tries to break the mold or move from traditionally taught ideas, it seems it's generally shunned by the aerospace community. Looking at the pictures shown on their site, they are some fairly fanciful designs -- ones that certainly wouldn't be looked at from the aerospace circles we run in. So who exactly funds these projects, private investors, companies?
I've actually read the book -- bought it about a year ago. In the introduction, it was billed as "possibly a sequel to the Dirk Gently series, or is it the final Hitchhiker book? You Decide!" but to me it seemed little more than a collection of essays. When I split with my fiance last year she kept the book, so I never finished it or figured out if the end tied it all in, but it was mainly, from the 75% I read, a collection of observations and magazine articles he's written.
I've been a big fan of distributed computing ever since distributed.net came out with their first client. The TCA Internet team used to be hot stuff back in the day as far as number crunchers (due primarily to me sticking the RC5 client on all three of the NOC's e450's as well as all the cube farm machines).
So naturally, this interests me. I wanted to see what it took to get a grid-enabled machine. Costs involved. Scope of the project. The article's fine and all, but I knew I could go direct to the source.
Not found. In fact, all of googles top 25 links to.ch sites seem to be down. Is this just me or did CERN disconnect their webserver and absorb the circuits into their grid or something?
Slashdot Mirror
I've got it! We can create our own open source network lines. Each person will go to the hardware store and buy 10 meters of fibreoptic cable and dig a trench in front of their house. We can take our spare parts and combine them and make servers! Power to the people! Stickin it to the man! Yeah!!!
You could do something like that, like Fon tried to do some time back in the US and parts of Europe with WiFi (whatever happened to that? I wound up reformatting my router and using standard images because their OS was so unstable).
Or you could do the spare parts thing with Grid / Distributed Computing.
Just sayin'.
Not surprisingly, the Wall Street Journal has this completely wrong.
The DPI software/hardware does *not* do the broadband filtration that the WSJ says it does. At SALabs, our R&D arm of the SiliconANGLE blog, we've done some pretty extensive research, and it's plain to us (and likely most of the IT audience here at Slashdot) that the type of censorship taking place in Iran is unsophisticated and isn't the result of DPI techniques.
We have several articles going into this matter on the site.
(http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5972) (http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5925) and (http://www.siliconangle.com/ver2/?p=5919).
The bottom line is that this stuff is good old fashioned gateway blocking of addresses. The DPI software that Nokia sells is for mobile network packet shaping only, and not useful for censoring an entire country's information infrastructure.
Actually, I must say that a number of my friends who would otherwise be quite prolific pirates have completely refrained from file sharing utilities, and have turned to much safer methods of inducting music into their sizeable collections (15,000 + songs). I wouldn't exactly say it impinges on their conscious, per se, but laws and precedents in the audio arena are, unfortunately, having an effect on behavior. /rizzn
>>Serenity [...] follows a group of outlaws in a unique >>space-western universe. While there are no aliens or temporal >>anomalies, the stage is set for our group of heros to out-wit and >>out-strategize the giant and evil Alliance. >So basically live-action Cowboy Bebop minus the bounty hunting? Yes, but with more humor and language play mixed in. I'm a fan of Whedon and of Cowboy BeeBop... If you like BeeBop, chances are you'll like this.
Then the question goes double. For what the PS2 lacks in Sony's original vision, the PS1 falls severely short.
Last Tuesday, Universal Studios invited me down to North Miami to see a special 'blogger invite only' version of the show. Apparently it was co-sponsored by the local Clearchanel hip hop station, and I had to sit through their corporate whoring for a bit, but after that was done, I saw the movie, and liked what I saw. I posted a review on my blog (http://www.rizzn.com/2005/09/migratory-patterns-o f-soccerballs-and.asp). I can't say enough goood things about the flick. Very enjoyable, possibly one of the top 5 or 10 of the year (not that's saying much this year).
As did I. Apparently, the organisation's name that sponsors the awards is the "Academy of Television Arts and Sciences" which, at least in its name, awards it a certain lattitude in giving awards out to things like this.
Question in my mind is does the PS2 really deserve the Emmy? Sure it's a great platform and we all enjoy playing on it, but seems to me they're end result has fallen significantly short of their goal. When they came out with the PS2, it was supposed to usher in an era of entertainment in which PS2's were the only gaming/dvd/video/internet device we'd ever buy again. I still don't own a PS2, and I play video games, watch DVDs, and browse the web on a daily basis.
I feel for you guys, I really do.
For the record, I'm an oppressed majority in Broward County, I originate from the cockels of East Texas, and I know urban and rural culture quite well.
And I'm telling you, if you are a gay couple, you have to be on crack to think that even if the law were to your favor you would have any sort of life in a rural red state.
In other words, you'd have to be an idiot.
I'm not saying its fscking fair, I'm just saying hey, that's how it is. Don't expect a whole lot of reform to come from people who are culturally set in their ways.. if you are truly from rural areas like you two proclaim, you know that.
RTFA... it was adaptation, not modification. Unless I completely misread the article: Four weeks later, the scientist sends me an email saying that he has completed the DNA analysis and found no evidence of modification. He tested specifically for the presence of CP4 - a telltale indicator of the Roundup Ready modification - as well as for the cauliflower mosaic virus, the gene most commonly used to insert foreign DNA into a plant. It is still possible that the plant has been genetically modified using other genes, but not likely.
