Clearly in a scenario where the ISP is not involved RADIUS will do nothing. However many Wireless APs are installed along with the DSL modem by the ISP. In such cases RADIUS could ensure that authorized users are the only ones allowed.
Other situations you mentioned don't have a good solution because they are by definition outside of the ISP's control. I doubt this ruling could be enforced in a situation where the ISP did not install the AP, for the exact reasons you have stated.
I suppose they could require every wireless AP to authenticate its users to a RADIUS server. Of course that means strict control over all the types of APs used and no one really wants that, but that would certainly provided the authentication, albeit being a giant pain for the ISP and the customers.
The technologies exist, they just aren't cheap or very user friendly.
Yes but this way they can give it a fun sounding name with a happy acronym like FUNS (Free Unlicenced Not-free Software) or FAIRN (Free Although Its Really Not).
Or even better: FAIBNFAIL (Free As In Beer, Not Free As In Libre).
Ignore that it doesn't quite conform to any of those.
88% of Democratic economists think Obama would be best, while 80% of Republican economists pick McCain
More likely Economists deal mostly in the realms of academia which contain a good percentage more liberals than conservatives, so the likelihood of being conservative and wanting to work with people who don't share your beliefs would seem to be fairly low.
Also one might conjecture that Conservatives just want to learn economic so they can make money, not just watch other people do it, haha./stereotype
Even more epic than the knowledge that this exists is that you can't get to it on Firefox! Coded for IE only with "improvements coming soon" for Firefox. Welcome to the Internets of the 90s WalMart.
Convenience is the root of most such problems. Would it be safer to not have such machines connected to the internet? Sure, but it would be damn inconvenient if the scientists couldn't get to their Email.
I couldn't agree more. The court's opinion here is spot on. It is not the job of the Court System to fix the laws, that is for the legislature of that region. If anything the attorneys who suggested that the law be amended from the bench were the ones at fault here.
As evidenced by the thousands of Harry Potter supplement books that are already on the market, all this judge has done is slapped down a lazy, plagiarizing author.
Pretty much all of California is this way. I used to live in Silicon Valley, and then LA Area, and now San Diego. All have the DSL vs Cable company choice. All of them suck unless you live next door to the DSL central office and can get the Super Elite Premium Ultra Tier of DSL. And even that is worse than anything that FIOS would give.
Manufacturing doesn't just put wires wherever. This is clearly a case of Sony calling it a manufacturing defect to cover their legal asses in case of Class Action lawsuits.
They can then allege that this was only in X thousand laptops because they were built wrong, not because they were designed to be wrong.
Protect yourself from Phishing emails by visiting www.NHTCU.org and giving us all of your information. We're a High Tech Crime Unit! We would never misused your information, honest.
It's a series of tubes!!
You can't possibly fit more in than the tubes can carry./facepalm
Or you could just, you know, not use the FREE electricity that was produced. I know its not the most efficient use, but come on...
Its not like there aren't windy places all over the country. I can bet everyone can think of such a place near to them. So just build a bunch and waste some power. Then work on upgrading the system and have a whole crap ton of extra power to export to whomever later.
The point is that a human doing either is wasting their time. There are easier and more profitable things to do when you have the hardware in your hands (like sell it to someone else) than try to break into the home screen.
I can see why an emergency call button is necessary, but why did they change the functionality of it? To my knowledge it was working fine (permitting 911/etc only) in previous generations.
I never understand why companies/groups/whoever make these sort of checks in the first place.
Why does it matter at all what OS you're using? Isn't displaying the webpage the browser's job? And clearly the browser is installed on your OS correctly or you wouldn't be on the internet at all. Silly.
Given the multi-national congregation that is the net, I can't really see how this could be enforced anyhow. It could be easily circumvented by simply hosting your blog in Britain, or Congo, or anywhere else in the world without this rule. There's no law saying you can't blog about American politcs from abroad (and many people already do).
Considering the requirements laid out in TFA, I am exceedingly dubious that they will come up with anything for this price tag. Also note this same company got $13 Million for a program to quickly translate documents for the military.
I'm guessing that one will also go nowhere. Security and Translation are two notoriously difficult things to get right.
The problem there is that flat monitors are so much easier to make and take up much less room. Convincing people sitting at a desk to install spheres or bowls to use their computers is unlikely at best.
Of course that is besides the point, when you consider that manufacturing such devices is probably equally hard. Much easier to develop 1 new sensor that intergrates into the rest of the system, than a system to fit 1 sensor.
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Still though one wonders how someone can be running an ISP with 78% hostile traffic and not realize something is up.
I think Cisco's entire marketing strategy is to buy out companies of products they wish they had and then rebrand and sell them.
Can I replace Chambers as the CEO?
Mod Parent Up. Seriously that comment should basically disqualify anyone attempting to do scientific research or prove anything about anything.
