Taking this to its logical conclusion means that some day, we'll have millions of 4 bit cells, each doing running a fixed 64 bit program, and passing the intermediate results to their neighbors in the orthogonal grid. There won't be a program counter, and it won't run C++ code.;-)
On the plus side, you'll have loader code that auto-routes around bad cells.
--Mike--
The key word here is "non-exclusive"... they're not treating it as property this time, more like the the town commons. If this works the way I think it will, there will be a low fee to cover administrative overhead, just like the Amateur Radio service.
Nobody is going to pay millions of dollars to have to cooperate and share... millions are only payed when a monopoly is guaranteed.
Of course, the country that gave rise to the Maginot Line is going to want to legislate away anyone who suggests software might be insecure because there are ways around it.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
If they limited article proposals to members in good standing, or better yet (in terms of revenue) members of X years. They would guarantee that all potential authors would remain members, which should then be sufficient to pay for the articles they actually do accept, and expend resources producing.
I'd actually consider joining ACM or IEEE at that point, because some day I want to get an article about bitgrid computing published.
Having read the actual article (Thanks John), it's very interesting to see the strengths and weaknesses of their approach. It seems that power management as a side effect changes the clock drift (skew), and laptops are especially drifty due to changing power states.
While I don't think this would hold up as evidence in a court of law, it certainly might have some use as a covert authentication protocol, along with the other signatures noted.
With respect to privacy issues, resetting your system time via NTP will break a measurement sample. If you use NTP, and have it update every hour, your clock skew is going to change often enough to make an accurate (long term) measurement very difficult.
I refuse to be terrorized by this invented "*new*" threat. I don't believe in dirty bombs.
To make a LARGE area uninhabitable, you need a LARGE amount of material. Fitting a Chernobyl sized mess into a backpack, truck, or even a small boat just isn't going to happen.
According to Wikipedia, the Chernobyl Accident caused the release between 13% to 30% of the 190 metric tons of Uranium Dioxide in reactor. I figure that's 24,700 Pounds of freshly irradiated material, at minimum.
In my possibly wrong opinion, the only way to the damage from a supposed "dirty bomb" is through the already known hazard of a a critical mass, something we already know about.
So, here we have a person who is using Google as a tool and revenue source. He doing data mining, and marketing to the "long tail". This is exactly the kind of thing predicted years ago as the job we'd all end up doing as "knowledge workers". We should be rejoicing at the way the InterNet is changing the world, but alas... we didn't expect it to change in quite this way.
The Slashdot reaction is interesting, as we tend to hate lawyers, corporations, and especially anyone who dares to try to make something as vulgar as profit off the InterNet. We see all of them as offensive scum-sucking machines feeding on our souls.
I see two ways this can evolve forward from this point:
Government regulation to protect citizen safety - reducing the need for lawyers as watchdogs
More efficient lawyers, aided by more intermediaries like the blog sited. - lawyers as watchdogs with keener ears
Personally, I've recently come to see the necessity of good government as a strong counterweight to the nature of unchecked greed that is the marketplace. While it may offend our liberitarian sensiblities, the only effective means of limiting the abuses of corporatism is good government. That is, a government of, by and for, the people.
We need to kick the bastards out, and put in good representative goverment, accountable to US. Yes, we need to get political, and organize.
If we fail to do this, the resulting will be even more lawyers and more stupid laws like software patents, DRM, etc. A world in which any random lawyer can take out a company or person on a whim, or as part of a larger campaign to monopolize an industry.
The choice is yours, be a whiny liberitarian and hope the marketplace works it out, or do the dirty work of cleaning up the mess that is the current political system.
Yeah, they fix the holes, but the OS and all the apps are still written in C/C++, so there will ALWAYS be more holes. C/C++ is a cruel trick that takes advantage of the innate pride of programmers, and results in buffer overflows, and other crap that will mean our computers will ALWAYS be insecure.
Not only that... now I have to patch my servers, right before I go away on vacation for a week...FUCK!
If you want speed and safety, Pascal is definitely the way to go. A single pass compiler, with speed that will blow your socks off, real object oriented programming, and a parser that understands that case sensitivity is a bug, not a feature.
Add to this an environment that knows how to deal with strings, types and units, and you're good to go. When the 'C' programmers "won", we all lost.
Based on the article alone, and on purely religious grounds, I'm with Motorola on this one. The whole point of UWB is to have a very wideband signal, so that you don't have to get into issues of having to avoid frequency X, Y, or Z.
Once you start talking about frequencies, and channels, you might as well give up the game.
I played with the zooming demo, and then remebered seeing it a few months ago, during my previous Jef Raskin fix. I'm interested in helping out, but all I see is the cool use of zoom as a metaphor for organizing data, not much else.
A sourceforge project might be nice, or at least a Wiki.
There was a company that made rare-earth magnets in Valparaiso, Indiana. (Necessary for small strong servos in, oh... missles...) That got sold to China...
inconsistent, arbitrary law enforcement breeds contempt.
If we had a compentent National Security Council, none of this would have happened, nor would it have been allowed to be politicized.
Of the commerical stuff that I've written, I'm usually the sole author. I've never had formal training in programming, so I've used an ad-hoc system of saving with a new version # appended to file names as I make changes, zipping everything in the source to a file every once in a while.
Of course, 20 years of advancement now present me with the opprotunity to learn ARCH, etc... and I may do so. But I'll still refuse to use any language that sees CaSe SensiTivitY as a FeatUre.
