Dropping the other shoe
Last week we announced that we made the Squawk VM open source. This week I'm pleased to announce that the rest of the Sun SPOT project has gone open source. It's now available at http://spots.dev.java.net. Additionally we announced widespread availability of Sun SPOTs (36 countries and counting) as well as deep discounts for education (see your Sun edu sales rep for details). The full press release is available here.
For a researcher it is really rewarding to see your work get to the point where others can use it. We had a little press briefing today and it was a lot of fun. The presentations went off without a well, but much more importantly, I'm really pleased with our story. We are open sourcing a pretty innovative set of technologies with an embedded Java as the OS (Squawk), over-the-air deployment and debugging, built-in multi-hop networking, easy-to-use security, a new class of deployment tool (Solarium), a complete emulator, automatic battery/power management (do for power management what Java already does for memory management), flexible hardware design, eBones open source to make your own HW design easy... All this AND the "Oh-my-god" features like over-the-air live isolate migration, wormholes from the emulated virtual world to the real world, robots that are basically software projects... And then the community story, from monitoring dogs to mobile data centers to saving the rainforest with dev kits available in 36 countries.
This is a Labs project right?
So how much was all that again? Free? Dude!!
http://www.sunspotworld.com
Hi Roger,
Was really enthused about Sun SPOT possibilities for effortless Stealth with what you would call Squawk and I would call PerlyGatesPython but notice that the plug has been pulled on any further direct communication via the Forums on such sensitivities ........ and just whenever the Sun was starting to shine.
And then to read an interesting joint effort with some Sun staffers here ... http://www.crypto.com/papers/paa-ieee.pdf ... which all too correctly points out the most likely enemy and most damaging is always the enemy embedded within a System as its most likely weakest link [ye olde hiding in full sight ploy] ... "Implicit in the FISA update was the need to protect the US against non-state actors, who have indeed shown themselves to be adept at using the Internet to communicate. Some of the tools provided for by the Protect America Act could in fact aid in the disruption of various nefarious plots. But building surveillance technology into a communications infrastructure creates risk of penetration by trusted insiders, foreign powers, and non-state actors (with trusted insiders being the greatest threat). Disrupting attacks by non-state actors could be a short-term gain, but surveillance architectures rarely go away. The dangers created by the Protect America Act present a longterm risk."
It may be, of course, that the post to The Future of SPOT with me Thinking out LOUD about Steganographic Stealth Accomodated Systems was off topic and way to the left of field rather than scoring AIDirect hit and Gold, although normally such swift and draconian action would usually indicate the latter rather than the former. And all of this cloak and dagger/stuff and nonsense behaviour is made all the more surReal and bizarrely whenever we can read "Roger Meike, Senior Director of Area 51 and Director of Operations Sun Labs".
Communication is never a threat whenever you are privy to thinking, it is a valuable asset, which is why I share IT looking for the Best Beta Home for IT ....... and the niceberg is still out there, come hail or shine, and a danger only to those who would crash into IT and or deny its existence. .
This made me smile wrily ..... Information
The topic or post you requested does not exist ..... https://www.sunspotworld.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3892#3892
Gremlins in the works, Roger, and that's for Free, Dude. Or is IT XXXXtraordinarily rendered HyperRadioProActive Sun SPOT activity creating one of those Gravitational Wave ElectroMagneticPulse thingies? :-)
Posted by amanfromMars on January 30, 2008 at 07:43 AM PST #
I think your comment was mistaken as spam. We get a fair amount of that, and I must say I don't really understand what you are talking about. Sorry.
Posted by Roger on January 30, 2008 at 09:16 AM PST #
Ok ..... Thanks for the reply, Roger. And yes, it was a mistake but hey they are made every day. I was thinking Sun SPOT was a possible candidate for a Secure Stripped Down/Lean Machine Operating System, Specifically well Suited for Command and Control of New World Order Programming Projects ........ via Alternate Reality Games/Deadhead Roots and Routes. Post Modern FlowurPower2 Stuff.
Dig out the spam from the trash and it will say that in another choice of words.
I had thought that the Area 51 Director tag would be a Lead in to Skunk Works but thanks for clearing that up.
