It would make a good wireless media player with the right software. It's a shame there's no video output at all. I suppose there are some USB monitors both dot matrix and LCD.
I'd agree, but the current situation is due to multiple blunders by Sony themselves. As far as I'm concerned they get what they deserve. Basing all their security on a singe Key with no backup plan what-so-ever was just plain incompetent. Corporate execs only learn lessons when they lose lots and lots of money. So lets see just how much money they can lose on this one.
The "hacker" found a weakness in the websites security and exploited it. Then the website found a weakness in the hackers security and did the same in turn. You'd think the hacker in question would be a little more secure about their own personal information.
More likely they want to move content to the cloud to enforce their DRM. Get ready for consoles to require an internet connection, because it's not that far off.
So they release this at the exact same time one of the largest middle eastern countries is undergoing a revolution? I EXPECT the FBI to be pulling shit like this, and rely on organizations like the EFF to uncover it. But if the EFF is so Tech and New Media savvy, it didn't occur to them that they might want to release this information on a slow news day as apposed to releasing it in the middle of the biggest story to hit the media in the past 2 years? there by assuring it will be completely missed by Mondays new cycle?!?! It's just plain incompetent.
The problem isn't the local loop, its the ISP. Figure out how to get them to feed my neighborhood with more than 2 T1s and maybe we'll be getting somewhere.
If you hook the internet up to an atomic bomb, and then fire all but one of your bomb squad techs because the 1 can now disarm them all remotely and it will save you money... the internet can certainly turn into a threat. Most industries in the United States have done something similar but less dramatic in recent years.
Unfortunately for the Feds, the threat comes from the LACK of the internet, not the its existence. Their kill-switch would do a lot more damage than any attack using it ever could.
When is someone going to invent a Wireless peer to peer messaging system? I know it will suck, and there's all kinds of security problems, but in situations like this it would be invaluable.
I'm kind of interested in what's going to happen here. It was widely reported on every news affiliate that Anonymous was PROTESTING these companies. I heard several news casters compare the DDOS attack to a picket line outside a business. The picketers make it harder for customers to go to the business, just like a DDOS attack does.
I'd like to see what the supreme court makes of it. After all, the companies that were targeted certainly had the means to thwart the attack, Paypal and Amazon didn't even have a hiccup.
If I put my money in a bank, I don't pay the bank to keep it. If the Banks security is so lax that bank robbers were able to run off with millions of the banks money (including my money) and then the bank sued the robbers and got the money back, don't you think the money should be give back to me?
And Personal information IS money. If it weren't, there wouldn't be a Facebook in the first place.
I was in grade school... home from the day for some reason (sick maybe?) and I was watching cartoons on the local CBS/NBC affiliate. Then they cut in with the shuttle launch. KABOOM. My parents weren't home. I just sat there watching the news for hours on end. It was the first time I was ever interested in what was on the news. By the time my parents got home I knew more about space shuttles than any grade school student should ever know.
You clearly do not understand how the process works. This has already happened to hundreds of smaller banks across the country. The feds come in on a Friday night, shut the bank down. They fire all of the top level management, go through the banks books. On Monday the bank opens just like they always would have, just under new owners. From the consumers prospective nothing has changed. The bank then goes on the auction block and is sold to the highest bidder. The Government does not manage the money, they simple own the bank for a few months before its sold. Often the government even has a buyer lined up before they even move in. The banks federalized for less than 24hrs in that situation.
You clearly do not understand the situation. Most large Banks are currently insolvent. They are Bankrupt, literally. The Federal government have suspended Mark to Market rules, allowing Banks to decide for themselves what their assets are worth and ignore their market value. The banks are not on the verge of failure... they failed 2 years ago and continue to be insolvent today with the blessing of the federal government. Your savings is most likely currently in a bank that does not have the required assets to pay their debtors (you being one of them.)
Nationalizing the banks would have absolutely no affect on you whatsoever. Your savings would be backed by the federal reserve. The feds would step in on a Friday, fire the banks management, reorganize and reopen them on Monday as a federally owned bank (they do this to smaller banks ALL THE TIME. Hundreds in the past 2 years. After a few months they'd find a buyer for the bank and sell it. The banks customers would see no difference in operations. They'd have no hand in the inner workings of the bank. Again, this happens hundreds of times a year with smaller banks.
Nationalize the Banks - before it gets any worse. If this were happening to any other country on earth the State Department would be leaning heavily on them to nationalize their failing banks. It's happened hundreds of times in the past and will happen again. Now that it's us, we're just too damned proud to suck it up and do what needs to be done.
Your cap does absolutely nothing to alleviate your ISPs network congestion. The problem is that everyone wants to download stuff at the same time. Everyone watches netflix on Friday and Saturday nights. Porn at 2am. Checks their mail at 6pm. The cap is nothing more than a way to siphon cash off of you. The trunks your ISP has feeding your neighborhood can either handle peek hours or they can't. The only thing the cap discourages is long tern data transfer projects like torrenting. But torrenting doesn't really affect their peak hours as it's like a constant background noise. Even if you had a 15MB unlimited connection, you'd be hard pressed to find enough torrents and hard drive space to keep it peaked out for very long.
Slashdot Mirror
He bedazzled a satellite dish, mounted it on a wagon with a 2x4 a painted it silver? This made it on Slashdot?
They are most certainly habitable. There is no doubt. The only questions is if humans could inhabit them. The title is correct.
Exactly, given the right cellphone app to decode them, a gas station attendant could clean up.
It would make a good wireless media player with the right software. It's a shame there's no video output at all. I suppose there are some USB monitors both dot matrix and LCD.
