Why on earth would you send it to them if the information where so sensitive, as for getting the disk back - I can certainly understand and appreciate your woes, but if you really did have sensitive business information in there you'd better re-evaluate its worth if you are weighing this up against 160 bucks. I'd just buy a new HD and get my older disk checked up with IBAS or some other harddisk-recovery organization if my information was that valuable to me. I would NEVER - EVER - send business sensitive information, development papers, blueprints etc. into any repairman etc. I know this is Apple...but an Apple repairman is just like any other repairman - no one of these can keep a too-good-to-hold-secret true unless their morals are WAY above human nature (do you believe in this...or translated --are you naive enough to trust your data to just any nameless repairman? If you are - then your data isn't worth more than 160 bucks...sorry to say). Reality check!
It's not easy... especially since things sort of halted at 4 ghz, what on earth am I typing about? Well...picture this...limitations...yes they do exist..and sometimes it's important to think beyond what lies just straight ahead (such as the next cycle speed)...and think into a second...maybe even a 3rd dimmension to expand your communication speed. I have for over 6 years been thinking..of a 3d-dimmension processor that cross communicates over a diagonal matrix instead of the traditional serial and parallel communication model. Imagine this folks...if your code could "walk" across a matrix of 10 x 10 x 10 instead of just 8 x 8 or 64 x 64 if you want...get the picture, no? Imagine that your data could communicate on a 3 dimmensional axis - imagine that you had 10 stacks of cores on top of each other - and instead of just connecting they communication bus to a parallel or a serial model...they could in fact communicate on a diagonel basis... this would make it possible to send commands...data..etc....in a 3d-space rather than just a "queue". This of course...would demand a different "mindset" of coding... everything would have to be written from scratch....though...but the benefits would be tremendeous.....you could 10 fold existing computational speed by increasing the communication across processor-cores...maybe even more! Even by todays technology standards. Ok..ok...sounds far fetched for you doesnt it? Well..get this...this was my invention 6 years ago (maybe even 9 years ago...I am getting older so I dont really care...I do care for freedom of information and sharing...Not so much wealth so listen on)...The theory of what I just wrote here on Slashdot (which has more implication on your life in the future than you will ever be capable of comprehending...yes...I am full of myself aint i....Who cares? You dont know me).. point is... There was once a missing brick to the idea of diagonal cross matrix computing....with yesteryears technology it just would not be feasible to do it... but...if you have ANY understanding of what I write here (yes...I am not kidding...this may change history as we know it...and I am drunk right now...and I dont want to keep a lid on it anymore)...here we go... Please think about what I just wrote - and - look up frances hellman's lecture upon magnetic materials in semiconductors...and you WILL have your 4-th link in the 3-B-E-C (base, Emitter, Collector) construction...to make the Cross Matrix Processor possible....just understand this....JoOngle invented this...Frances made it possible - YOU read it from a drunk nobody of Slashdot.org....) now...go make it real!
Yes, Ive noticed that Google keeps things that eventually gets erased somewhere else, but Google also censors - partially because of violations of various company rules, laws, and much more (too much more!). SO much more in fact - that a little "googling" around the world....from...servers around the world - will yield different results from what you may get googling from your country, think that I am paranoid and kidding? Try it!
Yes of course I know we have developed over time, it is purely logical. Put two stones together and you have 3! I am a mindboggling genious on the brinck of madness sitting here browsing the other mindless blogging egos typing their life away all fighting for good karma just to impress some damn bytes streaming to the epiphany of evolution at the other end, chezus KRIST we are screwed! You know what? I bet those people who joined a sect to go to a "better" place in fact DID go to a better place, anything is better than here, or anywhere, for fuck sake - take me away from this goddamn place.
therefor I would do it regardless of mankind. Someone else would if I didnt...ah the art of self restraint - what would be be without policing eachother, taking care of eachother.
