It's a novel by the Astronomer 'Bill Napier' (don't confuse it with the Asimov book of the same title). While it's already about Killer asteroids - a slashdot readers favourite topic - it also has a load of nice moments where people use historical documents for astronomy...
I vaguely remember the method used to power an experimental particle beam weapon developed by the sobviet union. This thing was massive, but the power supply system for firing was amazing - They would build up current on a load of *huge* coils and when the time was ready to fire they would switch circuits ans the collapsing magnetic fields would produce a huge power output.
They didn't stop there though, the coils were designed to be compressed rapidly by shaped explosives, so the shrunk coils in the same filed would generate even larger power surges. Basically a load of the energy of the explosives went into a huge electrical blast.
Bad information is all that's propagated - when I was living in the UK I had a VISA card with a 2000 pound limit, about 1/3 of my annoula pay. Now I move out to california all my credit dissapears, I had to plead with the company to get a debit card with a lousy 700$ limit - despite that fact that It's also a VISA card and my salary is 10 times what I was getting in my PhD. You'd think that VISA would be able to base my application on my UK history... but that doesn't count...
In the UK I had great credit, I had a credit card with a limit of 2000 quid (about 1/3 of my annual pay).
Now I moved to the US, earning 10 times as much and I have to *plead* with my bank to get a measily 700$ limit card.The cards are both Visa cards, you'd think that this web of knowledge would show me up as having a good record in the UK... But no they only want to use this extra research when it benefits them.
Search for it on you favourite file sharing service - this track was *massive* in the clubs last year and even entered the UK single charts at number 2.
The original mix had the main riff played on a SIDstation.
But! The actual hook was stolen from a the soundtrack to the classic C64 game 'Lazy Jones' - Dave Whittaker is Getting a fair chunk of royalties from the 'cover version'.
I hear there are rock bands who have done covers of C64 tunes also.... check out remix.kwed.org for more info
I was just sitting looking at gracenote's 'documentation' they deigned to send me and shaking my head when I popped up slashdot and saw this....
Not only do they want to go after formats using mathematical constructs which they think they have a right to but they also want royalties for TCP/UDP/Whatever data transfers if the data just happens to be mp3 and the client decides it wants to play it while receiving . i.e. mp3 streaming.....
I did the whole live mp3 radio before they demonstrated any technology to do it... maybe I can claim prior art over mp3 streaming and distract attention away from vorbis;-)
Ok... i'm biased but - how can they compete with myplay.com?
myplay have been running continuously for over a year, all through mp3.com's court battles myplay has been eating into any potential market share through their associations with winamp and other players. They've always been free, and they let you upload files rather than having to own CD copies of everything, and of course they're not having to pay the record companies royalties forr their service.
The fact that you upload files is a real boon for me since I'm a huge vinyl collector - there's no way I can 'beam' 12" records to my.mp3.com, expecially since most of them are UK only. I just rip to mp3 and upload them - problem solved.
Oh and I guess that's another my.mp3.copm problem - it's US only.... sorry about the rest of the world - that's another legal matter altogether. I'mguessing that a lot of the my.mp3.com rights are US only and that each territory will have to be negitiated individually....
(And that's before I even go into all the extra features that myplay has and mp3.com doesn't....)
They let you 'legally' share music across accounts by making 'DJ Mixes' - Virtual compilation tapes of you favourite stuff which anyone can listen to. (One of the reasons why myplay.com was always better than my.mp3.com;-)
The thing is they've clearly gone for the basic compulsory license because they have a rules checker which enforce DMCA compliance and tell you when your sequencing is illegal, it'll even fix it for you.
People should try it out because it's a nice working example of the DMCA sequencing rules in action.
(and you can also go listen to my latest 'mix' at
http://www.myplay.com/mp/playlist/now_playing.js p?plid=312651&start=1)
you're assuming that the error in every direction is equal.
typically with encounters some variables are more uncertain thatn others (usually the arrival time). So what happens it the error elipse is stretched out very long and thin. In the case of 1997xf11 the error ellipse was 1000 times long than it was wide.
I'm too much of a physical medium kind of guy, I like my CD's and my Vinyl (about a thousand of each). The only time I ever go after mp3's from the net was for (a) good rips of some of my 12" vinyl or (b) impossible to find tracks - like the KLF bootlegs.
in the case of A I already had a copy (or two in some cases - DJ's always need backup copies), and in B... nobody was losing out... except the original artists who the record companies had sued into submission... or something like that.
I work at an internet music site where I have access to Terabytes of music, instantly, for testing purposes of course;-).
It doesn't appeal to me.
That's a reason for higher framerates - at 200 fps you can render the scene multiple times to create
proper motion blurring, by adding the images to each other.
Of course... a lot of games emulate motion blur anyway.... (who builds models for the bullets streaking towards you when you can jut do a streak in the air?)
There are motion blurring algorithms, I wonder when hardware motion blurring will become required for the next generation graphics cards?
