I'm studying electronics now and my professor was telling me about this. It is actually really interesting how it would work because slight changes in voltage across a diode lead to big current swings and since you current drive leds you just need a very low drive to do this.
As for security sure there has to be line of sight but then the person hacking you needs to be in the same room. just constrains the distance not really anything else.
I don't think that this is going to be a big step back. I think it is meant more for skins and interior panels. There is little substitute for good old Aluminum or Titanium in aircraft. This isn't meant to be a massive fix just fix dents or you know the normal wear and tear of being an aircraft. If the composite break or fracture can reseal itself it is less downtime, less cost and easier overall on the parties involved.
I think this wouldn't be used for airframes. Having little gaps of liquid would make the material a little weaker and probably not as effective as a frame.
How about on helicopter blades. Those things take a beating, having them self repair even to 80% would be a big plus. rather than lost the integrity of the blade.
There are some things already implemented similar to this. At least in concept. Many helicopters are getting new fuel tanks made of special plastics (I'm not really sure) that seal themselves when you shoot a bullet through them so there is little or no leakage. Also there are chromate conversion coatings that allow scratches but over time will repair to be almost like new.
There are some schools that tell them to cram it in their pie holes. All I know about my schools policy is that they take out full page ads and tell people not to do it and that they will pass letters on.
Saying that. I know of no one who has ever had a problem with it on campus. I've never had a problem even downloading probably close to 100 gigs some months. (And yes it was all porn)
Well it doesn't matter, my school, a big school in the Northeast all the jacks are mapped to a student. Or that is how I figure it happens at the beginning of the year you have to go in an log in with your user id and password to activate the internet, beyond that I don't know how much they do in terms of keeping data but if they get a subpoena it is rather simple ohh on that address, it is this student in this dorm and they are responsible. On a side note my schools IT department took out big ads in our paper saying yeah we aren't going to defend you if we get sued so don't do it, it is against your student code of conduct but we really don't enforce that on our network.
I don't know at where I work tons of engineers leave their computers online overnight you could do backups over night or transfers or whatever. Or you can do something similar to Seti@ Home, run when computers are idle or not utilizing any processing power.
I think the big hurdle is partitioning off a part of each hard drive so that the user can't access it, so what they don't know about they can't be angry about losing.
The thing I see as a problem if you use it as a virtual drive or backup or something, security. Servers are nice because they are locked up and monitored and generally protected more than user workstations. Where I work the workstations aren't locked up or anything, I would be very wary of allowing secure company documents to be stored on something that is amorphous by its nature. I work in the aerospace industry and I know that heads would roll if some of the documents we generated were leaked because lots of the stuff on servers is classified, proprietary or IP.
I think that the Data center will eventually go the way of the dodo, or at least these massive data centers. We have all heard of Google's, and I think it is Sun who are trying to create, or have created portable data centers. How long is it before there is one in every town. Just like Starbucks or McDonald's. They are going to be able to serve up anything, tv, applications super quick because the latency is so slow.
Also they aren't economical, they require tons of energy, cooling, personnel. One of these portable data centers probably will need one guy to check on it, maybe not even that, through remote diagnostics and redundancy built into the system, they might be able to afford to just have a couple guys service hundreds of them.
I won't need to clog the pipes to search for something or read my email because it is in Washington, rather it is just going to be a short hop or two away from me. Increasing speed, decreasing overall bandwidth use and being good for the consumer.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/18/suns-project-bl ackbox-datacenter-in-a-container/
There is a code glitch to the best of my knowledge. I got mod points a couple days ago and I used three of them before they were due to expire, and it it four days after the fact and I still have the ones that I haven't used.
I don't know about others of the Slashdot crowd but most of the time I see absolutely no need for movie extras really. I want to watch a movie, sometimes its fun to see extra scenes but really some of them were cut for a reason. I mean how much of the price of a dvd or one of these HD dvds is going to be paying someone to program these interactive features.
I personally have expirience zero starting several months after but then it pick up a little bit maybe one a month that would be in the middle of the day on a weekend nothing crazy. My friend would recieve telemarketers almost on a daily basis, so one day I signed her up. Several weeks later it was down significantly. It works, it works well enough. Add a caller id and maybe something that makes sounds that make it sound like you are interested and you should recieve none. Or at least get a good laugh out of them.
I would love this, but you would need experts, men who know about engineering, software and such, people you allow to vote to do this through a portal like a wiki. That way they don't even need to be in the same room. Hell you could have one man create a list of people who would get one time logins to be able to go on an edit the wiki or something like that. I dont necessarily the public should be allowed but hell make it open, forty percent of americans go out to decide the next president, what are the chances more than those who are interested will go especially if you make some sort of sign up. That probably will discourage all the but the hardcore troublemakers.
I don't really see how this can be made to exploit code. Its a search for binary within a file. Within a file being the important phrase. I mean it could be code to hijack your computer but it won't run unless you download it. And I doubt mom and pop are using google search inside binary files ever. Hell I never heard of it before today. Those that use it probably are a bit OCD about protecting their computers.
