I think 1234567890, falling on Valentine's Day for everyone between Paris and the Pacific, is now a date inextricably bound up with love. It's a once in a lifetime (once in history?) event and is just right to express the idea of sharing an instant in eternity with someone special.
I made a special valentine card entitled, 1234567890 - Be Mine Forever that you can freely use any day, any year, to express your love for someone who might find the idea charming.
It would be even sweeter if every every object can have its own URL (a system-provided one and an optional user-provided one).
Can this be a single OS spanning multiple machines?
Also, I note the FAQ says network connections will die across reboots. This needs to be fixed.
If fixed, this can become a true cross-machine OS where you can store objects on other physical machines across a network and still treat them as part of your OS.
In other words, the OS needs to include RMI and a concept of resources being temporarily unavailable / latency / real time-ness at a deeper level. And its frequent snapshots should be handled by the nearest trusted disk resource.
It is also unclear how a media stream is stored. Presumably it is made of a stream of frames or the like. Considering this with a network spanning architecture, I believe it is likely that copying or publishing could be based on a scheme similar to BitTorrent, in which slices are distributed to maximize efficient resource usage. Since there is no real limit then perhaps 64 bits might not be enough.
FWIW I like it and vote Phantom as the next Parrot target!
I moved a domain from netsol in January and let me tell you it was like pulling teeth. The non-existent control panel button, the "security" which secures them against you, the sales rep on the phone who passes you on, each person initiating a new sales pitch... only got them to move at all by threatening to report them. I used them for 10 years and knew they were tough to like but never again. FWIW Mom uses GoDaddy, and for hosting I like linode.com or anybody else.
Hello, I checked the net and I guess you are right. Maybe we know more about color perception now. It seems babies can choose a favorite color like red or blue even. Don't have a handy baby nearby to check it out unfortunately!
I would not want him staring at a computer screen. Show him printed text and he may read. I was before that age.
Interacting with a laptop is not the basis you want his brain to grow around.
However, there are infant games for computers. I had one for a mac years ago that drew things in red, black and white as small children are most attracted to red.
I have contributed to OpenOffice.org (testing) since earlier days. I had to switch away from it in January because trying to pass a contract back and forth with someone who uses MS Office resulted in a corrupted layout. (lots of other problems like that in the past, now I don't know).
Let me just say that as much as I have wished well for OpenOffice and Sun, there is no way at all I would use OpenOffice if it had ads in it. Sure they can make money but just don't put advertising in it. I wouldn't use it for free, and I wouldn't consider buying it either. Sun would use up all the good will it built up with me by trying to make ad dollars off of open source. Money fine. But don't put If that's all the brains they have left, they should start digging their own grave.
Thank you *very* much for your hard work and excellent replies. Though of course visible light at even higher resolution than the Earth by night pic of the day, I wouldn't disparage radio or other spectra especially if they provide higher resolution.
Unfortunately I do not have enough technical background to understand interferometers well yet. If you can indeed store the phase information (interference pattern?) of each telescope for combining in what I think is called a nulling interferometer at a later point in time, then perhaps there is an easy solution. Out own planet is a spaceship and a ground based or orbital telescope could trace out quite a long distance in even a day, let alone a year.
Put it this way. that a new add-on to the Hubble Space Telescope could store wave information for 60 seconds. Maybe it is radio telescope with existing tools, maybe there is a wierd Bose-Einstein condensate or something else slowing down the light. The http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/earth_galore.html is 29.8 km/s, so if wave information can be stored for 1 minute then we could have a 1788 km baseline (well shorter since it's the chord). Or, perhaps just storing the information for 10 seconds would allow the telescope to take a 10 second exposure and then combine with the previous exposure, continuing this every 10 seconds for as long as desired.
Is the above concept physically possible or is there fatal misunderstanding in what is involved? If so then incremental advances in physical sciences / telecommunications may give us supertelescopes.
It will be nice when we find an oxygen planet but still we will only know it as a small blue dot I expect. Anybody have ideas for what kind of telescope could actually take detailed pictures - perhaps enough to even see cities - of exoplanets?
Say 50 light years. I wonder is it possible to run an interferometer across spacecraft far apart in the solar system? The separation is I suppose a matter of trigonometry and optics. Then the question of what do we need to do it and when?
Thank you. Basically I agree with you. However much of what he said could have been said by a sophmore in college. Or a bright high schooler.