Do you know what annoys me the MOST in this life with humans? People like me and others - we live our safe guaranteed lives, we do exactly as our parents did before us (or someone elses...you get the idea)...we LOOP and LOOP...we develop and become something more that what we where in the exact same area as the ones before us. BORING - you NEVER discover anything really significant that way, did you know that most of the worlds amazing inventions where invented quite by accident? OF course you do...I am just making a point - follow me if you can... Do you really want to spend 90 percent of your life learning what someone else knew before you? If you are lucky - you may develop 10 percent more than the one before you. If you are at all smart - you will be capable of taking the information of MANY before you and look at from a distance...see the overall picture and discover something each of these individuals never saw. Imagine going even further than that - think the impossible!
How does you wandering around with your DS have any bearing at all on how a totally different system with totally different software and totally different requirements works?
Yes, I realize that they have entirely different software, but as with ALL new things - its rarely so straightforward as that example. Heck...even with a WiFi enabled PDA its pretty difficult to get anywhere - let alone CHAT with someone - be it Jabber or anything else, you have to be in the right spot, all connections running perfectly and to get in properly. Its just painted so "rosy" that it seems more like a staged scenario rather than real life.
Believe me - I wish it success - but nothing like that happens the same day its released, give it a year or two - so many MANY people all over the world actually HAVE one - then we will talk.
Reading the interview it kind of struck me how he managed to just "find" a chat function...and get connected wireless to the net...and now already have 3 chatting friends that he just "connected" with in the neighborhood, that doesnt make sense at all. Ive travelled around 10 cities over a YEAR with my Nintendo DS (that have a chatting function with WIFI built in) and never - ever - even seen ONE SINGLE CONNECTION win ANYONE in a chat room...so...if he...the child...with the OLPC laptop with its own unique chat-system that connects...to a nearby similar OLPC (hence how that system works)...how could he have all of a sudden be connecting to "3" of "them"?
It smells...not my pants...not this time! Sorry - aint buying it.
This will bring the "Marty" out in all the potential future engineers out there, it may seem like a joke to many - but its dead serious! Weve had a decline in general science interest amongst kids these days - too much effort and too little actual "fun" - thats how they perceive science, but science is so much more - and anything WORTH doing costs patience and dedication.
The weird science classes will hopefully be a "springboard" for many students to "leap" into science and be fun enough to understand that they must invest time and dedication in order to receive actual results.
I have a "Weird Science" lab of my own - besides my work in a totally different area, that is because the most exciting areas of science is usually found in the unexpected results, things we didnt know before...stuff we stumble upon....as well as creativity.
Creativity is the single most important asset we have, math you can learn - anyone can learn - call it complex...call it advanced...call it animal names...doesnt matter what you call it, math is a constant - creativity is not - when both meet - wonderful tings can happen.
It was evident to me that Google censors according to "business wishes" when
I started to make some fan-art in 3D of a well known character.
Funnily enough - just about every image I've made gets scooped up by Google
and placed to become searchable for everyone - which is perfectly fine with me, but when I became slightly suspicious about Googles business censoring where when my fan-art images dissappeared quickly while everything else remained.
Unfortunately - it doesnt stop there!
I really wish it was only protective of its own copyrights, fair enough - but what *REALLY* scares me is when Google censors information at will - even information Id consider perfectly legal and ok for eg. my country, but it actually censors a lot of pages (and I do mean A LOT OF PAGES!) from my Country which is a Democratic country and one of Americas allies, so this is very surprising to me, but research indicates that it absolutely censors. It censors pages with interesting knowledge about computer algorithms, chemical knowledge, electronics-pages with schematics - anything that Google or its customers may find inappropriate some way or another.
If you dont quite believe it and think that I am over the top paranoid - check out
http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/google-cen sorship.php. which incredibly enough isnt censored yet, but what it says - is clear enough and it has examples for you to try
Google became too big and too powerful - such powers could surely not stay innocent forever, dissapointing - but history proves its knowledge about power corrupts - time and again!