I'd agree, but the current situation is due to multiple blunders by Sony themselves. As far as I'm concerned they get what they deserve. Basing all their security on a singe Key with no backup plan what-so-ever was just plain incompetent. Corporate execs only learn lessons when they lose lots and lots of money. So lets see just how much money they can lose on this one.
The "hacker" found a weakness in the websites security and exploited it. Then the website found a weakness in the hackers security and did the same in turn. You'd think the hacker in question would be a little more secure about their own personal information.
More likely they want to move content to the cloud to enforce their DRM. Get ready for consoles to require an internet connection, because it's not that far off.
Unfortunately, no... we are to blame. Stop voting Democrat/Republican if you want to get off this merry-go-round.
So they release this at the exact same time one of the largest middle eastern countries is undergoing a revolution? I EXPECT the FBI to be pulling shit like this, and rely on organizations like the EFF to uncover it. But if the EFF is so Tech and New Media savvy, it didn't occur to them that they might want to release this information on a slow news day as apposed to releasing it in the middle of the biggest story to hit the media in the past 2 years? there by assuring it will be completely missed by Mondays new cycle?!?! It's just plain incompetent.
The problem isn't the local loop, its the ISP. Figure out how to get them to feed my neighborhood with more than 2 T1s and maybe we'll be getting somewhere.
If you hook the internet up to an atomic bomb, and then fire all but one of your bomb squad techs because the 1 can now disarm them all remotely and it will save you money... the internet can certainly turn into a threat. Most industries in the United States have done something similar but less dramatic in recent years.
Unfortunately for the Feds, the threat comes from the LACK of the internet, not the its existence. Their kill-switch would do a lot more damage than any attack using it ever could.
When is someone going to invent a Wireless peer to peer messaging system? I know it will suck, and there's all kinds of security problems, but in situations like this it would be invaluable.
I'm kind of interested in what's going to happen here. It was widely reported on every news affiliate that Anonymous was PROTESTING these companies. I heard several news casters compare the DDOS attack to a picket line outside a business. The picketers make it harder for customers to go to the business, just like a DDOS attack does.
I'd like to see what the supreme court makes of it. After all, the companies that were targeted certainly had the means to thwart the attack, Paypal and Amazon didn't even have a hiccup.
Irony:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/12/01/206200/Wikileaks-DDoS-Attacker-Arrested-Equipment-Seized
If I put my money in a bank, I don't pay the bank to keep it. If the Banks security is so lax that bank robbers were able to run off with millions of the banks money (including my money) and then the bank sued the robbers and got the money back, don't you think the money should be give back to me?
And Personal information IS money. If it weren't, there wouldn't be a Facebook in the first place.
I was in grade school... home from the day for some reason (sick maybe?) and I was watching cartoons on the local CBS/NBC affiliate. Then they cut in with the shuttle launch. KABOOM. My parents weren't home. I just sat there watching the news for hours on end. It was the first time I was ever interested in what was on the news. By the time my parents got home I knew more about space shuttles than any grade school student should ever know.
You clearly do not understand how the process works. This has already happened to hundreds of smaller banks across the country. The feds come in on a Friday night, shut the bank down. They fire all of the top level management, go through the banks books. On Monday the bank opens just like they always would have, just under new owners. From the consumers prospective nothing has changed. The bank then goes on the auction block and is sold to the highest bidder. The Government does not manage the money, they simple own the bank for a few months before its sold. Often the government even has a buyer lined up before they even move in. The banks federalized for less than 24hrs in that situation.
This is exactly what we need. They should run this test daily and have a website dedicated to it.
Better yet, the FCC should be running the test.
"the NGP will have two proprietary memory card slots."
You'd think Sony would have learned by now.
So, after watching the video... it looks like they've invented a wiki... for leaks... amazing concept really.
Because Sourceforge only hosts Linux software right?
You clearly do not understand the situation. Most large Banks are currently insolvent. They are Bankrupt, literally. The Federal government have suspended Mark to Market rules, allowing Banks to decide for themselves what their assets are worth and ignore their market value. The banks are not on the verge of failure... they failed 2 years ago and continue to be insolvent today with the blessing of the federal government. Your savings is most likely currently in a bank that does not have the required assets to pay their debtors (you being one of them.)
Nationalizing the banks would have absolutely no affect on you whatsoever. Your savings would be backed by the federal reserve. The feds would step in on a Friday, fire the banks management, reorganize and reopen them on Monday as a federally owned bank (they do this to smaller banks ALL THE TIME. Hundreds in the past 2 years. After a few months they'd find a buyer for the bank and sell it. The banks customers would see no difference in operations. They'd have no hand in the inner workings of the bank. Again, this happens hundreds of times a year with smaller banks.
Nationalize the Banks - before it gets any worse.
If this were happening to any other country on earth the State Department would be leaning heavily on them to nationalize their failing banks. It's happened hundreds of times in the past and will happen again. Now that it's us, we're just too damned proud to suck it up and do what needs to be done.
Your cap does absolutely nothing to alleviate your ISPs network congestion. The problem is that everyone wants to download stuff at the same time. Everyone watches netflix on Friday and Saturday nights. Porn at 2am. Checks their mail at 6pm. The cap is nothing more than a way to siphon cash off of you. The trunks your ISP has feeding your neighborhood can either handle peek hours or they can't. The only thing the cap discourages is long tern data transfer projects like torrenting. But torrenting doesn't really affect their peak hours as it's like a constant background noise. Even if you had a 15MB unlimited connection, you'd be hard pressed to find enough torrents and hard drive space to keep it peaked out for very long.
I'm currently aware of a town with 40,000 DSL customers in it that's fed by a single 50mb trunk. No redundancy either.