A transister is basicly just a type of switch. We had tube transisters in the 1920's then discreet component transisters 1942, and finally transisters on a silicon chip. Each new generation of transister offered tremendous improvements over the prior. Now we are beginning to hear about the possibility of creating optical transisters.
For those of you who don't read Star Trek news that means photon based computing! Keep up the good reporting this really is stuff that matters.
Only about 30% of the population use computers to get their media content. Often times I find myself getting out of synch with the local TV and newspaper perspectives. It can be very confusing at times to sift through all the different angles on a given subject that are available on the internet (I believe the result is termed "net head"). Local network news though often a little parochial is comfortably a little more consistant.
There is no better way to have your children surfing good links then finding and supplying what you consider to be good links yourself. Porn gets boring very quickly, when you take away the thrill of the forbidden. Eventually all kids are going to get unfiltered access to the internet they might as well learn early where the good links are for them.
The web forces us to make decisions about who's spin is valid something kids didn't have to deal with in the days of the one way media monolith. Perhaps it will force us to be better and more involved parents.
There are still a lot of middle aged programmers out there stuck in the habit of procedural programming. After twenty years of writing cobol one is tempted to declare all their C++ variables external and write procedurally;). I am sure there are ways to make the rather large paradigm shift easier, what is the best technique?
AA Lithium batteries will probably work with these chips. They can handle 1 watt burst loads without heating up and browning out. I am assuming these chips were developed for AA battery powered devices, it is too big a market to ignore. I Wonder if the price of lithium batteries will come down?
Well this legislation has been way overdue. It is so easy to write a strong if not unbreakable expensive key encryption system that trying to restrict source code is silly. What I am wondering is if nonprogramming folks will be allowed to hire programmers to install encryption products that go beyond the key strengths allowed for commercial licensing? If so this would be a big boost for open source programmers, but perhaps a problem for law enforcement.
At least maybe we can get rid of the weaker implementations. If this media attention causes the online merchants to start looking for more secure systems, maybe we can get some better standards.
Since the Mom and Pop online merchants are archiving credit card information for customer convenience we need to get them encrypted quickly before they hit the hard drive.
Personally I would not mind entering my credit card information fresh each time I made a transaction if I thought that would reduce the risk of it getting it stolen. I said reduce since unless the server is using a devoted crypto card you could still lose your credit card numbers real time.
It is too bad that commercial encryption doesn't use the "self destructing if tampered with" key archive approach that is used with the unbreakable category 4 encryption systems. I suppose we could improve the existing systems by immediately rewriting memory that was used for password entry and intermediate decryption results. Oh well, guess I'm going to have to study that chapter on pointers again.
503010 loggin attempts that would take about 6 days assuming they worked ass backwords at one attempt per second. I wonder what kind of password gen they used?
The same chording techniques are used for underwater diving input devices. Radio waves get grounded out under salt water so they tend to use a wired connection. There was a company in Australia that made some really neat portable PC devices a while back that used a chord style input. I forget the name.
ICravetv is just rebroadcasting the signal with the advertising intact. You reach more viewers sell more products what's the problem?
I agree there is some content such as pro sports where the local stadium would be competing with an internet broadcast. These rare conflicts are easy enough to overcome by excluding the content from the internet. Also advertisers often tailer content to local tastes so they may feel that "their dog" is getting the wrong message. Since this is broadcasting on a one-way street (network TV is not interactive like slashdot) it is really just helping to expand the viewing area.
These are real issues but over time a lot of them will be worked out. It might even be better if we had more global oriented advertising..
Guess that just proves that people in general are lazy and don't want to be bothered with the details of key handling and doing a little hacking on their own to get an application to run.
Since the average Linux user has a little more technical skill than those from the windows community, this application is a lot more likely to find a home.
This application could hurt the long distance carriers if too many people jumped on the bandwagon, so don't expect to see the media hyping free secure long distance with Linux anytime soon!
Mark this comment up, this is the easiest solution to the problem.
Some information gathering servers compare client domain to ensure you are who you say you are though.
I always use nospam@whateverdomainimloggedonto.com and specify a juno or hotmail account if I actually want to correspond. My windows registration is X.
