"The BioBrite Sunrise Alarm Clock - I actually own this thing and recommend it. It makes waking up in the morning about twice as easy."
Are there any of these clocks that aren't made by the wellness freaks with the patent-pending and a dislike of competition? All such clocks seem to be inordinately more exensive than they need to be...
I have a timer-switch ($15 from hardware shop), and an old light... seems to work albeit without the fade-in effect.
"What if you *do* have a spare *tIre* and don't know how to change it. Yes, ok, I'm a girl. I'm sorry, but I can't change a flat tire. And having a flat tire is only one thing that can go wrong with a car. What if your battery dies and you need a jump? What if your engine breaks? What if you run out of gas? (THAT would be stupid though) I mean, I drive a 13-year-old car and all those things, well besides running out of gas, are perfectly plausible things to occur. Another plus to cell phones is being able to call long distance. And my, all sorts of things. I don't use mine very much at all, but when I need it, it's very nice to have. "
Congratulations, your post will now be listed on web-searches for "13-year-old AND girl AND jump leads";-)
"No one mentioned Microsoft Office. Most people who use it hate it, but almost no one in the corporate world can live without it. it's the classic situation of "I use it because I have to.""
Interestingly, people tend to phrase their annoyance with Microsoft Office in the way "Computers annoy and frustrate me", without realising that it's just one set of programs which are that bad...
Watch Jeremy Clarkson smashing up a laptop screen in response to a dislike of Clippy to see how this works...
"I was thinking of T-shirts with this design on them so that photographs of you (think driver's license, passport) can't be photocopied."
Put it on cafe press, and post a link here... Somebody with a digital camera, a recent copy of photoshop, and a marker pen should be able to find out the right size...
I wonder how good the size tolerance needs to be? Exactly 1mm when scanned, we think?
In fact, a digital camera might not have the detection facility, it might need to be something that can be scanned...
"Effectively, there's now a standard symbol for "do not copy""
Okay, print this symbol on your letterhead next time you write to your MP, and ask them to forward your letter (as you normally do when writing to MPs, they photocopy the letter, and forward it to the relevant department)
Their secretaries will soon discover how easy this anticounterfeiting technique makes their lives... I wonder if any of them will put a postit note over the symbol to make it photocopy, or whether you can just include a load of them in the watermark. (a watermark in a watermark!)
Can you think of a good way to incorporate "effective encryption" into popup blocking, in such a way that displaying a popup copies some copyrighted work? If so, suggest it to the Mozilla forums, and see how it goes.
(I'm thinking along the haiku lines here... "send this text in the HTTP headers to allow popups for this site"...)
"your laptop could spend its time scanning for like minded nodes and you could even have a request list for it to try and fufil"
The level of complexity you'd need to provide enough deniability is mind-boggling... along the lines of running each computer as a GNUNet node, with a RubberHose filesystem...
The Konspire2B project (link above) is probably the right sort of interface -- you create a channel (equivalent to a TV channel), and announce it, and anybody who signs-up to your announcement starts automatically downloading anything signed with your channel's key. But it's deniable, as you could just as easily be retransmitting as transmitting.
On the internet, the problem with this is that it can be possible to list *all* the active nodes, so you can almost prove who the author is by process of elimination. But if you translated this to WiFi space, nodes would come and go as people travelled past them. There would be no list of active IP addresses, just anonymous radio signals.
The "ping time" of anything would be incredibly large though, so the protocol might need to be adapted to store channels you haven't signed up to, just so they can be offered to others... you never know if you're about to walk past someone who'll request the channel you're being offered, so store it anyway, and delete it later if you don't need to send it... Presumably bandwidth would be cheaper if you're not paying an ISP, so there's not as much need to filter only channels you've personally subscribed to...
"It would really piss me off to lose my machines if I never did anything, I wonder how long it would be before you got them back and what kind of condition they would be in."
"Never", and "not applicable", respectively. The EFF was founded over just such a situation, where computers were essentially, stolen, under the premise of "gathering evicence"
As a side-note, it's always worth thinking about this when you design your backups policy (or disaster-recovery in work-speak) -- it needs to be just as resistant to legal attack and raids as it does to fire or theft.
