That was what caught my attention. Now the real question is was that the reporters attempt at trolling to get the attention of everyone? "Oh my God China can kill us faster than we can kill them"(It wouldnt matter we would still have time to blow up the entire world if something ended in nukes) Or was their sort of a space race we did it first type approach? If it is the latter then cool and he should have developed that more. The former he should have been edited.
my.02$
In college every dorm and building that was renovated(including the frat houses) had a network controlled thermostat system. It did not have a pretty web interface what it had was a telnet window. You would telnet in make any changes you wanted or just view, then save them and leave. Very nice if you were the "trusted" student that could keep your dorm at exactly the right temp for you. As for the other guys in my dorm, hmm sorry I liked it cold. As for security on those the only issues we had were the buildings guys calling me saying they could not login because they didnt know how to use a computer. I dont know since I have left (two years ago) but in the three years we had them running noone hacked them.
While we can all see that this is quite overkill for astronomers this is cool. Finally our government doing something smart. But for all the sonspiracy guys out there,not sure how many but one guy said something like give it to the group with the least danger, there was no danger. The NSA stripped it of everything classified I am sure and it was the ever so secretive Forestry service that gave it to them. Last time I checked the Forest service could care less about all that security. As for the astronomers they got to save a lot of money on building sat dishes and buildings. They also got one hell of a wired compound. Now to just figure out how to tour it cause that wouldbe cool.
This is annoying. Just because I could be a script kiddie that knows how to deface a web page, that means nothing that I am able to create firewalls. For my ability to work with security issues and to configure firewalls within our corporate network(which our web pages tend to be only semi-inside of) I have had training and a lot of experience. Mostly the experience and looking. Yes it is possible for some punk to run a port scan and find a backdoor but that is more than likely because I screwed up or I am having to leave a small door open for one of our customers to communicate with us. We have had attempts I am sure but I have never seen a true breach of our network. I know that if my company fired me to hire some kid with no experience and only the ability to run a script and root some poorly configured server somewhere I would laugh all the way to my next job as I watched their network crumble.
I'm basing this rant on this quote:
"We want to use them positively so that they can create adequate firewalls so that nobody can hack our country's Web sites,"
If they plan only to have them as a panel to educate the law enforcement and say hey look its mostly harmless but we need to educate people to ensure proper safeguards are in place so that no one can do serious damage then cool. If that is the case then this is good. If they plan to have these guys designing firewalls then hehehehehehehe. I know that I will not be getting one.
Where did the 800,000 accounts come from? I read that the 390 would have 1,500 web servers in essence. Since it is really just one big server acting as 1500. And then there is the quote in the article saying now it will only take 5 minutes to add a server. YOU AREN'T ADDING A SERVER. You are basically creating a new directory. So yes it is quicker but you take some resources away from the other servers. Also while 390's do not go down if this guy does talk about impact now. I mean true more than likely she will never fail as the 3 million redundant levels of everything page IBM before anything fails, but if it does go down you just had the equivalent of 1500 servers go down.
oh well.
Yea that is true but this deals with the patent group which is different than the commision. At least that is what I gather from the article. In the US the states with the minority can elect the president as well. If Bush wins in Florida he will have had the minority vote but win the election.
The comment from I think Germany that little countries shouldn't be able to shape all of Europe by allowing patents is scary. The big companies want to be able to control the little countries say? How is that any better than the big companies should be able to control what all the little companies do? Every country in the EU needs to have a voice in this matter but in a since Germany is right, they should have more say than Cyprus. But Cyprus and Luxemburg should have a say also. Hence something like the electoral system we use everyone gets a vote but you get a few more for more population. That way the little countries/states arent completely overlooked and the big guys still have more pull.
This is one of the few cases where I actually agree with a judge on a technical issue. Of course this won't make the big stories that going against Napster did, but it is nice to see technology winning a few battles. I am not encouraging sale of illegal goods on ebay but I am encouraging to have to monitor every item and check the legality of it. If that were the case they would be shut down as would almost all public auction sites. Anytime you allow the public to use a resource there will be some that try to use it improperly or illegally. Good luck in the appeal ebay.
Amen.
