Hi. I thought that too and was providing a simple example. However, everyone else here on Slashdot is trying to tell me that the amount of information that can be transferred stays the same regardless of frequency.
Perhaps I am. But if each cycle is a potential bit, then it seems that there is more information carrying capacity at the higher frequencies. Maybe bandwidth is the wrong word for what I am saying?
There is actually more bandwidth between 3GHz and 4Ghz than 0Ghz and 1Ghz. Say you were to pick 100mhz wide channel right in between those ranges. 3.5ghz has 7 times the amount of cycles/sec than 500mhz. So assuming PCM and no losses, that's 7 times the bandwidth.
antenna powerful enough to reach back to that tower inside my laptop isn't going to be too friendly with my battery life, let alone my non-shielded nuts.
It's nothing to worry about. From the FCC site: "Between January 1, 2008, and March 31, 2009, all U.S. households will be able to request up to two coupons, worth $40 each, to be used toward the future purchase of eligible testicle and ovary shields. Eligible testicle and ovary shields are for the conversion of non-shielded testicles and ovaries, and therefore are not intended for anuses connected to a paid provider such as cable or satellite TV service."
I think this is a bad idea. If we start transmitting data in whitespace, words will become very difficult to distinguish from each other in any given sentence. For example "The quick red fox jumped over the brown lazy dog." by itself, is very readable. But once you transmit extra data in the whitespace it becomes: "The1quick0red1fox0jumped1over0the0brown1lazy0dog." - An invariable piece of shit. It's only a matter of time before the greedy providers decide they need more bandwidth and bleed over in to the primary data stream.
Now if we were to transmit in the margins or between the lines, that may just work!
but $9.99/yr is not much. What's the point of going through all that trouble? Are the people who practice domain kitting registering thousands of domains this way?
...the fact that the United States has global TLDs not ending in.us is really a priority that the World community needs to address.
I think you are missing the GP's point. He's saying that because the United States has global TLDs not ending in.us, we have the war in Iraq and genocide in Darfur. Which makes sense if you don't think about it.
They'd almost certainly not live long enough to ever call them infants...
But what if they do? I am not comfortable with humanity taking such reckless leaps without even a clue of what the possible consequences are. Our society has become one of instant gratification; I really hope our science does not either.
why is the robot in north Carolina and the monkey in Japan?
First of all, the robot was in Japan and the monkey in North Carolina. Because as everyone knows, Japan is the only country with an abundant supply of giant robots.
From your comment and 5 digit UID, I can only assume you fell in to a coma sometime around 2001. While I am pleased that modern medicine has revived you, the future in which you have arrived is bleak and disturbing place. I regret to inform you of the following events that have occurred since your time:
Pastafarianism is poised to be the dominate religion
The Internets are now made of tubes
Duke Nukem Forever has still not shipped
Dumbledore is gay
And the "All your base" meme has been retired
I know a thing or two about time travel, and if I were you, I would go back now before your social security entitlement is squandered on automated anal-probes at airport security checkpoints.
Sun is doing it right in my book. I've been very impressed with their work lately; OpenSolaris, ZFS, Project Blackbox, Java (for awhile). I'm not a fanboy yet, but I have been recommending to all the PHBs in IT that we consider investing more in Sun's products. We're about done buying SPARCs but their other products can really benefit us.
They may have a nice privacy statement, but that doesn't mean any thing if they aren't really enforcing it. Who knows?
So why bother disclosing your real information? I don't know what the payment methods will be, but signup under an alias and them mail them an untraceable money order. They may have your exact genetic makeup, but if they don't know who you are, your DNA might as well be anonymous itself.
Taking it a bit further, it seems like a good way of dealing with privacy in this area is to hide things in plain sight. Make everyone's data available but assign a unique ID that only the submitter will know. Then you can browse your DNA and everyone else's but no one will know who any of it belongs to.
I know, I know. You could probably just data-mine the DNA itself to figure out individual identities. In the future, if you ever go to another site and put it a few genes (for whatever purpose) that get linked to your real identity, you will be screwed. But hey, how's that any different than data mining Netflix?
