Congratulations on your sting. Now of course when ever the subject of intellectual property comes up people will be able to point to the NAPSTER incident. One more piece of evidence to prove web users are nothing but a bunch of pirates and bootleggers that need external controls. I am wondering why you allowed such a large number of users to get caught in your net? Did you put up a high profile decoy site that you knew napster would find? Isn't this really just a good PR move to push protection of intellectual property?
Voice recognition is a relatively wide bandwidth source of control if you can speak. In the case of an individual that cannot speak but has good control of their eyes cornea tracking is a solution. You stare at a letter or command for a few milliseconds to toggle it then move your gaze to the next letter. This is faster than sticks but still gets tiring after awhile. I was wondering about an accurate GPS device for the blind. It would make finding bus stops a lot easier, as well as checking the progress you are making towards your destination etc. Now that the accuracy has increased for GPS maybe somebody will build one that is more usefull.
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I imagine they will start out testing some of the better known defensive openings. Even if they don't find a perfect game, we might get some hard number weightings for the strength of a few openings.
I know this is offtopic but hardware identifiers are old news here on slashdot. What I want to know is can I trust that my grits will be stirred adequately with the intel random number generator chip?
At such a short wavelength you could include plenty of reference pulses to keep the signal corrected. I wonder what the maximum loss of bandwidth is due to fog in percentage terms?
Anybody get Linux VR to work on a flash card? It would be a neat hack to have a flash build that you could just pop into your CE device and boot VR from a penguin icon. I use Dos this way and can share text files between dos and CE. Linux would scream on these faster CPU's
And the new casio's come with a rechargeable lithium battery pack that will run for 76 hours between recharges. Quite an improvement over earlier versions. Now if we could get a linux sync. Hmm there are hardware emulators that will create a serial UART under win CE.
The faster processor in the CE devices is great for mobile MP3, encryption etc. The battery problem can be overcome by using Lithium photo batteries. High current drain doesn't increase the resistance in these batteries so they don't heat up and crap out. In a CE device they last up to 4 times longer than regular batteries.
Given the current state of cryptography what Author in their right mind would want an easy to pirate text version of their works distributed freely over the internet. Let's start working on realistic solutions to the technical issues instead of all saying gee the spin is Luddite.
The political motives are obvious. Less than 30% of the population currently has easy access to books online. In the decades to come the politics will shift as society does.
I remember reading some time ago about area 51 putting out rubber inflatable decoy planes. Apparantly these planes were so realistic that they could be deployed to draw enemy fire to non strategic locations. I don't think they use them anymore since I would imagine that with contemporary satellite technology you would be able to tell the difference between a real plane and an inflatable.
In concept I don't see why this wouldn't work. The math required is a little tricky though. I did a napkin calculation using a Pentium II and RDTSC instructions as proof of concept. Needless to say you would need a much faster prpcessor
Anybody got any good links to disk valve applications for transportation vehicles? When I was a kid tearing apart small engines I noticed that four cycle engines with heavy valve trains were less efficient for small motors. I thought it would be great to have a 50 CC scooter with electronic disc valve timing so that you could get a smooth idle. Most small engines operate over such a large range of RPM 0 - 12000 + that fixed timing just doesn't cut it.
The reasons for IPv6 are speed, simplicity, and security. I'm guessing this could be used in a large closed loop type system let's use your example, a system that monitors appliances variables from a remote site outside your home. If the monitoring site doesn't have to deal with port addressing it is that much faster. When you are dealing with a large customer base and monitoring a lot of signals it makes a difference. Now whether or not my refrigerator needs that much bandwidth that is another story.
Good point, for nostalgia sake maybe we should modify the ELIZA source code with better pickup lines. Then when we are out on dates and our prospective female is not responding it will be an easy bug track to find where the program messed up.
Home of Minnesota Fats obviously. The man was a legend. He could sizeup and run a pool table faster than any person on earth. He would just walk around the table and the balls would start dropping..
It still would be fun to see something like Freenet getting a partition of satellite bandwidth for access to remote areas in foreign countries. The primary costs and administration would be handled by the principals naturally, but remote links and servers would be volunteer the same as the rest of freenet.
Last time I checked most of freenet was running at 2400 baud so you wouldn't be putting much of an extra load on anybodys constellation. Glad to see the new link to the amateur site.
Good point, it used to be that commercial equipment borrowed from old military design elements. There was always a healthy lag before any products that could possibly effect military performance were released to the public access.
Now with military spending programs looking for ways to cut back on costs by using "commercial where available" products there is a probability that damaging information could be gleaned from corporate databases.
As you pointed out nobody bothered to export the ASCII. I built some reading systems for blind friends several years ago that used scanners and OCR equipment to read standard books. Theoretically if these people had saved the generated ascii files when ever they read a book, they would have quite a pirate collection by now. The ADA gives people some protection concerning equal access.