The thing is - if you're into corporate espionage - then you can idenatify encrypted data and start attempts at brute forcing it. The NSA admits that plenty of commercial encryption systems have mathematical holes hiwhc permit cryptanalytic attack.
6 months ago mp3.com had enough money to build a reasonable brute force machine (now thye've spent all that money on record company deals)
Anyway - the traick is to not only encrypt the data but Hide the data using something like Steganography - I believe there is a filesystem for linux which permits filesystems to be mouted inside each other to hide the very existence of encrypted data.
OTOH - it also hides this data from legal attack - something mp3.com definately could have taken advantage of.
It's still not out of the legal woods - there is a civil lawsuit from teh shareholders who argue that because mp3.com knew what they were doing was illegal when they started Beam-It (bearing in mind that myplay.com was already operating a similar service *legally*) they are responsible for the financial losses as a result of plummeting share prices.
Add into that the completely unprofitable terms they agreesd with the publishers and labels there's no way they can demonstrate a business plan which will let them survive.
So... if they go into hibernation and hope that bill succeeds then they might survive, but that's assuming they can survuve the rest of the lawsuits. Instead - if they launch Beam-It again it'll drain their funding anyway but keep their users.... until they can no longer afford the per track fees.
The thing is - mp3.com have now set the goign rate for licensing fees - so they've probably screwed up companies like Musicbank who were relying on acquiring these licenses, and I guess they've stopped myplay.com from trying to do the Beam-It thing also - at least until the bill comes through.
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It's a novel by the Astronomer 'Bill Napier' (don't confuse it with the Asimov book of the same title). While it's already about Killer asteroids - a slashdot readers favourite topic - it also has a load of nice moments where people use historical documents for astronomy...
Hell it's just a great read
I vaguely remember the method used to power an experimental particle beam weapon developed by the sobviet union. This thing was massive, but the power supply system for firing was amazing - They would build up current on a load of *huge* coils and when the time was ready to fire they would switch circuits ans the collapsing magnetic fields would produce a huge power output.
They didn't stop there though, the coils were designed to be compressed rapidly by shaped explosives, so the shrunk coils in the same filed would generate even larger power surges. Basically a load of the energy of the explosives went into a huge electrical blast.
I must admit I aws someehwat confused - being a regular buyer from the Juno Website - It's my favourite way to get hot Vinyl from the UK....
Then I realised this was juno.com instead of juno.co.uk.
juno.com are a load of wankers
It's just that all people who had their cards ECM'd chose to manipulate the signals in such a way that it destroyed their equipment....
;-)
Bad information is all that's propagated - when I was living in the UK I had a VISA card with a 2000 pound limit, about 1/3 of my annoula pay. Now I move out to california all my credit dissapears, I had to plead with the company to get a debit card with a lousy 700$ limit - despite that fact that It's also a VISA card and my salary is 10 times what I was getting in my PhD. You'd think that VISA would be able to base my application on my UK history... but that doesn't count...
These databases only deal in bad news.
In the UK I had great credit, I had a credit card with a limit of 2000 quid (about 1/3 of my annual pay).
Now I moved to the US, earning 10 times as much and I have to *plead* with my bank to get a measily 700$ limit card.The cards are both Visa cards, you'd think that this web of knowledge would show me up as having a good record in the UK... But no they only want to use this extra research when it benefits them.
Wierd - I've got the 12" in my bag right now - that Artist is listed as Kernkraft 400.....
The Track title was Zombie Nation, the artist was Kernkraft 400.
The crowd goes wild ever time I play it....
Search for it on you favourite file sharing service - this track was *massive* in the clubs last year and even entered the UK single charts at number 2.
The original mix had the main riff played on a SIDstation.
But! The actual hook was stolen from a the soundtrack to the classic C64 game 'Lazy Jones' - Dave Whittaker is Getting a fair chunk of royalties from the 'cover version'.
I hear there are rock bands who have done covers of C64 tunes also.... check out remix.kwed.org for more info
I was just sitting looking at gracenote's 'documentation' they deigned to send me and shaking my head when I popped up slashdot and saw this....
;-)
Not only do they want to go after formats using mathematical constructs which they think they have a right to but they also want royalties for TCP/UDP/Whatever data transfers if the data just happens to be mp3 and the client decides it wants to play it while receiving . i.e. mp3 streaming.....
I did the whole live mp3 radio before they demonstrated any technology to do it... maybe I can claim prior art over mp3 streaming and distract attention away from vorbis
And it's setup more like my.mp3.com.....
why bother with live 365?
Ok... i'm biased but - how can they compete with myplay.com?
myplay have been running continuously for over a year, all through mp3.com's court battles myplay has been eating into any potential market share through their associations with winamp and other players. They've always been free, and they let you upload files rather than having to own CD copies of everything, and of course they're not having to pay the record companies royalties forr their service.