"Yes, that's all well and good, up until the point someone is actually standing on the celestial body -- with a gun."
Howabout when they have a gun and a base full of workshops, farms, and mines?, and the radio call comes through: "we don't wanna be americans anymore" and claim independance.
As you say, "the future nations of the solar system" All they need is Daneel
"It doesnt say anywhere (or does it??) that it can link up with other Aireo's so whats the point?"
Now imagine that, a MP3 player which automatically shared your top-rated songs with anyone in the local area, get home and see what's on your/uploads/ directory...
Try shutting that one down once it becomes a GPL'd utility for handheld computers and laptops...
"According to the BBC, "The pictures will go online on Monday."
It just did. Their new website reads something like this:
"Thank you for accessing our new website, we are currently experiencing a high volume of enquiries at www.evidenceincamera.co.uk
Please try again later Thank you"
Slashdot Mirror
"Don't underestimate the convenience. 20 gig is enough for many people to rip and download all of their CDs"
57.2 gig is enough to backup your hard-drive, and rip all of your CDs...
"one of my neighbours grabbed an IP from my wireless router"
If plausible deniability works for the government, it damned well ought to work for individuals.
"What about those people on DHCP who get a different IP address each time they log on?"
;-)
They sue the new owner of the DHCP address... you overestimate the intelligence of the music industry
"I wonder what good that will do, most ISPs use rotating DHCP based IP addresses."
Presumably they have an IP-address and timestamp...
Plus ISPs in most places are required to record all subscriber data, forever (near enough) so that the courts can use it and the police can abuse it.
"5 minutes? Sure, then contact me, and I'll pay you for 5 minute's work of work to move all of my co-located servers to a new ISP."
Co-located? You couldn't change ISPs for a dial-up modem in that time (yes, they take 20 minutes to answer the phone...)
"The BioBrite Sunrise Alarm Clock - I actually own this thing and recommend it. It makes waking up in the morning about twice as easy."
Are there any of these clocks that aren't made by the wellness freaks with the patent-pending and a dislike of competition? All such clocks seem to be inordinately more exensive than they need to be...
I have a timer-switch ($15 from hardware shop), and an old light... seems to work albeit without the fade-in effect.
"What if you *do* have a spare *tIre* and don't know how to change it. Yes, ok, I'm a girl. I'm sorry, but I can't change a flat tire. And having a flat tire is only one thing that can go wrong with a car. What if your battery dies and you need a jump? What if your engine breaks? What if you run out of gas? (THAT would be stupid though) I mean, I drive a 13-year-old car and all those things, well besides running out of gas, are perfectly plausible things to occur. Another plus to cell phones is being able to call long distance. And my, all sorts of things. I don't use mine very much at all, but when I need it, it's very nice to have. "
;-)
Congratulations, your post will now be listed on web-searches for "13-year-old AND girl AND jump leads"
"No one mentioned Microsoft Office. Most people who use it hate it, but almost no one in the corporate world can live without it. it's the classic situation of "I use it because I have to.""
Interestingly, people tend to phrase their annoyance with Microsoft Office in the way "Computers annoy and frustrate me", without realising that it's just one set of programs which are that bad...
Watch Jeremy Clarkson smashing up a laptop screen in response to a dislike of Clippy to see how this works...
"Is that it swats flies with sledghammers. Surely there's a more elegant way to deal with this issue now?"
Swat spammers with sledgehammers?
"Sorry, it's 2005 and your printer driver reports you to the counterfeiting authorities for trying to print the forbidden pattern."
It's 2004, and my printer doesn't do shit, because Canon doesn't release any printer drivers for Linux...
"I was thinking of T-shirts with this design on them so that photographs of you (think driver's license, passport) can't be photocopied."
Put it on cafe press, and post a link here... Somebody with a digital camera, a recent copy of photoshop, and a marker pen should be able to find out the right size...
I wonder how good the size tolerance needs to be? Exactly 1mm when scanned, we think?
In fact, a digital camera might not have the detection facility, it might need to be something that can be scanned...
