BT, an ISP, cooperates with Fon. That just means that it's actually their interest to get involved in the market, as it has the potential to compete with the cellular market.
As for the legal issue, it's a bit Grey, and doubtfully will stand in court. Maybe someone has examples?
Because the way I get my head around this: You can share your internet with your son, right? How about if he doesn't live with you, just came to visit? How about if it's just a visitor? Now what if that visitor stays for a few days? Or a year? (the really nasty visitor?) Can you share with someone you just made acquaintance with? So what's illegal is actually automation of this process?
You are right of course, but a bit short sighted...
Suppose you have an iPhone, with the new WiFi-only Skype application. Now you want WiFi wherever you are, even at a friends house, without configuring your device - it should connect automatically.
That's the vision: seemless connectivity everywhere.
Check out my company, at www.bzeek.com. We provide a similar solution using software only.
I work for a company named Bzeek (www.bzeek.com). We provide a similar solution, using software only (without buying a router, just downloading).
We are planning to solve the security issue by forcing all public traffic through an encrypted tunnel to a server, which means your IP will be out of the radar. The "line" will end back at the server, and it's up to us to provide answers, in case there was illegal activity over the connection.
I used to be in charge of administrating the lab cluster at the MOSIX project (http://www.mosix.org). The tools we used back then, where series of scripts, that performed all possible configurations you'll ever need... we called it CLIP (CLuster Installtion Package). My two years experience taught me two things:
1. It's sometimes easier to script your way through, instead of adapting existing administration tools. You'll just have a peek first, of course...
2. But when you must, you'll encounter a modification you'd want very quickly.
So my advice would be only accept open source administration systems. As i'm sure others have reached the same conclusions i had, This is actually a win-win move by IBM, and i'm sure they'll get more users, and more income following.
True. Yet all that is, is just a Graphic gadgets hardcore, and nothing more. It's not a revolutionary concept. What iPhone did to the cell phone market, is what we should be looking for. A browser, however impressive it's graphics, still works with the same keyboard and mouse, same two dimensional "pages" of sites...
Several months ago there was a slashdot post that TDK has these cool coating materials for CDs, where you can drop a screwdriver on it, from the hight of a table, and it won't even scratch... It had something to do with blueray discs, that got scratched too easily...
Just don't go through all the effort just to burn it back to a cheap CDR, which will "fade" in a matter of months (personal experience...)
Also, since you actually own the CD, download the songs from emule or something, at least for a short term solution. It's perfectly legal if you own the CD. But you probably know that, since you read slashdot.
As for the car: use mp3 in someway, it really does the difference in terms of library, jitters, and waiting times...
Success to the kernel as a technology, but not to what it tried to bring to the world... even if you put aside GNU, this headline shows that the linux kernel is good for integrations for small products, but does not push it into the mainstream kernel usage, PCs, where it wants to go. Only a few posts back you have a statistic that linux is 2.4% of the PC market in England... my point was that the technology does not breakthrough the same barrier it has for many years, just keep getting better at the same things, although, most of the efforts in the linux kernel, go into the mainstreaming of it, not to make it better for embedding (at least is most parts of the work in the kernel).
consider this: ten years from now, would you like the world to be covered with proprietary OSs, with linux only on your kindle and mp3, or have it everywhere, unleashed, like it was meant to be? I personally would like to see linux take over the PC market, and unless we as a community keep investing our resources in that direction, we will not reach that goal. So I'm pointing this out as a community service...
This project, as long with several others, show that the only commercial consumer success of Linux, are integrations of it in other products. Every hardware that goes out with a linux kernel, and proprietary software should not be viewed as a success for Linux, but only for the technology of a monolithic kernel that runs on anything. The purpose of Linux is greater though, and it is not served by these projects: peoples freedom remains unprotected, they still use proprietary OSs and remain ignorant of other alternatives. My point is: this post should not be under "Linux"...
I think you conterdict yourself.... it's pointless to invest in better papers, just use digital signatures, more security, less hastle, mathematically proven, with possibility to revoke stolen keys. Even German passports might be forged, just a matter of cost. Digital papers is the future of passports...
Ok, so your picture should obviously be part of what is signed on. Oh wait, your face is a biometric data... same goes for the fingerprint and so on. So the only way to avoid a "database" is if the government won't save the data, which is baloney... I fear, my friend, that digital passports are the future, wether we like it or not. It just more reasonable then unreplicatable passport paper...
