At my school they've got monitoring software setup. If you're infected, you're dropped off the network. At the switch, no questions asked. If and when the student contacts the help desk as to why thier computer doesn't work on the network they're informed they're infected and told to bring thier machine down to have the patches applied.
I love my Zaurus because developing for it is free and easy. Plus I use it as a laptop replacement, many of the simple tasks I do through the day can be accomplished with the Z in my pocket instead of having to boot my laptop all the time. Yes, my use is a _very_ limited market.
I'm very glad it exists but I do question the marketing dude's approval of such a device. Moreover I question the engineers since almost anyone that actually owns a zaurus will agree with the fact that it is not a consumer level device. Its very rough around the edges and lacks refinement in many aspects. But for the geek...hands down, we have a wiener.
OK - it makes sense for you and you've found a specific use for it. But I doubt that people like you are the intended mass-market for this product...
Um. Actually, anyone that is on call or depends on the timely delivery of exact data is the intended market. For example, almost anyone in the IT industry. Think of the situations:
A) No blackberry. Frantic call from management. "The website is broken!" "Ok, what doesn't work about it" "I don't know, but we're getting a lot of calls about it and you need to get your ass off the couch and down to the NOC RIGHT NOW." This wasn't your fault, you had no way to prevent it. You're getting chewed out anyway, life is so unfair.
B) With blackberry. A box goes down, everything has been logged to a syslog server. You get an email to the little box on your belt moments after it happens with a tail -20 of the relevant logs send out by a script you had setup. You figure out one of the boxes in your load balancing cluster failed and that the remaining machines can handle the load. You login from home and take the machine out of rotation. Management never notices, no one ever complains, you get a good night of sleep and fix the problem the next day.
Thats not the only example, there are many professions that depend on the timely delivery of complex information.
If you can't stay away some hours from your email, you'd better never leave the office.
I sometimes wonder if comments like this are trolls, or just people that don't know what they're talking about. I mean, I guess I can see your point if you're the kind of person that likes to sit at the office hunched over a desk staring into the monitor checking every box repeatedly, just to make sure its still up. Personally I'd much rather go sit in the park, or at home, and let Big Brother email my phone if something dies.
Thats still silly tho, if you've got the hashes you can brute force em. Dictionary attack style or just pure brute force of every combo. Granted it still takes a lot longer than the windows attack
I can imagine your brainwaves are somewhere along the lines of:
[_______________________________]
but I'll bite anyway. I still don't think you read the article or you would have noticed the part about compression.
"Someone using the software would e-mail a query to a central server in Boston. The program would search the net, choose the most suitable webpages, compress them and e-mail the results a day later."
Its very likely, that since the target is to use this for information, that the pages would be _highly_ compressed, either reducing image quality or removing many images altogether.
On top of all that, if you had read the article, you would have noticed the part about schools not having net access round-the-clock. This is because the entire joint only has one phone line. Given this limitation, it is far more feasable to have 20 students submit thier search to the teacher and have him submit it that night. Rather than dial up for 30 minutes and have 20 people sharing a dialup line try to search all at the same time, which would cause many of the queries to time out.
" And exactly how slow are these connections anyway? " Again, something you would have found out if you had read the article. Maybe you should go read it again.
Why don't you just scream "HI I'M FROM 'WESTERN' CIVILIZATION AND HAVE NO IDEA HOW THESE THINGS WORK IN LESS PRIVLEGED PLACES"
Google is too slow when your school has one phone line that is used for _everything_, including net access. Not to mention the cost of using the phone anyway. This allows all the students to submit thier searches to a teacher one day, the teacher then submits the all searches with only a couple minutes of dialing up. He can retrieve the compressed results a few days later with only a minutes of dialing up. Now go read the article. Someone needs to mod that post down, hopefully the poster can redeem themselves later in the thread with something insightful.
He was mearly pointing out that the government is MS's biggest customer. Not that Microsoft did anything wrong, but that perhaps the government is making an unwise choice (which he didn't say).
This is like saying a band's biggest fan bought thier latest album. It doesn't really mean either side did anything wrong, just that the biggest fan hasn't been looking for a new favorite band. Even though everyone is telling him the band sucks and has always sucked.
Losing 1.1lb of total body weight or 1.1lbs of clothing is a lot different from losing a 1.1lb weight hanging on a strap on your shoulder when you're carrying it around all day. Its all about how the weight is distributed. Since 1.1lbs of clothes is distributed across a fairly large area of your body you don't notice it as much, likely with body weight. For another example, see magicians lying on beds of nails. The performers weight is distributed across all the nails. Whereas if all his weight were concentrated on one nail, it would go right thru him.
