Yes. please all potential authors stop liking them (may be it is a good slashdot poll actually) just make a reference and tell it in your words. I don't need their junk email either.
What could realy make my day is publishing companies going after Public and University libraries and Xerox corporation.
In fact I think I'm going to go after them myself.
The fact that somewhere some unwashed graduate student is making copies of my scientific papers (my flesh and blood, so to speak) with the quality very close to the original and shares them with other unwashed graduated students (and may be, God forbid, reads those copies in the bathroom) and public and university libraries geting shitload of money on copy fees and Xerox corporation selling those godawfull machines make me loos my sleep and apetite.
As it was mentioned several times above, it was KGB that convinced everybody else in the demise of communism in USSR/Russia. And lest's call everythig by it's real name. That was not communism (or socialism for that matter) it was just regime where KGB rulled. They where the real rullers (owners) of the country. For a while the power sliped from their hands. Now they are back, whith the vengeance, so to speak.
Now, i don't really know whether it is technically possible to monitore all traffic on the internet and i think it doesn't really matter. It is just first step. Most of the traffic on the internet is.com's crap and p0rn anyway (wiht the/. being rare exception). What they need is just basis for actions against whistle blowers and dissidents on the internet. So, all they need just to monitor the traffic to the sellected websites (about goverment corruption for example). The point is that now they can do it without asking anybody. On the taxpayers money and ISP's will have to comply. Hell i will not be surprised that from now on ISP's in Russia will be forsed to have spooks on their staff. And more to follow; unwaranted arrests and detention on the undifined duration of time, and so on.
As to the question on at what extent this all possible here, in US. Let me just quote the father of (surprize, surprize) russian anarchism
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. --Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876)
Nuff said. Now you can moderate me down as a flaimbait. I don't fsking care
I just wonder, who are these people? I mean Nanovation. I keep an eye on them for sometime already.
Firsto of all it is a startup. With no real product yet. And what is interesting they raised $56M from private investors. And this is with no product yet. I mean, how much do startups in San Jose have in the beginning? $5-10M (correct me if I'm wrong).
They have facilities near (may be right on) the campus of Northwestern Univ. My freind went there and was not very impressed. So they do some semiconductors, some polymers (hired some people from NU, IBM Almaden research center).
The stuff they talk about in ther PR is not here yet. PBG exists mostly on paper (and by the way best work in this area done by Caltech, Princeton and another University I don't remember right now). It was proposed by Prof. Yablonovich from UCLA (but they use it mostly for micorwaves) in the beginning of 90's.
And MIT. Being great school for science and engineering and all. They haven't done much in photonics. So they have Lincoln Labs (mostly micorwaves and it was not even mentioned) so they have a professor who wrote book on PBG (sorry, photonic bandgap materials), but that was mosly theory. It's all quite far from real device implementation. (Point: it is not the stuff you make money on, yet and it is not quite clear that you ever will)
(redundant:) So, Nanovation raised $56M and $20M of this they give to MIT basically to start almost form the scratch in the field where others already have something done.
... And the money from startup with no real product. And hellova lot money.
But somebody might actually will try to implement it and some amount of these appliances will be sold and bought. And in the end will prove themselves to be totally useless. Untill few of these things will end up in the hands of Linux geeks who will hook them up to their boxes and after some tweaking and hacking will make them to do something really cool and completely unrelated to the intended use. I am sure abut you guys.
On rellated note. I'm not surprized to hear this from AppleHeads. For a long time this was their main drive to turn computer into appliance (note pad, sketch pad... you name it).
I have a better idea for appliance. Hou about box with alpha chpip for under $1000?
Very Good Article. A lot of things to think about. I have noticed that you stopted to try to please the croud or stir a controversion and dropped unnecessary use of such words as geek and geekdom. This is very good. People stoped bitching about you and actually started to discuss your writngs. So now I can enjoy not only your article but other people responces. So I'm waiting for the next one. BTW. Do you still use Linux?:)
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Yes. please all potential authors stop liking them (may be it is a good slashdot poll actually) just make a reference and tell it in your words. I don't need their junk email either.