It's more simpler than that... Most programmers will go the swiss-knife way, making a really effective cool tool, doing everything, really good, instead of giving the users what they want: never to have to actually invest in it, learning or otherwise. Make it do what it says, and NOTHING else. If you want the can opener too, write another app, or put it somewhere away from the user.
Make it simple, stupid, is btw, one of the common mistakes. MS wizards are simple. Nobody uses them. You still have to invest in the tool to work with it: read each page, make decisions. The rule should be: if you can decide for the user, don't confront him with the question, let the program figure it for the user. Allow configuration, don't force it. Think Skype. Think Ubuntu. Now think xinetd...
Before you all get excited: the law stands at "kriaa tromit", which means it's just now readt to be voted on. Each law has to be voted three times after this stage... I'm sure it won't pass, since other draconic laws were blocked. This particular stage, is very easy to pass, for any law, even crazy ones....
But i don't think you appreciate the situation with Israeli documents: they are the most popular forged documents in the world right now: our passports are the easiest to mangle with, and because many countries trust Israeli passports, it's the most bought passport in the black market. Even the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs issued several rules to disencourage Israeli tourists from selling their passports... Our IDs are also quite popular, since we still have problems of women trafficking...
And about terrorism... well, i doubt anybody actually thinks this system will have anything to do with that. There are a very few actual cases, compared with the total, where Israeli citizens Arabs were involved in terrorist activity...
And the last comment i have on this issue, is that in the end, friends, it all comes down to money. Some CEO, with a security system, is related to some government official, and is going to rip off the treasury, when he accidentally of course, win the auction for creating the system. At least that was true for many other security related systems in Israel, the ones that did not go through the defense industry.
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BT, an ISP, cooperates with Fon. That just means that it's actually their interest to get involved in the market, as it has the potential to compete with the cellular market.
As for the legal issue, it's a bit Grey, and doubtfully will stand in court. Maybe someone has examples?
Because the way I get my head around this: You can share your internet with your son, right? How about if he doesn't live with you, just came to visit? How about if it's just a visitor? Now what if that visitor stays for a few days? Or a year? (the really nasty visitor?) Can you share with someone you just made acquaintance with? So what's illegal is actually automation of this process?
You are right of course, but a bit short sighted...
Suppose you have an iPhone, with the new WiFi-only Skype application. Now you want WiFi wherever you are, even at a friends house, without configuring your device - it should connect automatically.
That's the vision: seemless connectivity everywhere.
Check out my company, at www.bzeek.com. We provide a similar solution using software only.
Bzeek has a feature to share your 3G connection for quite a while now.
I work for a company named Bzeek (www.bzeek.com). We provide a similar solution, using software only (without buying a router, just downloading).
We are planning to solve the security issue by forcing all public traffic through an encrypted tunnel to a server, which means your IP will be out of the radar. The "line" will end back at the server, and it's up to us to provide answers, in case there was illegal activity over the connection.
What do you guys think?
Glittering Prizes!!!!
I used to be in charge of administrating the lab cluster at the MOSIX project (http://www.mosix.org). The tools we used back then, where series of scripts, that performed all possible configurations you'll ever need... we called it CLIP (CLuster Installtion Package). My two years experience taught me two things:
1. It's sometimes easier to script your way through, instead of adapting existing administration tools. You'll just have a peek first, of course...
2. But when you must, you'll encounter a modification you'd want very quickly.
So my advice would be only accept open source administration systems. As i'm sure others have reached the same conclusions i had, This is actually a win-win move by IBM, and i'm sure they'll get more users, and more income following.
True. Yet all that is, is just a Graphic gadgets hardcore, and nothing more. It's not a revolutionary concept. What iPhone did to the cell phone market, is what we should be looking for. A browser, however impressive it's graphics, still works with the same keyboard and mouse, same two dimensional "pages" of sites...
However, the revolution is quite near, my friend. You don't have to look hard to hear about all sort of other interfaces being developed. I got some eye candy for you, if you like:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jeff_han_demos_his_breakthrough_touchscreen.html
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/johnny_lee_demos_wii_remote_hacks.html
I have a bag lady with a shopping cart just like that that's living near my house...
I should really change the password to my wireless network....
