I don't know about you guys, but I feel like it's more likely that this kind of technology will become 3G than the third generation mobile networks themselves.
What's the encryption like on VOIP? Would something like PGP be possible?
In theory, the following applies... in practice I have no idea:)
Since VOIP is transferred in IP packets and packets can be encrypted encryption should be possible.
Since PGP is public key encryption and this is fairly standard there shouldn't be any problems there either.
The real issue is that whatever the solution it has to be part of the standard... otherwise it's pretty meaningless, unless your dodgy friend also has a custom encryption solution, and then I guess one could tunnel VOIP through an SSH tunnel just as well.
I suspect that VOIP technologies have incorporated encryption, but I'm not educated on the subject. Would someone care to fill in?
Sounds like... some of the German politicians are forgetting their own history. That war was the only way to resolve the conflict they started in WW2.
Despite the fact that history has a lot of examples of using war as a means of solving conflict that doesn't mean it should be encouraged.
I haven't played C&C Generals, but it does make sense to restrict games which encourage violence... Many parents don't even look what games are on their children's wish lists... they just buy them. The extra effort needed to get the game might help highlight the fact that not all "games" are for children.
Isn't it interresting how graphics adapters use the fastest memory available these days, not the CPU. Not counting L1/2/3 caches that is...
This really goes to show how humans are visual animals above all. I wonder how much more power could be squeesed out of porcessors if we were to use memory like this and wider buses...
If I tell you to commit murder and you do, am I responsible? How about if I stand up on a soapbox and hand out guns to a crowd, telling everyone to commit murder? Those who are accepting the guns and pulling the triggers are still moral agents responsible for their actions.
Good point. However, the law in most places would dictate that you had assisted to murder. In some murder cases the people doing the actual killing have gotten milder sentences than those who are determined to be the "mastermind" of the crime.
I'm not saying it's a good thing, but I am saying it's the law.
It seems fair to me that someone trying to cheat on PPV charges would get burned.
A more interresting question is who did more wrong... Is it worse to try and circumvent PPV charges, or are the people selling these devices the real bad guys?
OK... This is exactly why you SHOULD read the articles... I just posted blatantly off topic due to an annoying quick-read = misread mistake... yay me:)
Writing XML by hand sure is no picnic. But I don't see writing XML by hand as something we should strive to do.
XML is great for file formats. It's waaay better than binary formats. It's not as compact, but that is rarely an issue these days. Having a standard, structred, text-based, and editable-by-hand-when-necessary format is a godsend. Period.
Peercast will die the fate of popular P2P networks. Hailed as "the more users the better it works", the reality is: "too many users and it dies becasue non of these users have enough bandwidth to be hub". I have seen 10Mbit connections die because a PC was a Kazaa host. Kazaa saw it had a lot of bandwidth and made it a master. Ofcourse IT infrastructure shut this PC down.
A carefully designed P2P protocol will not necessarily suffer this fate. If I remember correctly the PeerCast protocol is designed to avoid this by rerouting streams when a link gets saturated.
Generally speaking design can greatly affect a P2P network. I'm not surprised that Kazaa would have a problem like this, but don't forget that even DNS and Usenet are in a very real sense P2P applications. P2P doesn't mean that an application has to be completely disstributed (like gnutella) or centralized (like napster). P2P is about having autonomous nodes accomplishing a task together. Protocol design is the key to harnessing all that power lying around.
Not necessarily. Unless I'm misinformed IP broadcasting enables streaming to multiple recipients using one TCP-feed. And solutions like PeerCast are creating yet another option.
My WLAN enabled home media server plan is getting hotter by the minute... bwahahaaa!
No, but seriously, this is really the solution which makes sense... Why do you have to physically put a disc into your stereo to listen to something? It should be enough to buy the rights to listening (CD or not), have it on a media server of your own or stream right off the net.
Think of the possibilities for internet radio stations and indie artists if every home stereo could do stuff like that... yay!:)
I believe Wired is right on the spot when it comes to a screen technology incorporated into a pair of glasses. It's really the only thing that makes sense when you need your hands.
But it's not just for athletes. Technology like that is already being used in medicine (look up stuff while you operate), and I believe that when you couple it with GPS navigation you could do way cool navigational aids (think drawing arrows on the ground, you just follow).
I've been waiting for this a long time already... why can't it be ready now?;)
There have been rumors about AMD going for a 400MHz bus for quite some time now. Some chipsets even have experimental support for it. With the Athlon 64 being delayed until September I would say that is the only way for AMD to try and stay competitive with the Barton core.
Maybe I'm being a little arrogant, but I still feel this isn't really much to be that excited about.
Water may not be the only liquid that makes a suitable carrier for life, but it would be really hard to find a more suitable one. Human experiments to use alcohol instead are rarely successful for very long.
With the life we know, this indeed holds true. But I'm sure there could be life based on any number of weird building blocks, we just don't have them here. If you ask me, DNA/RNA aren't even required for life, life is a different concept altogether, very hard to define though.
