Who the heck actually uses the 7 layers? Nobody, that's who. The ISO seven layer model only has native environment that it works on, the Flip Chart, or it's modern day replacement, PowerPoint.
This guy actually wants to let people lock in "content", and it sounds to me like DRM is perfectly fine with him as well.
Does it really matter when you have a functionally iliterate President with a Harvard MBA? It's just cheaper to lie about it, rather than to count on Daddy's influence.
I might as well tell people I have a PhD in Thermonuclear Urban Renewal from the U of C in this climate.
At work, it's covered. I'm the entire IT staff for our small business, so I know it's important to keep this covered, no matter how remote the possibility is (I hope!!).
I have a copy of the current server layout, (well, almost current) and ALL of the pertinent passwords WRITTEN DOWN, and kept in a safe. (Right next to the backup drives) My friend who covers for me when I'm on vacation is well known to my co-workers, and boss.
So... if I kick the bucket, there will be a way for everyone else to pick up the pieces, continute business and move on with life.
Now at home, it's a sticky wicket... I currently don't have anything up on our web site, so that's not a big deal. My wife gets to decide what to do... and I need to talk with her about this issue.
For me, the big question then is what becomes of my 80,000+ photos? I've got some good ones, that I even managed to sell. I'd hate for them to just get pitched. (Thus returning to the main question)
Odds are, if she wanted to, she could back all of my stuff onto a new spiffy $200 drive (200Gb now, and twice as much 15 months from now). I'm probably about to do something like this to save my late father-in-law's data.
I refuse to believe the nightmare scenario where the election is stolen, an idiot becomes President, and starts a stupid war which makes us the Whore of Babylon...
There is no such law. The 14th Amendment has been creatively used to gradually accrete rights for corporations, but if you actually read it, you'll see the word corporation appear ZERO times.
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't even play one on TV.
I don't really think it's a good idea to put one of these on Air Force one for a reason aside from the bulk, etc. I figured it might be a bad idea to have such a large bulk of nasty chemicals on board. I then did a Google search to see what components of chemical laser fuel actually are.
I learned from FAS all about MIRACL, which uses Ethanol and NF3 (Nitrogen Trifluoride), MSDS.
Do we really want the President in an enclosed container with a large volume of NF3 in it? Here's then interesting bit of the MSDS:
EMERGENCY OVERVIEW
Chemical Asphyxiant. When inhaled, this substance reduces the ability of the blood to carry oxygen.
Effects due to reduced oxygen carrying capacity include headache, weakness, dizziness, and mental confusion.
The last thing we need in a conflict is this stuff leaking and causing mental confusion, in addition to the stress of the conflict, to the President of the United States.
Since when is a Corporation a Citizen? It's not... never has been, never will be. Citizens are People, born (or Naturalized from other Countries). Citizens grow up, have morals, pay taxes, and eventually die. Corporations do none of those things.
It's time to end the perverted concept of Corporate rights. They are allowed to incorporate to serve the public, for a specific purpose. If they fail in that obligation, they should die.
Corporations should NEVER have the right to "free speech". Never, EVER. That right is reserved for Citizens.
--Mike--
This message does not necessarily reflect the views of ACME, Inc.
ACME - American Corporation that Manufactures Everything
It's ok to pick out 5-10 emails a day, but less than 5% of my email is real. Why should I manually plow through 200-300 emails a day so that I can read the 1-10 legitimate emails?
It's NECESSARY to filter email for me, and for an increasingly large percentage of Email users out there.
If nothing else, please do your bit and use SPF records so we can tell if a mail legitimately from one of your domains.
The fact is that a console screen is fairly easy to generate, heck even the IBM PC BIOS supported console input. You'll always have it there when you really need to dig into the guts of a system.
It takes a lot of things going just right in order to be able to display and keep a GUI going. In terms of RAM and CPU cycles, a console session is a few orders of magnitude cheaper to run.
You WILL breath this stuff if its in an open container. Give it long enough, and it'll reach an equilibrium nearly 40% of the atmosphere in an enclosed space. (I.E. an indoor room with low ventilation)
I wouldn't want to breath this stuff any more than I want to inhale octane, or anything else.
The biggest missing feature is real, honest to goodness markup. You know it, instinctively, and here's how to use it with todays technology.
Print this article and comments
Mark up the paper with a pencil, crayon, yellow highlighter, etc.
ponder how anyone else is going to see an internet accessible copy of your markup layer.
You can markup a copy of the document, but you can't do something as trivial as "link to characters 314-395 of document URL://whatever". If you want markup, you have to have write access to the document, you can't include it by reference, OR you have to copy the whole document. Then you have to merge your markup into the document, you can't keep it separate.
We've got machines that process billions of instructions per second, but we can't get a snippet of a web page to link? What a crock!
It appears to be different from a Wiki in that comments are a separate layer from the base document. One of my big complaints about HTML is that it doesn't allow MarkUp, it just forces you to merge tags into an existing document instead.