And what is the conclusion after that? BJust because you won't be able to catch each and every offender does not mean you should not try to catch as many as possible.
Of course not, but that really goes without saying.
The point is that they're trying to shoot with a shotgun into a crowd with millions of people, sure - the stray bullets will hit some, but this kind of random law-"hope we catch'em all"-giving won't hit the people they're after, it will most likely just make the masses feel worse, make it harder on our freedom because it can be misused. It's really not thought trough very well, it's like banning the get-away car rather than the criminals themselves. Information is for learning , not to be banned. You wouldn't like it if they installed a video-camera in your car, bedroom and bathroom would you? It's this massive attempt at legalizing total surveillance of every citizen on earth that I am against (and most of you, I hope).
...can not reach the bits'n'bytes of the ever growing net.
Aka - you don't stand a chance in HELL to police the internet. Anyone who think so ought to get their brain examined.
Data is like fluids, you can't filter everything - it's bound to get in everywhere at some time. And the number of data you'd have to filter is increasing with such a speed that there's no chance that ANY law system would be able to hire enough personnel or create software to control it all.
Want a real life example? Take spam - you can't control that either, and we have laws on it already almost EVERYWHERE - but does it work? Didn't work 10 years ago, not 5 years ago - doesn't work today, won't work in the future. Fluids will get in everywhere anywhere anytime.
Best way to filter is utilizing the individuals using the computers, mind filtering --> the no 1. filter in this world. The very same filter can also be used to FIND the content you really want rather than looking trough heaps of endless useless information (spam).
Even if they DID control the net (or the way we access the net) they would be unable to do so - because information always finds a way just like fluid, another net - wireless or by wire...doesn't matter. You can't stop the flow of information now, way too late! And thank goodness for that.
A real paranoid black hatter wouldn't want to have his identity known or put himself under Microsoft's sights for a non-serious amount of money. You'd better believe that people that take this challenge will be closely watched from now on.
It would be cheaper just to hire them. Monitoring people cost a lot of people, you could expect it would take a team of 3-4 people just to keep tabs on one of them.
Want to see paranoid? Take a guess - who many of these secret hackers already work for microsoft do you think? Microsoft is big, there's bound to be a few.
Me? I'm a DIY electronics freak with a little too much gear and a motormouth to go.
If I'd be on that plane - they'd have a field day on me. Kind of makes me happy living where I do - phew!
Graphics cards are faster, stronger and more powerful than ever. Some years ago when Virtual Reality
where introduced - it lagged BIG time, it was however revolutionary - all the rage...and only
the worlds hottest shopping-malls got it back then, but it quickly died because the games where simple
and very boring except for the virtual reality immersion.
The technology for virtual reality just wasn't there yet, but behold...we're THERE NOW!
Just take a look at your own pc's gfx cards with their 1680 x 1050 resolution for your widescreen that
you can't see the pixels on more (from a meters distance) anyway... imagine two of these cards
and two seriously high-res mini OLED displays in your glasses and we're in business.
Virtual reality online gaming also needed the bandwith - and it's only recently we've
gotten this.
The technology is dirt cheap too! Mobile cell phones already come with high-res Oled displays
and you could create higher-res oled displays fit for "VR-Glasses" already...heck...they even
exist today in 800 x 600...even higher if I'm not entirely mistaken. And they're NOT expensive.
So get cracking! Take a chance - make the VR games right now!
And they said Internet killed the Radio Amateur...
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...see how wrong they where?
I'm a radio amateur, don't know what that is? Look up ARRL on Google and educate yourself.