Clearly in a scenario where the ISP is not involved RADIUS will do nothing. However many Wireless APs are installed along with the DSL modem by the ISP. In such cases RADIUS could ensure that authorized users are the only ones allowed.
Other situations you mentioned don't have a good solution because they are by definition outside of the ISP's control. I doubt this ruling could be enforced in a situation where the ISP did not install the AP, for the exact reasons you have stated.
I suppose they could require every wireless AP to authenticate its users to a RADIUS server. Of course that means strict control over all the types of APs used and no one really wants that, but that would certainly provided the authentication, albeit being a giant pain for the ISP and the customers.
The technologies exist, they just aren't cheap or very user friendly.
Yes but this way they can give it a fun sounding name with a happy acronym like FUNS (Free Unlicenced Not-free Software) or FAIRN (Free Although Its Really Not).
Or even better: FAIBNFAIL (Free As In Beer, Not Free As In Libre).
Ignore that it doesn't quite conform to any of those.
88% of Democratic economists think Obama would be best, while 80% of Republican economists pick McCain
More likely Economists deal mostly in the realms of academia which contain a good percentage more liberals than conservatives, so the likelihood of being conservative and wanting to work with people who don't share your beliefs would seem to be fairly low.
Also one might conjecture that Conservatives just want to learn economic so they can make money, not just watch other people do it, haha. /stereotype
its actually surprising how forthcoming he was about his own biases too. A nice change from the majority of statistics that show up on the internets.
Even more epic than the knowledge that this exists is that you can't get to it on Firefox! Coded for IE only with "improvements coming soon" for Firefox. Welcome to the Internets of the 90s WalMart.
Convenience is the root of most such problems. Would it be safer to not have such machines connected to the internet? Sure, but it would be damn inconvenient if the scientists couldn't get to their Email.
I couldn't agree more. The court's opinion here is spot on. It is not the job of the Court System to fix the laws, that is for the legislature of that region. If anything the attorneys who suggested that the law be amended from the bench were the ones at fault here.
As evidenced by the thousands of Harry Potter supplement books that are already on the market, all this judge has done is slapped down a lazy, plagiarizing author.
Didn't this already happen? Or is this just Deja Vu all over again? I could have sworn I heard about this lawsuit several weeks ago.
Pretty much all of California is this way. I used to live in Silicon Valley, and then LA Area, and now San Diego. All have the DSL vs Cable company choice. All of them suck unless you live next door to the DSL central office and can get the Super Elite Premium Ultra Tier of DSL. And even that is worse than anything that FIOS would give.
Insightful? LOL. Mod Parent up. That just made my day.
Manufacturing doesn't just put wires wherever. This is clearly a case of Sony calling it a manufacturing defect to cover their legal asses in case of Class Action lawsuits.
They can then allege that this was only in X thousand laptops because they were built wrong, not because they were designed to be wrong.
Protect yourself from Phishing emails by visiting www.NHTCU.org and giving us all of your information. We're a High Tech Crime Unit! We would never misused your information, honest.
Can you prove it?
It's a series of tubes!! You can't possibly fit more in than the tubes can carry. /facepalm
Or you could just, you know, not use the FREE electricity that was produced. I know its not the most efficient use, but come on...
Its not like there aren't windy places all over the country. I can bet everyone can think of such a place near to them. So just build a bunch and waste some power. Then work on upgrading the system and have a whole crap ton of extra power to export to whomever later.
The point is that a human doing either is wasting their time. There are easier and more profitable things to do when you have the hardware in your hands (like sell it to someone else) than try to break into the home screen.
I can see why an emergency call button is necessary, but why did they change the functionality of it? To my knowledge it was working fine (permitting 911/etc only) in previous generations.
I never understand why companies/groups/whoever make these sort of checks in the first place. Why does it matter at all what OS you're using? Isn't displaying the webpage the browser's job? And clearly the browser is installed on your OS correctly or you wouldn't be on the internet at all. Silly.
Given the multi-national congregation that is the net, I can't really see how this could be enforced anyhow. It could be easily circumvented by simply hosting your blog in Britain, or Congo, or anywhere else in the world without this rule. There's no law saying you can't blog about American politcs from abroad (and many people already do).
Considering the requirements laid out in TFA, I am exceedingly dubious that they will come up with anything for this price tag. Also note this same company got $13 Million for a program to quickly translate documents for the military. I'm guessing that one will also go nowhere. Security and Translation are two notoriously difficult things to get right.
The problem there is that flat monitors are so much easier to make and take up much less room. Convincing people sitting at a desk to install spheres or bowls to use their computers is unlikely at best. Of course that is besides the point, when you consider that manufacturing such devices is probably equally hard. Much easier to develop 1 new sensor that intergrates into the rest of the system, than a system to fit 1 sensor.