I was not the only one unsatisfied by his responses, most posters said similar things.
I suppose it is the most that could have been expected. Of course I wouldn't want him to be explaining secret thinking, and in this case the conceptual approach could be an important, secret asset it's true.
I am not a military expert but it seems there is or ought to be more to the Army than hardnosed reaction to congressional/executive edicts. There are at least defense and intelligence missions too. Perhaps it would be nice for him to explain where Army ends and Homeland Security begins. And where does the CIA and FBI come in. What about cooperation with foreign countries' opposite organizations?
And there has been some interesting news about military robots in the past year, I remember a dog-like prancing robot that carried a heavy pack which looked useful for nonmilitary use too.
One point I have is that the armed forces have big budgets. But the only guys doing anything for securing home pcs and business data are antivirus manufacturers who have limited funds and aren't able to keep up. Perhaps selecting some technologies to open up would contribute to generally hardening the network at large. Or, I wonder is it better for the Army to allow a very porous network to exist and then take over what systems it needs to with its own military wares.
Of course I tend to imagine the military has superior technology or can afford to build it. But maybe it is not so superior yet, or what they have could never be publicized and so they are making a second tier of technology that would include the public.
Regarding "rethinking" sorry for being unclear. My impression is that being Army, there is a seduction for seeing things in terms of unilateral decisions, force projection, zero sum games, the game of Risk etc. You know, old-style battlefield thinking. Well in cyberspace there is no battlefield, or rather you turn on your computer, or your radio set, and voila you are there on the field. And then there is the physical location of where you are, this is generally quite vulnerable if you consider miniature drones to be a projection of cyberspace force into the realworld. I happen to work nearby some embassies in Japan where a multinational summit of leaders is going on now. Well the entire country's train system is on high alert, there are cops everywhere, and yet as far as I know the summit is a thousand miles away.
It is bizarre and I think the military needs to understand there is a similarity between cyberspace warfare perhaps and the military tactics called guerilla warfare or now "terrorism". I once made a website called Media Tero when I determined a feedback relationship existed between the Aum cult (since disbanded and yet somewhat reformed(?) and some key people still not arrested after years..) and the television news media. The cult went after the national police chief and other individuals.
I made the site with help from a Time magazine writer who wrote a great story, and I solicited help from the public to teach Japan about security. Just me, no military training or anything, applying network thinking to the news is all. It seems to me that the Army has a defensive mission to defend people who are not behind a fortress or firewall. Maybe the Army would be more effective if it adopted tactics used by criminals and terrorists, I don't know. Maybe they should lend some experienced people to the Homeland Security group and do something besides theater. I think America when I grew up in the 70s and 80s was a much nicer place to live than it is now unfortunately.
As for needing to have "some sort of attack", how do you know there haven't been any? There have been lots and lots of failed ones. How many successful ones? There are no logs if they are successful. How do you know that failed voting systems are not even un
The price quoted probably is a fair price. They are subsidising it. But that is priced out of the U.S. market, it is even at the high end of the Japanese market.
That price is what the Apple should sell the phone for to other phone companies, and they will then be able to provide service and subsidize some portion of it. The only value this announcement has is to tell people how much the subsidy was. The other poster has it right, Fail.
This guy is the best asset the Army's PR department has. And he said hardly anything that we needed to hear. He is very well spoken, to the point that I'd like to hear him again, even, maybe not online though.
The most surprising part of this whole interview and response to it, is the lack of rethinking military in cyberspace. We are all, not just in U.S. but worldwide, other countries as well as U.S. citizens abroad, under daily attack by spam, viruses, malware, identity theft, etc. and we are being targeted by organized crime which apparently sells data sets and exploit execution tasks on a dark market. It is beyond simple crime. It includes paid officers of foreign governments. I don't just mean China, I would include according to past news stories France and basically it seems every country's cyberwar team does a side business in espionage to improve their own country's businesses too.
So I would say that not saying anything solid to people asking about SE Linux related apps, and not saying anything about the reality of a daily cyberwar that is as close as your ethernet port, is astounding, and I think indicates a massive lack in vision.
I would like this Lt. Col. to rethink what is war, what is an attack, what is a vulnerable asset. What would harden the U.S. or harden the general law-abiding world against private or government sponsored attacks? My own guess is he'd be thinking about distributed agents that can run on consumer pcs to build a security blanket but of course who wants the army to put their software on your computer right?