Used to be a couple of years ago after logging onto AOL blind customers could alt tab the spam launcher and bring up webspeak or a browser of their choice. Most blind folks chose a text homepage as their default.
My main gripe with AOL (other than the spam launcher) was that they didn't support third party mailers like pegasus or eudora. I am guessing it would be difficult for a blind person to run the spam gauntlet to get to their Email.
Seems to me that in the spirit of reasonable accomodation AOL could make some minor changes and maybe provide a copy of Webspeak and a text mail interface for blind folks.
Adding Alt. tags would help, but since AOL is over 60% graphics I bet most blind folks would be happy if they could just get to their Email and put on their socks for newsgroups,ftp and the other text based web content.
I was trying to get an old 486 IBM PS1 online yesterday without much luck.
The user is blind, and all her adaptive equipment works with DOS and WIN 3.1. Since it would cost thousands to get her adaptive equipment for a win 98 machine, it looks like I only have win3.1 to work with or possibly Linux with wine.
She has an old zoom modem running at 14.4 or 33.6 and Trumpet winsock version 3.0. (her talking browser requires a winsock). Since she has 8 meg of ram memory shouldn't be a problem.
She has no problem dialing up her shell account and getting her Email.
The trumpet winsock has no problem connecting to the ip, but as soon as she trys to bring up her browser the service provider claims her ping counts go out of sight and the browser reports that the network is down. I tried using an old version 3 netscape browser with the same result.
This setup used to work fine a few years ago, do the service providers have hardware that is less tolerant of old socks or what?
Titanium sounds so rugged, sort of like those military computer cases. Are they rolling out rugged looking titanium military style cases to complement these? This would go along with the Eveready bunny commercials where the bunny is in a tank.
This is superluminal in a classical physics calculation. It would have to be a real small area the electrons and/or photons are interacting in since the speed of light is a limiting facter. If this isn't disinf then physics just changed for me.
The problem with Radio Wave technology is that it is even longer wavelength than Infrared in the electromagnetic spectrum. Order of wavelength from longest to shortest is.
Radio Waves Microwaves Infra Red The Visible Spectrum Ultra Violet X-Rays Gamma Rays
The Longer the wavelength the less directional the signal is. If you are using a point source radio station the signal propogates (and pollutes) that bandwidth 360 degrees in every direction. The signal sort of expands like the surface area of a balloon. This is why radio signals weaken quite rapidly with the square of the distance from the source.
I agree infrared isn't much better. Once you start using multiple sources and receivers in the same room the long wavelengths start interfering with each other rapidly. Still you can focus infrared into a crude wide angle beam usefull for some applications.
Lasers and Optical fiber are almost ideal carriers since the signal loss over distance is much less. Laser beam signals weaken by the square of the distance as well but, Since a laser beam can be initially focused into a narrow angle beam, the signal maintains strength over a much greater distance.
It would be a really cool 3D gaming interface for sure. I heard a while back that the military held the patents on this technology, don't know when the patents expire. When this stuff is commercially available 3D gaming will be VR suit optional.
Could be one hellatious gamer machine! This article made heavy use of the term prior art processor and "modern computer". Last time I checked modern computers ran under a thin layer of hydrogen? (one example from ABC news) Since the speed difference between a modern cryogenic computer and "prior art" computers is substantial it becomes easier to visualize needing to cache and distribute "prior art" computer instructions in this manner.
This sounds a lot like database management with all the transaction rollback features and whatnot.
The fact that they are passing processor instructions tells me that this is some kind of distributed processing load management tool.
I used to hear about wasted CPU cycles and how nice it would be if CPU load could be shared amongst many inexpensive distributed processors back in the 80's.
Since the 90's though the CPU hasn't been the bottleneck for any application I've ever heard of. Speculation what apps need mega CPU cycles?
Should be easy enough to morph your lip movements into a (video presentation of your choice).
Make videos of yourself in different settings, suit and tie, boardroom in the background etc, be easy to do especially at this resolution. mmmmm (just don't mix up the themes)
Slashdot Mirror
A transister is basicly just a type of switch. We had tube transisters in the 1920's then discreet component transisters 1942, and finally transisters on a silicon chip. Each new generation of transister offered tremendous improvements over the prior. Now we are beginning to hear about the possibility of creating optical transisters.