By having a set of Markup layers, gets much easier to see and manage comments, etc. Ideally, you should be able to simply toggle each layer of markup on and off, just like a mutli-layer image in PhotoShop or Paint Shop Pro.
Some day we'll get real Hypertext, but we're defintely not there yet, and XML isn't it either.
Unless you have a local proxy server, and thus don't need to route, the default gateway is the only way to route to any other network. Granted some things may tweak the routing table for you, but generally, no gateway, no internet. Packets could come in, but they couldn't get back out.
You could configure it as a stand-alone Windows 2000 Server, turning on Terminal Services in "remote administration" mode (doesn't require a TS license, but does require the Administrator account to login) and give out the administrator password for people to log in with. (Its a windows box, how much does it really matter?)
Then you can log in from wherever, do whatever WinApp you need to do, and keep the rest of your network for other OSs.
Remove the "default gateway" from its IP configuration to keep it from seeing the internet, if you want to lock it down a little bit.
infrastructure mode
the "clients" are more likely to find it
portable
easy to move to a new, possibly unauthorized location
disconnected
most access points eventually let you connect to the InterNet Collective, this one doesn't.
Does that make sense?
So, you really have an issue with the ArtSpeak (aka Postmodernist Bullshit), right?
I think its an efficient way of stating exactly what he's done, and why. I don't share your judgement of the project as worthless, however. I see value in the challenging of assumptions.
I think this type of lash-up could have lots of value for many projects. The home page of the captive portal should clearly state that it isn't part of the real internet, to reduce social friction. Once that's done, it should be fair game to Parody web sites, etc.
I personally think this could be a great thing for running a personal sharing portal, with my photo collection (80k photos and rising), etc.
bullshit aside, it does challenge the assuption that the node is part of the InterNet collective. Since most laptops are set up for infrastructure mode, Ad-hoc nodes get ignored. Appearing to be part of the infrastructure is a challenge to the assuption that infrastructure==InterNet.
In fact, the break with the assuption of infrastructure == InterNet is what makes the captive portal, signup process of non-free WiFi so irritating. You just want your InterNet, and they Intermediate themselves in the way.
So, to sum up, I agree that it could be interpreted as postmodern bullshit, but I think there is more substance than bullshit when you stand back and look at the big picture.
The point is that we can use the coming ubiquity of WiFi connectivity in new and interesting ways. The fact that you can't see past WiFi as utility is part of the mindset bubble he hopes to break.
The TCP/IP protocol set was created in 1974 do deal with the fact that NCP couldn't handle wireless (and adopted in 1983)... so this whole wireless thing is very old news. The use of notebooks to interact with others in an anonymous, but local area, is new.
I think there are lots of cool directions to take this, but serving as yet another bit of the Internet Collective isn't one of them. Maybe they should put that on the front page of the web site you get on the captive portal, to decrease social friction.
Consider a small camping party. At the base station, we set up a wifi in a tree (for range). We can keep track of each others whereabouts, and I could post pictures of things I found, along with the locations on a map.
Of course woods are usually in hills, which means almost zero range... hmmm maybe it's better to just enjoy the scenery, after all.
But then there are WiFi repeater nodes... that could stack the range to usable.
ThumbsPlus 6 might be worth a look. I use its Slideshow mode to screen through the photos I shoot (sometimes 1000/day) and tag the keepers. (Alt-comma saves it to the Gallery) You can then put keywords on the files, as a start towards metadata.
It saves the thumbnails as JPEGs in either an Access compatible, or can use an SQL database, so its wicked fast. The format is open, so you can tweak it with Python, or whatever.
I've only got about 80,000 of my own photos (it's a hobby for me, not a career), but it does everything I need it to do.
Any decent hospital Emergency Room deals with Level 2 all the time (sharps, blood, etc), and will see Level 3 on a fairly regular basis (Tuberculosis, Encephalitis, etc).
Well, the choice of the Iraqi leader was a "completely internal" matter, and we didn't mind tweaking it to suite our needs. Nor do we seem to mind playing in Haiti, Venezuela, Panama, or anywhere else we suspect might be useful. It's not surprising that we're getting blowback.
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This guy actually wants to let people lock in "content", and it sounds to me like DRM is perfectly fine with him as well.
What a putz!
--Mike--
I might as well tell people I have a PhD in Thermonuclear Urban Renewal from the U of C in this climate.
--Mike--
I have a copy of the current server layout, (well, almost current) and ALL of the pertinent passwords WRITTEN DOWN, and kept in a safe. (Right next to the backup drives) My friend who covers for me when I'm on vacation is well known to my co-workers, and boss.
So... if I kick the bucket, there will be a way for everyone else to pick up the pieces, continute business and move on with life.
Now at home, it's a sticky wicket... I currently don't have anything up on our web site, so that's not a big deal. My wife gets to decide what to do... and I need to talk with her about this issue.
For me, the big question then is what becomes of my 80,000+ photos? I've got some good ones, that I even managed to sell. I'd hate for them to just get pitched. (Thus returning to the main question)
Odds are, if she wanted to, she could back all of my stuff onto a new spiffy $200 drive (200Gb now, and twice as much 15 months from now). I'm probably about to do something like this to save my late father-in-law's data.
