Slashback: ASIMO History, CSIRO WiFi, Net Neutrality 87
A Short history of Honda's ASIMO. Ant writes to tell us that Honda has posted a short overview of the evolution leading up to the ASIMO. The history showcases the progress Honda has made in robotics over the last 20 years. It contains drawings, photographs, specifications, and other information about each prototype.
Intel bows out of the embedded processor market. markrages writes "Embedded.com is reporting Intel is withdrawing from the embedded processor market. From the article: 'The company will stop producing the 8051, 251, 8096/196, 188/186, i960, all versions of the 386 (including the 386EX) and 486.'" The product change notification is also available from Intel's site.
Microsoft USB giveaway fizzles. An anonymous reader writes "If you thought you could get something for nothing from Microsoft. Think again. NetworkWorld is reporting that Microsoft is backing down from the free USB drive marketing promotion they launched last February."
CSIRO close to WiFi win. Trapped Database Adm writes "Australian IT reports that Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the eastern district of Texas issued a Markman opinion, providing 'strong support for CSIRO's position in its patent infringement test case.'" From the article: "The CSIRO claims its patent relates to several wireless standards, and the technology covered by its patent is a standard feature of most notebook computers and many other devices. Many technology companies are refusing to pay up, however."
Lawmakers target MySpace again. ardyng writes "It appears Congressman Michael G. Fitzpatrick,(R-Penn) has introduced a bill to the U.S. House of Representatives that would ban minors from accessing social networking websites such as Myspace, as well as any site that 'allows users to create web pages or profiles that provide information about themselves and are available to other users; and offers a mechanism for communication with other users, such as a forum, chat room, email, or instant messenger. The Bill, H.R. 5319, also known as the 'Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006', is still in its infancy, but in its current form, would forbid libraries from allowing access to such sites as well." (That description would also include the site you're reading now.)
New York Times weighs in on net neutrality. KarmaOverDogma writes "The New York Times' Adam Cohen provides an argument in favor of neutrality on the World Wide Web. Cohen succinctly provides a brief history of the World Wide Web, its creator Tim Berners-Lee's vision of how it should operate, why he designed that way, and the forces moving to create a tiered pricing system of access. From stifling creativity and competition to free speech and innovation, Cohen shows why strange bedfellows have come to favor enforcing the 'Democratic Ethic' of the internet by Legislation."
XScale (Score:2, Informative)
ASIMOv? (Score:1)
Nope (Score:1)
"Lawmakers target MySpace again." (Score:1)
Re:"Lawmakers target MySpace again." (Score:1)
Yeah, makes sense.
KFG
Re:"Lawmakers target MySpace again." (Score:1, Funny)
Then they came for the terrorists and I said nothing because I wasn't a terrorist.
When they finally came for me, I aghlr ry jmh vmtlkj ryhvmj
Re:"Lawmakers target MySpace again." (Score:3, Funny)
Wait... are you a DEMOCRAT??
Re:"Lawmakers target MySpace again." (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, he's a Democrat. Lucky for me, I happen to not be affiliated with any party. However, with global warming going as it is, they may go after the scie
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Re:"Lawmakers target MySpace again." (Score:2)
Is that, like, a Mozilla plugin? I want one that does that.
No, it's a feature of his anonymizer. (Score:1)
Re:"Lawmakers target MySpace again." (Score:2)
Er, Windows users?
Re:"Lawmakers target MySpace again." (Score:3, Insightful)
You are absolutely correct. Pedophiles definately use MySpace. They also use the carpool lane, the grocery store, a knife every time they want to chop lettuce and even a voting booth from time to time. The sooner we ban all these things the safer our precious children will be.
TW
Wait... Your children drive? (Score:2, Insightful)
No driving in the carpool lane when you have a child in the car, as pedophiles may see them.
Children may not go to the grocery store where pedophiles may see them.
No using a knife when there is a child in the room. (a bit harder as a knife is not a place).
Children may not be in tow when going to vote as pedophiles might see them.
Solution... (Score:4, Insightful)
The solution is to force these politians to take vacation 360 out of 365 days of the year to limit the damage and stupidity caused.
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No, no, no. It's probably French, so it would be pronounced "d'Oh".
Re:Solution... (Score:2)
D eleting O nline P redators E nactment of 2006
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Re:Solution... (Score:3, Funny)
Reminds me of the first reply in this best of usnet oracle digest [indiana.edu]. Adapt for congress critter and enjoy.
