Back in high school I did a project exploring the different ways user interfaces work. Wound up trimming it down to joysticks and what is a natural way for users to use them (i.e. - expected controls models and such).
With all the talk that hits the/. boards about interfaces and the good/bad points about them maybe that's something for your students to look at. A fresh set of eyes on a old problem.
Mr. Nolan says the agency believes it can be a trusted intermediary between Internet marketers and the public. "People say the Internet could be a lot more usable if there was a greater trust involved," he says. "At the Postal Service, people trust us."
Trust the post office? I'm sorry, I don't think so. Tolerate, maybe. Endure, possibly.
from the nytimes story: "If you had Norm MacDonald call you and remind you his show was on, we thought it would be fun, the type of thing people usually tell their friends about,"
Give them a prize for missing the point. Talking to Norm MacDonald might be cool, but having a recording of Norm talk to a machine recording it is not.
"One Heller worker and five CSC workers were fired for "inappropriate use of e-mail": sending MP3s through the company e-mail system. These firings came abruptly, without warning or previous reprimands."
At roughly 5mb per standard song length (~3 minutes) I'm not suprised they were ask to clear their desks out. At a small company having a number of people sending music files out to a list of friends could cause a bit of a jam.
As for without warning.... I don't know about anyone else, but I remember reading the stack of papers I was asked to sign when I got my present job. Most of them were just that "warnings".
But as with many stories all we have are 2 sentences to form an opinion on what happened... not much to go on.
Malk-a-mite ============ I guess standard rules apply, Wear a helmet and cover your @$$ =============
IBM wants to sell systems running Linux, but they can only do that if there are products that will run on it. Invest a pile of money in having people write and/or port apps and you set yourself up for a large gain in the market. Simple. Malk-a-mite
"What is the difficulty of people doing this with cash?"
It's not very hard at all, but much like making a copy of a friends CD - it's not a problem until millions of people have easy access to it. Much like the recent problems the MP3 community is running into, everyone has been aware of the market for such things. But with the avent of the PC and the WWW it has made it much easier for the average user to be able to do it.
It's no longer finding some guy that your brother's ex-girlfriends once knew who had a closet full of - it's now just of matter of typing it what your looking for in any search engine. That is where I believe these fears are coming from.
Wouldn't this be perfect? Granted I know very little of the hardware needed to broadcast signals even at this small distance, but I would have loved to be able to "host" my own radio show back when I was in high school. I didn't see any mention of what it takes to do in the story.. does anyone have any more info?
From the HNN "Some stories make references to both problems. Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing."
Recently the US voted to assume normal trade ties with China over the objections of a few well known people. Arguing agaisnt the deal based on China's horrible human right's history.
But what if? Just like Russia back 20-25 years ago, having western pair of blue jeans, wanting a BigMac....
Will the exposure that deals like the US trade one make it harder and harder to control the people? Will it expose them to new ideas and ways of thinking?
Malk-a-mite ~Still trying to have more comments than rejected stories~
The one thing that concerns me is that it seems the nature of the deal is you can trade the file between systems, fine. But to watch it you need a code or some type. Whatever, let's assume the code uncrackable (yeah, I know no code is, just run with it for a second).
But with the frequency of incomplete files on services like Napster and Gnutella *ahem* so I heard *ahem* I believe I would go a littel crazy registiring movies and then finding out their incomplete.
I wondering what protection to this problem is being handled. Currenting missing the ending of End of Days, or whatever, is no big deal - it was free.
You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here.
-- Cass Whittington ----------------------------- I believe she'd be happy to have it re-posted. Last time I meantioned to her that her Haiku was all all the net she was quite pleased. I believe a comment about her 15 minutes of fame.:)
"While the current set-up is too bulky to bring the experience of enhanced vision or super vision to many patients, MacRae is confident that that day is not too far off. "
Bummer, still too big for everyday use. I wonder how long it will be before the ability to wear these as a pair of sunglasses. And more importantly how will these affect people with already 20/20 vision? Most of the articale speaks of the patients, what I'm looking forward to is people with good sight, having _great_ sight.
Malk-a-mite My rejected slashdot submissions are out pacing my comments.
"hopes to plant core PlayStation2 technologies into a host of Internet-capable devices"
Cool. So now I'll be able to challege my internet ready freezer to a networked game of Quake while playing the toaster?
Things are getting wierder all the time. I wonder how far we're going to take the "network capable devices" too. Aren't there some thing that don't need a 100mb uplink to the net?
Interesting, but I wonder will the crew be able to make use of this to keep in touch with their families or will it be restricted to "offical use" only. Might make long trips out in the deep blue a little easier on some. Malk-a-mite
Sorry for the double post, found the other site with the magic books. Trusted Network Interpretation Environments Guideline - Guidance for Applying the TNI, 1 August 1990. (Red Book) DoD Password Management Guideline, 12 April 1985. (Green Book)
"Department Of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria" ("Orange Book"), 12/85 I knew the Orange book was online... if I ever find the others I'll let you know.
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Wound up trimming it down to joysticks and what is a natural way for users to use them (i.e. - expected controls models and such).
With all the talk that hits the /. boards about interfaces and the good/bad points about them maybe that's something for your students to look at.
A fresh set of eyes on a old problem.
Malk-a-mite
Trust the post office?
I'm sorry, I don't think so. Tolerate, maybe.
Endure, possibly.
Trust?