Therefore a perfect argument for Military Open Source. Of course, they wouldn't want to put the good stuff in it because it would be used by the enemy... etc. Not a very useful forum since he is talking to his enemies and his supporters.
One thing for sure he will get lots of people to sign up for the Army if he keeps romanticizing it.
I'd like to know if rendering directions are included. There are a few reasons why after using OpenOffice as my main office software for a long time I had to buy MS Office.
1) Drawings get all messed up 2) Tried to edit proposals that got passed between Office and OpenOffice. Do that a few times and you will see an unholy mess. Hint, styles were involved.
In other words OOXML says "like Word97", etc. so I wonder is the "like" part included in the spec or is that "just implementation"? If not included then it does not maybe help OOo to achieve equivalence.
Of course there are also the OOo devs who do not like equivalence. I have submitted lots of bug reports and enhancement requests. What about a client who requires you use the password function, even though it is broken (and I wrote a letter to them about it), because it is seen as a minimal attempt at security in the eyes of auditors. Using OOo means it looks like I am intentionally removing security. I would prefer an OpenOffice that achieves complete equivalence and then adds value on top of that, instead of including holy battles. Give me the option to draw charts just like MS Office, and use the stupid broken password function. The best part of OpenOffice is the autocomplete, which although not as enhanced as I would wish it saves me many keystrokes, also Draw is quite nice. But most people in business cannot use OOo because it wrecks the documents you have to share with people. Drawback? The other guy still uses OpenOffice exclusively and I got more work to do - the stuff OOo can't handle. I still have it (as PortableApps) and use it for heavy typing but not for editing MS Office documents anymore
The fine paper notes that while stellar level output is needed for one solution, another solution is within range of the output of a contemporary nuclear power plant. Tens of kilobytes could be sent this way at a power level that would be unique even in comparison with supernovae events. The extremely low signal to noise ratio would make the galaxy transparent. However, the most interesting solution they offer requires a 1000 km beam to be aimed directly at the planet Earth with knowledge of its orbital ephemeris, which they say would be same as resolution needed for optical resolution. They also mention possibility of snail mail of artifacts and sending the message of where the artifact is. Also data security is noted as a good reason to use neutrino comms.
So the scenario is: use one of the technical solutions in the paper to initiate communications, based on knowing Sol is one of the promising stars to target. Broadcast over geological time frame. Meanwhile send snail mail.
It seems likely that neutrino comms would be used to warn a civilization not to broadcast too much radio, or not to do high energy experiements, and also to direct attention perhaps to lower time lag, higher bit rate modes perhaps platforms out of the plane of the galaxy hence less dust occluded, etc. The cool thing is that we could be sure this is an ET message even on the basis of one detected neutrino. This means that we would have a chance of detecting it with the generation of detectors currently being built, if we happen to luckily be listening while they are sending.
You should take a bow. That strikes a chord with me, no bars to use. No rest for the evil. And the finale! Sounds like the whole progression ended on a good note.
That was one really scary video, of course that is coming from someone who finds Daleks scary. Wait a minute, Daleks ARE scary.
But a lot of new tech seems that way at first because it is so powerful. First imagine these things scaled down a thousand times or so. Sprinkle robot pellets (or smaller microscopic motes) and they could quickly assemble to do a job once they have been delivered on-site, whether by an airplane, or a hypodermic needle. And, no more physically sorting parts either.
Burn British Doctor Who television broadcasts etc. off bittorrent and play on TV.
Don't use PCs so much, you want to provide stress free but communicative environments including the math geeks and members of opposite sex.
Could also be stimulating if you invite people (guys/gals either is okay) who are not math geeks but do something else that's interesting. Not jocks, I mean artists, musicians, geologists, linguists, basically any field reall in science or fine arts would be fine the point is to have fun together. I don't think math-related things are needed or wanted actually.
A positive number of girls and drinks will make it a lot more fun too.
Also how about a barbecue and some reason to make it last long into twilight?
Considering they are a convicted monopoly and seem to be involved in something fishy with standards bodies over OOXML, it is awfully hard to give MS the benefit of the doubt as other posters suggest.
