I really don't think there is too much too worry about, browser specific items will most likely only be used in Intranet application where it makes sense, but not in an open Web Site environment, since you would be cutting off a large portion of people. Too much hype, not much to be concerned about.
Main reasons for slow dial-up connections or less v.34 connections are the following:
LINE NOISE LINE NOISE LINE NOISE if the line quality is crap, so will your connection be.
The number of digital to analog and analog to digital switches between you and your provider. I don't remember the exact number, but I think if that goes over 3 or 4, anything for 33.6 is impossible, regardless of the modems on either side.
The problem isn't the modems the dial-up providers are using, it's the fact that copper sucks.
This may be slightly off topic, but yet I'm sure still of Interest to some of us. What is the market for stuff like this in windows? I love linux and the open-source community as a whole, unfortunately, I only have my laptop, and no other box available to use Linux on, and I need Windows for work, so I don't get to actually use it for personal use awhole lot (unless you count BSDi at work), anyway, I love making movies, and would enjoy it more if I could edit them properly in a great environment.. what sort of hardware crap is needed too?
I really think that this won't be as useful as they may think, until it is much more perfective. Nevermind the other issues involved, but wouldn't you all agree there are times when exceeding the speed limit probably saved your life? What about when someone needs driven to the hospital and there's no ambulance to take them, how will this thing differentiate? Has anyone else ever avoided an accident by accelerating?
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At a party I was at a friend snuck in the breaker room and flipped off the power right at midnight for about 2 minutes. Nobody really panicked, and actually acted calm. (I knew he was going to do it). Of course, we had about a millionth of the people that were down in Times Square, but it was still pretty fun. Alot of people were convinced.. they should have just looked outside and noticed the neighbors had power.
While I do agree that it doesn't cost millions of dollars to rename and HTML file, there is the posibility with alot of larger companies to show lost customer base due to embarrassment, as well as losing potential customers who may have visited during that time; however, I wouldn't say that any great amount of money is ever lost, maybe in the thousands or so. You do have to admit however, that companies do lose money when they lose customers to others acts as such.
Yes, but say you're doing it just for fun, by setting off your own car alarm or whatever. If you weren't doing it to provoke anything, and just having fun and you were arrested, then you definetly could get away with wrongful arrest. Do you think anyone could actually prove you were trying to provoke your own arrest?
okay, so i couldn't think of the quote i wanted too, and that one didn't make as much sense as i intended, but I think the majority of you know what i meant.
Let them have one apple, and soon they'll want the whole tree. Let them have the whole tree, and soon they'll want the orchard.
The point is that taking any personal information, relevant or not, is an invasion of our privacy. The easiest line to draw is a straight one at the very bottom of the well. Let them have nothing, then we won't have to worry about them getting any more.
If we allow them to have this information about us, what is stopping them from taking more and more, and then where can we draw the line when the water in the well is filling so fast and splashing around that once in awhile something important slips by. Do not be so complaisant. I am grateful that they do this, but they can also do without taking personal information for a minor marketing benefit.
Since the "date" listed, is listed as a time, maybe that's the number of hits for that "day", which is now recognized as that exact "time", hence, it is correct.
So you're saying that every single package on my Redhat 6.1 cd is part of the operating system (i.e. Linux) And therefore, should not have names of their own, and only be referred to collectively as linux. (Where as most people call the windows 95 GUI, windows 95, rather than a shell, same idea) Of course, I could be really cliche and say:
A penguin, by any other name, would smell as sweet. (or something)
I think the best thing for any geek to do. (Myself included) is to find some girl that you have alot in common with, but that "alot in common" doesn't include your computer. Online relationships are based around a computer, and that sort of already sets the stage for something against what I just said. (altho not all computer users are geeks) I've tried a few online relationships, and they didn't work, because about all we had in common was a computer. I've met a wonderful girl now, and, what we do have in common is our taste in music (punk), that i'm vegan, and she's vegetarian (and both striving to be animal rights activists as much we can), and alot of other things, and about as far as computers that we have in common.. I work for the ISP she uses. In other words, find a girl that is like you, minus the computer.
I think alot of people here totally misread this question. The question asked what would the Open Source Movement be like, not what Linux would be like. Linux is NOT the Open Source Movement, it is just a very big part of it, and definetly the part that receives the most attention. But what about sendmail and apache, and all of those other open source applications which are the basis for the current internet infrastructure? I think that open source could thrive even without linux.
Static IPs for all. That's why. I guess some people are willing to sacrifice privacy for a static IP address, personally, it'd take a little more for me, maybe a T1 to the Internet, and a class A subnetted to alot of class Cs all registered under different names and address, but have my dhcp give me any address on the class A, then they'd never find me. =] Privacy here is a big issue though, this really doesn't seem to be much different from the whole Pentium III issue, except this would be accessible by *anyone*
I think what they did may be a good way to test the ease of securing a server, as opposed to the true security of the server, once everything has been properly secured. So, perhaps had they applied all of the necessary patches to linux, they would have shown that linux is more secure, and that maybe companies with security issues need to hire people smart enough to be able to secure their information, rather than people who can install NT (boy that's tough) and run a few executables to apply some service packs and be done with it, without really having taken any steps to secure the box.
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I really don't think there is too much too worry about, browser specific items will most likely only be used in Intranet application where it makes sense, but not in an open Web Site environment, since you would be cutting off a large portion of people. Too much hype, not much to be concerned about.
Oh, okay, I just took 4 years of French in high school.... never touched makeup unless it was already on a girl's face.
Rouge est RED en francais.
LINE NOISE LINE NOISE LINE NOISE if the line quality is crap, so will your connection be.
The number of digital to analog and analog to digital switches between you and your provider. I don't remember the exact number, but I think if that goes over 3 or 4, anything for 33.6 is impossible, regardless of the modems on either side.
The problem isn't the modems the dial-up providers are using, it's the fact that copper sucks.
I find it more interesting that our government gives subsidies to the tabacco companies, then sues their asses. Go figure.
My parents keep me where I am... go figure. Maybe that's why most geeks are stuck where they are...
The point is that taking any personal information, relevant or not, is an invasion of our privacy. The easiest line to draw is a straight one at the very bottom of the well. Let them have nothing, then we won't have to worry about them getting any more.
If we allow them to have this information about us, what is stopping them from taking more and more, and then where can we draw the line when the water in the well is filling so fast and splashing around that once in awhile something important slips by. Do not be so complaisant. I am grateful that they do this, but they can also do without taking personal information for a minor marketing benefit.
A penguin, by any other name, would smell as sweet. (or something)
We need it so that we can crack root in 10% of the time. duh. =]