...answers to a few questions:
1. Do all herbacides rely on the Round-Up active ingredients?
2. If not, is the herbacide in question something other than agent orange (or something similarly damaging to the environment/humanity)?
3. Can we use that instead?
Furthermore:
4. What weaknesses were created in the plant through this adaptation? Just because it has become impervious to Round-Up doesn't mean that at the same time other alterations to it's code didn't occur during it's adaptation. There's more than likely a chink in the armor (so to speak), and if this strain gets spread to 100% of the coca growing community, that chink in the armor could become a large puncture wound.
Another question I'm left with is with all that money, why the hell haven't cocaine cartels decided to invest in some genetic modification before now?
My comment regarding mental capacity of gay folk who decide to put down roots in the rural red states still stands.
Just as a point of clarification, 11 states did not vote to ban gay marriage, only define marriage as between a man and a woman. This still allows for civil unions, if my understanding is correct.
/rizzn
This is to be perfectly expected given the gay lobby's irrational concentration on the inpenetrable northwest with their campaign dollars instead of spreading it around the country and the weak precincts.
I've always been of the opinion that if you are a gay couple, and you pick a state like Alabama or Georgia or Mississippi to settle down in, getting your marriage recognized is likely the least of your worries.
A company called Onsite-Technologies is working on a project that allows an individual to listen to internet radio. There's no telling what the final product will be like but the current plan is to offer it without subscription fees. There is no information on that project listed online, but there is contact numbers for anyone wanting to investigate further.
the mirror was slashdotted already -- I tried a few more times and grabbed it from the original site. I put it here in case anyone is unable to get the first two - [www.rizzn.com/cubehouse]
It's being marketed, as I am told, as a primarily military craft. Ducted fans are the way to go. Much more efficient.
This is all well and good for most of the world, but they could be looking at patent infringement from Airborne Autonomous Systems who's utility patent on what they call the SFD (semi-autonomous flight director) covers functionality of a Flight Director (whether or not it's called AI) in an unmanned aircraft. Regardless, though, the FAA has made it clear before that commercial UAVs must not have exposed rotor blades, so it is unlikely that something like this will ever be sold or used in America. (partial repost from rizzn.com)
Actually, there's no public information about it right now, but there's a mobile device that is supposed to function on both WiFi and GSM that either will pull shoutcast streams or other MP3/Streaming audio streams down for either car or home stereos being worked on by a company called Onsite Technology. Their project list (such as it is) can be found here. /rizzn
There used to be a tagline back in my BBS'ing and FidoNet days that said something like: "You bought a 486 for your kid? I launch satellites with my 486!"
[I suppose if the President of the U.S. was arrested for drunk driving and CNN decided to report on it, that that would be "pathetic" and "anti-Bush?"] Actually -- have you seen the state of political commentary these days?
Like I said before, I am not an aerospace engineer. I'm primarily a software engineer. The aerospace project I refer to is something I moonlight with. My role in the project has very little to do with aerospace, and more to do with the software side of the computer systems onboard, and some of the business management aspects. Hence I know a whole lot about my corner of the world in UAVs and flight director software, but very little outside of it. (take a look at my resume to see what my background is -- I generally don't even list this project since it hasn't gone into production yet).
In answer to your other questions, yes. Without going into the long pitch and dissertation on the whole project, what we do is tried and proven technology applied in a very innovative manner. The prototype built in 1999 proved the concept, but our backers were based out of the WTC, and had to pull out in 2001. We are currently seeking alternative sources of funding, but there are a lot of politics that honestly blow my mind when working in defense contracting circles. At this point, we are attempting to seek funding from foreign US allied governments with slightly more success.
Well, I might as well qualify my statements with the following: I'm not an aerospace engineer. I'm simply a software developer, and I know little about the politics of the aerospace industry, I simply know what the experts in the company tell me about. The chief engineers in the company have a very successful track record at Lockheed, Raytheon and other defense contractors. They aren't superstars, like Rutan is apparently, but they are competent inventors and engineers.
I've been a consultant for an aircraft project for about eight years, and one of the problems we've run into over and over again is funding. Whenever an aerospace idea tries to break the mold or move from traditionally taught ideas, it seems it's generally shunned by the aerospace community. Looking at the pictures shown on their site, they are some fairly fanciful designs -- ones that certainly wouldn't be looked at from the aerospace circles we run in. So who exactly funds these projects, private investors, companies?
I've actually read the book -- bought it about a year ago. In the introduction, it was billed as "possibly a sequel to the Dirk Gently series, or is it the final Hitchhiker book? You Decide!" but to me it seemed little more than a collection of essays. When I split with my fiance last year she kept the book, so I never finished it or figured out if the end tied it all in, but it was mainly, from the 75% I read, a collection of observations and magazine articles he's written.
I've been a big fan of distributed computing ever since distributed.net came out with their first client. The TCA Internet team used to be hot stuff back in the day as far as number crunchers (due primarily to me sticking the RC5 client on all three of the NOC's e450's as well as all the cube farm machines). So naturally, this interests me. I wanted to see what it took to get a grid-enabled machine. Costs involved. Scope of the project. The article's fine and all, but I knew I could go direct to the source. Not found. In fact, all of googles top 25 links to .ch sites seem to be down. Is this just me or did CERN disconnect their webserver and absorb the circuits into their grid or something?