Re:Solution... (Score:3, Insightful)
Maybe that's what they really want, so they're purposely screwing things up to the point we just say, "Here, take the money! I don't care! Just don't do anything!"
We pay farmers not to grow, why can't we pay congress to NOT legislate?
~X~
Re:Solution... (Score:2)
I have to wonder if politicians are creating bogeys so they can take more control. Video games are making kids violent so we have to control them. The fact that there's no evidence for it is just a technicality. This intarweb thing makes kids vulnera
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According to NBC's "To Catch a Predator" [msn.com], about 10 per square foot.
Although I agree with you. Stop trying to raise my kid for me.
what do you think they do now? (Score:1, Troll)
What do you think they do now? Your average congrescritter spends most of his or her time campaigning, travelling to Iraq (big with voters, see "campaigning"), taking trips to speak or attend meetings (paid for by lobbyists), and so on. Governors like to do it too- the governor of MA, Mitt Romney, has practically been out of office more than he has been in, because he's so b
Re:Solution... (Score:2)
They aren't leaving - XScale is the future (Score:5, Insightful)
Bruce
Re:They aren't leaving - XScale is the future (Score:1)
Big Brother!? (Score:5, Funny)
Hey! How do you know what website I'm reading right now?
Oh. Right.
Banning mnors from social networking sites.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Banning mnors from social networking sites.. (Score:1)
Isn't that the point?
KFG
It's impossible, of course. (Score:2)
It's about protecting interests not children. (Score:3, Interesting)
They are going to try to make sites like Wikipedia hard to use, that's the point. Big publishers like the NYT probably don't like the fact that more people visit Wikipedia than them by a large margin. The old TV and radio empire is striking back. They can't compete so they are going to make laws to protect themselves. Netcraft Site Ranking [netcraft.com], today wikiped
From Tim Berners Lee (Score:4, Insightful)
Beautiful line, and summed up so even a politco could understand it.
Re:From Tim Berners Lee (Score:3, Insightful)
politico: Hey, this intarweb thing can be used for subversive anti-government messages! Lets make it more like cable TV!
Anti Social Networks (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Anti Social Networks (Score:1)
Just hire a private dick to follow them around.
Ummmmmm, maybe I could have phrased that differently.
KFG
Re:Anti Social Networks (Score:1)
Re:Anti Social Networks (Score:1)
Re:Anti Social Networks (Score:1)
Not entirely banning social networking sites (Score:1)
If you're interested, schools and libraries
Re:Not entirely banning social networking sites (Score:2)
Deleting Online Act of 2006 (Score:2, Insightful)
"While supplies last" (Score:2)
Re:"While supplies last" -- and the best part is.. (Score:2, Informative)
They have, and can use, all your personal contact information for the price of putting a few documents online. Don't you feel like a sucker?
Re:"While supplies last" -- and the best part is.. (Score:2)
ASIMO videos (Score:3, Informative)
http://world.honda.com/HDTV/ASIMO/tech-recog-mov-
Re:ASIMO videos (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:ASIMO videos (Score:2)
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Eventual progress and future economic value is highly dependent on today's basic research.
Re:ASIMO videos (Score:2)
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What is Obscene? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:What is Obscene? (Score:2)
> for me.
They won't. they'll stick the Federal courts with that task.
pas trop gouverner! (Score:3, Insightful)
As a Canadian it appears that Americans are getting all the stick and no carrot. While being gagged and bound by unenforcable laws and taxed to support humongous government the American people go without the social programs and safety nets that coutries like Canada enjoy as a consequence of being over governed.
In the beginning was Adam Smith and things were OK; then came J.M. Keynes, government programs and a chicken in every pot, followed by J.K. Galbraith and the military industrial complex. What you've got going now I haven't got words for, but, better you than me.
NN Mediocre article (Score:3, Insightful)
At least do some better research:
The blogging phenomenon is possible because individuals can create Web sites with the World Wide Web prefix, www, that can be seen by anyone with Internet access.
No wonder my site isn't working: I forgot to add the www prefix!!
net neutrality (Score:5, Interesting)
Seriously though, I'm only half joking. I agree that we must do everything we can to promote the vision of the Web that people like Tim Berners-Lee had at its inception. The problem is that while we want to fight for neutrality in our bandwidth, we are willing to give it up in our protocols.
