So evidently one has to be able to afford a McMansion in order to get a broadband connection -- all because of monopolies on the last mile (Cable and telco).
From looking at your blog, I don't see evidence of conspiracies. All I see in your blog are the angry ramblings of a self-righteous individual who thinks the news media is playing up the wrong stories.
I choose to prove conspiracies through web resources that I believe most would consider credible. That usually means the news media.
For real evidence of real conspiracies, read through the documents at The George Washington University's National Security Archive [gwu.edu] of declassified documents, like the proposal [gwu.edu] to incite world opinion against Cuba through propaganda, staged riots, staged attacks on the U.S., mock funerals and more.
I referenced the Cuba war-bait conspiracy ("Operation Northwoods") with a link to an ABC News story on it from my UnderReported.com story "FSB (successor to KGB) agent says FSB blew up apartments in 1999, not Chechens."
As I recently wrote over at kuo5hin, I've discovered that about a third of the conspiracies out there are true. But finding out which ones takes research -- which I enjoy doing. And recently I set up a PostNuke blog, UnderReported.com to post what I find. I look for stories that can be backed up by the mainstream press and/or primary sources, such as government web sites.
As for this particular issue of the dead scientists, there's been no good evidence either way, and so it hasn't appeared at all in my blog.
They know they can't stop the determined ones (I mean there is always usenet and IRC)
Who's to say UseNet and IRC won't be taken down as a result of this?
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It's been mentioned many times -- but it is no less true -- that the great Commons of Internet discussion, UseNet is dying for a variety of reasons. One of them is the "enclosing" (to use the word from the article) of discussion areas, removing contributors from UseNet and attracting them to private domains, including Slashdot.
Oh if Slashdot were the only "problem". (Actually Slashdot has brought the great technical advantage of moderation -- something needed when the Internet gates were opened to the plebes in the mid-90's. But that's not to say UseNet couldn't have added a moderation protocol.) Now, everyone has a personal blog (even me, now, sad to say). Even those that allow others' comments, such as mine, don't attract them because of lower viewership/memberhip and because there is less assurance to potential posters that the site will be up the next day.
So essentially, we have a bunch of private little independent monologues going on, plus some dialog on a few big private sites like Slashdot and kuro5hin, but no public dialog in an Internet Commons like UseNet.
(Why do I blog? Because no one is on UseNet, because I don't want a private company copyrighting what I write, and because big sites reasonably don't want to post every last thing I want to post.)
According to the Reusters article, "They plan flights with twice the 6,000 miles range and half the noise of the Anglo-French Concorde...," but according to the British Airways Concorde fact sheet, the range is 6000km. So double that and you get 12,000km, or 7457 miles, which would put it out of reach of the ten longest commercial air routes, including service between California and Australia. But I guess Japan isn't too concerned about that particular route:-)
At least service between the U.S. East Coast and Tokyo would be cut from the current 11 hours on ANA down to a much more tolerable 6 hours.
This is the sort of thing one would expect to see in SIGCHI conference proceedings. Although there were no experimental controls or peer review of the results, it is telling of Slashdot's influence that such results are published on Slashdot first. As is, the quality would be top notch for a commercial rag such as Dr. Dobbs, and with just a bit of polishing would be published in an academic journal, serve as a Master's thesis, or even -- with quite a bit of "pushing" (expanding) of the ideas -- serve as a PhD at some schools.
While it is true that end users use client software to access an nntp server, the nntp servers are peering. I.e., there is no one master server that contains the official set of articles. And servers can peer with multiple servers and integrate multiple feeds. This makes UseNet free of single-point weakness and also out of the control of a single entity (in contrast to Yahoo! Groups, for example).
Since I wrote my own extensive GUI (under the Watcom DOS extender) in 1991, my first heavy-duty Microsoft Windows programming was in 1996 using both Visual C++ and Visual Basic. It is my first time playing with a tabbed control, and I thought it was cool and innovative. But since I was programming instrumentation software and different users would prefer to have their instrument control panels arranged differently, I immediately thought of making them dockable.
Like so many software patents, it's about who gets first exposure to new technology and then that person patenting the semi-obvious extensions. Patents were intended to be for those who either finally cracked long-standing problems or who created things in domains no one could ever have conceived of. Patents were not intended to protect market prognosticators.
Patenting dockable tabbed windows in 1994 is the moral equivalent of patenting polymorphic Web Services interfaces today -- perhaps not obvious to every dolt, but obvious to enough of the developer population once people have, say, at least a couple of years to start using Web Services!
Wouldn't this prove that the quest for eyeballs was no more crazy than the quest for a starlet to become a Hollywood star, the quest for a high school quarterback to make it to the NFL, or the quest to win the lottery?
Until the media firms stop trying to outlaw general purpose computer hardware and software, Slashdot readers should boycott all movies and merchandised music. See a play or listen to a live local band instead -- it's a richer experience anyway.