No.
Malk-a-mite
"If you had Norm MacDonald call you and remind you his show was on, we thought it would be fun, the type of thing people usually tell their friends about,"
Give them a prize for missing the point.
Talking to Norm MacDonald might be cool, but having a recording of Norm talk to a machine recording it is not.
Malk-a-mite
Somebody in the Marketing dept. who took a Law 101 class trying to find a loophole?
Malk-a-mite
At roughly 5mb per standard song length (~3 minutes) I'm not suprised they were ask to clear their desks out. At a small company having a number of people sending music files out to a list of friends could cause a bit of a jam.
As for without warning.... I don't know about anyone else, but I remember reading the stack of papers I was asked to sign when I got my present job. Most of them were just that "warnings".
But as with many stories all we have are 2 sentences to form an opinion on what happened... not much to go on.
Malk-a-mite
============
I guess standard rules apply,
Wear a helmet and cover your @$$
=============
IBM wants to sell systems running Linux, but they can only do that if there are products that will run on it. Invest a pile of money in having people write and/or port apps and you set yourself up for a large gain in the market. Simple. Malk-a-mite
It's not very hard at all, but much like making a copy of a friends CD - it's not a problem until millions of people have easy access to it.
Much like the recent problems the MP3 community is running into, everyone has been aware of the market for such things. But with the avent of the PC and the WWW it has made it much easier for the average user to be able to do it.
It's no longer finding some guy that your brother's ex-girlfriends once knew who had a closet full of - it's now just of matter of typing it what your looking for in any search engine.
That is where I believe these fears are coming from.
Malk-a-mite
.sig file missing, what's a .sig?
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Granted I know very little of the hardware needed to broadcast signals even at this small distance, but I would have loved to be able to "host" my own radio show back when I was in high school.
I didn't see any mention of what it takes to do in the story.. does anyone have any more info?
Malk-a-mite
"Some stories make references to both problems.
Having Outlook security problems so frequently that they start to blur together is a dangerous thing."
Sadly this says it all.
Malk-a-mite
Says it was started in 97 - when did the X-box start up?
Malk-a-mite
"We traced the source of this leak to a corporation called Napster." - Lars
Want to try that again there little drummer boy?
I believe the leak would be traced back to someone who had access to the demo tapes!
Unless the claim is that the employee's of Napster were sneaking in at night to your studio and stealing the tapes while you slept.
Malk-a-mite
Umm, here's a link http://ww w.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/07/biztech/articles/ 11napster.html
Malk-a-mite
Funny bit is, he did the same thing we've all been doing. Finding a group you wouldn't normally listen to a hearing what they sound like.
In a sad way he proved what some of us have been saying but didn't even notice it.
Malk-a-mite
But what if? Just like Russia back 20-25 years ago, having western pair of blue jeans, wanting a BigMac....
Will the exposure that deals like the US trade one make it harder and harder to control the people? Will it expose them to new ideas and ways of thinking?
Malk-a-mite
~Still trying to have more comments than rejected stories~
Whatever, let's assume the code uncrackable (yeah, I know no code is, just run with it for a second).
But with the frequency of incomplete files on services like Napster and Gnutella *ahem* so I heard *ahem* I believe I would go a littel crazy registiring movies and then finding out their incomplete.
I wondering what protection to this problem is being handled.
Currenting missing the ending of End of Days, or whatever, is no big deal - it was free.
How will they deal with this when I have to pay?
Malk-a-mite
but the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
-- Cass Whittington :)
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I believe she'd be happy to have it re-posted. Last time I meantioned to her that her Haiku was all all the net she was quite pleased.
I believe a comment about her 15 minutes of fame.
Malk-a-mite
But I thought it was 20 point font at 20 feet.
No?
Otherwise what's normal?
Malk-a-mite
My posts are slowly catching up to the number of my rejected story submissions
Bummer, still too big for everyday use.
I wonder how long it will be before the ability to wear these as a pair of sunglasses.
And more importantly how will these affect people with already 20/20 vision?
Most of the articale speaks of the patients, what I'm looking forward to is people with good sight, having _great_ sight.
Malk-a-mite
My rejected slashdot submissions are out pacing my comments.
Cool.
So now I'll be able to challege my internet ready freezer to a networked game of Quake while playing the toaster?
Things are getting wierder all the time.
I wonder how far we're going to take the "network capable devices" too.
Aren't there some thing that don't need a 100mb uplink to the net?
Malk-a-mite
This buoy will self distruct in 5, 4, 3, 2,
Malk-a-mite
Interesting, but I wonder will the crew be able to make use of this to keep in touch with their families or will it be restricted to "offical use" only. Might make long trips out in the deep blue a little easier on some. Malk-a-mite
Sorry for the double post, found the other site with the magic books.
Trusted Network Interpretation Environments Guideline - Guidance for Applying the TNI, 1 August 1990. (Red Book)
DoD Password Management Guideline, 12 April 1985. (Green Book)
That's Orange, Red, Green. Enjoy all.
Malk-a-mite
"Department Of Defense Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria" ("Orange Book"), 12/85
I knew the Orange book was online... if I ever find the others I'll let you know.
Malk-a-mite
I feel better now, these words have gotten me in more trouble than anything else.
Malk-a-mite
Redundant?
"........ cusey, moi. Cue you xplain dis to me?"
Malk-a-mite
Seems even when I'm first I come in last.