If it's sufficiently better than 3G then we might just leapfrog it.
The typical 2Mbps 3G data connection doesn't appeal to me that much, i can find that sort of speed in almost any coffeeshop in the country. However a gigabit speed connection would change everything. I could drop my home phones, broadband and existing cell service to move to 4G, so even if it turns out expensive it'd be ok.
I think i was first exposed to computers when i was 3 and was getting into programming by about age 5. By fourth-grade I'd discovered that most of our educational games were written in basic, and started screwing with them:)
At this point in time I've been programming for 80% of my life and professionally for about 40% of it.
I was always far more into making my own games than playing anything I'd bought. The problem is that i'll bet good money these computers dont come with a single development tool, and i'm sure that kids "hacking" them will be frowned upon.
$30k/year, $10/year training budget, they flew me in, paid all my accomodation (rent, utilities, phone etc) for that year. All in all, it probably cost close to $80 big ones for that year.
I've got my wireless AP in the basement and I get Excellent coverage all over the house, but the second i move it over the bed the water blocks the signal completely.
It's probably better that way, but i'm just amazed how a relatively small amount of water can completely destroy the signal. I haven't tested it in the bath yet - how good is Dell Completecare?
Anyone with a laptop on the same segment or WAP can run their own DHCP server. That way when you connect, there's a very good chance that they can send you connection details first.
That way they can make themselves into the gateway and from there it's trivial to screw with your traffic.
The problem with SSL is that many people, even in the high-tech industry, aren't very good at using it.
It wouldn't be very difficult for a net cafe owner to set up an MIM attack and have their own self-signed certificate. Your browser *should* throw a warning, but most users will happily accept the extra risk without thinking twice (or even reading the error message).
A more involved attack might involve getting a certificate issued for AMAZ0N.COM and the chances are good that you could stage a MIM attack without even a certificate warning appearing.
I also suspect that a fair chunk of users would happily type their information into an order form on Amazon.com even if the connection to them wasn't even https. I'm sure if it "looks like amazon" that'd probably suffice.
Remember that when a CMOS gate is switching the current flowing through it increases. The faster the gate is able to switch, the less power will be used in the state change. Now the processor doesn't have to run at anywhere near that speed, but the fast transistor switch will minimize the power per cycle.
In addition to the fact that google know where I live and probably what I had for breakfast this morning, I'm right on the extremity of a zip code, and there's usually quite a big difference in local directions between my house and the centroid.
I know You Tube have a ton of cash to burn through, but could they support lots of users streaming full music videos while at work just to have something to listen to?
There's a reasonable chance your American Airlines flight will be a British Airways codeshare, although i haven't flown with either of them in quite a few years.
Easyjet had over 31 million passengers last year, making them a little bigger than JetBlue. And if you dont care about british companies then wtf are you even commenting on an article in a British newspaper. I've heard the web is world wide now.
At the time I thought Easyjet was the first airline to handle all its reservations online (they surcharge you heavily if you call them). I wasn't aware of any other airline operating that way at that time.
The drudge report has little relevance to europeans, yet i was definitely aware of it's existance and influence.
They have a statement, updated weekly, that says that they have never been served a warrant.
Their reasoning is that they can be forced to not inform their userbase that a warrant has been issued, but they believe that they cannot be forced to continue updating the canary page. As such if the page stops updating, we can assume that they either got lazy or were served a warrant.
FriendsReunited is a school reunion site, or probably a Web 2.0 social networking paradigm. I can only think of about 1 person in my high school class that isn't listed, it's got phenomenal scope. Unfortunately they started charging to contact people, and quite honestly i dont care that much about contacting old friends... after all I lost contact with them for good reason.
OTOH easyjet are huge. I'm not sure how you could miss them, they pretty much changed the european airline industry.
I thought it was actually a fairly good list. Considering i've used almost every one of those sites, and at least half of them would be in my personal top 10.