All this destruction of e-mail for liability reasons thwarts mining e-mail for the purposes of knowledge management, such as can be done by products like Lotus Knowledge Discovery System. With today's high turnover rates, KM is needed to maintain long-term productivity, but evidently legal issues are dwarfing anything like actually earning money by being productive. (Hmm, has a ring of revenue generation by old large companies through patent portfolios rather than innovation, doesn't it?)
Although truly anonymous digital cash is so far not a reality, several techniques that come close are described in the book Digital Cash. Unfortunately, this never comes up in debates about ubiquitous tolling. As is typical, politicians are either ignorant or feign ignorance -- about technology and just about everything else.
The Casio scientific watch from 1986 is what I still wear -- it does trig, logs, parenthesis and metric conversions. Until about 1999, it was the most advanced watch made. I'll probably update to the IBM Linux WatchPad when it becomes available. As for current state-of-the-art, there is:
On-Hand PC -- runs a variant of DOS and an SDK is available.
Fossil PDA -- despite the word "PDA", it has limited RAM.
I don't know about you, but the Wal-Marts in my town are right alongside the other retail chains. I don't have to drive farther, so those extremely long stretches of logic you used to pin theft on Wal-mart don't even apply.
Then perhaps your town is the only one in which Wal-Mart didn't put other stores out of business. In other towns, those who lived near the neighborhood stores now must drive to Wal-Mart.
Transferring "last mile" distribution costs to customers, taxpayers, the environment, pedestrian safety,...
This second item bears more explanation:
Wal-Mart takes from its customers. Customers "willingly" drive farther to shop at Wal-Mart, but usually based on the price of gas (6 cents per mile) rather than the full amortized price of automobile operation, which according to AAA is 51 cents per mile.
Wal-Mart takes from taxpayers. Wal-Mart generates a lot of VMT (vehicle miles traveled) but doesn't pay for the roads to carry it. Oh, they may pay for an extra lane and signal in front of the store, but not for increased capacity in the several-hundred-square-mile market area.
Wal-Mart takes from everyone in its market area. VMT by its nature steals from the public good because cars on a per-mile basis don't pay for their negative side effects: air pollution, water pollution (including temperature rises due to impervious surface runoff), noise pollution, increased danger to bicycles and pedestrians.
Wal-Mart takes from the environment. Besides the environmental concerns due to increased VMT, there are two more. First, there is the runoff from its vast parking lots and large store (during a rainstorm, this suddenly increases the temperature of streams by several degrees, which kills fish since fish cannot tolerate temperature changes the way people can). Second, Wal-Mart makes disposable buildings. Wal-Mart builds its large buildings to last seven years, then leaves them as vacant blighted eyesores as they move to even bigger superstores.
When it comes to Wal-Mart, "efficiency" means "theft" -- not the sort of efficiency that Linux should associate itself with.
Computers and education frequently comes up in Steve Talbott's NetFuture e-zine, which can be accessed on O'Reilly's web site. Here's an example article from an indexed list of NetFuture articles on the subject.
what about all the coin-ops that had force feedback in the 80's
Sega's Out Run had force feedback in 1986. More importantly, there seems to be a paper by a J. Batter from IFIP 1971 called "GROPE-I: A computer display to the sense of feel." It is referenced on a UNC force feedback research page as well as by a 1985 SIGGRAPH article (paid ACM membership required). This is all well before the Feb., 1990 filing date of Immersion's earliest relevant patent.
The irony is that if J. Batter had filed a patent in 1971, it would have expired before Immersion's patent was filed!
I still cannot figure out how he says storing data on DRAM is cheaper than storing it on hard-disks. Maybe, if you buy in bulk?
Google's Eric Schmidt probably means that fewer replicated servers are needed. If we take his stat of 200,000x speedup at face value, then you would need 200,000 times as many hard-drive-based servers as DRAM-based servers. There are many other factors involved such as communication delays and scalability, but you get the idea.
This just shows how limited the lifespan is of 32-bit 4GB architecture, especially for servers.
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So evidently one has to be able to afford a McMansion in order to get a broadband connection -- all because of monopolies on the last mile (Cable and telco).
As for this particular issue of the dead scientists, there's been no good evidence either way, and so it hasn't appeared at all in my blog.
Oh if Slashdot were the only "problem". (Actually Slashdot has brought the great technical advantage of moderation -- something needed when the Internet gates were opened to the plebes in the mid-90's. But that's not to say UseNet couldn't have added a moderation protocol.) Now, everyone has a personal blog (even me, now, sad to say). Even those that allow others' comments, such as mine, don't attract them because of lower viewership/memberhip and because there is less assurance to potential posters that the site will be up the next day.
So essentially, we have a bunch of private little independent monologues going on, plus some dialog on a few big private sites like Slashdot and kuro5hin, but no public dialog in an Internet Commons like UseNet.
(Why do I blog? Because no one is on UseNet, because I don't want a private company copyrighting what I write, and because big sites reasonably don't want to post every last thing I want to post.)
