This is such a huge money maker that I'm almost positive corporate lobbying would never get this passed. Although I've always felt that organismal genes should be off limit to patenting, I don't think there is anyway to stop it. Celera and others are marketing a good portion of their well being on their ability to own this intellectual properties.
As has been discussed before, this really isn't surprising. But I suggest that there is something more subtle going on here and that perhaps M$ has something up their sleave. By giving UNIX functionality to NT, they are positioning themselves to elbow in on the UNIX market (obviously). But what are they going to do with this (Internix) in the future? I have always been concerned with the prospect of M$ using GPL'd code for profit, and I believe this to be the doorway in for them. I'm not saying I know what bill and co are going with this, but I bet it is more profound than any of the comments listed here.
Watch your back people, the great assimilators are on the prowl.:)
I'm very interested to see where linux is going in the future. We see lots of stories about M$ and others and there attempts to downplay or kill the linux movement. I don't think we need to be concerned about this as much as we are.
I'm not sure I buy into this, folks. There is a certain point when these things have a habit of being more hyperbole than visionary. I think many of us should sit back, take a deep breath, and think of all those whose work may not be quite so lauded. I'm talking about the folks whose work will have a much more profound effect in the future than this...
See this could be really cool or no big deal. Just because they spent $2 mil doesn't really mean squat. There could be a bunch of cool ai stuff, or it could just be a "choose-your-own-adventure" on a more general level. I hope they don't have lots of pieces of stories that are just thrown together using rules that require them to make sense.
Since Europa is a satellite of jupiter, think about the tides that must be occuring with a giant of that size nearby. Also, the tides would probably affected by the other moons as well. crazy.
I'm still skeptical though, of the existance of the ocean itself. But its implications on how planets form would be very interesting, in terms of the heavy body and water distribution from the accretion disk that formed jupiter and its moons.
If these things take off (no pun intended), I think the skies are going to have serious problems. This would be the transportation equivalent of the internet, people just wouldn't know what to do with it....
But, think about all the safety peripherals that will have to be developed before these things will be released to the general public.
Things like this will probably be put to use most often by lab techs and researchers. Simplifying how one plays with DNA would be of great help to the field. Cops and Drug dealers probably won't use the technology until its use gets automated and streamlined. (Which I'm sure it is far from now....)
Congradulations on the BBC thing, but even the BBC has a habit of commercializing things. I've always felt that the standard of post on Slashdot is much higher than average forums, but i hope that more press doesn't change that.
-- Moondog
Now everybody can have a look see....
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What worries me about making networks easily tappable is not so much the feds nosey actions, but the easy time other non-feds will have tapping networks. This is very scary. It not only compromises the privacy of those exchanging information via the network but also compromises the security of the network itself. Now that's a problem.
So how did you get the idea (and motivation) to do this sort of thing? Now that it is getting more successful, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that success and where it is going to take you.
Ok, so if Dreamcast accepts telnets, wonder why? Some undocumented connection for later use? Anyway, I can just feel a hundred/.'ers right now trying to get in. I wonder how long it will take?
Now that compaq has announced its thin clients, I begin to wonder what people will do with them. Are thin clients that remote productivity solution of the future, or just a junk solution that will technically obsolete just after they hit the market?
The story has a lot of stuff in it where the technology doesn't really exist yet. Just having the robot fly from one area of a ship and return, can be a challenge. Look how much trouble those robots get into in those university competitions. Also, the story talks of taking verbal commands, etc. Only fairly basic commands could probably be understood, and the satallite would have to have be attached to a central computer.
After using both linux and SGI in an academic setting for many years, I can envision linux-like portability and ease of use with SGI's outstanding graphics in a single system. One can only hope. -- Moondog
Although, I'm not really suprised. I grew up loving the Star Wars franchise, it does have kind of a silly side(Not intended to be flamebait). Perhaps he's just upset he wasn't in the new one.
I run off of a dual 21264 (500 MHz? I forget might be 600), right now and it flies. It would be great to see some more smoke from these cpu's. But I it would be great to get some faster, cheaper hard drives to keep up with the demands of these processors. My jobs generate lots of data, and I find that writing it takes away from the cpu's a bit.
Is this really necessary? There are already a bunch of os's out there. I'm not sure the industry can really support many os's, even if they fill a specialized niche. Look at how many good os's have died, OS/2 for example. There really isn't much excuse even when Linux is open sourced.
Look how much trouble the government has with its websites. Internet voting would just about open them up to every type of hacker attack. Those machines would have to be really secure. They'd also have to deal with massive amounts of bandwidth. Besides the Republican party is has traditionally been opposed to making registration and voting easier. Remember the bill to make voter registration easy with drivers license registration? They opposed it.
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This is such a huge money maker that I'm almost positive corporate lobbying would never get this passed. Although I've always felt that organismal genes should be off limit to patenting, I don't think there is anyway to stop it. Celera and others are marketing a good portion of their well being on their ability to own this intellectual properties.
-- Moondog
As has been discussed before, this really isn't surprising. But I suggest that there is something more subtle going on here and that perhaps M$ has something up their sleave. By giving UNIX functionality to NT, they are positioning themselves to elbow in on the UNIX market (obviously). But what are they going to do with this (Internix) in the future? I have always been concerned with the prospect of M$ using GPL'd code for profit, and I believe this to be the doorway in for them. I'm not saying I know what bill and co are going with this, but I bet it is more profound than any of the comments listed here.