It seems to me that dividing up HTML 5 into different pieces means it will be much harder for a single person trusted by the community to oversee all of their activity. There will be only so many staunch people available. If divided into 5 sections then there might be 5 times as much paperwork. It will favor a giant company that is able to push 5 or 10 times as many people onto the project. If they choose to invest MS could create 5 different blogs and 5 or more FUD streams. It will be like having 5 small countries' standards bodies, each meeting in a disused room in the back of a library, instead of one major sized standards body that will become the sole focus of a massive campaign for transparency and reporting. So while splitting the job into pieces sounds like common sense, actually MS never does anything that is not in their best interest and in this case, while perhaps this might give them earlier targets for eye candy creation products using HTML 5, it will also give them much fatter, less well protected targets of FUD, skullduggery (I mean BRIBE$) and Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. It is a bad idea to do what MS wants in just about every case so far and that is not paranoia, it's called reading the news.
Vermont has colleges, ski resorts like Stowe catering to the northeast, many tourists / skiers from New York, it's 2+ hours from Montreal, and the land and air are fresh enough to raise a family. That's where my sister moved to raise her family and open a restaurant. Ben & Jerry's is there, and Green Mountain Coffee.
You know they have Vermont Fresh Network, there is a big push to use organic ingredients, and most people get along without fiber. It is mostly extremely annoying to other family members when we go visit.
How about VINES. Vermont Independent Network Services. or Vermont Community Internet. Or FreshNet, Community Net, or Green Mountain Networks (GREEN-NET). I don't see a need to limit yourself geographically in the name. If it works well it should spread organically.
The Aum cult that gassed Tokyo with Sarin, shot the police chief and burned its enemies in microwave disintegration ovens did have a strong IT connection, but not to warez. IIRC they were involved in building and selling discount personal computers through a shop in Akihabara, this is apparently a good business model especially when you have drugged slave labor and management techniques that rival those in North Korea. Also Aum stored plans for death ray lasers etc. on CD or DVD which I think were found IIRC. And they also manipulated the media.
They never sold warez. And by the way there are books on sale nationwide in popular bookstores in Japan at least now that explain how to get dark warez or download movies (Hollywood movies from Chinese bittorrent - complete with a list of chinese characters you need to know, or porn that is illegal here).
There may be a market for illegal software but I have never come across it. Have heard about counterfeit Windows cds maybe in China. I suppose someone could make a bunch of cash by getting illegal software into otherwise legal distribution channels, but in these days of phone-home software I just don't see it as a growth business. I call FUD. FWIW I pay for my own MS Office or use OpenOffice. (OOo is great but it really screws up diagrams and if you try to pass edits of proposals between MS Word and OOo Writer you will wish you had just bought the darn thing. Which I finally did. Best idea is to get a friend at MS who will apply the discount for you.
I just signed on with NTT DoCoMo for about $8 a month to get Mopera/Mzone which is basically 11Mbps 802.11 access points at places like KFC around town (Tokyo). There definitely aren't enough but maybe one near most major stations. However they require a lousy browser-based login (works automatically with their utility though) so I can't use my Skype phone.
It is very cool, and still only about $15/mo. even if you aren't already a customer of their FOMA phones.
Free is good but also maybe a very low monthly fee ($5/mo.?) to a general fund that would be divided among routers/isps doing this? Whatever, the question is find a way to get it done. I never thought ISPs would make much money out of this myself but once you get onto 11Mbps you get addicted. I use the windows app they give you to look at a detailed map of the city and find where the nearest point is. So far Tully's and Kentucky are my faves!
They obviously don't know what they are talking about, just look at how their stock chart looks like a waterfall. I'd even say that coming from them means it probably will be a big money maker.
By the way I am comparing wifi hotspots. I signed up in Tokyo for Mopera/Mzone which is only $8/month (half price) since I have a FOMA phone. In Kentucky Fried Chicken and lots of other places you get 11 Mbps and it is awesome.
But my new Buffalo Skype phone (the nice black one) doesn't work on it because Mzone wants an additional login through a web browser, which sucks. Of course the phone will work near any open signal (though it must be strong) so I have hopes for it.
I would pay more if there were more hotspots, either free and strong or for a small amount and strong. And they shouldn't require the extra login. I even think it would be good business for the shop to beam some signal outside it. And Sony Ericsson could even build wifi enabled phones.
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Hello,
I think 1234567890, falling on Valentine's Day for everyone between Paris and the Pacific, is now a date inextricably bound up with love. It's a once in a lifetime (once in history?) event and is just right to express the idea of sharing an instant in eternity with someone special.