The idea of making an international network predates the Internet, actually way back in time when Samuel Morse
invented...well..duh...Morse code. Of course, morse code....slow as it is - isn't practical for a world-wide-wireless network with todays demands for broadband and hight troughput, but the Radioamateurs are the ones that carry the solution for nearly every wireless innovation in the world. Who's the first to try out new untested stuff? Radio amateurs, who's the first to utilize it all before it becomes mainstream? Who's do YOU know that communicates today digitally via their own satellites? You may not know anyone - but they're radioamateurs and they're in this world - way ahead as usual - perhaps not old "grandpappy HAM-operator from-way-back" but the legacy he and so many others carried on - lives in us - the younger generation who grew up with bread-board electronics and became engineers, technicians...and yes.. radio amateurs - your average radio-shack hobbyist. You may not know it - even though radio-shack and the likes all over the planet are phasing out old-style electronics - we're still active and inventive.
Fancy - a little history and a waving finger, but where does that place us? Well - you brought it up to the public and you read it, participated in it - a suggestion to create our own world wide intranet. I say it's a GREAT idea, not new as you can read from this and history - but is it feasible? Well - turn to radioamateurs, call out NOW and get cracking! (and no - that's not cracking, it's a metaphor for get busy!)
Things as they are now:
A world wide wireless Ad-Hoc network. More and more mainboards plus laptops come with wireless adaptors built right in, as you may know already - these are radio transmitters & receivers. A little engineering and these can be modified to support such an idea, heck....you can even use it today without modifying anything but software.
In the radio-amateur world we have something called Packet-Radio. Packet radio can be hideously slow and it can also be really fast, it all depends on the same things YOU depend on...bandwith....and the actual band. A little radio theory for you all: The short wave bands are great for reaching long distances and a relatively reliable connection that can last for hours - worldwide! The shortwave bands shortcomings is that they're not carrying a lot of bandwidth for data usage so we need to be creative. For 20 years ago - no one would have guessed that you could transmit digital Hifi-Stereo radio streams via the shortwave band in a few kilohertz bandwith, but you can - look it up on Google - it's called DRM (no Not Digital Rights Management) But Digital Radio Mondale. This shows you how creative you can get being a radio amateur engineer - and we haven't reached the limits there yet. Now for the more interesting bands - VHF and UHF. These bands doesn't reach very far, but we have higher bandwidth capabilities and it could potentially sport speeds up to an average 56 K modem. 56 K is not very fast, but the good thing about radio is that you can be several users onto several servers using the same frequency but far away from each other...thus you could in fact share a 2 mbit "wireless" line just using packet radio alone because all users wont be onto that same 56K relay! And best of all - it's free, you need a radio-amateur license though.
Ok, 56 K not enough for you even if it's free? How about microwaves? yes - thats what you already use today with
your existing wireless equipment - yes even as hight as 5 ghz. If you read my post so far, then you probably have guessed that the microwave distance will be even less...shortwave reaches far..but have low bandwidth...Vhf...medium bandwidth...and UHF to microwave have Mega to Gigabit capability, now we're talking, right?
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Why on earth would you send it to them if the information where so sensitive, as for getting the disk back - I can certainly understand and appreciate your woes, but if you really did have sensitive business information in there you'd better re-evaluate its worth if you are weighing this up against 160 bucks. I'd just buy a new HD and get my older disk checked up with IBAS or some other harddisk-recovery organization if my information was that valuable to me. I would NEVER - EVER - send business sensitive information, development papers, blueprints etc. into any repairman etc. I know this is Apple...but an Apple repairman is just like any other repairman - no one of these can keep a too-good-to-hold-secret true unless their morals are WAY above human nature (do you believe in this...or translated --are you naive enough to trust your data to just any nameless repairman? If you are - then your data isn't worth more than 160 bucks...sorry to say). Reality check!
Mental note:
Seek professional help. Now!
