...so I won't. Yes, the DoS attacks have already been mentioned, but this is a perfect example of what the insurance is there for. If it can be proved (aside from bandwidth theft) that your business suffered a loss because of an attack of this sort, they will recompense you for it accordingly.
It's not like they're insuring solely (if at all) the security of your own systems, but they are offering a source of aid assuming that you fall prey to a business-impacting loss if internet service in one way or another. It's also not like the system won't be defrauded at all, mind you, but then again all insurance systems have been and are being defrauded on some level. These people are either caught or not, and it won't be any more difficult in this setting.
One more thing that hasn't been mentioned in any significant amount yet is the fact that a large number of business have not been significatnly impacted by h/crackers. Many of these would still pay a fair amount for a secure feeling - which, more than anything else, the insurance business is there to provide. I personally would probably pay for this, not because I can't secure a system a fair amount, and not because I think that evil computer geniuses really want to take down my t-shirt shop, but because of self-same "warm fuzzy feeling".
And, of course, the impending puns about the iMick.
Of course you can't neglect Pixar's role in the whole thing. Ultimately, it'll be Apple hardware rendering Pixar's movies to be distributed by Disney. Pun or not, I think that's *DAMN* funny. Not a BAD idea, but an amusing one.
And since nobody's done it yet, can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of Steve Jobs?
Why? Nobody wrote Enlightenment on their PDP-11. If your software doesn't recognize the limitations of your hardware, your software is useless.
That may be true. But nobody built a CD-ROM drive for their COCO either, I'd bet. Although the two technologies were coming around at roughly the same time. All I'm trying to say is that yes, there are now some hardware limitations. There is also a significant advance in the hardware coming and in process right now. Don't blow off WAP as not useful because of hardware limits, until we get past a few of those hardware limits (The recent story on printed mobile screens is one perfect example.)
...but I must admit it makes a disturbing mount of sense. Napster won't kill off the buying of CD's (especially as long as people are trying to fulfill Columbia House membership requirements) but it does put a bit of a damper on the smaller independent music scene. Of course, I'm one of those people that has the MP3's and the CD in most cases, for portable convenience...
As far as AOL and Winamp's copy protection doohickey, I was kinda hoping it *WOULD* come to that - I wouldn't mind having to pay for copyrighted MP3 files (at a reasonable price, of course) as long as I could get JUST the songs I wanted. Sound business decision in the making.
Remember the WAP game developer contest? Anyone done anything interesting with that yet?
Seriously, every setup like that has it's limitations, but then again (flashing back to olden times) who would want a GUI? If you can't remember a few simple commands, you don't need to use the computer. Oh yeah, and it takes too much processor! There isn't enough machine for one! Before we ride WAP out on a rail, let's give the hardware a little more chance to take better advantage of it. It really is a nifty little thing.
I'll bet if we all get together we can make these guys' dreams come true. That's right - Slashdot the C-64 IUMA site, making them the all-time number one downloaded Jewish hip-hop group of all time!
Y'know, that would be nice. Mac's carved out a fairly strong niche as the multimedia platform of choice for graphic/video developers, and with the recent rush of super special effects and full-length 3d animated films, a bunch of the systems crunching away wouldn't be a bad idea.
No, seriously - I've always been a big fan of MacOS, even though I'm usually a Linux geek on a Windows box. I'd like nothing more than to finally be able to run OSX on my PC. The article gave me a new kind of vision on Apple, though - the ties with BSD are something that I had been very vaguely aware of, but not to the extent it appears to be. Maybe Apple was ten steps ahead and waiting for the rest of the world to catch up before they took off again...
I know, I know, I'm just a whiny geek, but what about Thumbcode? You mean I learned a whole system of typing on my hands to produce letters just so they could come up with yet another layout?!? C'mon, man! It's tough enough to learn to type on one keyboard with the continuously-shifting backslash problem, now there's ANOTHER layout?
All whining aside, however, this looks like a really ingenious step toward making wearable computers *USABLE*, as well!
Look at the Playstation 2. Look at the minidisk. Look at this new development.
