But it is also overused by people who don't want to configure their operating system. The big advantage they have is the ability to seamlessly move a VM between different bits of hardware. I don't see that being proposed here.
It might actually be handy to move an image from my eeepc to my openmoko, and then back again later. In practice I just run compatible applications where I need an interface to work. The wholesale copying of images would make merging a problem as well.
I think it is more about taking away the tactical organization of the protesters. I wonder if you could build a true P2P communication app to run on phones. Servers inside Iran would be vulnerable to police action and servers outside Iran can obviously be filtered. Something like each node (phone, laptop, etc) keeps a list of the IP addresses of other phones in the mesh. New members can join by manually typing in the IP address of a friends phone. IP addresses in the mesh are distrbuted through the network.
But that gets me thinking about The Moon is a harsh Mistress and the cell of three rule. Keep the mesh but allow each client to only talk to two other phones. Only one phone in the cell has the address of another cell. In effect, cells are members of cells but nobody had more then three IP addresses in memory.
This avoids having big vulnerable databases which the cops can grab. It will be called MYCROFTXXX of course.
They discuss having a standard power bus, and a tcp/ip LAN with something like a COTS router. So in fact its not plug and play like USB on a laptop it is plug and play like attaching your laptop to your LAN. It is exactly that.
I expect it will have a hard coded configuration with static IP addresses though. DHCP is a single point of failure and I don't think the complexity is justified here.
Hey I like fvwm. I use it every day. If you don't like it thats okay. But its bad form to criticise things which you don't understand. Have a nice day.
And since I am having a rant. Does anybody know how to make the gnome window list/task bar not minimise windows? Its driving me mad. Window A is on top of window B. Click B in the window list and it minimises.
So lets say you set them up with a linux server. Designate a directory as the "shredder". Write a cron job which shreds the contents of that directory every night. Something like that might do the job.
I believe law enforcement authorities have tools which will recover the former contents of overwritten sectors on hard disks. They would need different tools for SSDs. I doubt they would go to that expense unless they had very good reason to believe you had shredded something they needed.
I doubt it. I live in Melbourne. I was actually in Hobart at the same time as the last one. There were lots of Linux people on the ferry going over. I didn't attend because I was on holiday with my son. I will wait for it to come back to Melbourne and try to con my employer into sending me.
I am sure Wellington is a nice place for a conference but it should be called linux.conf.nz.
Sounds like the purpose of the test was to test the actual electrode interface and how complex the hand motions could get with it. The duration the electrodes stayed in his arm is the important part. With this test it seems complex cybernetic limbs are basically a done deal. The question is whether or not they can actually hook them up long term without serious rejection problems.
Makes me wonder if you could build an implanted sensor more like a cochlear implant. No direct electrical connection with the outside. Data and power are transferred both ways by induction.
Considering that the US Government has nukes, and the Australian Government does not, the Australian public is actually well armed WRT their Government. Much better armed than the US public.
That ever useful tool. However would we have gone to the stars without it?
Yes, according to a 2007 report from the Associated Press, astronauts keep a few tranqs on hand in case anyone goes all suicidal or psychotic in space. NASA recommends binding the individual's wrists and ankles with duct tape (ever the space traveler's friend!), strapping them down with a bungee cord and, if necessary, sticking them with a tranquilizer.
Has any sci-fi show other than Firefly ever mentioned duct tape?
Dunno but I just watched a Mythbusters episode where Adam and Jamie built a sailing boat almost entirely out of the stuff and sailed it on SF Harbour.
Subduing a crazy crewmember in a Gemini or an Apollo LM would certainly have been...interesting.
Looking at the video and articles it seems they haven't integrated the whole thing into an artificial hand attached to his arm. The hand he controls is shown separately from his body. Perhaps the unit is too heavy at the moment.
So Ratz can't have his russian military seven function force feedback manipulator just yet.
Arthur C Clarke wrote a story about teleportation called Travel by Wire. He basically followed the development of TV and extended the idea into solid 3D objects. In the story people who had been transmitted when there was noise on the line came out looking like nothing on earth and very little on venus or mars.
I don't think anybody knows what will happen until we have real Artificial Persons walking around. We seem pretty willing to accept that Gorillas, Chimpanzees and Orangutans are animals with no rights.
Sadly I expect it will depend on what they look like.
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But it is also overused by people who don't want to configure their operating system. The big advantage they have is the ability to seamlessly move a VM between different bits of hardware. I don't see that being proposed here.
It might actually be handy to move an image from my eeepc to my openmoko, and then back again later. In practice I just run compatible applications where I need an interface to work. The wholesale copying of images would make merging a problem as well.
They've been busy, haven't they? The patch to busybox I looked at was well commented. Looks like the kind of thing which could be taken upstream.
The ipkg changes might be useful on the openmoko.