It's not easy... especially since things sort of halted at 4 ghz, what on earth am I typing about? Well...picture this...limitations...yes they do exist..and sometimes it's important to think beyond what lies just straight ahead (such as the next cycle speed)...and think into a second...maybe even a 3rd dimmension to expand your communication speed. I have for over 6 years been thinking..of a 3d-dimmension processor that cross communicates over a diagonal matrix instead of the traditional serial and parallel communication model. Imagine this folks...if your code could "walk" across a matrix of 10 x 10 x 10 instead of just 8 x 8 or 64 x 64 if you want...get the picture, no? Imagine that your data could communicate on a 3 dimmensional axis - imagine that you had 10 stacks of cores on top of each other - and instead of just connecting they communication bus to a parallel or a serial model...they could in fact communicate on a diagonel basis... this would make it possible to send commands...data..etc....in a 3d-space rather than just a "queue". This of course...would demand a different "mindset" of coding... everything would have to be written from scratch....though...but the benefits would be tremendeous .....you could 10 fold existing computational speed by increasing the communication across processor-cores...maybe even more! Even by todays technology standards. Ok..ok...sounds far fetched for you doesnt it? Well..get this...this was my invention 6 years ago (maybe even 9 years ago...I am getting older so I dont really care...I do care for freedom of information and sharing...Not so much wealth so listen on)...The theory of what I just wrote here on Slashdot (which has more implication on your life in the future than you will ever be capable of comprehending...yes...I am full of myself aint i....Who cares? You dont know me) .. point is... There was once a missing brick to the idea of diagonal cross matrix computing....with yesteryears technology it just would not be feasible to do it... but ...if you have ANY understanding of what I write here (yes...I am not kidding...this may change history as we know it...and I am drunk right now...and I dont want to keep a lid on it anymore)...here we go... Please think about what I just wrote - and - look up frances hellman's lecture upon magnetic materials in semiconductors...and you WILL have your 4-th link in the 3-B-E-C (base, Emitter, Collector) construction...to make the Cross Matrix Processor possible....just understand this....JoOngle invented this...Frances made it possible - YOU read it from a drunk nobody of Slashdot.org....) now...go make it real!
Yes, Ive noticed that Google keeps things that eventually gets erased somewhere else, but Google also censors - partially because of violations of various company rules, laws, and much more (too much more!). SO much more in fact - that a little "googling" around the world....from ...servers around the world - will yield different results from what you may get googling from your country, think that I am paranoid and kidding? Try it!
Yes of course I know we have developed over time, it is purely logical. Put two stones together and you have 3! I am a mindboggling genious on the brinck of madness sitting here browsing the other mindless blogging egos typing their life away all fighting for good karma just to impress some damn bytes streaming to the epiphany of evolution at the other end, chezus KRIST we are screwed! You know what? I bet those people who joined a sect to go to a "better" place in fact DID go to a better place, anything is better than here, or anywhere, for fuck sake - take me away from this goddamn place.
Oh, btw. - thanks for all the fish!
therefor I would do it regardless of mankind. Someone else would if I didnt ...ah the art of self restraint - what would be be without policing eachother, taking care of eachother.
...we LOOP and LOOP...we develop and become something more that what we where in the exact same area as the ones before us. BORING - you NEVER discover anything really significant that way, did you know that most of the worlds amazing inventions where invented quite by accident? OF course you do...I am just making a point - follow me if you can... Do you really want to spend 90 percent of your life learning what someone else knew before you? If you are lucky - you may develop 10 percent more than the one before you. If you are at all smart - you will be capable of taking the information of MANY before you and look at from a distance...see the overall picture and discover something each of these individuals never saw. Imagine going even further than that - think the impossible!
Do you know what annoys me the MOST in this life with humans? People like me and others - we live our safe guaranteed lives, we do exactly as our parents did before us (or someone elses...you get the idea)
Install zsIRC, Type /server, You're chatting, How hard is that on a WiFi-enabled PDA?
For you and I? Duh...
But picture this: Laptop for KIDS... then picture this: 3rd world Kids!
Many of these havent even ever seen a laptop.
How does you wandering around with your DS have any bearing at all on how a totally different system with totally different software and totally different requirements works?