I made a special valentine card entitled, 1234567890 - Be Mine Forever that you can freely use any day, any year, to express your love for someone who might find the idea charming.
Oh you sweet geeky slashdot!
Has nobody noticed that it will be Valentine's Day? (At least here in Tokyo).
mod grandpappy up puhleeeeeezzzzee!
It would be even sweeter if every every object can have its own URL (a system-provided one and an optional user-provided one).
Can this be a single OS spanning multiple machines?
Also, I note the FAQ says network connections will die across reboots. This needs to be fixed.
If fixed, this can become a true cross-machine OS where you can store objects on other physical machines across a network and still treat them as part of your OS.
In other words, the OS needs to include RMI and a concept of resources being temporarily unavailable / latency / real time-ness at a deeper level. And its frequent snapshots should be handled by the nearest trusted disk resource.
It is also unclear how a media stream is stored. Presumably it is made of a stream of frames or the like. Considering this with a network spanning architecture, I believe it is likely that copying or publishing could be based on a scheme similar to BitTorrent, in which slices are distributed to maximize efficient resource usage. Since there is no real limit then perhaps 64 bits might not be enough.
FWIW I like it and vote Phantom as the next Parrot target!
I moved a domain from netsol in January and let me tell you it was like pulling teeth. The non-existent control panel button, the "security" which secures them against you, the sales rep on the phone who passes you on, each person initiating a new sales pitch... only got them to move at all by threatening to report them. I used them for 10 years and knew they were tough to like but never again. FWIW Mom uses GoDaddy, and for hosting I like linode.com or anybody else.
Hello, I checked the net and I guess you are right. Maybe we know more about color perception now. It seems babies can choose a favorite color like red or blue even. Don't have a handy baby nearby to check it out unfortunately!
I would not want him staring at a computer screen. Show him printed text and he may read. I was before that age.
Interacting with a laptop is not the basis you want his brain to grow around.
However, there are infant games for computers. I had one for a mac years ago that drew things in red, black and white as small children are most attracted to red.
I have contributed to OpenOffice.org (testing) since earlier days. I had to switch away from it in January because trying to pass a contract back and forth with someone who uses MS Office resulted in a corrupted layout. (lots of other problems like that in the past, now I don't know).
Let me just say that as much as I have wished well for OpenOffice and Sun, there is no way at all I would use OpenOffice if it had ads in it. Sure they can make money but just don't put advertising in it. I wouldn't use it for free, and I wouldn't consider buying it either. Sun would use up all the good will it built up with me by trying to make ad dollars off of open source. Money fine. But don't put If that's all the brains they have left, they should start digging their own grave.
Thank you *very* much for your hard work and excellent replies. Though of course visible light at even higher resolution than the Earth by night pic of the day, I wouldn't disparage radio or other spectra especially if they provide higher resolution.
Unfortunately I do not have enough technical background to understand interferometers well yet. If you can indeed store the phase information (interference pattern?) of each telescope for combining in what I think is called a nulling interferometer at a later point in time, then perhaps there is an easy solution. Out own planet is a spaceship and a ground based or orbital telescope could trace out quite a long distance in even a day, let alone a year.
Put it this way. that a new add-on to the Hubble Space Telescope could store wave information for 60 seconds. Maybe it is radio telescope with existing tools, maybe there is a wierd Bose-Einstein condensate or something else slowing down the light. The http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/earth_galore.html is 29.8 km/s, so if wave information can be stored for 1 minute then we could have a 1788 km baseline (well shorter since it's the chord). Or, perhaps just storing the information for 10 seconds would allow the telescope to take a 10 second exposure and then combine with the previous exposure, continuing this every 10 seconds for as long as desired.
Is the above concept physically possible or is there fatal misunderstanding in what is involved? If so then incremental advances in physical sciences / telecommunications may give us supertelescopes.
It will be nice when we find an oxygen planet but still we will only know it as a small blue dot I expect. Anybody have ideas for what kind of telescope could actually take detailed pictures - perhaps enough to even see cities - of exoplanets?
Say 50 light years. I wonder is it possible to run an interferometer across spacecraft far apart in the solar system? The separation is I suppose a matter of trigonometry and optics. Then the question of what do we need to do it and when?
Those responsible will be reassigned to the domestic surveillance project!
Dear Dave,
Thank you. Basically I agree with you. However much of what he said could have been said by a sophmore in college. Or a bright high schooler.