For instance, the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) so-called spam solution is being adopted all over the place without nary a complaint. But think about it. Tim Berners-Lee didn't just envision a web of equitable bandwidth, he envisioned a web of peers---a web of end points, all equally valid. What happens when my system is no longer considered a valid end point? Suddenly, we have a network of clients and servers rather than peers. When the SPF process looks to verify that the sender is the one valid smtp server for the mail address' domain (based on either MX or A records), it devalues all non-domain level systems on the web. Peers on the network become clients, fed valid packets from those servers that are approved to pass said packets. The SMTP semantic paradigm moves from Sender>Receiver to Server>Client.
But no one really cares because there is some belief that this will help reduce spam. It will, but so will turning off our mail clients. Neither is the right solution. The solution is a newer, better mail protocol, many of which have been proposed that DO NOT devalue the peers of the network. Probably one of the better known of the examples is the IM2000 protocol [homepages.tesco.net].
But we'd rather have a network of tiered rights---as long as our bandwidth is balanced equitably we won't complain, I guess.
Tom Caudron
http://tom.digitalelite.com/ [digitalelite.com]
Re:net neutrality (Score:2, Insightful)
Huh? The guy who does the DNS records gets to decide which hosts are allowed to send mail for a particular domain. S/he can break email for that domain in plenty of ways without SPF. And I fail to see how my saying you can't send mail for my domain is breaking the end-to-end model. If you were talking about port 25 blocking, I could agree.
Re:net neutrality (Score:2)
Not before SPF.
Previously, I could run sendmail on my own box and, you know, send mail. I didn't need permission from anyone to have my mail considered equally valid on the net. SPF changes that. It says that only the one "validated" smtp server can send mail and moreover, underlying it is the implicit expectatin that every server on the net should be a paid-for domain, instead of an ip address.
Re:net neutrality (Score:1)
No, you can specify which hosts plural are allowed to send mail, up to and including all the Internet. And if you want to send your mail from tom@192.168.0.1, there's no way to do a SPF lookup anyway. No-one should be rejecting on lack of an SPF record.
This is the last SPF record I created, meaning the outgoing mailserver is definitely OK, but anywhere is possible.
foo.ac.nz. 7200 IN TXT "v=spf1 a:mail.foo.ac.nz ~all"
Re:net neutrality (Score:2)
The inability to upload data at a reasonable speed has much more of a negative effect on the model of the internet than does checking mail servers for validity.
While this is an excellent point, I'd focus on the more important (and off-topic) issues first.
Re:net neutrality (Score:2)
"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness."
Our ideals are not often destroyed in one great act, but slowly chipped away until the remnant b
Banning minors? (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Banning minors? (Score:1)
That is probably the counterargument that would be given.
An idea (Score:1, Funny)
also known as the 'Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006'
I propose the Kill All The Politicians Who Think Up These Fucking Stupid Slogans Disguised As Bill Names Because It Doesn't Make Them Big, It Doesn't Make Them Clever And It Doesn't Make Them Caring, It Just Makes Them Opportunistic Scum Act of 2006.
Also known as the I propose the KATPWTUTFSSDABN,BIDMTB,IDMTC,AIDMTC,IJMTOS Act, for short.
While we're at it... (Score:1)
You can protect kids as much as you want, but they'll still have to deal with it at some stage.
I was a kid on the 'net. Fortunatly I was more into the technical side of the net than chatrooms, but my point is that you'd be blocking most of the potential good that kids get out of the internet too.
USB stuff is EXPENSIVE ya know. (Score:2)
Okay, now next on the agenda... what should we do with this $35 Billion cash burning a hole in our pockets? Any suggestions?
How Politicians would like the Internet to be (Score:2)
Someone else said it in another post: Cable TV. Specifially: The Shopping Network. Web sites would be nothing much more than electronic brochures for companies that want you to buy their wares. Corporations show you their goods on a web site. You contact them and buy their stuff. Any interaction with a web site would be limited to filling out a form with enough information that the company's sales force would know how to reach you. Ultimately, there would be none of that electronic sales folderol allowed v
Re:How Politicians would like the Internet to be (Score:2)
And only a few special companies would be able to lease your site to you.
Some people can't wait until running and contributing to wikipedia or slashdot is as difficult as porn is. Total Suck.