Thats another 1.1lbs on top of the VIA based solution, might not sound like much now, but it is. I went from a 4.6lb laptop to a 3.6 and man did I see the difference just carrying the thing around campus.
Though the Celeron offers much more performace than the VIA, depends on your priorities. Heck, I hate carrying stuff so much I really just bring my Zaurus now. Btw, would you like to link us to this notebook? I'm sure someone would be interested.
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F1 cars are made out of Unobtanium. Is that cool? Sure.
Um, this hasn't been true for some time now. F1 cars are now made of exactly 63% Unobtainium and 47% Bolonium.
This combination gives the kind of tremendous horsepower gains you see in street modifications such as stickers, bright blue neon lights and 19" wheels (also made of the Unobtainium/Bolonium alloy).
"Now, I'm pretty sure that in most places reading your user's mail is illegal."
Reading your users mail is most certainly not illegal. Immoral, sure, but not illegal. This has been tried and tested in court, when you are using someone elses computer/system/network there is NO expectation of privacy unless specificly given to you by the owner. If I own the box, I won't read it, but there's certainly no law keeping me from doing so.
"I even found that I can browse kuro5hin.org throught https."
Thats great, you know how much you're upping the load on that box right? Just in case someone somewhere REALLLLLY wants to know what you're reading on kuro5hin....instead of going to the site themselves.
You mentioned in your question you would be about a mile from your house. One solution would be do simply put a bridge in your car with a directional antenna. Hopefully the parking lot of the playground is close enough that you can get access to the AP in your car from the bench. (Oh, what? You're on a budget?)
In a reply you said you'd like todo some war driving with it. This being the case you might consider opting for something other than a Palm since you're not going to find any decent war driving software for it. I haven't seen any at all yet. Since you sound like a geek, moreover, a slashdot geek, you probably don't want a PocketPC. I have a Sharp Zaurus 5500 that treats me pretty well.
You seem to be implying that Cox is limiting users to 3GB down 1GB up when this is down right false. Cox has imposed a 30GB down, 7GB up SOFT LIMIT. Which means that although this is in thier policy they are not actually restricting everyone, only people that consistantly break the limit every month.
Even in those cases the case is only looked into if they get complaints about speed. I run a monitor on my router and we go over the 30GB limit every month, but no one complains, so Cox doesn't care.
More over, I have no idea why you think the MPAA would stop this, they tend to go after movie pirates more than TV.
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Wtf, mistakes aren't "tolerated" anywhere. You make a mistake and you SHOULD hear about it from someone or else you're going to make the same mistake again. Dolt. I think what amazed people more wasn't that you made the mistake, its that a couple moderators agreed with your mistake.
Frankly, if I were him, I would leave the country. If anyone thinks for a moment that if this guy can ever afford more than $500 a month, that Direct TV won't try to have the payments increased (like child support), they're crazy.
It's more to make a statement to other pirates who are doing this for profit.
Uh. Huh. And you for some reason think that if he was just giving it away for free Direct TV wouldn't have a problem with it? If you tried cracking it and they found out, they would come after you just as hard. They don't care how much money you would have made, they care how much they would have lost. The $180 million wasn't based on the profits this guy was expecting, it was based on how much Direct TV thought they would have lost.
The government spent MY money/taxes investigating, finding, arresting, prosecuting, and now imprisoning this guy. And as soon as he gets out of prison he has to start paying Direct TV from something he might have gotten away with if the government didn't use MY money to bust him?
At least thats how the article reads. It doesn't sound like this was a private thing where Direct TV just took him to court. Sounds to me like this was a government action perhaps prompted by Direct TV (and that other company)
So what it comes down to, is that every american citizen is getting boned in this thing, except Direct TV stock holders. Thats right people, what essentially happened in this case, was that the government took YOUR MONEY and used it to make more money for Direct TV.
Time to write your congress[wo]man. Tell them what you think about this and why it makes no sense! Write them even though they're likely getting a pretty nice kickback from Direct TV
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At my school they've got monitoring software setup. If you're infected, you're dropped off the network. At the switch, no questions asked. If and when the student contacts the help desk as to why thier computer doesn't work on the network they're informed they're infected and told to bring thier machine down to have the patches applied.