I was not the only one unsatisfied by his responses, most posters said similar things.
I suppose it is the most that could have been expected. Of course I wouldn't want him to be explaining secret thinking, and in this case the conceptual approach could be an important, secret asset it's true.
I am not a military expert but it seems there is or ought to be more to the Army than hardnosed reaction to congressional/executive edicts. There are at least defense and intelligence missions too. Perhaps it would be nice for him to explain where Army ends and Homeland Security begins. And where does the CIA and FBI come in. What about cooperation with foreign countries' opposite organizations?
And there has been some interesting news about military robots in the past year, I remember a dog-like prancing robot that carried a heavy pack which looked useful for nonmilitary use too.
One point I have is that the armed forces have big budgets. But the only guys doing anything for securing home pcs and business data are antivirus manufacturers who have limited funds and aren't able to keep up. Perhaps selecting some technologies to open up would contribute to generally hardening the network at large. Or, I wonder is it better for the Army to allow a very porous network to exist and then take over what systems it needs to with its own military wares.
Of course I tend to imagine the military has superior technology or can afford to build it. But maybe it is not so superior yet, or what they have could never be publicized and so they are making a second tier of technology that would include the public.
Regarding "rethinking" sorry for being unclear. My impression is that being Army, there is a seduction for seeing things in terms of unilateral decisions, force projection, zero sum games, the game of Risk etc. You know, old-style battlefield thinking. Well in cyberspace there is no battlefield, or rather you turn on your computer, or your radio set, and voila you are there on the field. And then there is the physical location of where you are, this is generally quite vulnerable if you consider miniature drones to be a projection of cyberspace force into the realworld. I happen to work nearby some embassies in Japan where a multinational summit of leaders is going on now. Well the entire country's train system is on high alert, there are cops everywhere, and yet as far as I know the summit is a thousand miles away.
It is bizarre and I think the military needs to understand there is a similarity between cyberspace warfare perhaps and the military tactics called guerilla warfare or now "terrorism". I once made a website called Media Tero when I determined a feedback relationship existed between the Aum cult (since disbanded and yet somewhat reformed(?) and some key people still not arrested after years..) and the television news media. The cult went after the national police chief and other individuals.
I made the site with help from a Time magazine writer who wrote a great story, and I solicited help from the public to teach Japan about security. Just me, no military training or anything, applying network thinking to the news is all. It seems to me that the Army has a defensive mission to defend people who are not behind a fortress or firewall. Maybe the Army would be more effective if it adopted tactics used by criminals and terrorists, I don't know. Maybe they should lend some experienced people to the Homeland Security group and do something besides theater. I think America when I grew up in the 70s and 80s was a much nicer place to live than it is now unfortunately.
As for needing to have "some sort of attack", how do you know there haven't been any? There have been lots and lots of failed ones. How many successful ones? There are no logs if they are successful. How do you know that failed voting systems are not even un
The price quoted probably is a fair price. They are subsidising it. But that is priced out of the U.S. market, it is even at the high end of the Japanese market.
That price is what the Apple should sell the phone for to other phone companies, and they will then be able to provide service and subsidize some portion of it. The only value this announcement has is to tell people how much the subsidy was. The other poster has it right, Fail.
This guy is the best asset the Army's PR department has. And he said hardly anything that we needed to hear. He is very well spoken, to the point that I'd like to hear him again, even, maybe not online though.
The most surprising part of this whole interview and response to it, is the lack of rethinking military in cyberspace. We are all, not just in U.S. but worldwide, other countries as well as U.S. citizens abroad, under daily attack by spam, viruses, malware, identity theft, etc. and we are being targeted by organized crime which apparently sells data sets and exploit execution tasks on a dark market. It is beyond simple crime. It includes paid officers of foreign governments. I don't just mean China, I would include according to past news stories France and basically it seems every country's cyberwar team does a side business in espionage to improve their own country's businesses too.
So I would say that not saying anything solid to people asking about SE Linux related apps, and not saying anything about the reality of a daily cyberwar that is as close as your ethernet port, is astounding, and I think indicates a massive lack in vision.
I would like this Lt. Col. to rethink what is war, what is an attack, what is a vulnerable asset. What would harden the U.S. or harden the general law-abiding world against private or government sponsored attacks? My own guess is he'd be thinking about distributed agents that can run on consumer pcs to build a security blanket but of course who wants the army to put their software on your computer right?