Since computer hardware has gotten much faster it would be possible to build a special reader that takes an Ebook page bitmap and does the OCR directly without saving an ASCII copy to disk. Although word scanning could not be quickly done with bit maps, you could implement advanced indexing features that would allow better access then paper. Bitmaps are easier to encrypt then ASCII and don't just get pasted into Email casually (how many AOLers know how to attach a binary to an email? If you further obfuscate the encryption method by making it machine specific you could easily make it not worth the bother for the average websurfer to try and follow the instructions. Unless there is a simple one button crack your average web surfer is not going to bother. Look at what happened with PGP ROFL!
Sure any encryption that would be practical to use could be broken, but if it is too difficult for 90% of the people to bother that is considered acceptable loss. The same holds true for DeCSS the actual number of people who would be able to use DeCSS is under 1 percent.
I like interactive branched role playing games, but as has been better expressed in other posts they require a different totally kind of writing then a does good tightly knit novel.
Lets say publishing continues without any major paradigm shift for now. Publishers continue in their spotlighting role, but gain important interactive feedback from their buyers. Printing and binding is supplemented/replaced with the distribution of copy protected electronic media. The cost savings could be split between publisher and purchaser.
The real problem is that there is a general perceived risk for the arts, losses due to pirating, initial cost for new equipment, resistance to change etc. It really just boils down to taking some of the risk out of online distribution, making it profitable and we will be on our way.
This was a profitable stunt for King surely He will reap hundreds of thousands for the teaser. Question is we really can't expect artists to work for free full time can we? Breaking encryption so that we *nix users have equal access is one thing, but expecting to just download everything for free is another.
Clearly any encryption system that allows export to text isn't going to be accepted by the writing community. Most authors stick by their guns with the "no unauthorized electronic reproduction whatsoever" clause. Possibly using something like the Intel approach of encrypting all the way to the screen would be more palettable?
As long as it is easy to distinguish the "authentic owned version" from an ASCII pirated version some of the writers might try distributing more works online. The difficulty of pirating then becomes similar to OCR scanning of a paper copy and distributing the pirate version electronically. I think the writers guilds have recognized that the internet is not going away, and will become more of a threat/friend in the future when the other 80% of us get online..
"Ride the Bullet" is a ham bone King has tossed over the wall. They are listening as we snarl and bark.
Single Electron Tunneling Transistors use photons to trigger the switch. You can't find much research information about them doing a web search, but they appear to be a possible nextgen transistor.
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Congratulations on your sting. Now of course when ever the subject of intellectual property comes up people will be able to point to the NAPSTER incident. One more piece of evidence to prove web users are nothing but a bunch of pirates and bootleggers that need external controls. I am wondering why you allowed such a large number of users to get caught in your net? Did you put up a high profile decoy site that you knew napster would find? Isn't this really just a good PR move to push protection of intellectual property?
Voice recognition is a relatively wide bandwidth source of control if you can speak. In the case of an individual that cannot speak but has good control of their eyes cornea tracking is a solution. You stare at a letter or command for a few milliseconds to toggle it then move your gaze to the next letter. This is faster than sticks but still gets tiring after awhile. I was wondering about an accurate GPS device for the blind. It would make finding bus stops a lot easier, as well as checking the progress you are making towards your destination etc. Now that the accuracy has increased for GPS maybe somebody will build one that is more usefull.
I imagine they will start out testing some of the better known defensive openings. Even if they don't find a perfect game, we might get some hard number weightings for the strength of a few openings.
I know this is offtopic but hardware identifiers are old news here on slashdot. What I want to know is can I trust that my grits will be stirred adequately with the intel random number generator chip?
At such a short wavelength you could include plenty of reference pulses to keep the signal corrected. I wonder what the maximum loss of bandwidth is due to fog in percentage terms?
Anybody get Linux VR to work on a flash card? It would be a neat hack to have a flash build that you could just pop into your CE device and boot VR from a penguin icon. I use Dos this way and can share text files between dos and CE. Linux would scream on these faster CPU's
And the new casio's come with a rechargeable lithium battery pack that will run for 76 hours between recharges. Quite an improvement over earlier versions. Now if we could get a linux sync. Hmm there are hardware emulators that will create a serial UART under win CE.
The faster processor in the CE devices is great for mobile MP3, encryption etc. The battery problem can be overcome by using Lithium photo batteries. High current drain doesn't increase the resistance in these batteries so they don't heat up and crap out. In a CE device they last up to 4 times longer than regular batteries.
And I thought putting "Catcher in the Rye" on my library card was risky.
Given the current state of cryptography what Author in their right mind would want an easy to pirate text version of their works distributed freely over the internet. Let's start working on realistic solutions to the technical issues instead of all saying gee the spin is Luddite.
The political motives are obvious. Less than 30% of the population currently has easy access to books online. In the decades to come the politics will shift as society does.
I remember reading some time ago about area 51 putting out rubber inflatable decoy planes. Apparantly these planes were so realistic that they could be deployed to draw enemy fire to non strategic locations. I don't think they use them anymore since I would imagine that with contemporary satellite technology you would be able to tell the difference between a real plane and an inflatable.