"Effectively, there's now a standard symbol for "do not copy""
Okay, print this symbol on your letterhead next time you write to your MP, and ask them to forward your letter (as you normally do when writing to MPs, they photocopy the letter, and forward it to the relevant department)
Their secretaries will soon discover how easy this anticounterfeiting technique makes their lives... I wonder if any of them will put a postit note over the symbol to make it photocopy, or whether you can just include a load of them in the watermark. (a watermark in a watermark!)
"One guy living in England told some me years ago that you can't photocopy currency on photocopiers. They just come out black."
I hear you can buy colour copiers in England now...
"Speaking of annoying ads, a co-worker used my computer once and installed Flash 6. Suggestions?"
a) Remove your co-worker's hard disk, reverse the connections, and shut the case again.
b) Install privoxy to restore the zen to your advertisement spaces
"So would this not be a violation of the DMCA?"
Can you think of a good way to incorporate "effective encryption" into popup blocking, in such a way that displaying a popup copies some copyrighted work? If so, suggest it to the Mozilla forums, and see how it goes.
(I'm thinking along the haiku lines here... "send this text in the HTTP headers to allow popups for this site"...)
"your laptop could spend its time scanning for like minded nodes and you could even have a request list for it to try and fufil"
The level of complexity you'd need to provide enough deniability is mind-boggling... along the lines of running each computer as a GNUNet node, with a RubberHose filesystem...
The Konspire2B project (link above) is probably the right sort of interface -- you create a channel (equivalent to a TV channel), and announce it, and anybody who signs-up to your announcement starts automatically downloading anything signed with your channel's key. But it's deniable, as you could just as easily be retransmitting as transmitting.
On the internet, the problem with this is that it can be possible to list *all* the active nodes, so you can almost prove who the author is by process of elimination. But if you translated this to WiFi space, nodes would come and go as people travelled past them. There would be no list of active IP addresses, just anonymous radio signals.
The "ping time" of anything would be incredibly large though, so the protocol might need to be adapted to store channels you haven't signed up to, just so they can be offered to others... you never know if you're about to walk past someone who'll request the channel you're being offered, so store it anyway, and delete it later if you don't need to send it... Presumably bandwidth would be cheaper if you're not paying an ISP, so there's not as much need to filter only channels you've personally subscribed to...
"So the "content" industry would want operators of P2P software to store 100 MD5 hashes of EVERY PIECE OF COPYRIGHTED WORK IN DIGITAL FORM"
You forget: the content industry don't define "copyrighted work" like we do. In their dictionary, it means "copyrighted by them work"
"It would really piss me off to lose my machines if I never did anything, I wonder how long it would be before you got them back and what kind of condition they would be in."
"Never", and "not applicable", respectively. The EFF was founded over just such a situation, where computers were essentially, stolen, under the premise of "gathering evicence"
As a side-note, it's always worth thinking about this when you design your backups policy (or disaster-recovery in work-speak) -- it needs to be just as resistant to legal attack and raids as it does to fire or theft.
"Why is the secret service involved?"
And why didn't they raid the set-top box companies thought to have used GPL code without a license?
"Yes, that's all well and good, up until the point someone is actually standing on the celestial body -- with a gun."
Howabout when they have a gun and a base full of workshops, farms, and mines?, and the radio call comes through: "we don't wanna be americans anymore" and claim independance.
As you say, "the future nations of the solar system" All they need is Daneel
""My PC31337 RAM was only like 50 cents a stick man, I have 40 gigs!!!"
You mean this guy? (end of page)
"Wireless synching is a good idea, but you still have to plug the thing in to charge."
Now if these devices could just charge themselves from the USB port, we wouldn't have to take an SMPS and power cable around with us..
"It doesnt say anywhere (or does it??) that it can link up with other Aireo's so whats the point?"
/uploads/ directory...
Now imagine that, a MP3 player which automatically shared your top-rated songs with anyone in the local area, get home and see what's on your
Try shutting that one down once it becomes a GPL'd utility for handheld computers and laptops...
It just did. Their new website reads something like this:
"Most unexploded ordnance is found the old fashioned way"
When it stops being unexploded?