We are Americans. Most of slashdot is American I would hazard a guess. While not everyone agrees with our right to not vote or vote that is just as much of a choice as is our right to vote. Some people on here are saying how can we be so egotistical as to damn the rest of the world and allow someone like George Bush to be president? It's our choice. If we want to elect Rob to be president and there are enough of us that would be our choice as well. Yes you do have a vested interest in who we choose however we have choosen fairly well so far. And we will continue to choose fairly well in the future. That is one of the nice things about our country if we choose poorly on our president he can't do much except make us look kind of ridiculous. The congress and Supreme Court can seriously curtail his power. And also he won't want to do that because then he would not be reelected.
Leave us alone. This is our election. Let us vote or not vote. Voice your opinion but do not berate us for making OUR choice. It is our choice.
Most of the people on here claim to be open minded and sympathizing with geek/nerd issues. However most of the replies I read were so busy bashing JK that they were as bad as the "dumb jock" bashing us. If we are to want acceptance in all circles we need to be better than them. If we claim that we are made fun of and they make us feel like shit we need to do something about it. Passing the buck making fun of the easy target aka the visible Katz is nto the answer. Also if all a football player heres is us calling him a dumb jock then he is going to respond using his size. I know I have used my size in many times in the past to settle arguments. If we can not treat them with respect while we claim to be more intelligent than they are how can we expect them to treat us with respect?
Oh well.
But then again I guess you can only read so many comments comparing Bill Gates to the antichrist and then the next comment comparing you to Bill gates before it starts to hurt your feelings. I am glad I wasn't one of those commentors, but at the same time I can easily see people making comparisons. We compare everything for sake of discussion, not just because we think they are similar but sometimes to show their differences. At least he kept this letter in a light tone and didn't write a cease and desist:)
We can let hemos and company know that we all realize how many ridiculous patents there are. We almost don't care except for the humor matter. Tomorrow Rob will post saying Amazon is suing OpenTV to invalidate their patent then OpenTV will sue Amazon for suing them and then B&N will sue OpenTV for their patent on suing Amazon. WHO CARES!!!
It's a ridiculously screwed system.
Oh well stupid rant.
Now the real question is, is it for real or because they weren't getting enough preorders to guarantee selling out making them look like great sellers?
I am going with the lack of components. I work for a cell phone company and I know we have tremendous problems getting the components we need usually. We have a plant in Mexico right now that has not produced antything in like 3 weeks due to material shortages. You can plan all you want but one little glitch can cause huge production problems. Well now to see if anyone else agrees its not a conspiracy.
In the news today Mcaffee warned users of a new email virus. It appears that someone going by the name of Bill Gates has written or coauthored a program which emails everyone in a users address book and then convinces them that this is good and then emails everyone in their address book. Mcaffee claims they will have a fix shortly and in the mean time they recomend everyone stay away from anything with the words microsoft in it.
First off you are wrong.
Secondly you have several very good points.
Yes, to most geeks politics are very insignificant and we have a habit of doing nothing and sometimes not even voting. I have a very difficult time seeing a real difference with either canidate in the aspect of DMCA, blah blah technical things. But coming from a very political past,(ex fiancee way too into all of it campaigns, lobbyist etc, etc) I can see why canidates do this. If I am a canidate trying to get more votes than the other canidate, am I going to campaign to the small minority of geeks that are not even going to get out to vote? Or am I going to campaign to the older, elderly, demographics that are more than likely going to vote?
Until we have a voice, No Slashdot in its current form does not count, we will nto be heard. Even though Gore must frequent here since he invented slashdot I mean the internet.:)
So if we want to kill the established system we need to let the system know that it needs to change or we will change it. Not say haha we all talk to each other so you can campaign however you like and your politics are meaningless. NONONO they are very meaningful to us. Look at all the horrors we have allowed by not truly getting involved. Oh well enough ranting.
Back to work.
Trip to disney world whatever
I have a feeling the little creatures of the night that write all the stupid Microsoft will track this message are going to have a hayday with this thing. See we have always told you that we can track you and now if you forward this to 10k people you will get an Old Navy gift certificate.
oh well
me
I am guessing from the sounds of it this is a fairly small company. If not then ignore this and use managers etc. Try and hold a company wide meeting and let them know your concerns. Then maybe tell them in general what you are thinking of and ask them for ideas. At least that way if you do have to resort to big brother they will be aware and won't try and sue you for invasion of privacy or some crap. Too many lawsuits. Oh well
Good luck.