In concept I don't see why this wouldn't work. The math required is a little tricky though. I did a napkin calculation using a Pentium II and RDTSC instructions as proof of concept. Needless to say you would need a much faster prpcessor
Anybody got any good links to disk valve applications for transportation vehicles? When I was a kid tearing apart small engines I noticed that four cycle engines with heavy valve trains were less efficient for small motors. I thought it would be great to have a 50 CC scooter with electronic disc valve timing so that you could get a smooth idle. Most small engines operate over such a large range of RPM 0 - 12000 + that fixed timing just doesn't cut it.
I thought I saw a reference to interupt 10,5 in there somewhere was this for the keyboard?
The reasons for IPv6 are speed, simplicity, and security. I'm guessing this could be used in a large closed loop type system let's use your example, a system that monitors appliances variables from a remote site outside your home. If the monitoring site doesn't have to deal with port addressing it is that much faster. When you are dealing with a large customer base and monitoring a lot of signals it makes a difference. Now whether or not my refrigerator needs that much bandwidth that is another story.
Good point, for nostalgia sake maybe we should modify the ELIZA source code with better pickup lines. Then when we are out on dates and our prospective female is not responding it will be an easy bug track to find where the program messed up.
RSA is easy to use but it just seems to take forever on a slow CPU. The Feds must HATE that.
Home of Minnesota Fats obviously. The man was a legend. He could sizeup and run a pool table faster than any person on earth. He would just walk around the table and the balls would start dropping..
It still would be fun to see something like Freenet getting a partition of satellite bandwidth for access to remote areas in foreign countries. The primary costs and administration would be handled by the principals naturally, but remote links and servers would be volunteer the same as the rest of freenet.
Last time I checked most of freenet was running at 2400 baud so you wouldn't be putting much of an extra load on anybodys constellation. Glad to see the new link to the amateur site.
Good point, it used to be that commercial equipment borrowed from old military design elements. There was always a healthy lag before any products that could possibly effect military performance were released to the public access.
Now with military spending programs looking for ways to cut back on costs by using "commercial where available" products there is a probability that damaging information could be gleaned from corporate databases.
As you pointed out nobody bothered to export the ASCII. I built some reading systems for blind friends several years ago that used scanners and OCR equipment to read standard books. Theoretically if these people had saved the generated ascii files when ever they read a book, they would have quite a pirate collection by now. The ADA gives people some protection concerning equal access.
Since computer hardware has gotten much faster it would be possible to build a special reader that takes an Ebook page bitmap and does the OCR directly without saving an ASCII copy to disk. Although word scanning could not be quickly done with bit maps, you could implement advanced indexing features that would allow better access then paper. Bitmaps are easier to encrypt then ASCII and don't just get pasted into Email casually (how many AOLers know how to attach a binary to an email? If you further obfuscate the encryption method by making it machine specific you could easily make it not worth the bother for the average websurfer to try and follow the instructions. Unless there is a simple one button crack your average web surfer is not going to bother. Look at what happened with PGP ROFL!
Sure any encryption that would be practical to use could be broken, but if it is too difficult for 90% of the people to bother that is considered acceptable loss. The same holds true for DeCSS the actual number of people who would be able to use DeCSS is under 1 percent.
I like interactive branched role playing games, but as has been better expressed in other posts they require a different totally kind of writing then a does good tightly knit novel.
Lets say publishing continues without any major paradigm shift for now. Publishers continue in their spotlighting role, but gain important interactive feedback from their buyers. Printing and binding is supplemented/replaced with the distribution of copy protected electronic media. The cost savings could be split between publisher and purchaser.
The real problem is that there is a general perceived risk for the arts, losses due to pirating, initial cost for new equipment, resistance to change etc. It really just boils down to taking some of the risk out of online distribution, making it profitable and we will be on our way.
This was a profitable stunt for King surely He will reap hundreds of thousands for the teaser. Question is we really can't expect artists to work for free full time can we? Breaking encryption so that we *nix users have equal access is one thing, but expecting to just download everything for free is another.
Clearly any encryption system that allows export to text isn't going to be accepted by the writing community. Most authors stick by their guns with the "no unauthorized electronic reproduction whatsoever" clause. Possibly using something like the Intel approach of encrypting all the way to the screen would be more palettable?
As long as it is easy to distinguish the "authentic owned version" from an ASCII pirated version some of the writers might try distributing more works online. The difficulty of pirating then becomes similar to OCR scanning of a paper copy and distributing the pirate version electronically. I think the writers guilds have recognized that the internet is not going away, and will become more of a threat/friend in the future when the other 80% of us get online..
"Ride the Bullet" is a ham bone King has tossed over the wall. They are listening as we snarl and bark.
Single Electron Tunneling Transistors use photons to trigger the switch. You can't find much research information about them doing a web search, but they appear to be a possible nextgen transistor.