Sony's going just a little bit too far with the whole "Mine!" thing - closing and restricting copying as much as they can, pretending to be open (PSX2 Hardware), and then challenging developments that would potentially beneficial. I think we'll see somehting with this like we did with bleem! - It's practically a knee-jerk reaction of jealousy. "Sure, it could help us in the long run, but we didn't think of it first, so we're going to stomp it out!" I can see the lawsuits raised over the first generation of copiers for this, and the challenges over "alternate" uses for the players, and a holy host of terrors of litigation.
Sony, please do us a favor. If you're going to continue to develop and keep closed, at least be reasonable and rational about it. I won't even ask you to change that much. Just remember that some of us "other" types like your hardware too.
Because it allows for dissemination of illegal and innapropriate media, let's ban writing of any type aside from the pre-approved literature!
I don't mean to get alarmist, but the biggest thing that scares me about this is the fact that it wasn't a workplace, or a repressed nation, or a government agency that was approached with these "solutions" - it was schools. Campuses. Institutes of higher learning, where people go to get an education. You know, where the frontline of defense of our rights has always been held, by protest or otherwise.
Besides, aside from physically SHUTTING DOWN the entire internet (an impossible feat if there ever was one by now) how can they protect us from ourselves, as they seem to feel they need to?
From a look around the MindPixels site, I must say I'm fairly impressed with the idea of training an AI-consciousness through not just interaction, but through large-scale, longer-term communication with Real Live Human Beings. The question this leads me to, though, is two-part: 1. When GAC is online, working, and trained to a certain extent, what purpose will he/she/it serve aside from a learning experience in the AI consciousness field? 2. Do you think there's a large place for non-human "presences" on the internet at large?
Just a quickie, FYI: There *IS* a new version of "Oscar" for System 8+ (After I wrote my earlier message, I waxed nostalgic and surfed the web to grab another copy - someone sohuld adapt this for windows...) at many of the extension digest sites.
...but didn't a judge already rule that deep hyperlinking was alright? Isn't this just more of the same then? Perhaps if the site linked to a page containing said music files the RIAA would have *NO* say-so in the matter whatsoever, but as the site just links to the content...
Also, the RIAA doesn't care, but how many times does a site with static links send you to WORKING MP3 downloads? Thought so...
First of all, there's the question of hijacking. Talk about a nice court defense to exit a contract signed via computer...
Next, there's the at-the-end verification. I'm certain somewhere there's a paper trail left in order to activate the digital signature...
Finally, there's the potential not just for abuse, but for apathy. When it all turns out, what are the odds that all parties (most notably US government) will *ACCEPT* a digital signature for certain things? Utility companies still require physical written proof of a bill dispute, although you can *PAY* them online...
All in all, however, it doesn't sound like a Bad Thing(tm) to be able to use a digital identification. Just one who's time has come but the Ones In Charge aren't quite ready for.
Does this mean that *GASP* another internet giant is being toppled for *BLINK BLINK* unfair business practices?
I don't think that this is exactly the right tome for it to happen this way, but something did have to be done thusly. It's nice to have some organization to the way one reaches other services conveniently via the net, but there's never been a big need for control thusly.
Hell, I can remember many a Monday I didn't want to get up for school, as Dr. Demento was on at 1AM on monday mornings. I distinctly remember a piece entitled "Symphony for full orchestra with a typewriter" - how's *THAT* for old-school tech producing music?
If anyone knows who that's by, or how to find a copy of it, please mail me - it's been lingering in my mind and I've been waiting for an appropriate time to mention it.
The most redeeming part of this particular article was Intel's for-once genius move. They plan not on targeting the device toward individual consumers, but to businesses that provide internet services to their customers. I for one have been kicked out of many a cyber-coffeeshop for messing with the system. Intel seems almost to be paving the way toward the future portrayed in sci-fi, that of an internet connection as ready as a payphone. Not many other companies share that as a vision for a product. With that strategy, it would be nothing to get Telco support in this.
The problem with this is - you guessed it - proprietary development systems. And, the fact that it's one more resource that they could conceivably lock into Windows, monopoly or not.
Enough complaining, though, about MS - the other thing is that from what little I've seen on it, it looks like a really nifty idea. Not to play sides, here, but this is something I'll prob'ly learn and use (for a little while, anyways)
Does anyone else remember a story about the "wall of shame" - a list of people who attempted to download fake kiddie porn? I knew that as de-centralized as Gnutella was, it wasn't totally anonymous. Of course, it brings out the question of entrapment, if they attempt to enforce it thusly.