Yes, I realize that they have entirely different software, but as with ALL new things - its rarely so straightforward as that example. Heck...even with a WiFi enabled PDA its pretty difficult to get anywhere - let alone CHAT with someone - be it Jabber or anything else, you have to be in the right spot, all connections running perfectly and to get in properly. Its just painted so "rosy" that it seems more like a staged scenario rather than real life.
Believe me - I wish it success - but nothing like that happens the same day its released, give it a year or two - so many MANY people all over the world actually HAVE one - then we will talk.
Ok, that makes sense! Thanks for clearing that up
...Here kitty kitty
*Cat gets spoon fed Thorium, Americum and uranium*
MEEOW...POOF. Insta-Glow!
There ya go kiddo!
Reading the interview it kind of struck me how he managed to just "find" a chat function...and get connected wireless to the net...and now already have 3 chatting friends that he just "connected" with in the neighborhood, that doesnt make sense at all. Ive travelled around 10 cities over a YEAR with my Nintendo DS (that have a chatting function with WIFI built in) and never - ever - even seen ONE SINGLE CONNECTION win ANYONE in a chat room...so...if he...the child...with the OLPC laptop with its own unique chat-system that connects...to a nearby similar OLPC (hence how that system works)...how could he have all of a sudden be connecting to "3" of "them"?
It smells...not my pants...not this time! Sorry - aint buying it.
I love it!
This will bring the "Marty" out in all the potential future engineers out there, it may seem like a joke to many - but its dead serious! Weve had a decline in general science interest amongst kids these days - too much effort and too little actual "fun" - thats how they perceive science, but science is so much more - and anything WORTH doing costs patience and dedication.
The weird science classes will hopefully be a "springboard" for many students to "leap" into science and be fun enough to understand that they must invest time and dedication in order to receive actual results.
I have a "Weird Science" lab of my own - besides my work in a totally different area, that is because the most exciting areas of science is usually found in the unexpected results, things we didnt know before...stuff we stumble upon....as well as creativity.
Creativity is the single most important asset we have, math you can learn - anyone can learn - call it complex...call it advanced...call it animal names...doesnt matter what you call it, math is a constant - creativity is not - when both meet - wonderful tings can happen.
Or they go out and buy a laser and give the finger to printer manufacturers.
Yeah! Let's zap those evil printer manufacturers and zap them with laserbeams!
It was evident to me that Google censors according to "business wishes" when I started to make some fan-art in 3D of a well known character.
n sorship.php. which incredibly enough isnt censored yet, but what it says - is clear enough and it has examples for you to try
Funnily enough - just about every image I've made gets scooped up by Google and placed to become searchable for everyone - which is perfectly fine with me, but when I became slightly suspicious about Googles business censoring where when my fan-art images dissappeared quickly while everything else remained.
Unfortunately - it doesnt stop there!
I really wish it was only protective of its own copyrights, fair enough - but what *REALLY* scares me is when Google censors information at will - even information Id consider perfectly legal and ok for eg. my country, but it actually censors a lot of pages (and I do mean A LOT OF PAGES!) from my Country which is a Democratic country and one of Americas allies, so this is very surprising to me, but research indicates that it absolutely censors. It censors pages with interesting knowledge about computer algorithms, chemical knowledge, electronics-pages with schematics - anything that Google or its customers may find inappropriate some way or another.
If you dont quite believe it and think that I am over the top paranoid - check out http://sethf.com/anticensorware/general/google-ce
Google became too big and too powerful - such powers could surely not stay innocent forever, dissapointing - but history proves its knowledge about power corrupts - time and again!
And what is the conclusion after that? BJust because you won't be able to catch each and every offender does not mean you should not try to catch as many as possible.
Of course not, but that really goes without saying.
The point is that they're trying to shoot with a shotgun into a crowd with millions of people, sure - the stray bullets will hit some, but this kind of random law-"hope we catch'em all"-giving won't hit the people they're after, it will most likely just make the masses feel worse, make it harder on our freedom because it can be misused. It's really not thought trough very well, it's like banning the get-away car rather than the criminals themselves. Information is for learning , not to be banned. You wouldn't like it if they installed a video-camera in your car, bedroom and bathroom would you? It's this massive attempt at legalizing total surveillance of every citizen on earth that I am against (and most of you, I hope).
