This is my thought also. Everything hardwired right into the silicon including DRM, TPM, unique ID hashes for tracking, and plenty of government/law enforcement back-doors. It would also take care of all those pesky open source operating systems and enable lockout of "unauthorized" applications. Nice, safe (from the governments' and big-corps' view) computers for the masses.
Did not not even bother to read the summary?
He says he wants to do this using O-P-E-N S-O-U-R-C-E
FTFS: " but Keir Thomas claims he's found a way forward -- and it's one that involves exclusively open source"
Right there plain as day...
I mean if you can't figure out how to flash or compile the source code for your own bios then that is your problem, but don't say its DRM because you can't bother to learn how to do that.
1) Play any number of local games of all sorts (not just solitaire)
I have 30 gigs of music and yet I still perfer to listen to internet radio.
2) Play music and podcasts already downloaded and ripped.
I want live streams and today's news.
3) Play a DVD
I don't want to wait several days for delivery or go everytime I want to watch a movie (gas is expensive)
4) Upload that bunch of pictures from his camera and get them squared away with GIMP or Photoshop.
What is the use of pictures if you aren't going to share them online? Whether by social websites or email?
5) Perhaps write a program of his own?
Heh. What is the point of having a voice if you have no mouth?
Hey, I LIKE solitaire. If a letter is needed, why not?
I like playing online games like WoW and multilayer FPS games. Little fun is it to play against bots.
6) Gather freinds for a LAN party (Just because the DSL/Cablemodem is down does not mean the local home network is down too.)
What? The majority of my friends live over 20 hundred miles away. We play online.
Of course if that thunderstorm also knocked out power...
Well got me there.
Anyways... My point and the GP point was that a lot of stuff now is only useful now. In fact I don't do anything offline anymore except one or two singleplayer games. The majority of everything is online. If I have no connection, I don't care if my computer is a super $10,000 desktop or a $50 dumb terminal.
Meh. What the Rosenbergs did - giving atomic secrets to a hostile tyranny is treason. I'm no fan of the death penalty, but it's definitely a serious crime.
Ironically, the Soviets having nukes when they did might have prevented a US invasion of mainland China or the use of nukes on North Korea and China in the 1950's during the escalation of the Korean War.
My guess such an invasion and protracted war would have been economically disastrous for the US leading the Soviets to simply to win by default once they made nukes later on.
It is a big "what if" and the Rosenberg's never really had that idea in mind, but it is something to ponder if history had been different.
The stupid thing is, parents already have those capabilities, no new laws required. A parent controls their child's finances, access to electronics, and most other decision making.
I think we got the problem backwards.
We should outlaw children. That would solve the parents problem all together.
Cisco releasing the source code for thousands of routers doesn't strike me as being a good thing.
Huh? What part of GPL did Cisco not understand? If they did not want to release their source code, then they should not have used used other's GPL code in their products.
They could have either:
A. Used something under BSD license and kept the code closed
or
B. Wrote their own.
The fact they used someone else's GPL code in their products means they used someone eles's work.
If you are so worried about it, then take your beef up with Cisco for lack of A and B. Not the GPL or FSF. They knew what they were doing.
we need robots and machines that PREVENT war through simulation and complex analysis. robots and machines that can predict war, formulate resolutions to our current wars, and advance mankind as a civilization.
What would be nice if we had a Manhattan project trying to achieve the same thing as the Blue Brain Project.
Of course DARPA is doing something related, but not a brain simulation...
I know it's not a particularly popular observation, but generally the success or failure of a console generally depends on the branded content that gets developed for it.
I dunno. This is one of those rare situations where it is more appropriate to compare the G1 to a PC computer that happens to play games rather than a console designed to play them.
Do PC sales live and die based of what games are made for it?
No, it turns out that you can make games to play on them. Otherwise, its also a device you make phone calls on.
I think the idea that OS X was safer than Windows is that it requires user interaction to get violated rather than just visiting the wrong webpage and the browser does all the work for you.