Maybe a palm pre owner should just ask for the source code. They may get it.
I think it is more about taking away the tactical organization of the protesters. I wonder if you could build a true P2P communication app to run on phones. Servers inside Iran would be vulnerable to police action and servers outside Iran can obviously be filtered. Something like each node (phone, laptop, etc) keeps a list of the IP addresses of other phones in the mesh. New members can join by manually typing in the IP address of a friends phone. IP addresses in the mesh are distrbuted through the network.
But that gets me thinking about The Moon is a harsh Mistress and the cell of three rule. Keep the mesh but allow each client to only talk to two other phones. Only one phone in the cell has the address of another cell. In effect, cells are members of cells but nobody had more then three IP addresses in memory.
This avoids having big vulnerable databases which the cops can grab. It will be called MYCROFTXXX of course.
Don't overheat those Phosphorous atoms....
They discuss having a standard power bus, and a tcp/ip LAN with something like a COTS router. So in fact its not plug and play like USB on a laptop it is plug and play like attaching your laptop to your LAN. It is exactly that.
I expect it will have a hard coded configuration with static IP addresses though. DHCP is a single point of failure and I don't think the complexity is justified here.
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So thats what the F means.
Hey I like fvwm. I use it every day. If you don't like it thats okay. But its bad form to criticise things which you don't understand. Have a nice day.
And since I am having a rant. Does anybody know how to make the gnome window list/task bar not minimise windows? Its driving me mad. Window A is on top of window B. Click B in the window list and it minimises.
Actually I bet OBL shaved his beard off long ago. He is probably running a hot dog stand outside the white house as we speak.
OTH it would be pretty easy to build self destruct capabilities into a UAV.
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So lets say you set them up with a linux server. Designate a directory as the "shredder". Write a cron job which shreds the contents of that directory every night. Something like that might do the job.
I believe law enforcement authorities have tools which will recover the former contents of overwritten sectors on hard disks. They would need different tools for SSDs. I doubt they would go to that expense unless they had very good reason to believe you had shredded something they needed.
Same same. Just as hard to sack, except for voting him out.
The premier could of course give him a different position.
I doubt it. I live in Melbourne. I was actually in Hobart at the same time as the last one. There were lots of Linux people on the ferry going over. I didn't attend because I was on holiday with my son. I will wait for it to come back to Melbourne and try to con my employer into sending me.
I am sure Wellington is a nice place for a conference but it should be called linux.conf.nz.
Sounds like the purpose of the test was to test the actual electrode interface and how complex the hand motions could get with it. The duration the electrodes stayed in his arm is the important part. With this test it seems complex cybernetic limbs are basically a done deal. The question is whether or not they can actually hook them up long term without serious rejection problems.
Makes me wonder if you could build an implanted sensor more like a cochlear implant. No direct electrical connection with the outside. Data and power are transferred both ways by induction.
Unfortunately, it's incredibly difficult to sack a public servant, especially one that high up.
But he's not. He is a member of the South Australian parliament.
Considering that the US Government has nukes, and the Australian Government does not, the Australian public is actually well armed WRT their Government. Much better armed than the US public.
You ever watch C beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate... on weed?
(crossing cyberpunk streams here)
More like the Elders on Zion, orbiting near Straylight.
I think the hand came before the patient.
That ever useful tool. However would we have gone to the stars without it?
Yes, according to a 2007 report from the Associated Press, astronauts keep a few tranqs on hand in case anyone goes all suicidal or psychotic in space. NASA recommends binding the individual's wrists and ankles with duct tape (ever the space traveler's friend!), strapping them down with a bungee cord and, if necessary, sticking them with a tranquilizer.
Has any sci-fi show other than Firefly ever mentioned duct tape?
Dunno but I just watched a Mythbusters episode where Adam and Jamie built a sailing boat almost entirely out of the stuff and sailed it on SF Harbour.
Subduing a crazy crewmember in a Gemini or an Apollo LM would certainly have been ...interesting.
There is stuff you can only access if you pay.
Looking at the video and articles it seems they haven't integrated the whole thing into an artificial hand attached to his arm. The hand he controls is shown separately from his body. Perhaps the unit is too heavy at the moment.
So Ratz can't have his russian military seven function force feedback manipulator just yet.
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Arthur C Clarke wrote a story about teleportation called Travel by Wire. He basically followed the development of TV and extended the idea into solid 3D objects. In the story people who had been transmitted when there was noise on the line came out looking like nothing on earth and very little on venus or mars.
In related news, Hammond's stock dropped 17% today.
They just sell 4D organs.
I don't think anybody knows what will happen until we have real Artificial Persons walking around. We seem pretty willing to accept that Gorillas, Chimpanzees and Orangutans are animals with no rights.
Sadly I expect it will depend on what they look like.