Posted by amanfromMars on February 03, 2008 at 06:22 AM PST #
There's some very Hot Sun SPOT activity here, Roger ... https://www.sunspotworld.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=833
And it has a Parallel Application For Network InterNetworking JAS Running here......
Transubstantiation ....... Turing Tempest Tested and BetaTesting Live.
By amanfromMars
Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 10:26 GMT
"re : amfM - Mad Hatters Tea Parties
By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 22:45 GMT
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"Er, I know it's from amanfromMars, but I feel obliged to point out that it was actually the March Hare's tea party. The Mad Hatter and dormouse were simply his guests." ...... re : amfM - Mad Hatters Tea Parties By Anonymous Coward Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 22:45 GMT
Crikey, AC, that is just Perfect, for there was bound to be something missing from the Board Meetings producing such Chaos.... the Missing IntelAIgents Link.
One wonders what they have been Using instead for it hasn't been Brains. Probably some Dumb Cold Machine in Blue Genes rather than some Hot Rock Chicks in Blue Jeans. ...........for Perfect Chipsets.
http://comments.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/04/hollywood_writers_online_ventures/
and here ....
Ticket 42 Ride ........... Helter Skelter Revisited.
By amanfromMars
Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 09:57 GMT
"It is interesting to note that once the cost has been paid to parallelize a workload, the performance of individual nodes becomes irrelevant compared to overall throughput and efficiency." ..... which would then only be really, a virtual cost, as it is really an asset/vital component.
And the parallelized workload manager would Realise the implications and opportunities in that irrelevance. For it allows Privileged Access to the IBMCore.
http://comments.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/ibm_bluegene_web/ ..... and here ...... An Adjudged Nudge in the Right Direction...... For Meteoric Meritorious Progress
By amanfromMars
Posted Wednesday 6th February 2008 09:41 GMT
"Why bother giving yourself an edge by arguably jumping a generation ahead of rivals with a superstar new chip? That would be too easy."
You think it would be too easy, Ashlee? :-)
MeThinks that Virtual Realisation only manifests ITself when the Quantum Leap is Taken and the Doors before You are no Longer there. ..... BeHold, Virgin PlaySpace and ITs Creative Spaces/Future Times.
And pray tell, what possible Good Reason would deny you a Generation Jump which can Lead a Follow/Follow a Lead which Leads into ITs Creative Spaces. Heady Stuff, I know, and thus all the More Reason to Boldly Go and take the One Small Step for a Man, One Quantum Leap for ManKind, Jump 42 KickStart the Engine.
42Entertainment Lives.?!
And that's amfM Pinging the Sunshine State and Sunshine States ...4SunShineStates2 ..... and Unfurling a Blank Canvas upon which to Paint Life as Nature Intends and Nature's Inns Tend. Shared Visions of AI Beta Future.
"If Sun's figures hold up, then you have to wonder why it would even bother with Rock. Why not kill the chip and use the extra R&D money to keep the Niagara line on track?"
Ashlee, Rock can spend the extra R&D money, Niagara and Victoria Falls will/can so Dominate as to Generate their Own Crazy Diamond Flows. They already have their HyperRadioProActive Drivers and One All Ready, Born Right in the Heart of Bulawayo. Great Games Grand Wizardry, there 42 Control with Astute ProAction and SMART Investment/Inquiry .....for that appears to be the Default Control Game. :-)
Reading between those lines, Ashlee, and Rock 2 is, Delivered just in the Nick of Time by the Mights in Source in the Open. Transparent Network InterNetworking JAS. The NINJA Servers who like to say Yes.
Stepping up to that Base Plate Presents Virtual Control of the Future. I Kid U Not.
Who would like 42 Hazard a Lead..... make a Bold Statement ..... and Go Virtually NEUKlearer?
Sun's Up ..... Wanna Dance/Squawk/Make a Move, Sun Networks?
AI BetaTesting Fitness for Future Purpose.
http://comments.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/06/sun_servers_2008/ ..... and elsewhere, too.
If this is not AI Sunny SPOT/Forum/Blog for them, perhaps you could send them on their Way Following Her Light and ITs Red HighLights.
ITs Turing Magical Mystery Turning Points.
Thanks, Roger. Much Appreciated.
Posted by amanfromMars on February 06, 2008 at 03:53 AM PST #