That said, the Adobe and Java exploits on OS X kind of undermined that.
However, the user (well a educated user) can avoid that by not installing Adobe products if they can help it or changing the way there system behaves or being aware of what is running.
Yeah. I started to get misty eyed seeing all the S3 and Matrox cards.
I used to work in a computer shop back in the late 90's and for home users who didn't 3d games, we'd always suggest the S3 cards over ATI simply because of stability issues with Win95 and 98.
I mean back then no one really needed the 3d part except gamers which were kind of rare.
Now 3d is integrated with the desktop. How times have changed.
Lol. I think the mods missed your humor, but yeah, before Quake... The games technically "looked" better because they were pre-rendered cut scenes.
Remember:
Under a Killing Moon Phantasmagoria 7th Guest Myst
I could go on but before Quake there were a lot of games that ran on a 386/486 (actually I don't know if Killing Moon ran on a 386) and looked good because they were pre-rendered.
The real reason for the advent of the 3d card was to allow user interaction with the game world. I mean it looked like you were interacting with those games but it was just all pre-rendered.
Now, if it can work wirelessly with an iPhone (or similar device), include the camera and head tracking attachments, you have an entire platform for augmented reality right there.
Personally, I have found myself wanting the ability to use my iPhone while walking or having it in my pocket without having to take it out.
I mean the walking part I can do... Just not well seeing having to look down at the device or making my arms tired holding it up in my face. If I could some how use the iPhone in my pocket to text or surf and see the text in front of my face rather than looking down all the time would be a plus.
Unfortunately, many sites require you to set up a secret question for password recovery. Disabling that facility is actually desirable if you want to enjoy the strength of password security.
ProTip: Use something other than the real answer.
Q: What is your mother's maiden name? A: y0Urm@mmA!
The reason is simple: people don't trust computing "over the cloud," because your device will be essentially useless if you are in an area with little to no Internet connectivity.
I think the lack of internet connectivity is the problem and not the other way around.
I mean you can't play online games without the internet. You can't send emails or chat with other people to the internet. You can't read news headlines or check the latest stock price.
And locally caching all the above doesn't really solve the problem of the "lack of internet".
The internet needs to be ubiquitous and everywhere and for a lot less than what they charge now.
Its possible to be an elected dictator, though the hypothetical presented doesn't even necessarily mean that.
Hitler was legally elected.
He also dismantled democracy by using the legal rules already in place and put it to a referendum which the people happily voted "Yes" for.
There is a reason why modern Germany's constitution specifically forbids referendums because historically people have been happy to vote their rights away.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think he means long term. Assuming long as there is an internet, spam will still be sent infinitely.
Possibly long after the sun burns out and heath death starts to kick in.
Perhaps we will have spam filters large as Jupiter in the future to deal with the intergalactic spammers trying to sell hapless aliens anti-black hole kits.
Slashdot Mirror
This is my thought also. Everything hardwired right into the silicon including DRM, TPM, unique ID hashes for tracking, and plenty of government/law enforcement back-doors. It would also take care of all those pesky open source operating systems and enable lockout of "unauthorized" applications. Nice, safe (from the governments' and big-corps' view) computers for the masses.
Did not not even bother to read the summary?
He says he wants to do this using O-P-E-N S-O-U-R-C-E
FTFS: " but Keir Thomas claims he's found a way forward -- and it's one that involves exclusively open source"
Right there plain as day...
I mean if you can't figure out how to flash or compile the source code for your own bios then that is your problem, but don't say its DRM because you can't bother to learn how to do that.
Maybe I'm just getting old, but to me, the "online" is just the communication channel, not the content arena.
Do you play WoW?
Have you ever tried to play it offline?
Just saying...
1) Play any number of local games of all sorts (not just solitaire)
I have 30 gigs of music and yet I still perfer to listen to internet radio.
2) Play music and podcasts already downloaded and ripped.