...can not reach the bits'n'bytes of the ever growing net.
Aka - you don't stand a chance in HELL to police the internet. Anyone who think so ought to get their brain examined.
Data is like fluids, you can't filter everything - it's bound to get in everywhere at some time. And the number of data you'd have to filter is increasing with such a speed that there's no chance that ANY law system would be able to hire enough personnel or create software to control it all.
Want a real life example? Take spam - you can't control that either, and we have laws on it already almost EVERYWHERE - but does it work? Didn't work 10 years ago, not 5 years ago - doesn't work today, won't work in the future. Fluids will get in everywhere anywhere anytime.
Best way to filter is utilizing the individuals using the computers, mind filtering --> the no 1. filter in this world. The very same filter can also be used to FIND the content you really want rather than looking trough heaps of endless useless information (spam).
Even if they DID control the net (or the way we access the net) they would be unable to do so - because information always finds a way just like fluid, another net - wireless or by wire...doesn't matter. You can't stop the flow of information now, way too late! And thank goodness for that.
A real paranoid black hatter wouldn't want to have his identity known or put himself under Microsoft's sights for a non-serious amount of money. You'd better believe that people that take this challenge will be closely watched from now on.
It would be cheaper just to hire them. Monitoring people cost a lot of people, you could expect it would take a team of 3-4 people just to keep tabs on one of them.
Want to see paranoid? Take a guess - who many of these secret hackers already work for microsoft do you think? Microsoft is big, there's bound to be a few.
They invite hackers to take their best shot?
Why not just PAY the hackers to do their best at breaking it?
...you'd be on their shitlist too.
Me? I'm a DIY electronics freak with a little too much gear and a motormouth to go.
If I'd be on that plane - they'd have a field day on me. Kind of makes me happy living where I do - phew!
Inspector: Hmmm...that's odd, the scanner says scapel
Me: How can it be so precise?
Inspector: Are you carrying a scapel?
Me: No - of course not
Inspector: We have to strip search you - you know...
Me: Okay...(follows them into the white polstered room)
Inspector: Now - strip!
Me: (Doing my strip routine)
Inspector: Man - you're ugly!
Me: What was that?
Inspector: Erhm...I said....man You're lucky! You have no scalpel on you!
Me: Oh, fine...can I go now?
Inspector: No...my RFID reader says that you are carrying a Scalpel on you!
Me: I had surgery last week....
Inspector: Oh, good ol'doc must have forgotten it inside your belly then, eh?
(Inspector reads me all over with his fancy pants RFID scanner)
Inspector: Yes - you do. It's Pyrex-Model 12678236, made in taiwan too. Those cheap bastards.
Me: Really? You can see the brand too?
Inspector: Yeah, these things are really advanced.
Me: Cool, now let me do you....
Inspector: Beg your pardon?
Me: No...I just want to read you....gimme the scanner...
Inspector: It's against policy, we're not allowed to hand over our RFID readers to the public.
Me: Who cares? Scan yourself.
(The Inspector scans himself)
Inspector: Thats funny, it says - "Born to serve - serial #12453123"
Me: Heh..that's you allright - born to serve!
Inspector: What the hell?
Me: They probably RFID tagged you.
*Edit* Stupid boring story ends here before we get way off....You get the idea.
...it's an antenna!
Quack quack quack....
...much closer!
Graphics cards are faster, stronger and more powerful than ever. Some years ago when Virtual Reality
where introduced - it lagged BIG time, it was however revolutionary - all the rage...and only
the worlds hottest shopping-malls got it back then, but it quickly died because the games where simple
and very boring except for the virtual reality immersion.
The technology for virtual reality just wasn't there yet, but behold...we're THERE NOW!