Even though they shouldn't. One day I am going to see a suit on here about a patent that is worthwhile. Or someone actually suing to protect their rights that are worth a damn. But with the patent suits 100 out of 100 I have seen the patent was a waste. I don't even need to mention my feelings on MP3s, DeCSS etc. OH well I sure am glad I'm spending my 40%, or however much, on income tax. At least Im not funding the creation of more lawyers. Oh wait state supported schools. Shit I'm paying taxes so that more lawyers can come out and crush little people like me for the big corporations until I pay their classmates 100s of thousands of dollars to protect me. God this is ridiculous. Oh well what a waste.
Sorry
(It's already filed so I can discuss it)
I have recently filed a patent on the idea of filing a patent on an existing idea that everyone is already using and then charging them for it. I figure if I charge $25k per patent like this one I will be rich in no time. Everyone in the world will have to pay the people using my method and all of them will be paying me. Of course I will have to allow some trade sharing so that I will not have to pay DE to transfer funds from one bank account to another. But hey that is why I have my patent.
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Just like every other kid in the free world now days. I spent more time telling people no I would not sell it and guarding it then I did studying. There was a kid in my school that went to a variation or an early study of this application. The computer games he played were not Quake and Ultima Online style but very specific attention requiring sessions. They built up the time and he was able to stop taking ritalin (which I think is a waste anyway I only take it if I have to write a proposal or specs) According to him and talking to people that knew him before and after this stuff worked great.
Oh well
Just my waste of bandwidth posting.
All the others are happy break my simple little mind physics problems and then number 8? Does tossing an encyclopedia into a black hole make information disappear? No it is displayed on a cosmic movie screen? What the hell are they talking about? Is this like what the MPA is going to do with DeCSS? If they win the suit and toss it into a black hole will it disappear? anyway that one struck me as stupid and I just felt like asking about it.
With this instance it caused no harm. If anything it definately helped them and built interest in the little cube. But from a corporate point of view supposed someone had leaked the info about the cube2(Too tired for a good name). Apple is planning on introducing this in 3 weeks at Macworld(or something). However 2 weeks before the show the info is leaked and is everywhere. Apple does not deny it people say they will release it blah blah blah. 1 week before the show the people at Apple realize a huge flaw that causes the cube2 to violently explode destroying everything in a room when you open IE on it.(Don't ask where that came from) Suddenly they have to yank the product, come up with a cover story for why they are not releasing the product(plus explain why there are several dead beta testers) and convince everyone they are not a vaporware company. Suddenly they look really bad. Whereas had nothing been said they would have merely looked average at the show.
I am not advocating lawsuits but I can see where they are coming from.
In college I spent 400$ on an old Mac and DLed a demo copy of etherpeek. I then wrote some filters and had a packet sniffer that could do the exact same things that it sounds like carnivore does. Maybe not with as pretty of an interface but it is still just a packet sniffer nothing more nothing less. For under a grand anyone can do this. I would bet our lovely tax dollars pay 50k or so for each one of these PCs. Gotta love government bloat.
AS for privacy from it, like I said anyone including them with a network port and 1k can monitor packets. I prefer to encrypt anything special.
Wonders if someone will sniff this since it is from work. Oh well
If they ever made one that was perfect that would scare me more than these attempts at it. Especially since in everyone's mind different material is offensive. It also depends on the context as shown by many of these links. I was wasting time at my local library, where they said the didn't but I found they have Surfwatch happily installed. My roommate and myself got into an argument at work about some irelevant point with Hitler so I went to look up Hitler and try and find info. (I dont remember what I was looking for exactly) But the only sites I could get to were useless. Most of them just history about how the allies won the war. All the sites that mentioned his beliefs were blocked. I finally cliked on a neonazi page that was strict hatred and very insulting and it allowed that. I found it so amusing that I called the librarian over to show her and she took offence and asked me to leave if I was going to look at information like that. I told her my situation and she said I was looking wrong and she would find it. She quickly ran into the same problem, and gave me this solution. Well if it is important you should get it out of a book, the internet is usually wrong anyway.
I left think of sour grapes.
Just my ramblings.
This is actually great news for me because I really did not want to deal with another homegrown embedded OS. (I work for Ericsson, I am sure my views however are of no meaning whatsoever to the company) Our phones and most products do exactly what the are designed to do but nothing more and when we go to change it even for something simple like adding a new menu option or anything we have to almost completely redesign the phone. Maybe/hopefully this concept will make it over to our cellular and we will begin using a standard OS that we can change on the fly. Oh well. Just my ramblings.