I want live streams and today's news.
3) Play a DVD
I don't want to wait several days for delivery or go everytime I want to watch a movie (gas is expensive)
4) Upload that bunch of pictures from his camera and get them squared away with GIMP or Photoshop.
What is the use of pictures if you aren't going to share them online? Whether by social websites or email?
5) Perhaps write a program of his own?
Heh. What is the point of having a voice if you have no mouth?
Hey, I LIKE solitaire. If a letter is needed, why not?
I like playing online games like WoW and multilayer FPS games. Little fun is it to play against bots.
6) Gather freinds for a LAN party (Just because the DSL/Cablemodem is down does not mean the local home network is down too.)
What? The majority of my friends live over 20 hundred miles away. We play online.
Of course if that thunderstorm also knocked out power...
Well got me there.
Anyways... My point and the GP point was that a lot of stuff now is only useful now. In fact I don't do anything offline anymore except one or two singleplayer games. The majority of everything is online. If I have no connection, I don't care if my computer is a super $10,000 desktop or a $50 dumb terminal.
Its useless to me (and to many others)
Meh. What the Rosenbergs did - giving atomic secrets to a hostile tyranny is treason. I'm no fan of the death penalty, but it's definitely a serious crime.
Ironically, the Soviets having nukes when they did might have prevented a US invasion of mainland China or the use of nukes on North Korea and China in the 1950's during the escalation of the Korean War.
My guess such an invasion and protracted war would have been economically disastrous for the US leading the Soviets to simply to win by default once they made nukes later on.
It is a big "what if" and the Rosenberg's never really had that idea in mind, but it is something to ponder if history had been different.
The stupid thing is, parents already have those capabilities, no new laws required. A parent controls their child's finances, access to electronics, and most other decision making.
I think we got the problem backwards.
We should outlaw children. That would solve the parents problem all together.
Cisco releasing the source code for thousands of routers doesn't strike me as being a good thing.
Huh? What part of GPL did Cisco not understand? If they did not want to release their source code, then they should not have used used other's GPL code in their products.
They could have either:
A. Used something under BSD license and kept the code closed
or
B. Wrote their own.
The fact they used someone else's GPL code in their products means they used someone eles's work.
If you are so worried about it, then take your beef up with Cisco for lack of A and B. Not the GPL or FSF. They knew what they were doing.
we need robots and machines that PREVENT war through simulation and complex analysis. robots and machines that can predict war, formulate resolutions to our current wars, and advance mankind as a civilization.
What would be nice if we had a Manhattan project trying to achieve the same thing as the Blue Brain Project.
Of course DARPA is doing something related, but not a brain simulation...
War is ultimately the only way to inflict a nations will upon another.
Unless both side has nukes.
The the only way to inflict your will is through smaller proxy wars and economics.
Of which both I suppose could also benefit from robotics.
I know it's not a particularly popular observation, but generally the success or failure of a console generally depends on the branded content that gets developed for it.
I dunno. This is one of those rare situations where it is more appropriate to compare the G1 to a PC computer that happens to play games rather than a console designed to play them.
Do PC sales live and die based of what games are made for it?
No, it turns out that you can make games to play on them. Otherwise, its also a device you make phone calls on.
Solar flares.
US Military mucking with GPS system.
DoS attacks.
On the bright side, you'll never get a ticket again because you can blame the car if it lets you speed.
I notice most sites don't like it when you turn javascript off, but don't care about java.
The question I would have is that does Javascript on OSX have the same vulnerabilities?
Perhaps the best solution is to install NoScript and white list only the sites needed.
I think the idea that OS X was safer than Windows is that it requires user interaction to get violated rather than just visiting the wrong webpage and the browser does all the work for you.
That said, the Adobe and Java exploits on OS X kind of undermined that.
However, the user (well a educated user) can avoid that by not installing Adobe products if they can help it or changing the way there system behaves or being aware of what is running.