Usually when anything of a GIS nature refers to something as "flat", it is in relation to the WGS84. My understanding is that geodetic systems basically project an perfect, elliptical sphere around the the gravitational center on earth. But I probably have had too much to drink myself so don't hold me to it.
Here's to spending way too much time playing with GPS! Cheers!
I had this idea about 3 years ago (yeah I know that doesn't mean anything unless I had acted on it).
What would be better though is if they had incorporated this in to the Google Toolbar. Who wants to go back in the browser just to vote on the page they just visited. Makes more sense to do it while you are still on the page.
As we have seen in the past, with everything from Google Street View...
I don't agree with this, but the Google Street View is in general a continuing debate. I am speaking specifically of data that you submit to Google willingly. Not data captured by Google through your public exposure. Google does not break in to your home and take "Google Cribs View" panoramas of your home interior and publish them online.
...this will inevitably include information that people might have expected to remain private...
In the information age, perhaps people's expectations need to change? It needs to be realised what you really do in public is not local but global.
Google are a business like any other and, despite all the "do no evil" rhetoric, they will still do whatever they can get away with to make a profit for their shareholders, and they can still be compelled to disclose any information required by law (and laws can change).
While I don't think it is quite as cuthroat as you make it out to be, I generally agree. The only person that has your best interests in mind is you. So you should take precautions: don't allow truly private data online and if you do, encrypt it or accept the risk. When people start stealing that data, which Google does not do, then I'll break out the pitchforks and torches.
In an age of sealed warrants, if the government even bothers with that, why would anyone put their data out of their sight? When it comes to privacy, I cannot see how the benefits outweigh the risks.
Well see, there is thing called "encryption". If used properly, it can be quite effective in maintaining one's privacy. With Google's track record of protecting user's privacy, I would not be surprised if the service automatically encrypts the data during transit on the desktop and Google does not transmit the keys to their server.
I did not RTFA, so I think it will depend on if they plan to give this service away for free and data mine what you are storing. In any case, if they don't encrypt it, then you are free to encrypt the data yourself beforehand as a user.
One of the reasons that nanoparticles might be great for biological applications...
...or weapons.
Actually, I'm surprised we have not heard anything regarding nano-WMDs in the media yet. Seriously, don't people know that terrorists can make fullerene bombs from the soot of burnt wood? And what do terrorists have abundant access to? Burnt wood!
Honestly, I'm tired of all this tax BS. Tax my net income and be done with it. Having taxes simplified would in fact save money for all. Just think about all the money spent on supporting, enforcing, collecting, evading and what-not, on multiple taxes.
I know, I know, I'm thinking like an engineer and not a politician or tax-attorney.
You may be interested to know, the factor of safety is actually very low in aerospace. Meaning, engineers design systems with smaller margins for exceeding design requirements. The reason is weight; every pound you add by over engineering a part's yield strength, is a pound you have to get in the air or fly to space. The industry compensates for this low factor of safety with very strict maintenance cycles and regulations.
If automobiles were engineered like this, we could probably use half the amount of fuel we currently do. The downside is you would have to get monthly or even weekly inspections and preventative maintenance.
You're no better than the terrorists! Ten or so homes and businesses are likely to be burned to the ground after their AXIS Network Cameras catch fire after a thorough Slashdotting. Bravo.
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Hi. I thought that too and was providing a simple example. However, everyone else here on Slashdot is trying to tell me that the amount of information that can be transferred stays the same regardless of frequency.
Perhaps I am. But if each cycle is a potential bit, then it seems that there is more information carrying capacity at the higher frequencies. Maybe bandwidth is the wrong word for what I am saying?
There is actually more bandwidth between 3GHz and 4Ghz than 0Ghz and 1Ghz. Say you were to pick 100mhz wide channel right in between those ranges. 3.5ghz has 7 times the amount of cycles/sec than 500mhz. So assuming PCM and no losses, that's 7 times the bandwidth.
I think this is a bad idea. If we start transmitting data in whitespace, words will become very difficult to distinguish from each other in any given sentence. For example "The quick red fox jumped over the brown lazy dog." by itself, is very readable. But once you transmit extra data in the whitespace it becomes: "The1quick0red1fox0jumped1over0the0brown1lazy0dog." - An invariable piece of shit. It's only a matter of time before the greedy providers decide they need more bandwidth and bleed over in to the primary data stream.