What could realy make my day is publishing companies going after Public and University libraries and Xerox corporation.
In fact I think I'm going to go after them myself.
The fact that somewhere some unwashed graduate student is making copies of my scientific papers (my flesh and blood, so to speak) with the quality very close to the original and shares them with other unwashed graduated students (and may be, God forbid, reads those copies in the bathroom) and public and university libraries geting shitload of money on copy fees and Xerox corporation selling those godawfull machines make me loos my sleep and apetite.
I feel violated.
regards
I hope this time it will go the right way as it should've happend with UNIX before.
May I say GPL rules?
As it was mentioned several times above, it was KGB that convinced everybody else in the demise of communism in USSR/Russia. And lest's call everythig by it's real name. That was not communism (or socialism for that matter) it was just regime where KGB rulled. They where the real rullers (owners) of the country. For a while the power sliped from their hands. Now they are back, whith the vengeance, so to speak.
.com's crap and p0rn anyway (wiht the /. being rare exception). What they need is just basis for actions against whistle blowers and dissidents on the internet. So, all they need just to monitor the traffic to the sellected websites (about goverment corruption for example). The point is that now they can do it without asking anybody. On the taxpayers money and ISP's will have to comply. Hell i will not be surprised that from now on ISP's in Russia will be forsed to have spooks on their staff. And more to follow; unwaranted arrests and detention on the undifined duration of time, and so on.
Now, i don't really know whether it is technically possible to monitore all traffic on the internet and i think it doesn't really matter. It is just first step. Most of the traffic on the internet is
As to the question on at what extent this all possible here, in US. Let me just quote the father of (surprize, surprize) russian anarchism
Powerful states can maintain themselves only by
crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.
--Mikhail Bakunin
(1814-1876)
Nuff said. Now you can moderate me down as a flaimbait. I don't fsking care
I just wonder, who are these people? I mean Nanovation. I keep an eye on them for sometime already.
Firsto of all it is a startup. With no real product yet. And what is interesting they raised $56M from private investors. And this is with no product yet. I mean, how much do startups in San Jose have in the beginning? $5-10M (correct me if I'm wrong).
They have facilities near (may be right on) the campus of Northwestern Univ. My freind went there and was not very impressed. So they do some semiconductors, some polymers (hired some people from NU, IBM Almaden research center).
The stuff they talk about in ther PR is not here yet. PBG exists mostly on paper (and by the way best work in this area done by Caltech, Princeton and another University I don't remember right now). It was proposed by Prof. Yablonovich from UCLA (but they use it mostly for micorwaves) in the beginning of 90's.
And MIT. Being great school for science and engineering and all. They haven't done much in photonics. So they have Lincoln Labs (mostly micorwaves and it was not even mentioned) so they have a professor who wrote book on PBG (sorry, photonic bandgap materials), but that was mosly theory. It's all quite far from real device implementation. (Point: it is not the stuff you make money on, yet and it is not quite clear that you ever will)
(redundant:) So, Nanovation raised $56M and $20M of this they give to MIT basically to start almost form the scratch in the field where others already have something done.
... And the money from startup with no real product. And hellova lot money.
I don't understand it.
What was that LinuxExpo fiasco that author mintioned in the article?
But somebody might actually will try to implement it and some amount of these appliances will be sold and bought. And in the end will prove themselves to be totally useless. Untill few of these things will end up in the hands of Linux geeks who will hook them up to their boxes and after some tweaking and hacking will make them to do something really cool and completely unrelated to the intended use. I am sure abut you guys.
... you name it).
On rellated note. I'm not surprized to hear this from AppleHeads. For a long time this was their main drive to turn computer into appliance (note pad, sketch pad
I have a better idea for appliance. Hou about box with alpha chpip for under $1000?
Cheers
Very Good Article. A lot of things to think about. I have noticed that you stopted to try to please the croud or stir a controversion and dropped unnecessary use of such words as geek and geekdom. :)
This is very good. People stoped bitching about you and actually started to discuss your writngs. So now I can enjoy not only your article but other people responces.
So I'm waiting for the next one.
BTW. Do you still use Linux?