:)
Watch your back people, the great assimilators are on the prowl.
-- Moondog
I wonder if similar IP's will get cracked as well this time.
But seriously, i think that these don't really help anybody very well. I'm mean what can they really tell us?
-- Moondog
I'm very interested to see where linux is going in the future. We see lots of stories about M$ and others and there attempts to downplay or kill the linux movement. I don't think we need to be concerned about this as much as we are.
-- Moondog
I'm not sure I buy into this, folks. There is a certain point when these things have a habit of being more hyperbole than visionary. I think many of us should sit back, take a deep breath, and think of all those whose work may not be quite so lauded. I'm talking about the folks whose work will have a much more profound effect in the future than this...
-- Moondog
See this could be really cool or no big deal. Just because they spent $2 mil doesn't really mean squat. There could be a bunch of cool ai stuff, or it could just be a "choose-your-own-adventure" on a more general level. I hope they don't have lots of pieces of stories that are just thrown together using rules that require them to make sense.
-- Moondog
Since Europa is a satellite of jupiter, think about the tides that must be occuring with a giant of that size nearby. Also, the tides would probably affected by the other moons as well. crazy.
I'm still skeptical though, of the existance of the ocean itself. But its implications on how planets form would be very interesting, in terms of the heavy body and water distribution from the accretion disk that formed jupiter and its moons.
-- Moondog
Readers choice awards rule. /. for everything! Except best distribution. :)
-- Moondog
If these things take off (no pun intended), I think the skies are going to have serious problems. This would be the transportation equivalent of the internet, people just wouldn't know what to do with it....
But, think about all the safety peripherals that will have to be developed before these things will be released to the general public.
-- Moondog
Things like this will probably be put to use most often by lab techs and researchers. Simplifying how one plays with DNA would be of great help to the field. Cops and Drug dealers probably won't use the technology until its use gets automated and streamlined. (Which I'm sure it is far from now....)
-- Moondog
Congradulations on the BBC thing, but even the BBC has a habit of commercializing things. I've always felt that the standard of post on Slashdot is much higher than average forums, but i hope that more press doesn't change that.
-- Moondog
What worries me about making networks easily tappable is not so much the feds nosey actions, but the easy time other non-feds will have tapping networks. This is very scary. It not only compromises the privacy of those exchanging information via the network but also compromises the security of the network itself. Now that's a problem.
-- Moondog
Having worked around Sparc people for a few years, I know that a lot of people will be very excited to see this.
-- Moondog
A cellphone web browser. Now I can have the web on the subway, on the job, at a restaurant. Just click in and I'm there.
(That slurping sound is productivity going down the drain)
-- Moondog
So how did you get the idea (and motivation) to do this sort of thing? Now that it is getting more successful, I'd love to hear your thoughts on that success and where it is going to take you.
-- Moondog
Ok, so if Dreamcast accepts telnets, wonder why? Some undocumented connection for later use? Anyway, I can just feel a hundred /.'ers right now trying to get in. I wonder how long it will take?
-- Moondog
Now all we need is a slashdot and blair witch parody.
I can see it now...
-- Moondog
Now that compaq has announced its thin clients, I begin to wonder what people will do with them. Are thin clients that remote productivity solution of the future, or just a junk solution that will technically obsolete just after they hit the market?
-- Moondog
The story has a lot of stuff in it where the technology doesn't really exist yet. Just having the robot fly from one area of a ship and return, can be a challenge. Look how much trouble those robots get into in those university competitions. Also, the story talks of taking verbal commands, etc. Only fairly basic commands could probably be understood, and the satallite would have to have be attached to a central computer.
-- Moondog
After using both linux and SGI in an academic setting for many years, I can envision linux-like portability and ease of use with SGI's outstanding graphics in a single system. One can only hope.
-- Moondog
Although, I'm not really suprised. I grew up loving the Star Wars franchise, it does have kind of a silly side(Not intended to be flamebait). Perhaps he's just upset he wasn't in the new one.
-- Moondog
There are so many distributions of linux out there it is becoming hard to keep up. But having ISO's is cool, though.
-- Moondog
I run off of a dual 21264 (500 MHz? I forget might be 600), right now and it flies. It would be great to see some more smoke from these cpu's. But I it would be great to get some faster, cheaper hard drives to keep up with the demands of these processors. My jobs generate lots of data, and I find that writing it takes away from the cpu's a bit.
-- Moondog
Is this really necessary? There are already a bunch of os's out there. I'm not sure the industry can really support many os's, even if they fill a specialized niche. Look at how many good os's have died, OS/2 for example. There really isn't much excuse even when Linux is open sourced.
-- Moondog
Look how much trouble the government has with its websites. Internet voting would just about open them up to every type of hacker attack. Those machines would have to be really secure. They'd also have to deal with massive amounts of bandwidth. Besides the Republican party is has traditionally been opposed to making registration and voting easier. Remember the bill to make voter registration easy with drivers license registration? They opposed it.
-- Moondog