Well if you put enough stuff on the internets the tubes will get clogged and you won't get your internets till today (Which was sent out three days ago of course.)
This is darwinism. If we stop putting out patches and programs to kill adware/spyware only the strong will survive. Granted reformatting your computer isn't that difficult still it takes them off the internet. People with common sense will realize that I shouldn't download something that just pops up. Somebody should write a pamphlet about it and distribute it with new computers. Honestly you have to be a fool to not use google video for your myspace videos. They have the best servers and maybe not the greatest variety but it is a name you can trust. I will admit I have a myspace profile, but I don't put crap in it. I use it to make plans on occasion and meet up with people I have lost touch with. Myspace needs to stop allowing the video codes, or only allow it from certain servers. That would be the quickest solution. Back to darwinism download spyware once, shame on you, download spyware twice shame on me. Thats what I think about that. Its actually pretty clever. Myspace videos are pretty insiduous, so its cheap advertising. Quite a good plan.
People raise good questions, how will they make sure it is the person who really is driving. What kind of tolerance does this have?
Now for my opinion, I am in high school, probably the age group this is intended to protect. First of all what is the point in installing a 600 dollar sensor in a 300 dollar car. Also there are probably hundreds of thousands if not millions high schoolers who can drive. Most of them are safe drivers, who don't drink and driver but it is that small number who give the rest a bad name. I will admit there is drinking in high school, probably more than most studies suggest, but it is not necessarily the parents fault.
I have seen some of the smartest people, most atheletic, and having the greatest potential get messed up. Partially it is the culture but it also is the life, having a tough life never seeing the affects of alcohol, like some have.
I don't find this as a surprise at all. This was doomed to fail because they didn't really have the full backing of a major company. At least someone is trying to cover the technology gap but it will take more time with lower prices in the semi conductor industry.
But if it is for rural villages how do they expect to power these units. And what about dust and computer illiteracy, those things would be bigger obstacle than cost in general.
Well this is a step in the right direction at least make them pay something. Drown them in court costs even if you lose because unlike Microsoft their bankroll is not so massive.
The next step is improving their software and improving the security on their platform. Just keeping regular security updates is good. Hopefully they will continue with their Anti-Spyware tool which isn't bad.
I panicked for a full second before I realized that it was April fools day. Props to the moderators for picking such a bad jokes. Is there going to be any real news today?
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I'm studying electronics now and my professor was telling me about this. It is actually really interesting how it would work because slight changes in voltage across a diode lead to big current swings and since you current drive leds you just need a very low drive to do this. As for security sure there has to be line of sight but then the person hacking you needs to be in the same room. just constrains the distance not really anything else.
I don't think that this is going to be a big step back. I think it is meant more for skins and interior panels. There is little substitute for good old Aluminum or Titanium in aircraft. This isn't meant to be a massive fix just fix dents or you know the normal wear and tear of being an aircraft. If the composite break or fracture can reseal itself it is less downtime, less cost and easier overall on the parties involved. I think this wouldn't be used for airframes. Having little gaps of liquid would make the material a little weaker and probably not as effective as a frame. How about on helicopter blades. Those things take a beating, having them self repair even to 80% would be a big plus. rather than lost the integrity of the blade.
There are some things already implemented similar to this. At least in concept. Many helicopters are getting new fuel tanks made of special plastics (I'm not really sure) that seal themselves when you shoot a bullet through them so there is little or no leakage. Also there are chromate conversion coatings that allow scratches but over time will repair to be almost like new.
You're the only one who is going to RTFA. reading the (choice of for letter f words) article
How do you get 79,000 microsoft employees into a bowl. A blendtec 3000 How do you get them out? Nachos.
There are some schools that tell them to cram it in their pie holes. All I know about my schools policy is that they take out full page ads and tell people not to do it and that they will pass letters on.
Saying that. I know of no one who has ever had a problem with it on campus. I've never had a problem even downloading probably close to 100 gigs some months. (And yes it was all porn)
Well it doesn't matter, my school, a big school in the Northeast all the jacks are mapped to a student. Or that is how I figure it happens at the beginning of the year you have to go in an log in with your user id and password to activate the internet, beyond that I don't know how much they do in terms of keeping data but if they get a subpoena it is rather simple ohh on that address, it is this student in this dorm and they are responsible. On a side note my schools IT department took out big ads in our paper saying yeah we aren't going to defend you if we get sued so don't do it, it is against your student code of conduct but we really don't enforce that on our network.
I don't know at where I work tons of engineers leave their computers online overnight you could do backups over night or transfers or whatever. Or you can do something similar to Seti@ Home, run when computers are idle or not utilizing any processing power. I think the big hurdle is partitioning off a part of each hard drive so that the user can't access it, so what they don't know about they can't be angry about losing. The thing I see as a problem if you use it as a virtual drive or backup or something, security. Servers are nice because they are locked up and monitored and generally protected more than user workstations. Where I work the workstations aren't locked up or anything, I would be very wary of allowing secure company documents to be stored on something that is amorphous by its nature. I work in the aerospace industry and I know that heads would roll if some of the documents we generated were leaked because lots of the stuff on servers is classified, proprietary or IP.