This is of course unrelated to Javascript which is much more disruptive when disabled.
Hrm... Does Javascript have the same flaw(s) on OS X?
Yeah. I started to get misty eyed seeing all the S3 and Matrox cards.
I used to work in a computer shop back in the late 90's and for home users who didn't 3d games, we'd always suggest the S3 cards over ATI simply because of stability issues with Win95 and 98.
I mean back then no one really needed the 3d part except gamers which were kind of rare.
Now 3d is integrated with the desktop. How times have changed.
Lol. I think the mods missed your humor, but yeah, before Quake... The games technically "looked" better because they were pre-rendered cut scenes.
Remember:
Under a Killing Moon
Phantasmagoria
7th Guest
Myst
I could go on but before Quake there were a lot of games that ran on a 386/486 (actually I don't know if Killing Moon ran on a 386) and looked good because they were pre-rendered.
The real reason for the advent of the 3d card was to allow user interaction with the game world. I mean it looked like you were interacting with those games but it was just all pre-rendered.
Had Virtual Boy succeeded, we might see more of this kind of thing.
Virtual boy was VR "done wrong".
It was monochrome and it was basically used a spinning mirror to simulate the 3d effect.
No wonder kids got headache's after an hour.
Now, if it can work wirelessly with an iPhone (or similar device), include the camera and head tracking attachments, you have an entire platform for augmented reality right there.
Personally, I have found myself wanting the ability to use my iPhone while walking or having it in my pocket without having to take it out.
I mean the walking part I can do... Just not well seeing having to look down at the device or making my arms tired holding it up in my face. If I could some how use the iPhone in my pocket to text or surf and see the text in front of my face rather than looking down all the time would be a plus.
Its not Hi-Res but its something people would wear more than some bulky goggles:
http://www.digilens.com/products.html
Its more for augmented reality than virtual reality.
Of course if you've a thousand dollars to blow there is always one of Emagin's products:
http://www.3dvisor.com/
Unfortunately, many sites require you to set up a secret question for password recovery. Disabling that facility is actually desirable if you want to enjoy the strength of password security.
ProTip: Use something other than the real answer.
Q: What is your mother's maiden name?
A: y0Urm@mmA!
Or whatever characters they happen to allow.
Its easier to modify a browser plugg-in to sniff network activity than it is to monitor the keyboard or look at programs outside the browser.
On OS X I don't even install the reader anymore.
But if you use it on Windows and aren't half bothered to find a more secure PDF reader... At least turn the plugin off in Firefox
Tools > Options > Applications
Set all Adobe to always ask.
The reason is simple: people don't trust computing "over the cloud," because your device will be essentially useless if you are in an area with little to no Internet connectivity.
I think the lack of internet connectivity is the problem and not the other way around.
I mean you can't play online games without the internet.
You can't send emails or chat with other people to the internet.
You can't read news headlines or check the latest stock price.
And locally caching all the above doesn't really solve the problem of the "lack of internet".
The internet needs to be ubiquitous and everywhere and for a lot less than what they charge now.
Its possible to be an elected dictator, though the hypothetical presented doesn't even necessarily mean that.
Hitler was legally elected.
He also dismantled democracy by using the legal rules already in place and put it to a referendum which the people happily voted "Yes" for.
There is a reason why modern Germany's constitution specifically forbids referendums because historically people have been happy to vote their rights away.
Ok, is it just me, but wouldn't it be easier to just cut the spine off the book instead of developing a whole new way of scanning it?
With 7 million books, the manpower and time saved for them to cut the spine off would be worth it.
Also, they can resell the books if needed or give them charity after they are done.
Kind of would be a waste of a paper to tear that many books apart.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think he means long term. Assuming long as there is an internet, spam will still be sent infinitely.
Possibly long after the sun burns out and heath death starts to kick in.
Perhaps we will have spam filters large as Jupiter in the future to deal with the intergalactic spammers trying to sell hapless aliens anti-black hole kits.