1999, my senior project in college. There were 5 of us working on it. We were sponsored by a company that was a subsidiary of IBM (cannot for the life of me remember their name). Our first iteration used TCP/IP for the connectivity between the "master server" and the clients.
There was no guarantee that your client would be selected for use -- but it could be and was an optional system. It of course used distrubuted file systems for the project. In the end, all the OBJ files were linked together by the machine that initiated the build process.
We had methods to list what compiler you were using (so only machines with that compiler would be used), we had machine "ratings" so that a faster machine would be more used than a slow one, and were planning on monitoring CPU usage and other things to determine on the fly what machines were suitable. Of course, we didn't have time to do everything.
The second iteration we took on it (this was all done over a 20-week period, the first 10 weeks design, the next 10 weeks coding), we used CORBA for the inter-machine communication.
This is also the same project where I stupidy this this.
I don't know the law, but I would assume that items for personal use do not follow the guidelines. For example, CD changers that broadcast on FM. The signals can/do leak to the surrounding cars, but they're not illegal. I'm sure that you can broadcast your own TV station within your house as long as it doesn't stream to your neighbors (or some number of feet outside the house). Of course, I could be wrong.:)
Assuming that the "public" audits the source code, who verifies that the source code and the compiled code on the machines match? Anyone with access to the code and the machines can make their own version that slants votes in a particular way. I suppose that a "standards committee" comprised of knowledgable officals of the parties involved could do some verification of sorts, but once it's on the machines, it can be changed one minute after they leave the room. If you want to do code signing, you have to make sure all sides explicitly trust the signing authority. Because it could always get a modified version and sign THAT.
Granted, this is a big conspiracy theory. I personally think evoting would be simpler for the masses to use, but I'm not sure if I believe it will necessarily be clean. At some time, you have to trust your government to be fair, and we all know the reaction to that.
Dude, that's cool! I'm going to take theirs one step further and retrieve phone numbers associated with that person as well. My new patent will make me RICH! Check out what whitespages.com has to say about that address.:)
College, senior project, a total of 5 of us, all of us with read/write priviledges in the folder containing our project. Action:
rm *
Was supposed to be: rm *.dat
No prompt mode. I always use my right hand for the Shift key, and also my right hand for the *, so the same hand was doing the Shift as was doing the *. As my hand rotated upwards, my pinky (depressing the Shift) touched the ENTER key). Just AFTER I had hit the *. Oops.
Luckily, we only lost changes in one file as all the other files that had been changed were still in an Emacs buffer, and the non-changed files had been backed up the night before.
My access rights were immediately removed by the project captain.:)
Toyota has already done this, at least according to Wired. In August 2003, they said a Prius hybrid would be released in Japan in a month that did this. I heard Honda was doing something similar, but haven't heard any details.
Still, it's a cool project. Lots of drivers need all the help they can get.:)
Funny, I would say the same thing about Moore. He can't even read a plaque and quote it right, do you think I would trust him to recall a conversation?
While we're at it: Bowling shows footage of a B-52 on display at the Air Force Academy, while Moore scornfully intones that the plaque under it "proudly proclaims that the plane killed Vietnamese people on Christmas Eve of 1972."
The plaque actually reads that "Flying out of Utapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield in southeast Thailand, the crew of 'Diamond Lil' shot down a MIG northeast of Hanoi during 'Linebacker II' action on Christmas eve 1972." This is pretty mild compared to the rest of Bowling, but the viewer can't even trust Moore to honestly read a monument.
(As Spinsanity notes, Moore goes even farther in his add-on DVD. There, he tells us, "And they've got a plaque on there proudly proclaiming that this bomber, this B-52, killed thousands upon thousands of Vietnamese -- innocent civilians.")
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You can pay me. I will NOT send it to you.
And as soon as I posted this, I remember the name of the company. Tivoli Systems. Was an interesting and fun senior project. :)
1999, my senior project in college. There were 5 of us working on it. We were sponsored by a company that was a subsidiary of IBM (cannot for the life of me remember their name). Our first iteration used TCP/IP for the connectivity between the "master server" and the clients.
There was no guarantee that your client would be selected for use -- but it could be and was an optional system. It of course used distrubuted file systems for the project. In the end, all the OBJ files were linked together by the machine that initiated the build process.
We had methods to list what compiler you were using (so only machines with that compiler would be used), we had machine "ratings" so that a faster machine would be more used than a slow one, and were planning on monitoring CPU usage and other things to determine on the fly what machines were suitable. Of course, we didn't have time to do everything.
The second iteration we took on it (this was all done over a 20-week period, the first 10 weeks design, the next 10 weeks coding), we used CORBA for the inter-machine communication.
This is also the same project where I stupidy this this.
I don't know the law, but I would assume that items for personal use do not follow the guidelines. For example, CD changers that broadcast on FM. The signals can/do leak to the surrounding cars, but they're not illegal. I'm sure that you can broadcast your own TV station within your house as long as it doesn't stream to your neighbors (or some number of feet outside the house). Of course, I could be wrong. :)
Assuming that the "public" audits the source code, who verifies that the source code and the compiled code on the machines match? Anyone with access to the code and the machines can make their own version that slants votes in a particular way. I suppose that a "standards committee" comprised of knowledgable officals of the parties involved could do some verification of sorts, but once it's on the machines, it can be changed one minute after they leave the room. If you want to do code signing, you have to make sure all sides explicitly trust the signing authority. Because it could always get a modified version and sign THAT.
Granted, this is a big conspiracy theory. I personally think evoting would be simpler for the masses to use, but I'm not sure if I believe it will necessarily be clean. At some time, you have to trust your government to be fair, and we all know the reaction to that.
Dude, that's cool! I'm going to take theirs one step further and retrieve phone numbers associated with that person as well. My new patent will make me RICH! Check out what whitespages.com has to say about that address. :)
Hope the Cubs weren't soliciting you.
College, senior project, a total of 5 of us, all of us with read/write priviledges in the folder containing our project. Action: rm * Was supposed to be: rm *.dat No prompt mode. I always use my right hand for the Shift key, and also my right hand for the *, so the same hand was doing the Shift as was doing the *. As my hand rotated upwards, my pinky (depressing the Shift) touched the ENTER key). Just AFTER I had hit the *. Oops. Luckily, we only lost changes in one file as all the other files that had been changed were still in an Emacs buffer, and the non-changed files had been backed up the night before. My access rights were immediately removed by the project captain. :)
Toyota has already done this, at least according to Wired. In August 2003, they said a Prius hybrid would be released in Japan in a month that did this. I heard Honda was doing something similar, but haven't heard any details.
:)
Still, it's a cool project. Lots of drivers need all the help they can get.
Funny, I would say the same thing about Moore. He can't even read a plaque and quote it right, do you think I would trust him to recall a conversation?
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While we're at it: Bowling shows footage of a B-52 on display at the Air Force Academy, while Moore scornfully intones that the plaque under it "proudly proclaims that the plane killed Vietnamese people on Christmas Eve of 1972." The plaque actually reads that "Flying out of Utapao Royal Thai Naval Airfield in southeast Thailand, the crew of 'Diamond Lil' shot down a MIG northeast of Hanoi during 'Linebacker II' action on Christmas eve 1972." This is pretty mild compared to the rest of Bowling, but the viewer can't even trust Moore to honestly read a monument. (As Spinsanity notes, Moore goes even farther in his add-on DVD. There, he tells us, "And they've got a plaque on there proudly proclaiming that this bomber, this B-52, killed thousands upon thousands of Vietnamese -- innocent civilians.")