I think that the Data center will eventually go the way of the dodo, or at least these massive data centers. We have all heard of Google's, and I think it is Sun who are trying to create, or have created portable data centers. How long is it before there is one in every town. Just like Starbucks or McDonald's. They are going to be able to serve up anything, tv, applications super quick because the latency is so slow. Also they aren't economical, they require tons of energy, cooling, personnel. One of these portable data centers probably will need one guy to check on it, maybe not even that, through remote diagnostics and redundancy built into the system, they might be able to afford to just have a couple guys service hundreds of them. I won't need to clog the pipes to search for something or read my email because it is in Washington, rather it is just going to be a short hop or two away from me. Increasing speed, decreasing overall bandwidth use and being good for the consumer. http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/18/suns-project-bl ackbox-datacenter-in-a-container/
There is a code glitch to the best of my knowledge. I got mod points a couple days ago and I used three of them before they were due to expire, and it it four days after the fact and I still have the ones that I haven't used.
I don't know about others of the Slashdot crowd but most of the time I see absolutely no need for movie extras really. I want to watch a movie, sometimes its fun to see extra scenes but really some of them were cut for a reason. I mean how much of the price of a dvd or one of these HD dvds is going to be paying someone to program these interactive features.
I personally have expirience zero starting several months after but then it pick up a little bit maybe one a month that would be in the middle of the day on a weekend nothing crazy. My friend would recieve telemarketers almost on a daily basis, so one day I signed her up. Several weeks later it was down significantly. It works, it works well enough. Add a caller id and maybe something that makes sounds that make it sound like you are interested and you should recieve none. Or at least get a good laugh out of them.
I would love this, but you would need experts, men who know about engineering, software and such, people you allow to vote to do this through a portal like a wiki. That way they don't even need to be in the same room. Hell you could have one man create a list of people who would get one time logins to be able to go on an edit the wiki or something like that. I dont necessarily the public should be allowed but hell make it open, forty percent of americans go out to decide the next president, what are the chances more than those who are interested will go especially if you make some sort of sign up. That probably will discourage all the but the hardcore troublemakers.
I don't really see how this can be made to exploit code. Its a search for binary within a file. Within a file being the important phrase. I mean it could be code to hijack your computer but it won't run unless you download it. And I doubt mom and pop are using google search inside binary files ever. Hell I never heard of it before today. Those that use it probably are a bit OCD about protecting their computers.
Well if you put enough stuff on the internets the tubes will get clogged and you won't get your internets till today (Which was sent out three days ago of course.)
Nah uhh. In 37 hours a dupe is going to be posted.
This is darwinism. If we stop putting out patches and programs to kill adware/spyware only the strong will survive. Granted reformatting your computer isn't that difficult still it takes them off the internet. People with common sense will realize that I shouldn't download something that just pops up. Somebody should write a pamphlet about it and distribute it with new computers. Honestly you have to be a fool to not use google video for your myspace videos. They have the best servers and maybe not the greatest variety but it is a name you can trust. I will admit I have a myspace profile, but I don't put crap in it. I use it to make plans on occasion and meet up with people I have lost touch with. Myspace needs to stop allowing the video codes, or only allow it from certain servers. That would be the quickest solution. Back to darwinism download spyware once, shame on you, download spyware twice shame on me. Thats what I think about that. Its actually pretty clever. Myspace videos are pretty insiduous, so its cheap advertising. Quite a good plan.
Now for my opinion, I am in high school, probably the age group this is intended to protect. First of all what is the point in installing a 600 dollar sensor in a 300 dollar car. Also there are probably hundreds of thousands if not millions high schoolers who can drive. Most of them are safe drivers, who don't drink and driver but it is that small number who give the rest a bad name. I will admit there is drinking in high school, probably more than most studies suggest, but it is not necessarily the parents fault.
I have seen some of the smartest people, most atheletic, and having the greatest potential get messed up. Partially it is the culture but it also is the life, having a tough life never seeing the affects of alcohol, like some have.
More like 10% wit
You get what you pay for. If you pay nothing for support you get crap support, if you shell out a couple of dollars you will get better support.
But if it is for rural villages how do they expect to power these units. And what about dust and computer illiteracy, those things would be bigger obstacle than cost in general.
Move on people nothing funny here.
The next step is improving their software and improving the security on their platform. Just keeping regular security updates is good. Hopefully they will continue with their Anti-Spyware tool which isn't bad.
Well lets just hope they don't confuse meters and feet. We know what happens when NASA does that.
I am having the same problems too. This is somewhat interesting but the real question is how much is he paying to have the ship named in a book.
I panicked for a full second before I realized that it was April fools day. Props to the moderators for picking such a bad jokes. Is there going to be any real news today?