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That was what caught my attention. Now the real question is was that the reporters attempt at trolling to get the attention of everyone? "Oh my God China can kill us faster than we can kill them"(It wouldnt matter we would still have time to blow up the entire world if something ended in nukes) Or was their sort of a space race we did it first type approach? If it is the latter then cool and he should have developed that more. The former he should have been edited. my .02$
In college every dorm and building that was renovated(including the frat houses) had a network controlled thermostat system. It did not have a pretty web interface what it had was a telnet window. You would telnet in make any changes you wanted or just view, then save them and leave. Very nice if you were the "trusted" student that could keep your dorm at exactly the right temp for you. As for the other guys in my dorm, hmm sorry I liked it cold. As for security on those the only issues we had were the buildings guys calling me saying they could not login because they didnt know how to use a computer. I dont know since I have left (two years ago) but in the three years we had them running noone hacked them.
While we can all see that this is quite overkill for astronomers this is cool. Finally our government doing something smart. But for all the sonspiracy guys out there,not sure how many but one guy said something like give it to the group with the least danger, there was no danger. The NSA stripped it of everything classified I am sure and it was the ever so secretive Forestry service that gave it to them. Last time I checked the Forest service could care less about all that security. As for the astronomers they got to save a lot of money on building sat dishes and buildings. They also got one hell of a wired compound. Now to just figure out how to tour it cause that wouldbe cool.
This is annoying. Just because I could be a script kiddie that knows how to deface a web page, that means nothing that I am able to create firewalls. For my ability to work with security issues and to configure firewalls within our corporate network(which our web pages tend to be only semi-inside of) I have had training and a lot of experience. Mostly the experience and looking. Yes it is possible for some punk to run a port scan and find a backdoor but that is more than likely because I screwed up or I am having to leave a small door open for one of our customers to communicate with us. We have had attempts I am sure but I have never seen a true breach of our network. I know that if my company fired me to hire some kid with no experience and only the ability to run a script and root some poorly configured server somewhere I would laugh all the way to my next job as I watched their network crumble. I'm basing this rant on this quote: "We want to use them positively so that they can create adequate firewalls so that nobody can hack our country's Web sites," If they plan only to have them as a panel to educate the law enforcement and say hey look its mostly harmless but we need to educate people to ensure proper safeguards are in place so that no one can do serious damage then cool. If that is the case then this is good. If they plan to have these guys designing firewalls then hehehehehehehe. I know that I will not be getting one.
Where did the 800,000 accounts come from? I read that the 390 would have 1,500 web servers in essence. Since it is really just one big server acting as 1500. And then there is the quote in the article saying now it will only take 5 minutes to add a server. YOU AREN'T ADDING A SERVER. You are basically creating a new directory. So yes it is quicker but you take some resources away from the other servers. Also while 390's do not go down if this guy does talk about impact now. I mean true more than likely she will never fail as the 3 million redundant levels of everything page IBM before anything fails, but if it does go down you just had the equivalent of 1500 servers go down. oh well.
Yea that is true but this deals with the patent group which is different than the commision. At least that is what I gather from the article. In the US the states with the minority can elect the president as well. If Bush wins in Florida he will have had the minority vote but win the election.
The comment from I think Germany that little countries shouldn't be able to shape all of Europe by allowing patents is scary. The big companies want to be able to control the little countries say? How is that any better than the big companies should be able to control what all the little companies do? Every country in the EU needs to have a voice in this matter but in a since Germany is right, they should have more say than Cyprus. But Cyprus and Luxemburg should have a say also. Hence something like the electoral system we use everyone gets a vote but you get a few more for more population. That way the little countries/states arent completely overlooked and the big guys still have more pull.
This is one of the few cases where I actually agree with a judge on a technical issue. Of course this won't make the big stories that going against Napster did, but it is nice to see technology winning a few battles. I am not encouraging sale of illegal goods on ebay but I am encouraging to have to monitor every item and check the legality of it. If that were the case they would be shut down as would almost all public auction sites. Anytime you allow the public to use a resource there will be some that try to use it improperly or illegally. Good luck in the appeal ebay.