I know, I know, completely inconsequential by now, but I feel obligated to defend myself here. 5 distinct syllables in the last line are as follows:/BUT//THE//KIM//CHI//SUCKT/ (Trust me, sucked is one syllable!) And as far as dealing with nature, how much closer could you get than running shoes (a seasonal reference, as opposed to a natural one, the original guideline to haiku)? If you still don't diggit, though, go ask 575. He'll tell you it's alright. And if he doesn't like it, then it's my first creation from my intelligent haiku generator.
Well, *I* for one found the show to be entertaining. The biggest problem I saw was that people were expecting it to be the movie, which it wasn't. (Not by a long shot.) But, I think it certainly had its moments, and when I flipped on ABC last wednesday and saw Spin City, I practically cried - there were supposed to be two more episodes! They were supposed to run at least four! One thing about the show is that it flattened out the characters more than the movie, but in the cases of Jay, Silent Bob, and Randall, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Snootch to the bootch.
Think about bleem!. When it was first released, it wasn't quite the commercial product it is now. But, when it first got to computer stores, it entered the 8.5x11-ish packaging. When it began to sell, the push came to have it more easy to recognize. Then came the humongous boxes. While not particularly environmentally sound, it served the purpose it was designed for.
Keep in mind, however, that we're slowly moving away from shelf-boxes for software into online purchasing - I bought and downloaded Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet (shameless plug) with no paper, or anything else tangible, for that matter, being exchanged. Slimming down the package is secondary now to eliminating it entirely.
Titan AE looked kind of dumb in the previews. I don't think anyone wanted to admit it, but while the previews were impressive, and the animation looks good, the music isn't bad, it looked... well... dumb. Heavy Metal it ain't.
Of course, I still wanna go see Shaft. Gotta love Samuel L. Jackson (Tho' till I see it I say Richard Roundtree did it better).
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...so I won't. Yes, the DoS attacks have already been mentioned, but this is a perfect example of what the insurance is there for. If it can be proved (aside from bandwidth theft) that your business suffered a loss because of an attack of this sort, they will recompense you for it accordingly.
It's not like they're insuring solely (if at all) the security of your own systems, but they are offering a source of aid assuming that you fall prey to a business-impacting loss if internet service in one way or another. It's also not like the system won't be defrauded at all, mind you, but then again all insurance systems have been and are being defrauded on some level. These people are either caught or not, and it won't be any more difficult in this setting.
One more thing that hasn't been mentioned in any significant amount yet is the fact that a large number of business have not been significatnly impacted by h/crackers. Many of these would still pay a fair amount for a secure feeling - which, more than anything else, the insurance business is there to provide. I personally would probably pay for this, not because I can't secure a system a fair amount, and not because I think that evil computer geniuses really want to take down my t-shirt shop, but because of self-same "warm fuzzy feeling".
And, of course, the impending puns about the iMick.
Of course you can't neglect Pixar's role in the whole thing. Ultimately, it'll be Apple hardware rendering Pixar's movies to be distributed by Disney. Pun or not, I think that's *DAMN* funny. Not a BAD idea, but an amusing one.
And since nobody's done it yet, can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of Steve Jobs?
Why? Nobody wrote Enlightenment on their PDP-11. If your software doesn't recognize the limitations of your hardware, your software is useless.
That may be true. But nobody built a CD-ROM drive for their COCO either, I'd bet. Although the two technologies were coming around at roughly the same time. All I'm trying to say is that yes, there are now some hardware limitations. There is also a significant advance in the hardware coming and in process right now. Don't blow off WAP as not useful because of hardware limits, until we get past a few of those hardware limits (The recent story on printed mobile screens is one perfect example.)
...but I must admit it makes a disturbing mount of sense. Napster won't kill off the buying of CD's (especially as long as people are trying to fulfill Columbia House membership requirements) but it does put a bit of a damper on the smaller independent music scene. Of course, I'm one of those people that has the MP3's and the CD in most cases, for portable convenience...