For those of you who don't read Star Trek news that means photon based computing! Keep up the good reporting this really is stuff that matters.
Only about 30% of the population use computers to get their media content. Often times I find myself getting out of synch with the local TV and newspaper perspectives. It can be very confusing at times to sift through all the different angles on a given subject that are available on the internet (I believe the result is termed "net head"). Local network news though often a little parochial is comfortably a little more consistant.
There is no better way to have your children surfing good links then finding and supplying what you consider to be good links yourself. Porn gets boring very quickly, when you take away the thrill of the forbidden. Eventually all kids are going to get unfiltered access to the internet they might as well learn early where the good links are for them.
The web forces us to make decisions about who's spin is valid something kids didn't have to deal with in the days of the one way media monolith. Perhaps it will force us to be better and more involved parents.
There are still a lot of middle aged programmers out there stuck in the habit of procedural programming. After twenty years of writing cobol one is tempted to declare all their C++ variables external and write procedurally ;). I am sure there are ways to make the rather large paradigm shift easier, what is the best technique?
We want to make sure we get a free assembler that works with Borland and Linux.
AA Lithium batteries will probably work with these chips. They can handle 1 watt burst loads without heating up and browning out. I am assuming these chips were developed for AA battery powered devices, it is too big a market to ignore. I Wonder if the price of lithium batteries will come down?
Well this legislation has been way overdue. It is so easy to write a strong if not unbreakable expensive key encryption system that trying to restrict source code is silly. What I am wondering is if nonprogramming folks will be allowed to hire programmers to install encryption products that go beyond the key strengths allowed for commercial licensing? If so this would be a big boost for open source programmers, but perhaps a problem for law enforcement.
At least maybe we can get rid of the weaker implementations. If this media attention causes the online merchants to start looking for more secure systems, maybe we can get some better standards.
Since the Mom and Pop online merchants are archiving credit card information for customer convenience we need to get them encrypted quickly before they hit the hard drive.
Personally I would not mind entering my credit card information fresh each time I made a transaction if I thought that would reduce the risk of it getting it stolen. I said reduce since unless the server is using a devoted crypto card you could still lose your credit card numbers real time.
It is too bad that commercial encryption doesn't use the "self destructing if tampered with" key archive approach that is used with the unbreakable category 4 encryption systems. I suppose we could improve the existing systems by immediately rewriting memory that was used for password entry and intermediate decryption results. Oh well, guess I'm going to have to study that chapter on pointers again.
Interesting metaphor there, I can think of at least a dozen interpretations for that picture. At least we know who discovered Marylin.
My server namelookup doesn't seem to be working had to use http://209.207.224.40/ to get here? Must be a local host problem.
503010 loggin attempts that would take about 6 days assuming they worked ass backwords at one attempt per second. I wonder what kind of password gen they used?
The same chording techniques are used for underwater diving input devices. Radio waves get grounded out under salt water so they tend to use a wired connection. There was a company in Australia that made some really neat portable PC devices a while back that used a chord style input. I forget the name.
ICravetv is just rebroadcasting the signal with the advertising intact. You reach more viewers sell more products what's the problem?
I agree there is some content such as pro sports where the local stadium would be competing with an internet broadcast. These rare conflicts are easy enough to overcome by excluding the content from the internet. Also advertisers often tailer content to local tastes so they may feel that "their dog" is getting the wrong message. Since this is broadcasting on a one-way street (network TV is not interactive like slashdot) it is really just helping to expand the viewing area.
These are real issues but over time a lot of them will be worked out. It might even be better if we had more global oriented advertising..
Guess that just proves that people in general are lazy and don't want to be bothered with the details of key handling and doing a little hacking on their own to get an application to run.
Since the average Linux user has a little more technical skill than those from the windows community, this application is a lot more likely to find a home.
This application could hurt the long distance carriers if too many people jumped on the bandwagon, so don't expect to see the media hyping free secure long distance with Linux anytime soon!
Mark this comment up, this is the easiest solution to the problem.
Some information gathering servers compare client domain to ensure you are who you say you are though.