Damnit, Project Opie developers are still talking about how many things are going to change when we move to QT3 (for example ensurevisable())
You got it from a friend, its fair use, you shouldn't feel guilty.
I love my Zaurus because developing for it is free and easy. Plus I use it as a laptop replacement, many of the simple tasks I do through the day can be accomplished with the Z in my pocket instead of having to boot my laptop all the time. Yes, my use is a _very_ limited market.
I'm very glad it exists but I do question the marketing dude's approval of such a device. Moreover I question the engineers since almost anyone that actually owns a zaurus will agree with the fact that it is not a consumer level device. Its very rough around the edges and lacks refinement in many aspects. But for the geek...hands down, we have a wiener.
OK - it makes sense for you and you've found a specific use for it. But I doubt that people like you are the intended mass-market for this product...
Um. Actually, anyone that is on call or depends on the timely delivery of exact data is the intended market. For example, almost anyone in the IT industry. Think of the situations:
A) No blackberry. Frantic call from management. "The website is broken!"
"Ok, what doesn't work about it"
"I don't know, but we're getting a lot of calls about it and you need to get your ass off the couch and down to the NOC RIGHT NOW."
This wasn't your fault, you had no way to prevent it. You're getting chewed out anyway, life is so unfair.
B) With blackberry. A box goes down, everything has been logged to a syslog server. You get an email to the little box on your belt moments after it happens with a tail -20 of the relevant logs send out by a script you had setup. You figure out one of the boxes in your load balancing cluster failed and that the remaining machines can handle the load. You login from home and take the machine out of rotation. Management never notices, no one ever complains, you get a good night of sleep and fix the problem the next day.
Thats not the only example, there are many professions that depend on the timely delivery of complex information.
If you can't stay away some hours from your email, you'd better never leave the office.
I sometimes wonder if comments like this are trolls, or just people that don't know what they're talking about. I mean, I guess I can see your point if you're the kind of person that likes to sit at the office hunched over a desk staring into the monitor checking every box repeatedly, just to make sure its still up. Personally I'd much rather go sit in the park, or at home, and let Big Brother email my phone if something dies.
My Sanyo 8100 allows me to turn off location tracking
troll
Actually, the translation is correct. Translatio is mearly the drag queen version of fellatio
"I'm tired of parallel Bender lording his cowboy hat over me!"
Thats still silly tho, if you've got the hashes you can brute force em. Dictionary attack style or just pure brute force of every combo. Granted it still takes a lot longer than the windows attack
I can imagine your brainwaves are somewhere along the lines of:
[_______________________________]
but I'll bite anyway. I still don't think you read the article or you would have noticed the part about compression.
"Someone using the software would e-mail a query to a central server in Boston. The program would search the net, choose the most suitable webpages, compress them and e-mail the results a day later."
Its very likely, that since the target is to use this for information, that the pages would be _highly_ compressed, either reducing image quality or removing many images altogether.
On top of all that, if you had read the article, you would have noticed the part about schools not having net access round-the-clock. This is because the entire joint only has one phone line. Given this limitation, it is far more feasable to have 20 students submit thier search to the teacher and have him submit it that night. Rather than dial up for 30 minutes and have 20 people sharing a dialup line try to search all at the same time, which would cause many of the queries to time out.
" And exactly how slow are these connections anyway? " Again, something you would have found out if you had read the article. Maybe you should go read it again.
RTFA.
Why don't you just scream "HI I'M FROM 'WESTERN' CIVILIZATION AND HAVE NO IDEA HOW THESE THINGS WORK IN LESS PRIVLEGED PLACES"
Google is too slow when your school has one phone line that is used for _everything_, including net access. Not to mention the cost of using the phone anyway. This allows all the students to submit thier searches to a teacher one day, the teacher then submits the all searches with only a couple minutes of dialing up. He can retrieve the compressed results a few days later with only a minutes of dialing up. Now go read the article. Someone needs to mod that post down, hopefully the poster can redeem themselves later in the thread with something insightful.
Troll.
He was mearly pointing out that the government is MS's biggest customer. Not that Microsoft did anything wrong, but that perhaps the government is making an unwise choice (which he didn't say).
This is like saying a band's biggest fan bought thier latest album. It doesn't really mean either side did anything wrong, just that the biggest fan hasn't been looking for a new favorite band. Even though everyone is telling him the band sucks and has always sucked.