Amen. We are Americans. Most of slashdot is American I would hazard a guess. While not everyone agrees with our right to not vote or vote that is just as much of a choice as is our right to vote. Some people on here are saying how can we be so egotistical as to damn the rest of the world and allow someone like George Bush to be president? It's our choice. If we want to elect Rob to be president and there are enough of us that would be our choice as well. Yes you do have a vested interest in who we choose however we have choosen fairly well so far. And we will continue to choose fairly well in the future. That is one of the nice things about our country if we choose poorly on our president he can't do much except make us look kind of ridiculous. The congress and Supreme Court can seriously curtail his power. And also he won't want to do that because then he would not be reelected. Leave us alone. This is our election. Let us vote or not vote. Voice your opinion but do not berate us for making OUR choice. It is our choice.
Most of the people on here claim to be open minded and sympathizing with geek/nerd issues. However most of the replies I read were so busy bashing JK that they were as bad as the "dumb jock" bashing us. If we are to want acceptance in all circles we need to be better than them. If we claim that we are made fun of and they make us feel like shit we need to do something about it. Passing the buck making fun of the easy target aka the visible Katz is nto the answer. Also if all a football player heres is us calling him a dumb jock then he is going to respond using his size. I know I have used my size in many times in the past to settle arguments. If we can not treat them with respect while we claim to be more intelligent than they are how can we expect them to treat us with respect? Oh well.
But then again I guess you can only read so many comments comparing Bill Gates to the antichrist and then the next comment comparing you to Bill gates before it starts to hurt your feelings. I am glad I wasn't one of those commentors, but at the same time I can easily see people making comparisons. We compare everything for sake of discussion, not just because we think they are similar but sometimes to show their differences. At least he kept this letter in a light tone and didn't write a cease and desist:)
We can let hemos and company know that we all realize how many ridiculous patents there are. We almost don't care except for the humor matter. Tomorrow Rob will post saying Amazon is suing OpenTV to invalidate their patent then OpenTV will sue Amazon for suing them and then B&N will sue OpenTV for their patent on suing Amazon. WHO CARES!!! It's a ridiculously screwed system. Oh well stupid rant.
Now the real question is, is it for real or because they weren't getting enough preorders to guarantee selling out making them look like great sellers? I am going with the lack of components. I work for a cell phone company and I know we have tremendous problems getting the components we need usually. We have a plant in Mexico right now that has not produced antything in like 3 weeks due to material shortages. You can plan all you want but one little glitch can cause huge production problems. Well now to see if anyone else agrees its not a conspiracy.
In the news today Mcaffee warned users of a new email virus. It appears that someone going by the name of Bill Gates has written or coauthored a program which emails everyone in a users address book and then convinces them that this is good and then emails everyone in their address book. Mcaffee claims they will have a fix shortly and in the mean time they recomend everyone stay away from anything with the words microsoft in it.
First off you are wrong. Secondly you have several very good points. Yes, to most geeks politics are very insignificant and we have a habit of doing nothing and sometimes not even voting. I have a very difficult time seeing a real difference with either canidate in the aspect of DMCA, blah blah technical things. But coming from a very political past,(ex fiancee way too into all of it campaigns, lobbyist etc, etc) I can see why canidates do this. If I am a canidate trying to get more votes than the other canidate, am I going to campaign to the small minority of geeks that are not even going to get out to vote? Or am I going to campaign to the older, elderly, demographics that are more than likely going to vote? Until we have a voice, No Slashdot in its current form does not count, we will nto be heard. Even though Gore must frequent here since he invented slashdot I mean the internet.:) So if we want to kill the established system we need to let the system know that it needs to change or we will change it. Not say haha we all talk to each other so you can campaign however you like and your politics are meaningless. NONONO they are very meaningful to us. Look at all the horrors we have allowed by not truly getting involved. Oh well enough ranting. Back to work.
Trip to disney world whatever I have a feeling the little creatures of the night that write all the stupid Microsoft will track this message are going to have a hayday with this thing. See we have always told you that we can track you and now if you forward this to 10k people you will get an Old Navy gift certificate. oh well me
I am guessing from the sounds of it this is a fairly small company. If not then ignore this and use managers etc. Try and hold a company wide meeting and let them know your concerns. Then maybe tell them in general what you are thinking of and ask them for ideas. At least that way if you do have to resort to big brother they will be aware and won't try and sue you for invasion of privacy or some crap. Too many lawsuits. Oh well Good luck.