As far as AOL and Winamp's copy protection doohickey, I was kinda hoping it *WOULD* come to that - I wouldn't mind having to pay for copyrighted MP3 files (at a reasonable price, of course) as long as I could get JUST the songs I wanted. Sound business decision in the making.
Remember the WAP game developer contest? Anyone done anything interesting with that yet?
Seriously, every setup like that has it's limitations, but then again (flashing back to olden times) who would want a GUI? If you can't remember a few simple commands, you don't need to use the computer. Oh yeah, and it takes too much processor! There isn't enough machine for one! Before we ride WAP out on a rail, let's give the hardware a little more chance to take better advantage of it. It really is a nifty little thing.
I'll bet if we all get together we can make these guys' dreams come true. That's right - Slashdot the C-64 IUMA site, making them the all-time number one downloaded Jewish hip-hop group of all time!
Y'know, that would be nice. Mac's carved out a fairly strong niche as the multimedia platform of choice for graphic/video developers, and with the recent rush of super special effects and full-length 3d animated films, a bunch of the systems crunching away wouldn't be a bad idea.
...A Beowulf cluster of these?
No, seriously - I've always been a big fan of MacOS, even though I'm usually a Linux geek on a Windows box. I'd like nothing more than to finally be able to run OSX on my PC. The article gave me a new kind of vision on Apple, though - the ties with BSD are something that I had been very vaguely aware of, but not to the extent it appears to be. Maybe Apple was ten steps ahead and waiting for the rest of the world to catch up before they took off again...
I know, I know, I'm just a whiny geek, but what about Thumbcode? You mean I learned a whole system of typing on my hands to produce letters just so they could come up with yet another layout?!? C'mon, man! It's tough enough to learn to type on one keyboard with the continuously-shifting backslash problem, now there's ANOTHER layout?
All whining aside, however, this looks like a really ingenious step toward making wearable computers *USABLE*, as well!
Look at the Playstation 2. Look at the minidisk. Look at this new development.
Sony's going just a little bit too far with the whole "Mine!" thing - closing and restricting copying as much as they can, pretending to be open (PSX2 Hardware), and then challenging developments that would potentially beneficial. I think we'll see somehting with this like we did with bleem! - It's practically a knee-jerk reaction of jealousy. "Sure, it could help us in the long run, but we didn't think of it first, so we're going to stomp it out!" I can see the lawsuits raised over the first generation of copiers for this, and the challenges over "alternate" uses for the players, and a holy host of terrors of litigation.
Sony, please do us a favor. If you're going to continue to develop and keep closed, at least be reasonable and rational about it. I won't even ask you to change that much. Just remember that some of us "other" types like your hardware too.
Because it allows for dissemination of illegal and innapropriate media, let's ban writing of any type aside from the pre-approved literature!
I don't mean to get alarmist, but the biggest thing that scares me about this is the fact that it wasn't a workplace, or a repressed nation, or a government agency that was approached with these "solutions" - it was schools. Campuses. Institutes of higher learning, where people go to get an education. You know, where the frontline of defense of our rights has always been held, by protest or otherwise.
Besides, aside from physically SHUTTING DOWN the entire internet (an impossible feat if there ever was one by now) how can they protect us from ourselves, as they seem to feel they need to?
From a look around the MindPixels site, I must say I'm fairly impressed with the idea of training an AI-consciousness through not just interaction, but through large-scale, longer-term communication with Real Live Human Beings. The question this leads me to, though, is two-part:
1. When GAC is online, working, and trained to a certain extent, what purpose will he/she/it serve aside from a learning experience in the AI consciousness field?
2. Do you think there's a large place for non-human "presences" on the internet at large?
Just a quickie, FYI: There *IS* a new version of "Oscar" for System 8+ (After I wrote my earlier message, I waxed nostalgic and surfed the web to grab another copy - someone sohuld adapt this for windows...) at many of the extension digest sites.
...but didn't a judge already rule that deep hyperlinking was alright? Isn't this just more of the same then? Perhaps if the site linked to a page containing said music files the RIAA would have *NO* say-so in the matter whatsoever, but as the site just links to the content...
Also, the RIAA doesn't care, but how many times does a site with static links send you to WORKING MP3 downloads? Thought so...
First of all, there's the question of hijacking. Talk about a nice court defense to exit a contract signed via computer...