Therefore a perfect argument for Military Open Source. Of course, they wouldn't want to put the good stuff in it because it would be used by the enemy... etc. Not a very useful forum since he is talking to his enemies and his supporters.
One thing for sure he will get lots of people to sign up for the Army if he keeps romanticizing it.
I'd like to know if rendering directions are included. There are a few reasons why after using OpenOffice as my main office software for a long time I had to buy MS Office.
1) Drawings get all messed up
2) Tried to edit proposals that got passed between Office and OpenOffice. Do that a few times and you will see an unholy mess. Hint, styles were involved.
In other words OOXML says "like Word97", etc. so I wonder is the "like" part included in the spec or is that "just implementation"? If not included then it does not maybe help OOo to achieve equivalence.
Of course there are also the OOo devs who do not like equivalence. I have submitted lots of bug reports and enhancement requests. What about a client who requires you use the password function, even though it is broken (and I wrote a letter to them about it), because it is seen as a minimal attempt at security in the eyes of auditors. Using OOo means it looks like I am intentionally removing security. I would prefer an OpenOffice that achieves complete equivalence and then adds value on top of that, instead of including holy battles. Give me the option to draw charts just like MS Office, and use the stupid broken password function. The best part of OpenOffice is the autocomplete, which although not as enhanced as I would wish it saves me many keystrokes, also Draw is quite nice. But most people in business cannot use OOo because it wrecks the documents you have to share with people. Drawback? The other guy still uses OpenOffice exclusively and I got more work to do - the stuff OOo can't handle. I still have it (as PortableApps) and use it for heavy typing but not for editing MS Office documents anymore
The fine paper notes that while stellar level output is needed for one solution, another solution is within range of the output of a contemporary nuclear power plant. Tens of kilobytes could be sent this way at a power level that would be unique even in comparison with supernovae events. The extremely low signal to noise ratio would make the galaxy transparent. However, the most interesting solution they offer requires a 1000 km beam to be aimed directly at the planet Earth with knowledge of its orbital ephemeris, which they say would be same as resolution needed for optical resolution. They also mention possibility of snail mail of artifacts and sending the message of where the artifact is. Also data security is noted as a good reason to use neutrino comms.
So the scenario is: use one of the technical solutions in the paper to initiate communications, based on knowing Sol is one of the promising stars to target. Broadcast over geological time frame. Meanwhile send snail mail.
It seems likely that neutrino comms would be used to warn a civilization not to broadcast too much radio, or not to do high energy experiements, and also to direct attention perhaps to lower time lag, higher bit rate modes perhaps platforms out of the plane of the galaxy hence less dust occluded, etc. The cool thing is that we could be sure this is an ET message even on the basis of one detected neutrino. This means that we would have a chance of detecting it with the generation of detectors currently being built, if we happen to luckily be listening while they are sending.
You should take a bow. That strikes a chord with me, no bars to use. No rest for the evil. And the finale! Sounds like the whole progression ended on a good note.
That was one really scary video, of course that is coming from someone who finds Daleks scary. Wait a minute, Daleks ARE scary.
But a lot of new tech seems that way at first because it is so powerful. First imagine these things scaled down a thousand times or so. Sprinkle robot pellets (or smaller microscopic motes) and they could quickly assemble to do a job once they have been delivered on-site, whether by an airplane, or a hypodermic needle. And, no more physically sorting parts either.
Have some games
Bring a lot of female friends / acquaintances
Burn British Doctor Who television broadcasts etc. off bittorrent and play on TV.
Don't use PCs so much, you want to provide stress free but communicative environments including the math geeks and members of opposite sex.
Could also be stimulating if you invite people (guys/gals either is okay) who are not math geeks but do something else that's interesting. Not jocks, I mean artists, musicians, geologists, linguists, basically any field reall in science or fine arts would be fine the point is to have fun together. I don't think math-related things are needed or wanted actually.
A positive number of girls and drinks will make it a lot more fun too.
Also how about a barbecue and some reason to make it last long into twilight?
Considering they are a convicted monopoly and seem to be involved in something fishy with standards bodies over OOXML, it is awfully hard to give MS the benefit of the doubt as other posters suggest.