At least service between the U.S. East Coast and Tokyo would be cut from the current 11 hours on ANA down to a much more tolerable 6 hours.
This is the sort of thing one would expect to see in SIGCHI conference proceedings. Although there were no experimental controls or peer review of the results, it is telling of Slashdot's influence that such results are published on Slashdot first. As is, the quality would be top notch for a commercial rag such as Dr. Dobbs, and with just a bit of polishing would be published in an academic journal, serve as a Master's thesis, or even -- with quite a bit of "pushing" (expanding) of the ideas -- serve as a PhD at some schools.
While it is true that end users use client software to access an nntp server, the nntp servers are peering. I.e., there is no one master server that contains the official set of articles. And servers can peer with multiple servers and integrate multiple feeds. This makes UseNet free of single-point weakness and also out of the control of a single entity (in contrast to Yahoo! Groups, for example).
Surely UseNet would qualify as P2P. Would that be the end of P2P free speech?
because there's no good music being released anymore.
Like so many software patents, it's about who gets first exposure to new technology and then that person patenting the semi-obvious extensions. Patents were intended to be for those who either finally cracked long-standing problems or who created things in domains no one could ever have conceived of. Patents were not intended to protect market prognosticators.
Patenting dockable tabbed windows in 1994 is the moral equivalent of patenting polymorphic Web Services interfaces today -- perhaps not obvious to every dolt, but obvious to enough of the developer population once people have, say, at least a couple of years to start using Web Services!
Maybe I will in fact continue my boycott of RIAA/MPAA.
Wouldn't this prove that the quest for eyeballs was no more crazy than the quest for a starlet to become a Hollywood star, the quest for a high school quarterback to make it to the NFL, or the quest to win the lottery?
Three and four player modes were one of the main attractions in my opinion. Can this be handled on a PC?
Until the media firms stop trying to outlaw general purpose computer hardware and software, Slashdot readers should boycott all movies and merchandised music. See a play or listen to a live local band instead -- it's a richer experience anyway.
All this destruction of e-mail for liability reasons thwarts mining e-mail for the purposes of knowledge management, such as can be done by products like Lotus Knowledge Discovery System. With today's high turnover rates, KM is needed to maintain long-term productivity, but evidently legal issues are dwarfing anything like actually earning money by being productive. (Hmm, has a ring of revenue generation by old large companies through patent portfolios rather than innovation, doesn't it?)
Although truly anonymous digital cash is so far not a reality, several techniques that come close are described in the book Digital Cash. Unfortunately, this never comes up in debates about ubiquitous tolling. As is typical, politicians are either ignorant or feign ignorance -- about technology and just about everything else.
Wal-Mart "passes the savings on to you" by:
- Importing goods produced by Chinese slave labor
- Transferring "last mile" distribution costs to customers, taxpayers, the environment, pedestrian safety,
...
This second item bears more explanation:- Wal-Mart takes from its customers. Customers "willingly" drive farther to shop at Wal-Mart, but usually based on the price of gas (6 cents per mile) rather than the full amortized price of automobile operation, which according to AAA is 51 cents per mile.
- Wal-Mart takes from taxpayers. Wal-Mart generates a lot of VMT (vehicle miles traveled) but doesn't pay for the roads to carry it. Oh, they may pay for an extra lane and signal in front of the store, but not for increased capacity in the several-hundred-square-mile market area.
- Wal-Mart takes from everyone in its market area. VMT by its nature steals from the public good because cars on a per-mile basis don't pay for their negative side effects: air pollution, water pollution (including temperature rises due to impervious surface runoff), noise pollution, increased danger to bicycles and pedestrians.
- Wal-Mart takes from the environment. Besides the environmental concerns due to increased VMT, there are two more. First, there is the runoff from its vast parking lots and large store (during a rainstorm, this suddenly increases the temperature of streams by several degrees, which kills fish since fish cannot tolerate temperature changes the way people can). Second, Wal-Mart makes disposable buildings. Wal-Mart builds its large buildings to last seven years, then leaves them as vacant blighted eyesores as they move to even bigger superstores.
When it comes to Wal-Mart, "efficiency" means "theft" -- not the sort of efficiency that Linux should associate itself with.Computers and education frequently comes up in Steve Talbott's NetFuture e-zine, which can be accessed on O'Reilly's web site. Here's an example article from an indexed list of NetFuture articles on the subject.
Sega's Out Run had force feedback in 1986. More importantly, there seems to be a paper by a J. Batter from IFIP 1971 called "GROPE-I: A computer display to the sense of feel." It is referenced on a UNC force feedback research page as well as by a 1985 SIGGRAPH article (paid ACM membership required). This is all well before the Feb., 1990 filing date of Immersion's earliest relevant patent.
The irony is that if J. Batter had filed a patent in 1971, it would have expired before Immersion's patent was filed!
This just shows how limited the lifespan is of 32-bit 4GB architecture, especially for servers.
Hmm... you're right. The "spiral" in Spiral MRI evidently refers to frequency/amplitude space rather than physical space.