Losing 1.1lb of total body weight or 1.1lbs of clothing is a lot different from losing a 1.1lb weight hanging on a strap on your shoulder when you're carrying it around all day.
Its all about how the weight is distributed. Since 1.1lbs of clothes is distributed across a fairly large area of your body you don't notice it as much, likely with body weight.
For another example, see magicians lying on beds of nails. The performers weight is distributed across all the nails. Whereas if all his weight were concentrated on one nail, it would go right thru him.
Thats another 1.1lbs on top of the VIA based solution, might not sound like much now, but it is. I went from a 4.6lb laptop to a 3.6 and man did I see the difference just carrying the thing around campus.
Though the Celeron offers much more performace than the VIA, depends on your priorities. Heck, I hate carrying stuff so much I really just bring my Zaurus now. Btw, would you like to link us to this notebook? I'm sure someone would be interested.
F1 cars are made out of Unobtanium. Is that cool? Sure.
Um, this hasn't been true for some time now. F1 cars are now made of exactly 63% Unobtainium and 47% Bolonium.
This combination gives the kind of tremendous horsepower gains you see in street modifications such as stickers, bright blue neon lights and 19" wheels (also made of the Unobtainium/Bolonium alloy).
"Now, I'm pretty sure that in most places reading your user's mail is illegal."
Reading your users mail is most certainly not illegal. Immoral, sure, but not illegal. This has been tried and tested in court, when you are using someone elses computer/system/network there is NO expectation of privacy unless specificly given to you by the owner. If I own the box, I won't read it, but there's certainly no law keeping me from doing so.
"I even found that I can browse kuro5hin.org throught https."
Thats great, you know how much you're upping the load on that box right? Just in case someone somewhere REALLLLLY wants to know what you're reading on kuro5hin....instead of going to the site themselves.
You mentioned in your question you would be about a mile from your house. One solution would be do simply put a bridge in your car with a directional antenna. Hopefully the parking lot of the playground is close enough that you can get access to the AP in your car from the bench. (Oh, what? You're on a budget?)
In a reply you said you'd like todo some war driving with it. This being the case you might consider opting for something other than a Palm since you're not going to find any decent war driving software for it. I haven't seen any at all yet. Since you sound like a geek, moreover, a slashdot geek, you probably don't want a PocketPC. I have a Sharp Zaurus 5500 that treats me pretty well.
I can answer the "why"
Because we can.
Troll.
You seem to be implying that Cox is limiting users to 3GB down 1GB up when this is down right false. Cox has imposed a 30GB down, 7GB up SOFT LIMIT. Which means that although this is in thier policy they are not actually restricting everyone, only people that consistantly break the limit every month.
Even in those cases the case is only looked into if they get complaints about speed. I run a monitor on my router and we go over the 30GB limit every month, but no one complains, so Cox doesn't care.
More over, I have no idea why you think the MPAA would stop this, they tend to go after movie pirates more than TV.
Wtf, mistakes aren't "tolerated" anywhere. You make a mistake and you SHOULD hear about it from someone or else you're going to make the same mistake again. Dolt. I think what amazed people more wasn't that you made the mistake, its that a couple moderators agreed with your mistake.
Frankly, if I were him, I would leave the country. If anyone thinks for a moment that if this guy can ever afford more than $500 a month, that Direct TV won't try to have the payments increased (like child support), they're crazy.
It's more to make a statement to other pirates who are doing this for profit.
Uh. Huh. And you for some reason think that if he was just giving it away for free Direct TV wouldn't have a problem with it? If you tried cracking it and they found out, they would come after you just as hard. They don't care how much money you would have made, they care how much they would have lost. The $180 million wasn't based on the profits this guy was expecting, it was based on how much Direct TV thought they would have lost.
The government spent MY money/taxes investigating, finding, arresting, prosecuting, and now imprisoning this guy. And as soon as he gets out of prison he has to start paying Direct TV from something he might have gotten away with if the government didn't use MY money to bust him?
At least thats how the article reads. It doesn't sound like this was a private thing where Direct TV just took him to court. Sounds to me like this was a government action perhaps prompted by Direct TV (and that other company)
So what it comes down to, is that every american citizen is getting boned in this thing, except Direct TV stock holders. Thats right people, what essentially happened in this case, was that the government took YOUR MONEY and used it to make more money for Direct TV.
Time to write your congress[wo]man. Tell them what you think about this and why it makes no sense! Write them even though they're likely getting a pretty nice kickback from Direct TV