It seems to me that dividing up HTML 5 into different pieces means it will be much harder for a single person trusted by the community to oversee all of their activity. There will be only so many staunch people available. If divided into 5 sections then there might be 5 times as much paperwork. It will favor a giant company that is able to push 5 or 10 times as many people onto the project. If they choose to invest MS could create 5 different blogs and 5 or more FUD streams. It will be like having 5 small countries' standards bodies, each meeting in a disused room in the back of a library, instead of one major sized standards body that will become the sole focus of a massive campaign for transparency and reporting. So while splitting the job into pieces sounds like common sense, actually MS never does anything that is not in their best interest and in this case, while perhaps this might give them earlier targets for eye candy creation products using HTML 5, it will also give them much fatter, less well protected targets of FUD, skullduggery (I mean BRIBE$) and Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. It is a bad idea to do what MS wants in just about every case so far and that is not paranoia, it's called reading the news.
Vermont has colleges, ski resorts like Stowe catering to the northeast, many tourists / skiers from New York, it's 2+ hours from Montreal, and the land and air are fresh enough to raise a family. That's where my sister moved to raise her family and open a restaurant. Ben & Jerry's is there, and Green Mountain Coffee.
You know they have Vermont Fresh Network, there is a big push to use organic ingredients, and most people get along without fiber. It is mostly extremely annoying to other family members when we go visit.
How about VINES. Vermont Independent Network Services. or Vermont Community Internet. Or FreshNet, Community Net, or Green Mountain Networks (GREEN-NET). I don't see a need to limit yourself geographically in the name. If it works well it should spread organically.
The Aum cult that gassed Tokyo with Sarin, shot the police chief and burned its enemies in microwave disintegration ovens did have a strong IT connection, but not to warez. IIRC they were involved in building and selling discount personal computers through a shop in Akihabara, this is apparently a good business model especially when you have drugged slave labor and management techniques that rival those in North Korea. Also Aum stored plans for death ray lasers etc. on CD or DVD which I think were found IIRC. And they also manipulated the media.
They never sold warez. And by the way there are books on sale nationwide in popular bookstores in Japan at least now that explain how to get dark warez or download movies (Hollywood movies from Chinese bittorrent - complete with a list of chinese characters you need to know, or porn that is illegal here).
There may be a market for illegal software but I have never come across it. Have heard about counterfeit Windows cds maybe in China. I suppose someone could make a bunch of cash by getting illegal software into otherwise legal distribution channels, but in these days of phone-home software I just don't see it as a growth business. I call FUD. FWIW I pay for my own MS Office or use OpenOffice. (OOo is great but it really screws up diagrams and if you try to pass edits of proposals between MS Word and OOo Writer you will wish you had just bought the darn thing. Which I finally did. Best idea is to get a friend at MS who will apply the discount for you.
I just signed on with NTT DoCoMo for about $8 a month to get Mopera/Mzone which is basically 11Mbps 802.11 access points at places like KFC around town (Tokyo). There definitely aren't enough but maybe one near most major stations. However they require a lousy browser-based login (works automatically with their utility though) so I can't use my Skype phone.
It is very cool, and still only about $15/mo. even if you aren't already a customer of their FOMA phones.
Free is good but also maybe a very low monthly fee ($5/mo.?) to a general fund that would be divided among routers/isps doing this? Whatever, the question is find a way to get it done. I never thought ISPs would make much money out of this myself but once you get onto 11Mbps you get addicted. I use the windows app they give you to look at a detailed map of the city and find where the nearest point is. So far Tully's and Kentucky are my faves!
I don't get why a site with "news for nerds" says in a summary
"techies hanging around this end of the internet".
Also the grandparent professes shock when this is already well known.
Can we walk out of preschool please? The subject matter is interesting and important but slashdot needs editors with a college degree.
They obviously don't know what they are talking about, just look at how their stock chart
looks like a waterfall. I'd even say that coming from them means it probably will be a big money maker.
By the way I am comparing wifi hotspots. I signed up in Tokyo for Mopera/Mzone which is only $8/month (half price) since I have a FOMA phone. In Kentucky Fried Chicken and lots of other places you get 11 Mbps and it is awesome.
But my new Buffalo Skype phone (the nice black one) doesn't work on it because Mzone wants an additional login through a web browser, which sucks. Of course the phone will work near any open signal (though it must be strong) so I have hopes for it.
I would pay more if there were more hotspots, either free and strong or for a small amount and strong. And they shouldn't require the extra login. I even think it would be good business for the shop to beam some signal outside it. And Sony Ericsson could even build wifi enabled phones.