Now if we were to transmit in the margins or between the lines, that may just work!
but $9.99/yr is not much. What's the point of going through all that trouble? Are the people who practice domain kitting registering thousands of domains this way?
- Pastafarianism is poised to be the dominate religion
- The Internets are now made of tubes
- Duke Nukem Forever has still not shipped
- Dumbledore is gay
- And the "All your base" meme has been retired
I know a thing or two about time travel, and if I were you, I would go back now before your social security entitlement is squandered on automated anal-probes at airport security checkpoints.Sun is doing it right in my book. I've been very impressed with their work lately; OpenSolaris, ZFS, Project Blackbox, Java (for awhile). I'm not a fanboy yet, but I have been recommending to all the PHBs in IT that we consider investing more in Sun's products. We're about done buying SPARCs but their other products can really benefit us.
Taking it a bit further, it seems like a good way of dealing with privacy in this area is to hide things in plain sight. Make everyone's data available but assign a unique ID that only the submitter will know. Then you can browse your DNA and everyone else's but no one will know who any of it belongs to.
I know, I know. You could probably just data-mine the DNA itself to figure out individual identities. In the future, if you ever go to another site and put it a few genes (for whatever purpose) that get linked to your real identity, you will be screwed. But hey, how's that any different than data mining Netflix?
Usually when anything of a GIS nature refers to something as "flat", it is in relation to the WGS84. My understanding is that geodetic systems basically project an perfect, elliptical sphere around the the gravitational center on earth. But I probably have had too much to drink myself so don't hold me to it.
Here's to spending way too much time playing with GPS! Cheers!
I had this idea about 3 years ago (yeah I know that doesn't mean anything unless I had acted on it).
What would be better though is if they had incorporated this in to the Google Toolbar. Who wants to go back in the browser just to vote on the page they just visited. Makes more sense to do it while you are still on the page.
I don't agree with this, but the Google Street View is in general a continuing debate. I am speaking specifically of data that you submit to Google willingly. Not data captured by Google through your public exposure. Google does not break in to your home and take "Google Cribs View" panoramas of your home interior and publish them online.
In the information age, perhaps people's expectations need to change? It needs to be realised what you really do in public is not local but global.
While I don't think it is quite as cuthroat as you make it out to be, I generally agree. The only person that has your best interests in mind is you. So you should take precautions: don't allow truly private data online and if you do, encrypt it or accept the risk. When people start stealing that data, which Google does not do, then I'll break out the pitchforks and torches.
I did not RTFA, so I think it will depend on if they plan to give this service away for free and data mine what you are storing. In any case, if they don't encrypt it, then you are free to encrypt the data yourself beforehand as a user.
Actually, I'm surprised we have not heard anything regarding nano-WMDs in the media yet. Seriously, don't people know that terrorists can make fullerene bombs from the soot of burnt wood? And what do terrorists have abundant access to? Burnt wood!
Coincidence? I think not!
Honestly, I'm tired of all this tax BS. Tax my net income and be done with it. Having taxes simplified would in fact save money for all. Just think about all the money spent on supporting, enforcing, collecting, evading and what-not, on multiple taxes. I know, I know, I'm thinking like an engineer and not a politician or tax-attorney.
If any of these could be worked into a South Park episode, that would be hell-a-cool!
You may be interested to know, the factor of safety is actually very low in aerospace. Meaning, engineers design systems with smaller margins for exceeding design requirements. The reason is weight; every pound you add by over engineering a part's yield strength, is a pound you have to get in the air or fly to space. The industry compensates for this low factor of safety with very strict maintenance cycles and regulations.
If automobiles were engineered like this, we could probably use half the amount of fuel we currently do. The downside is you would have to get monthly or even weekly inspections and preventative maintenance.
Of course, my source could be wrong.
You're no better than the terrorists! Ten or so homes and businesses are likely to be burned to the ground after their AXIS Network Cameras catch fire after a thorough Slashdotting. Bravo.