But seriously, water has lot's of great advantages, but I would presume the (hopefully) random nature of the universe could easily have come up with other working combinations which could be called life, even if they didn't involve water, or even DNA/RNA.
Before I start to look like an anal hair-splitter (did I just write that?), I'd like to say that your comment was very convincing. I just like to question everyting, and then some!
If we presume that we could get the atmosphere right and get a working plant/microbe/insect life going, I still doubt we could manage to balance the ecosystem properly.
We still haven't charted all species on our own planet, and figuring out how they all interact in the ecosystem is a greater effort still.
It's not that I think it's impossible, I just doubt that the first attempt at terraforming would de successful. Using a subset of the possible flora and fauna would help a lot though.
I've got some experience with Debian's package management system, and while hard to use for a novice and somewhat complex there is one great benefit: conflict and dependency handling.
Based on the article I didn't quite understand if Stow provides similar services. There were some hints on this, but could someone with experience shed some light on the subject?
I'm betting they are going to destroy the tag the minute you checkout so it won't beep when you walk out the store. They'll probably use the rfid tags as a new way to put security tags on the clothing instead of those heavy dongles you see sometimes on expensive clothing.
If the tags have memory, wouldn't it be possible to have a bought-bit? By setting that you won't beep and they can still track you.
If you ask me it should be mandatory to remove the tags upon purchasing the product. The abuse risk is just too great.
A million people are going to watch some no-brain spout his pointless opinions?
You're missing the point. The question I raised had nothing to do with the probability of people wanting to watch these blogs. I'm simply hypothesising, and wondering if the net can take it or not.
Doesn't this just sound like fiber optics without the fiber?
There is one critical difference: ease of installation. Installing a fiber optic line is really cumbersome, since it involves lots and lots of digging.
This could really be something for high speed communications infrastructures. Take cities: digging is hard, and radiowaves pletiful, even so much as to people being afraid of them.
Pigeons could be a problem though;)
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I don't know about you guys, but I feel like it's more likely that this kind of technology will become 3G than the third generation mobile networks themselves.
What's the encryption like on VOIP? Would something like PGP be possible?
:)
In theory, the following applies... in practice I have no idea
Since VOIP is transferred in IP packets and packets can be encrypted encryption should be possible.
Since PGP is public key encryption and this is fairly standard there shouldn't be any problems there either.
The real issue is that whatever the solution it has to be part of the standard... otherwise it's pretty meaningless, unless your dodgy friend also has a custom encryption solution, and then I guess one could tunnel VOIP through an SSH tunnel just as well.
I suspect that VOIP technologies have incorporated encryption, but I'm not educated on the subject. Would someone care to fill in?
Sounds like... some of the German politicians are forgetting their own history. That war was the only way to resolve the conflict they started in WW2.
Despite the fact that history has a lot of examples of using war as a means of solving conflict that doesn't mean it should be encouraged.
I haven't played C&C Generals, but it does make sense to restrict games which encourage violence... Many parents don't even look what games are on their children's wish lists... they just buy them. The extra effort needed to get the game might help highlight the fact that not all "games" are for children.
Isn't it interresting how graphics adapters use the fastest memory available these days, not the CPU. Not counting L1/2/3 caches that is...
This really goes to show how humans are visual animals above all. I wonder how much more power could be squeesed out of porcessors if we were to use memory like this and wider buses...
"The Windows NT Workstation 3.5 release provided the highest degree of protection yet for critical business applications and data."
While I enjoy nostalgic work such as this, I can live without this kind of revisionist commentary.
Actually I used NT 3.5 and 3.51 for several years with practically no OS-level crashes. That surely is some degree of protection?
If I tell you to commit murder and you do, am I responsible? How about if I stand up on a soapbox and hand out guns to a crowd, telling everyone to commit murder? Those who are accepting the guns and pulling the triggers are still moral agents responsible for their actions.
Good point. However, the law in most places would dictate that you had assisted to murder. In some murder cases the people doing the actual killing have gotten milder sentences than those who are determined to be the "mastermind" of the crime.
I'm not saying it's a good thing, but I am saying it's the law.
It seems fair to me that someone trying to cheat on PPV charges would get burned.
A more interresting question is who did more wrong... Is it worse to try and circumvent PPV charges, or are the people selling these devices the real bad guys?
Opinions?
Why is IDNRTA an excuse? This is 100% irrelevant.
:)
You're absolutely right. Then again, if you would have read my reply to my own comment you would have noticed I realized my mistake
First of all IDNRTA (I Did Not Read The Article)
:)
;)
OK... This is exactly why you SHOULD read the articles... I just posted blatantly off topic due to an annoying quick-read = misread mistake... yay me
Mod me down, I deserve it
First of all IDNRTA (I Did Not Read The Article).
Writing XML by hand sure is no picnic. But I don't see writing XML by hand as something we should strive to do.
XML is great for file formats. It's waaay better than binary formats. It's not as compact, but that is rarely an issue these days. Having a standard, structred, text-based, and editable-by-hand-when-necessary format is a godsend. Period.