The UNIX permission system IS a failure. It forces everyone to try to accomidate reality with a very bad data model. It expects everything and everyone fit into a single 2 layer model (Everyone, My Group, Me)
The last 30 years have shown that this just doesn't work. ACL systems are far more powerful, not to mention intuitive. ACL systems can NOT be replaced by this model, and any real world system just won't fit. (Especially when you're constrained to 256 possible groups)
I looked at the mockup of the permissions page for a folder, and I see Owner/Group/World instead of an Access Control List (ACL). This is not what a modern Operating System would support.
I did read the fine article, and there is NO definition of PSP in it. Nor is there a hint it has anything to do with Play Stations.
From the article I know it's some sort of portable gaming system. The Icon shown on Slashdot is that of a Nintendo Gameboy, so that was no help, either.
Thanks however, for solving the mystery, and killing a few kharma points for me along the way. 8)
India is on the way out, drifting into the Russian sphere of influence, as we start making arms deals with Pakistan (They still haven't found Osama).
Unless the Pakistanis have radically improved their English language skills, and got more bandwidth, the threat of outsourcing is going down due to the brilliance of our fearless leader.
Interesting press release disguised as article, but where's the beef? There are no technical details about how it actually works. They talk about the limitations of two layer structures, but then never actually state how they overcame those limitations.
I call BullShit, for the second time today, actually.
Slashdot Mirror
On the plus side, you'll have loader code that auto-routes around bad cells. --Mike--
Nobody is going to pay millions of dollars to have to cooperate and share... millions are only payed when a monopoly is guaranteed.
--Mike--
History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme.
--Mike--
I'd actually consider joining ACM or IEEE at that point, because some day I want to get an article about bitgrid computing published.
--Mike--
While I don't think this would hold up as evidence in a court of law, it certainly might have some use as a covert authentication protocol, along with the other signatures noted.
With respect to privacy issues, resetting your system time via NTP will break a measurement sample. If you use NTP, and have it update every hour, your clock skew is going to change often enough to make an accurate (long term) measurement very difficult.
--Mike--
--Mike--
To make a LARGE area uninhabitable, you need a LARGE amount of material. Fitting a Chernobyl sized mess into a backpack, truck, or even a small boat just isn't going to happen.
According to Wikipedia, the Chernobyl Accident caused the release between 13% to 30% of the 190 metric tons of Uranium Dioxide in reactor. I figure that's 24,700 Pounds of freshly irradiated material, at minimum.
In my possibly wrong opinion, the only way to the damage from a supposed "dirty bomb" is through the already known hazard of a a critical mass, something we already know about.
--Mike--
Let them be stupid...the market will correct them.
--Mike--
The Slashdot reaction is interesting, as we tend to hate lawyers, corporations, and especially anyone who dares to try to make something as vulgar as profit off the InterNet. We see all of them as offensive scum-sucking machines feeding on our souls.
I see two ways this can evolve forward from this point:
Personally, I've recently come to see the necessity of good government as a strong counterweight to the nature of unchecked greed that is the marketplace. While it may offend our liberitarian sensiblities, the only effective means of limiting the abuses of corporatism is good government. That is, a government of, by and for, the people.
We need to kick the bastards out, and put in good representative goverment, accountable to US. Yes, we need to get political, and organize.
If we fail to do this, the resulting will be even more lawyers and more stupid laws like software patents, DRM, etc. A world in which any random lawyer can take out a company or person on a whim, or as part of a larger campaign to monopolize an industry.
The choice is yours, be a whiny liberitarian and hope the marketplace works it out, or do the dirty work of cleaning up the mess that is the current political system.
--Mike--
- user: where's the pepsi?(tm)
- Google: it's [here], right next to this *AD*::7up::*AD*
See, nice and simple.--Mike--
Not only that... now I have to patch my servers, right before I go away on vacation for a week...FUCK!
--Mike--
Add to this an environment that knows how to deal with strings, types and units, and you're good to go. When the 'C' programmers "won", we all lost.
--Mike--
Once you start talking about frequencies, and channels, you might as well give up the game.
--Mike--
A sourceforge project might be nice, or at least a Wiki.
--Mike--
There was a company that made rare-earth magnets in Valparaiso, Indiana. (Necessary for small strong servos in, oh... missles...) That got sold to China...
inconsistent, arbitrary law enforcement breeds contempt.
If we had a compentent National Security Council, none of this would have happened, nor would it have been allowed to be politicized.
--Mike--
Of course, 20 years of advancement now present me with the opprotunity to learn ARCH, etc... and I may do so. But I'll still refuse to use any language that sees CaSe SensiTivitY as a FeatUre.
--Mike--
My nearest PCMCIA slot is on the left side of my notebook. So, when do I finally get to watch TV on my laptop?
--Mike--
The last 30 years have shown that this just doesn't work. ACL systems are far more powerful, not to mention intuitive. ACL systems can NOT be replaced by this model, and any real world system just won't fit. (Especially when you're constrained to 256 possible groups)
--Mike--
--Mike--
Thanks for playing, try again later.
--Mike--
From the article I know it's some sort of portable gaming system. The Icon shown on Slashdot is that of a Nintendo Gameboy, so that was no help, either.
Thanks however, for solving the mystery, and killing a few kharma points for me along the way. 8)
--Mike--
I'm guessing this has nothing to do with PaintShop Pro.
--Mike--
Unless the Pakistanis have radically improved their English language skills, and got more bandwidth, the threat of outsourcing is going down due to the brilliance of our fearless leader.
Mission Accomplished
They said that crosstalk between layers prevented more than 2... then never said how they got around it.
I call BullShit, for the second time today, actually.
--Mike--