Next, there's the at-the-end verification. I'm certain somewhere there's a paper trail left in order to activate the digital signature...
Finally, there's the potential not just for abuse, but for apathy. When it all turns out, what are the odds that all parties (most notably US government) will *ACCEPT* a digital signature for certain things? Utility companies still require physical written proof of a bill dispute, although you can *PAY* them online...
All in all, however, it doesn't sound like a Bad Thing(tm) to be able to use a digital identification. Just one who's time has come but the Ones In Charge aren't quite ready for.
Does this mean that *GASP* another internet giant is being toppled for *BLINK BLINK* unfair business practices?
I don't think that this is exactly the right tome for it to happen this way, but something did have to be done thusly. It's nice to have some organization to the way one reaches other services conveniently via the net, but there's never been a big need for control thusly.
Of course, I just want Big.Hat for my site.
"Remember the dot-matrix"?
Hell, I can remember many a Monday I didn't want to get up for school, as Dr. Demento was on at 1AM on monday mornings. I distinctly remember a piece entitled "Symphony for full orchestra with a typewriter" - how's *THAT* for old-school tech producing music?
If anyone knows who that's by, or how to find a copy of it, please mail me - it's been lingering in my mind and I've been waiting for an appropriate time to mention it.
The most redeeming part of this particular article was Intel's for-once genius move. They plan not on targeting the device toward individual consumers, but to businesses that provide internet services to their customers. I for one have been kicked out of many a cyber-coffeeshop for messing with the system. Intel seems almost to be paving the way toward the future portrayed in sci-fi, that of an internet connection as ready as a payphone. Not many other companies share that as a vision for a product. With that strategy, it would be nothing to get Telco support in this.
The problem with this is - you guessed it - proprietary development systems. And, the fact that it's one more resource that they could conceivably lock into Windows, monopoly or not.
Enough complaining, though, about MS - the other thing is that from what little I've seen on it, it looks like a really nifty idea. Not to play sides, here, but this is something I'll prob'ly learn and use (for a little while, anyways)
Does anyone else remember a story about the "wall of shame" - a list of people who attempted to download fake kiddie porn? I knew that as de-centralized as Gnutella was, it wasn't totally anonymous. Of course, it brings out the question of entrapment, if they attempt to enforce it thusly.
I know, I know, completely inconsequential by now, but I feel obligated to defend myself here. 5 distinct syllables in the last line are as follows: /BUT/ /THE/ /KIM/ /CHI/ /SUCKT/ (Trust me, sucked is one syllable!) And as far as dealing with nature, how much closer could you get than running shoes (a seasonal reference, as opposed to a natural one, the original guideline to haiku)? If you still don't diggit, though, go ask 575. He'll tell you it's alright. And if he doesn't like it, then it's my first creation from my intelligent haiku generator.
Linux overseas
OS-Labeled running shoes
But the kimchee sucked
Well, *I* for one found the show to be entertaining. The biggest problem I saw was that people were expecting it to be the movie, which it wasn't. (Not by a long shot.) But, I think it certainly had its moments, and when I flipped on ABC last wednesday and saw Spin City, I practically cried - there were supposed to be two more episodes! They were supposed to run at least four!
One thing about the show is that it flattened out the characters more than the movie, but in the cases of Jay, Silent Bob, and Randall, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Snootch to the bootch.
Think about bleem!. When it was first released, it wasn't quite the commercial product it is now. But, when it first got to computer stores, it entered the 8.5x11-ish packaging. When it began to sell, the push came to have it more easy to recognize. Then came the humongous boxes. While not particularly environmentally sound, it served the purpose it was designed for.
Keep in mind, however, that we're slowly moving away from shelf-boxes for software into online purchasing - I bought and downloaded Ray Kurzweil's Cybernetic Poet (shameless plug) with no paper, or anything else tangible, for that matter, being exchanged. Slimming down the package is secondary now to eliminating it entirely.
Titan AE looked kind of dumb in the previews. I don't think anyone wanted to admit it, but while the previews were impressive, and the animation looks good, the music isn't bad, it looked... well... dumb. Heavy Metal it ain't.
Of course, I still wanna go see Shaft. Gotta love Samuel L. Jackson (Tho' till I see it I say Richard Roundtree did it better).