The fact that you upload files is a real boon for me since I'm a huge vinyl collector - there's no way I can 'beam' 12" records to my.mp3.com, expecially since most of them are UK only. I just rip to mp3 and upload them - problem solved.
Oh and I guess that's another my.mp3.copm problem - it's US only.... sorry about the rest of the world - that's another legal matter altogether. I'mguessing that a lot of the my.mp3.com rights are US only and that each territory will have to be negitiated individually....
(And that's before I even go into all the extra features that myplay has and mp3.com doesn't....)
Hmmm lets see - isn't is possible to post uuencoded mp3 data in DNS records???
You could stream audio using a shitload of Digs...
Justin Frankel was impressed enough to copy the idea and create shoutcast ;-)
Thanks - My mix is now number 1 again!
Streaming over the internet is even easier...
- my first server went something like this...
soundcard -> mp3encoder -> file.mp3
then in my cgi-bin directory I had
#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-Type: audio/mpeg"
echo
tail -f file.mp3
They let you 'legally' share music across accounts by making 'DJ Mixes' - Virtual compilation tapes of you favourite stuff which anyone can listen to. (One of the reasons why myplay.com was always better than my.mp3.com ;-)
s p?plid=312651&start=1)
The thing is they've clearly gone for the basic compulsory license because they have a rules checker which enforce DMCA compliance and tell you when your sequencing is illegal, it'll even fix it for you.
People should try it out because it's a nice working example of the DMCA sequencing rules in action.
(and you can also go listen to my latest 'mix' at
http://www.myplay.com/mp/playlist/now_playing.j
Wrong Wrong Wrong WRong!!!!
you're assuming that the error in every direction is equal.
typically with encounters some variables are more uncertain thatn others (usually the arrival time). So what happens it the error elipse is stretched out very long and thin. In the case of 1997xf11 the error ellipse was 1000 times long than it was wide.
And By friday precovery data showed that the object wasn't going to hit....
Of course... because precovery data exists then it may be a sign that this isn't a man made object.
Do I imagine a load of slashdotters not wanting to vote for Bush after this????
I think I was offended by half of Bush's answers.
I'm too much of a physical medium kind of guy, I like my CD's and my Vinyl (about a thousand of each). The only time I ever go after mp3's from the net was for (a) good rips of some of my 12" vinyl or (b) impossible to find tracks - like the KLF bootlegs. in the case of A I already had a copy (or two in some cases - DJ's always need backup copies), and in B... nobody was losing out... except the original artists who the record companies had sued into submission... or something like that. I work at an internet music site where I have access to Terabytes of music, instantly, for testing purposes of course ;-).
It doesn't appeal to me.
That's a reason for higher framerates - at 200 fps you can render the scene multiple times to create
proper motion blurring, by adding the images to each other.
Of course... a lot of games emulate motion blur anyway.... (who builds models for the bullets streaking towards you when you can jut do a streak in the air?)
There are motion blurring algorithms, I wonder when hardware motion blurring will become required for the next generation graphics cards?
I wouldn't put it past mp3.com.....
The thing is - if you're into corporate espionage - then you can idenatify encrypted data and start attempts at brute forcing it. The NSA admits that plenty of commercial encryption systems have mathematical holes hiwhc permit cryptanalytic attack.
6 months ago mp3.com had enough money to build a reasonable brute force machine (now thye've spent all that money on record company deals)
Anyway - the traick is to not only encrypt the data but Hide the data using something like Steganography - I believe there is a filesystem for linux which permits filesystems to be mouted inside each other to hide the very existence of encrypted data.
OTOH - it also hides this data from legal attack - something mp3.com definately could have taken advantage of.
It's still not out of the legal woods - there is a civil lawsuit from teh shareholders who argue that because mp3.com knew what they were doing was illegal when they started Beam-It (bearing in mind that myplay.com was already operating a similar service *legally*) they are responsible for the financial losses as a result of plummeting share prices.
Add into that the completely unprofitable terms they agreesd with the publishers and labels there's no way they can demonstrate a business plan which will let them survive.
So... if they go into hibernation and hope that bill succeeds then they might survive, but that's assuming they can survuve the rest of the lawsuits. Instead - if they launch Beam-It again it'll drain their funding anyway but keep their users.... until they can no longer afford the per track fees.
The thing is - mp3.com have now set the goign rate for licensing fees - so they've probably screwed up companies like Musicbank who were relying on acquiring these licenses, and I guess they've stopped myplay.com from trying to do the Beam-It thing also - at least until the bill comes through.
Fun Fun Fun....
Large Parts of My music Collection
;-)
My Job
My Life In the US
My Internet Radio Shows (and my status as the original mp3 DJ)
All the cool people I met Because of mp3serv and Icecast
OTOH
I'm probably never going to complete my PhD in astronomy.
And - Despite having access to terabytes of music I still Buy loads of CD's and Records every month. I'm still a complete Vinylphile.
(Anyone need a DJ in SF? You can advertise me as the first hacker to do mp3 streaming - ideal for those companies in the space throwing parties