Several months ago there was a slashdot post that TDK has these cool coating materials for CDs, where you can drop a screwdriver on it, from the hight of a table, and it won't even scratch... It had something to do with blueray discs, that got scratched too easily...
Just don't go through all the effort just to burn it back to a cheap CDR, which will "fade" in a matter of months (personal experience...)
Also, since you actually own the CD, download the songs from emule or something, at least for a short term solution. It's perfectly legal if you own the CD. But you probably know that, since you read slashdot.
As for the car: use mp3 in someway, it really does the difference in terms of library, jitters, and waiting times...
Success to the kernel as a technology, but not to what it tried to bring to the world... even if you put aside GNU, this headline shows that the linux kernel is good for integrations for small products, but does not push it into the mainstream kernel usage, PCs, where it wants to go. Only a few posts back you have a statistic that linux is 2.4% of the PC market in England... my point was that the technology does not breakthrough the same barrier it has for many years, just keep getting better at the same things, although, most of the efforts in the linux kernel, go into the mainstreaming of it, not to make it better for embedding (at least is most parts of the work in the kernel).
consider this: ten years from now, would you like the world to be covered with proprietary OSs, with linux only on your kindle and mp3, or have it everywhere, unleashed, like it was meant to be? I personally would like to see linux take over the PC market, and unless we as a community keep investing our resources in that direction, we will not reach that goal. So I'm pointing this out as a community service...
This project, as long with several others, show that the only commercial consumer success of Linux, are integrations of it in other products. Every hardware that goes out with a linux kernel, and proprietary software should not be viewed as a success for Linux, but only for the technology of a monolithic kernel that runs on anything. The purpose of Linux is greater though, and it is not served by these projects: peoples freedom remains unprotected, they still use proprietary OSs and remain ignorant of other alternatives. My point is: this post should not be under "Linux"...
I think you conterdict yourself.... it's pointless to invest in better papers, just use digital signatures, more security, less hastle, mathematically proven, with possibility to revoke stolen keys. Even German passports might be forged, just a matter of cost. Digital papers is the future of passports...
Ok, so your picture should obviously be part of what is signed on. Oh wait, your face is a biometric data... same goes for the fingerprint and so on. So the only way to avoid a "database" is if the government won't save the data, which is baloney... I fear, my friend, that digital passports are the future, wether we like it or not. It just more reasonable then unreplicatable passport paper...
Not if you've read the De-Vinchi code! Robert Longdon to the rescue! Lets dig out the pyramid in the Louvre!
It's more simpler than that... Most programmers will go the swiss-knife way, making a really effective cool tool, doing everything, really good, instead of giving the users what they want: never to have to actually invest in it, learning or otherwise. Make it do what it says, and NOTHING else. If you want the can opener too, write another app, or put it somewhere away from the user.
Make it simple, stupid, is btw, one of the common mistakes. MS wizards are simple. Nobody uses them. You still have to invest in the tool to work with it: read each page, make decisions. The rule should be: if you can decide for the user, don't confront him with the question, let the program figure it for the user. Allow configuration, don't force it. Think Skype. Think Ubuntu. Now think xinetd...
Honestly, with the amount of dust usually inside those things, i don't envy them. Anthrax is made up anyways!
libshitz.so ?
Before you all get excited: the law stands at "kriaa tromit", which means it's just now readt to be voted on. Each law has to be voted three times after this stage... I'm sure it won't pass, since other draconic laws were blocked. This particular stage, is very easy to pass, for any law, even crazy ones....
But i don't think you appreciate the situation with Israeli documents: they are the most popular forged documents in the world right now: our passports are the easiest to mangle with, and because many countries trust Israeli passports, it's the most bought passport in the black market. Even the Israeli ministry of foreign affairs issued several rules to disencourage Israeli tourists from selling their passports... Our IDs are also quite popular, since we still have problems of women trafficking...
And about terrorism... well, i doubt anybody actually thinks this system will have anything to do with that. There are a very few actual cases, compared with the total, where Israeli citizens Arabs were involved in terrorist activity...
And the last comment i have on this issue, is that in the end, friends, it all comes down to money. Some CEO, with a security system, is related to some government official, and is going to rip off the treasury, when he accidentally of course, win the auction for creating the system. At least that was true for many other security related systems in Israel, the ones that did not go through the defense industry.
Hope I shed some light.