Gruesome topic, but it's good to plan ahead.
--Mike--
I'm Immortal, so far
oopps... too late.
--Mike--
There is no such law. The 14th Amendment has been creatively used to gradually accrete rights for corporations, but if you actually read it, you'll see the word corporation appear ZERO times.
I'm not a lawyer, and I don't even play one on TV.
--Mike--
I learned from FAS all about MIRACL, which uses Ethanol and NF3 (Nitrogen Trifluoride), MSDS.
Do we really want the President in an enclosed container with a large volume of NF3 in it? Here's then interesting bit of the MSDS:
EMERGENCY OVERVIEW
Chemical Asphyxiant. When inhaled, this substance reduces the ability of the blood to carry oxygen.
Effects due to reduced oxygen carrying capacity include headache, weakness, dizziness, and mental confusion.
The last thing we need in a conflict is this stuff leaking and causing mental confusion, in addition to the stress of the conflict, to the President of the United States.
--Mike--
It's time to end the perverted concept of Corporate rights. They are allowed to incorporate to serve the public, for a specific purpose. If they fail in that obligation, they should die.
Corporations should NEVER have the right to "free speech". Never, EVER. That right is reserved for Citizens.
--Mike--
This message does not necessarily reflect the views of ACME, Inc.
ACME - American Corporation that Manufactures Everything
It's NECESSARY to filter email for me, and for an increasingly large percentage of Email users out there.
If nothing else, please do your bit and use SPF records so we can tell if a mail legitimately from one of your domains.
--Mike--
It takes a lot of things going just right in order to be able to display and keep a GUI going. In terms of RAM and CPU cycles, a console session is a few orders of magnitude cheaper to run.
--Mike--
I wouldn't want to breath this stuff any more than I want to inhale octane, or anything else.
--Mike--
- Print this article and comments
- Mark up the paper with a pencil, crayon, yellow highlighter, etc.
- ponder how anyone else is going to see an internet accessible copy of your markup layer.
You can markup a copy of the document, but you can't do something as trivial as "link to characters 314-395 of document URL://whatever". If you want markup, you have to have write access to the document, you can't include it by reference, OR you have to copy the whole document. Then you have to merge your markup into the document, you can't keep it separate.We've got machines that process billions of instructions per second, but we can't get a snippet of a web page to link? What a crock!
--Mike--
By having a set of Markup layers, gets much easier to see and manage comments, etc. Ideally, you should be able to simply toggle each layer of markup on and off, just like a mutli-layer image in PhotoShop or Paint Shop Pro.
Some day we'll get real Hypertext, but we're defintely not there yet, and XML isn't it either.
--Mike--
--Mike--
Remove the "default gateway" from its IP configuration to keep it from seeing the internet, if you want to lock it down a little bit.
--Mike--
--Mike--
I think its an efficient way of stating exactly what he's done, and why. I don't share your judgement of the project as worthless, however. I see value in the challenging of assumptions.
I think this type of lash-up could have lots of value for many projects. The home page of the captive portal should clearly state that it isn't part of the real internet, to reduce social friction. Once that's done, it should be fair game to Parody web sites, etc.
I personally think this could be a great thing for running a personal sharing portal, with my photo collection (80k photos and rising), etc.
--Mike--
In fact, the break with the assuption of infrastructure == InterNet is what makes the captive portal, signup process of non-free WiFi so irritating. You just want your InterNet, and they Intermediate themselves in the way.
So, to sum up, I agree that it could be interpreted as postmodern bullshit, but I think there is more substance than bullshit when you stand back and look at the big picture.
--Mike--
The point is that we can use the coming ubiquity of WiFi connectivity in new and interesting ways. The fact that you can't see past WiFi as utility is part of the mindset bubble he hopes to break.
The TCP/IP protocol set was created in 1974 do deal with the fact that NCP couldn't handle wireless (and adopted in 1983)... so this whole wireless thing is very old news. The use of notebooks to interact with others in an anonymous, but local area, is new.
I think there are lots of cool directions to take this, but serving as yet another bit of the Internet Collective isn't one of them. Maybe they should put that on the front page of the web site you get on the captive portal, to decrease social friction.
It's a cool project, makes me want to do my own.
--Mike--
--Mike--
Of course woods are usually in hills, which means almost zero range... hmmm maybe it's better to just enjoy the scenery, after all.
But then there are WiFi repeater nodes... that could stack the range to usable.
--Mike--
It's a fact, Drudge is a tool for the machine... why is pointing out the obvious considered flame bait?
--Mike--
It saves the thumbnails as JPEGs in either an Access compatible, or can use an SQL database, so its wicked fast. The format is open, so you can tweak it with Python, or whatever.
I've only got about 80,000 of my own photos (it's a hobby for me, not a career), but it does everything I need it to do.
--Mike--
--Mike--
--Mike--