Peercast will die the fate of popular P2P networks. Hailed as "the more users the better it works", the reality is: "too many users and it dies becasue non of these users have enough bandwidth to be hub". I have seen 10Mbit connections die because a PC was a Kazaa host. Kazaa saw it had a lot of bandwidth and made it a master. Ofcourse IT infrastructure shut this PC down.
A carefully designed P2P protocol will not necessarily suffer this fate. If I remember correctly the PeerCast protocol is designed to avoid this by rerouting streams when a link gets saturated.
Generally speaking design can greatly affect a P2P network. I'm not surprised that Kazaa would have a problem like this, but don't forget that even DNS and Usenet are in a very real sense P2P applications. P2P doesn't mean that an application has to be completely disstributed (like gnutella) or centralized (like napster). P2P is about having autonomous nodes accomplishing a task together. Protocol design is the key to harnessing all that power lying around.
Their servers would die because of the overload
Not necessarily. Unless I'm misinformed IP broadcasting enables streaming to multiple recipients using one TCP-feed. And solutions like PeerCast are creating yet another option.
My WLAN enabled home media server plan is getting hotter by the minute... bwahahaaa!
:)
No, but seriously, this is really the solution which makes sense... Why do you have to physically put a disc into your stereo to listen to something? It should be enough to buy the rights to listening (CD or not), have it on a media server of your own or stream right off the net.
Think of the possibilities for internet radio stations and indie artists if every home stereo could do stuff like that... yay!
I believe Wired is right on the spot when it comes to a screen technology incorporated into a pair of glasses. It's really the only thing that makes sense when you need your hands.
;)
But it's not just for athletes. Technology like that is already being used in medicine (look up stuff while you operate), and I believe that when you couple it with GPS navigation you could do way cool navigational aids (think drawing arrows on the ground, you just follow).
I've been waiting for this a long time already... why can't it be ready now?
There have been rumors about AMD going for a 400MHz bus for quite some time now. Some chipsets even have experimental support for it. With the Athlon 64 being delayed until September I would say that is the only way for AMD to try and stay competitive with the Barton core.
Maybe I'm being a little arrogant, but I still feel this isn't really much to be that excited about.
Water may not be the only liquid that makes a suitable carrier for life, but it would be really hard to find a more suitable one. Human experiments to use alcohol instead are rarely successful for very long.
With the life we know, this indeed holds true. But I'm sure there could be life based on any number of weird building blocks, we just don't have them here. If you ask me, DNA/RNA aren't even required for life, life is a different concept altogether, very hard to define though.
But seriously, water has lot's of great advantages, but I would presume the (hopefully) random nature of the universe could easily have come up with other working combinations which could be called life, even if they didn't involve water, or even DNA/RNA.
Before I start to look like an anal hair-splitter (did I just write that?), I'd like to say that your comment was very convincing. I just like to question everyting, and then some!
If we presume that we could get the atmosphere right and get a working plant/microbe/insect life going, I still doubt we could manage to balance the ecosystem properly.
We still haven't charted all species on our own planet, and figuring out how they all interact in the ecosystem is a greater effort still.
It's not that I think it's impossible, I just doubt that the first attempt at terraforming would de successful. Using a subset of the possible flora and fauna would help a lot though.
Thoughts?
What sort of applications would this be used for?
:)
Armed with this and a crossover cable you could do instant network card, network settings and browser settings tests.
A hell of a lot easier than debugging your network to see if a workstation is working properly. In some scenarios anyway
There are some interresting points in there... and judging from the post amount this early, many didn't ;)
:)
Yes I am off topic
I've got some experience with Debian's package management system, and while hard to use for a novice and somewhat complex there is one great benefit: conflict and dependency handling.
Based on the article I didn't quite understand if Stow provides similar services. There were some hints on this, but could someone with experience shed some light on the subject?
I'm betting they are going to destroy the tag the minute you checkout so it won't beep when you walk out the store. They'll probably use the rfid tags as a new way to put security tags on the clothing instead of those heavy dongles you see sometimes on expensive clothing.
If the tags have memory, wouldn't it be possible to have a bought-bit? By setting that you won't beep and they can still track you.
If you ask me it should be mandatory to remove the tags upon purchasing the product. The abuse risk is just too great.
Just my two cents anyway.
A million people are going to watch some no-brain spout his pointless opinions?
You're missing the point. The question I raised had nothing to do with the probability of people wanting to watch these blogs. I'm simply hypothesising, and wondering if the net can take it or not.
I like the idea. What I'm thinking about is what happens when ten thousand people start blogging and a million watches their blogs?
Can the current Internet take that kind of an onslaught?
Doesn't this just sound like fiber optics without the fiber?
;)
There is one critical difference: ease of installation. Installing a fiber optic line is really cumbersome, since it involves lots and lots of digging.
This could really be something for high speed communications infrastructures. Take cities: digging is hard, and radiowaves pletiful, even so much as to people being afraid of them.
Pigeons could be a problem though
In fact, that seems quite pointless and the main focus of the article should be on the tiny chip
That has already been done.