Even though they shouldn't. One day I am going to see a suit on here about a patent that is worthwhile. Or someone actually suing to protect their rights that are worth a damn. But with the patent suits 100 out of 100 I have seen the patent was a waste. I don't even need to mention my feelings on MP3s, DeCSS etc. OH well I sure am glad I'm spending my 40%, or however much, on income tax. At least Im not funding the creation of more lawyers. Oh wait state supported schools. Shit I'm paying taxes so that more lawyers can come out and crush little people like me for the big corporations until I pay their classmates 100s of thousands of dollars to protect me. God this is ridiculous. Oh well what a waste. Sorry
(It's already filed so I can discuss it) I have recently filed a patent on the idea of filing a patent on an existing idea that everyone is already using and then charging them for it. I figure if I charge $25k per patent like this one I will be rich in no time. Everyone in the world will have to pay the people using my method and all of them will be paying me. Of course I will have to allow some trade sharing so that I will not have to pay DE to transfer funds from one bank account to another. But hey that is why I have my patent.
I got stuck on Ritalin Just like every other kid in the free world now days. I spent more time telling people no I would not sell it and guarding it then I did studying. There was a kid in my school that went to a variation or an early study of this application. The computer games he played were not Quake and Ultima Online style but very specific attention requiring sessions. They built up the time and he was able to stop taking ritalin (which I think is a waste anyway I only take it if I have to write a proposal or specs) According to him and talking to people that knew him before and after this stuff worked great. Oh well Just my waste of bandwidth posting.
All the others are happy break my simple little mind physics problems and then number 8? Does tossing an encyclopedia into a black hole make information disappear? No it is displayed on a cosmic movie screen? What the hell are they talking about? Is this like what the MPA is going to do with DeCSS? If they win the suit and toss it into a black hole will it disappear? anyway that one struck me as stupid and I just felt like asking about it.
With this instance it caused no harm. If anything it definately helped them and built interest in the little cube. But from a corporate point of view supposed someone had leaked the info about the cube2(Too tired for a good name). Apple is planning on introducing this in 3 weeks at Macworld(or something). However 2 weeks before the show the info is leaked and is everywhere. Apple does not deny it people say they will release it blah blah blah. 1 week before the show the people at Apple realize a huge flaw that causes the cube2 to violently explode destroying everything in a room when you open IE on it.(Don't ask where that came from) Suddenly they have to yank the product, come up with a cover story for why they are not releasing the product(plus explain why there are several dead beta testers) and convince everyone they are not a vaporware company. Suddenly they look really bad. Whereas had nothing been said they would have merely looked average at the show. I am not advocating lawsuits but I can see where they are coming from.
In college I spent 400$ on an old Mac and DLed a demo copy of etherpeek. I then wrote some filters and had a packet sniffer that could do the exact same things that it sounds like carnivore does. Maybe not with as pretty of an interface but it is still just a packet sniffer nothing more nothing less. For under a grand anyone can do this. I would bet our lovely tax dollars pay 50k or so for each one of these PCs. Gotta love government bloat. AS for privacy from it, like I said anyone including them with a network port and 1k can monitor packets. I prefer to encrypt anything special. Wonders if someone will sniff this since it is from work. Oh well
If they ever made one that was perfect that would scare me more than these attempts at it. Especially since in everyone's mind different material is offensive. It also depends on the context as shown by many of these links. I was wasting time at my local library, where they said the didn't but I found they have Surfwatch happily installed. My roommate and myself got into an argument at work about some irelevant point with Hitler so I went to look up Hitler and try and find info. (I dont remember what I was looking for exactly) But the only sites I could get to were useless. Most of them just history about how the allies won the war. All the sites that mentioned his beliefs were blocked. I finally cliked on a neonazi page that was strict hatred and very insulting and it allowed that. I found it so amusing that I called the librarian over to show her and she took offence and asked me to leave if I was going to look at information like that. I told her my situation and she said I was looking wrong and she would find it. She quickly ran into the same problem, and gave me this solution. Well if it is important you should get it out of a book, the internet is usually wrong anyway. I left think of sour grapes. Just my ramblings.
This is actually great news for me because I really did not want to deal with another homegrown embedded OS. (I work for Ericsson, I am sure my views however are of no meaning whatsoever to the company) Our phones and most products do exactly what the are designed to do but nothing more and when we go to change it even for something simple like adding a new menu option or anything we have to almost completely redesign the phone. Maybe/hopefully this concept will make it over to our cellular and we will begin using a standard OS that we can change on the fly. Oh well. Just my ramblings.