Just take a look at your own pc's gfx cards with their 1680 x 1050 resolution for your widescreen that
you can't see the pixels on more (from a meters distance) anyway... imagine two of these cards
and two seriously high-res mini OLED displays in your glasses and we're in business.
Virtual reality online gaming also needed the bandwith - and it's only recently we've
gotten this.
The technology is dirt cheap too! Mobile cell phones already come with high-res Oled displays
and you could create higher-res oled displays fit for "VR-Glasses" already...heck...they even
exist today in 800 x 600...even higher if I'm not entirely mistaken. And they're NOT expensive.
So get cracking! Take a chance - make the VR games right now!
...so the rest of us kids from the poorhouse can get it cheaper tomorrow ;)
...Religion is nature's very own birthcontrol.
...see how wrong they where?
...well..duh...Morse code. Of course, morse code....slow as it is - isn't practical for a world-wide-wireless network with todays demands for broadband and hight troughput, but the Radioamateurs are the ones that carry the solution for nearly every wireless innovation in the world. Who's the first to try out new untested stuff? Radio amateurs, who's the first to utilize it all before it becomes mainstream? Who's do YOU know that communicates today digitally via their own satellites? You may not know anyone - but they're radioamateurs and they're in this world - way ahead as usual - perhaps not old "grandpappy HAM-operator from-way-back" but the legacy he and so many others carried on - lives in us - the younger generation who grew up with bread-board electronics and became engineers, technicians...and yes.. radio amateurs - your average radio-shack hobbyist. You may not know it - even though radio-shack and the likes all over the planet are phasing out old-style electronics - we're still active and inventive.
...Vhf...medium bandwidth ...and UHF to microwave have Mega to Gigabit capability, now we're talking, right?
I'm a radio amateur, don't know what that is? Look up ARRL on Google and educate yourself.
The idea of making an international network predates the Internet, actually way back in time when Samuel Morse invented
Fancy - a little history and a waving finger, but where does that place us? Well - you brought it up to the public and you read it, participated in it - a suggestion to create our own world wide intranet. I say it's a GREAT idea, not new as you can read from this and history - but is it feasible? Well - turn to radioamateurs, call out NOW and get cracking! (and no - that's not cracking, it's a metaphor for get busy!)
Things as they are now:
A world wide wireless Ad-Hoc network. More and more mainboards plus laptops come with wireless adaptors built right in, as you may know already - these are radio transmitters & receivers. A little engineering and these can be modified to support such an idea, heck....you can even use it today without modifying anything but software.
In the radio-amateur world we have something called Packet-Radio. Packet radio can be hideously slow and it can also be really fast, it all depends on the same things YOU depend on...bandwith....and the actual band. A little radio theory for you all: The short wave bands are great for reaching long distances and a relatively reliable connection that can last for hours - worldwide! The shortwave bands shortcomings is that they're not carrying a lot of bandwidth for data usage so we need to be creative. For 20 years ago - no one would have guessed that you could transmit digital Hifi-Stereo radio streams via the shortwave band in a few kilohertz bandwith, but you can - look it up on Google - it's called DRM (no Not Digital Rights Management) But Digital Radio Mondale. This shows you how creative you can get being a radio amateur engineer - and we haven't reached the limits there yet. Now for the more interesting bands - VHF and UHF. These bands doesn't reach very far, but we have higher bandwidth capabilities and it could potentially sport speeds up to an average 56 K modem. 56 K is not very fast, but the good thing about radio is that you can be several users onto several servers using the same frequency but far away from each other...thus you could in fact share a 2 mbit "wireless" line just using packet radio alone because all users wont be onto that same 56K relay! And best of all - it's free, you need a radio-amateur license though.
Ok, 56 K not enough for you even if it's free? How about microwaves? yes - thats what you already use today with your existing wireless equipment - yes even as hight as 5 ghz. If you read my post so far, then you probably have guessed that the microwave distance will be even less...shortwave reaches far..but have low bandwidth
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