I always use nospam@whateverdomainimloggedonto.com and specify a juno or hotmail account if I actually want to correspond. My windows registration is X.
Used to be a couple of years ago after logging onto AOL blind customers could alt tab the spam launcher and bring up webspeak or a browser of their choice. Most blind folks chose a text homepage as their default.
My main gripe with AOL (other than the spam launcher) was that they didn't support third party mailers like pegasus or eudora. I am guessing it would be difficult for a blind person to run the spam gauntlet to get to their Email.
Seems to me that in the spirit of reasonable accomodation AOL could make some minor changes and maybe provide a copy of Webspeak and a text mail interface for blind folks.
Adding Alt. tags would help, but since AOL is over 60% graphics I bet most blind folks would be happy if they could just get to their Email and put on their socks for newsgroups,ftp and the other text based web content.
I was trying to get an old 486 IBM PS1 online yesterday without much luck.
The user is blind, and all her adaptive equipment works with DOS and WIN 3.1. Since it would cost thousands to get her adaptive equipment for a win 98 machine, it looks like I only have win3.1 to work with or possibly Linux with wine.
She has an old zoom modem running at 14.4 or 33.6 and Trumpet winsock version 3.0. (her talking browser requires a winsock). Since she has 8 meg of ram memory shouldn't be a problem.
She has no problem dialing up her shell account and getting her Email.
The trumpet winsock has no problem connecting to the ip, but as soon as she trys to bring up her browser the service provider claims her ping counts go out of sight and the browser reports that the network is down. I tried using an old version 3 netscape browser with the same result.
This setup used to work fine a few years ago, do the service providers have hardware that is less tolerant of old socks or what?
Titanium sounds so rugged, sort of like those military computer cases. Are they rolling out rugged looking titanium military style cases to complement these? This would go along with the Eveready bunny commercials where the bunny is in a tank.
This is superluminal in a classical physics calculation. It would have to be a real small area the electrons and/or photons are interacting in since the speed of light is a limiting facter. If this isn't disinf then physics just changed for me.
The problem with Radio Wave technology is that it is even longer wavelength than Infrared in the electromagnetic spectrum. Order of wavelength from longest to shortest is.
Radio Waves
Microwaves
Infra Red
The Visible Spectrum
Ultra Violet
X-Rays
Gamma Rays
The Longer the wavelength the less directional the signal is. If you are using a point source radio station the signal propogates (and pollutes) that bandwidth 360 degrees in every direction. The signal sort of expands like the surface area of a balloon. This is why radio signals weaken quite rapidly with the square of the distance from the source.
I agree infrared isn't much better. Once you start using multiple sources and receivers in the same room the long wavelengths start interfering with each other rapidly. Still you can focus infrared into a crude wide angle beam usefull for some applications.
Lasers and Optical fiber are almost ideal carriers since the signal loss over distance is much less.
Laser beam signals weaken by the square of the distance as well but, Since a laser beam can be initially focused into a narrow angle beam, the signal maintains strength over a much greater distance.
It would be a really cool 3D gaming interface for sure. I heard a while back that the military held the patents on this technology, don't know when the patents expire. When this stuff is commercially available 3D gaming will be VR suit optional.
Could be one hellatious gamer machine! This article made heavy use of the term prior art processor and "modern computer". Last time I checked modern computers ran under a thin layer of hydrogen? (one example from ABC news) Since the speed difference between a modern cryogenic computer and "prior art" computers is substantial it becomes easier to visualize needing to cache and distribute "prior art" computer instructions in this manner.
Send the flying saucers in.
This sounds a lot like database management with all the transaction rollback features and whatnot.
The fact that they are passing processor instructions tells me that this is some kind of distributed processing load management tool.
I used to hear about wasted CPU cycles and how nice it would be if CPU load could be shared amongst many inexpensive distributed processors back in the 80's.
Since the 90's though the CPU hasn't been the bottleneck for any application I've ever heard of.
Speculation what apps need mega CPU cycles?
Should be easy enough to morph your lip movements into a (video presentation of your choice).
Make videos of yourself in different settings, suit and tie, boardroom in the background etc, be easy to do especially at this resolution.
mmmmm (just don't mix up the themes)