Shouldn't it be mandatory in the workplace? There's no real competitive advantage to a lumberyard using these tools because they'll incur extra costs and the only benificiaries will be their mininum wage wood choppers.
I agree that it would be stupid to try and foist on hobbyists, but i'd probably get one if they were reasonably priced. My radial arm saw scares the crap out of me.
I've got the 1920x1200 at 15.4" on my latitude and it's fantastic.
With the editor font in eclipse at 8pt, i can fit so much code on the screen. Probably about 80 lines vertically and enough columns to get two full size code views side by side.
It's an amazing productivity booster and for the first time I'm actually using a windows system like a unix box and not having everything maximized.
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If it's sufficiently better than 3G then we might just leapfrog it.
The typical 2Mbps 3G data connection doesn't appeal to me that much, i can find that sort of speed in almost any coffeeshop in the country. However a gigabit speed connection would change everything. I could drop my home phones, broadband and existing cell service to move to 4G, so even if it turns out expensive it'd be ok.
You've obviously never been on an american train, some really do go slowly enough than an in-shape vagrant could jump onto them.
Certainly nothing like the better european or japanese train networks.
I think i was first exposed to computers when i was 3 and was getting into programming by about age 5. By fourth-grade I'd discovered that most of our educational games were written in basic, and started screwing with them :)
At this point in time I've been programming for 80% of my life and professionally for about 40% of it.
I was always far more into making my own games than playing anything I'd bought. The problem is that i'll bet good money these computers dont come with a single development tool, and i'm sure that kids "hacking" them will be frowned upon.
I had a pretty sweet intern deal.
$30k/year, $10/year training budget, they flew me in, paid all my accomodation (rent, utilities, phone etc) for that year. All in all, it probably cost close to $80 big ones for that year.
I've got a fixed wireless internet connection and it gets very slightly slower when it's snowing heavily.
I've got my wireless AP in the basement and I get Excellent coverage all over the house, but the second i move it over the bed the water blocks the signal completely.
It's probably better that way, but i'm just amazed how a relatively small amount of water can completely destroy the signal. I haven't tested it in the bath yet - how good is Dell Completecare?
If you are raising an animal that costs 8x more than a normal cow, then i'm pretty sure it'll be fed well and probably treated pretty humanely.
I wrote the original comment in the mindset of a hotspot cafe where you at least bring your own hardware.
There's no way at all that you can trust their machine, even if you have the root certificate fingerprints memorized they could still trick you.
Generally though I take my laptop to net cafes. I only ever use their machines when i'm travelling or living in the 90s.
I'd like to assume my laptop is secure, and I have a certificate based VPN that can get me somewhere else if i need security.
Anyone with a laptop on the same segment or WAP can run their own DHCP server. That way when you connect, there's a very good chance that they can send you connection details first.
That way they can make themselves into the gateway and from there it's trivial to screw with your traffic.
The problem with SSL is that many people, even in the high-tech industry, aren't very good at using it.
It wouldn't be very difficult for a net cafe owner to set up an MIM attack and have their own self-signed certificate. Your browser *should* throw a warning, but most users will happily accept the extra risk without thinking twice (or even reading the error message).
A more involved attack might involve getting a certificate issued for AMAZ0N.COM and the chances are good that you could stage a MIM attack without even a certificate warning appearing.
I also suspect that a fair chunk of users would happily type their information into an order form on Amazon.com even if the connection to them wasn't even https. I'm sure if it "looks like amazon" that'd probably suffice.
This is probably fairly high visibility stuff, so why not use it as a forum to push for anti-drm stuff.
Perhaps extending Front-Row to work on a Tivo, so i could stream my purchased itunes audio and video there.
There must be some good forward looking projects that would only be possible if apple loosened their grip.
Remember that when a CMOS gate is switching the current flowing through it increases. The faster the gate is able to switch, the less power will be used in the state change. Now the processor doesn't have to run at anywhere near that speed, but the fast transistor switch will minimize the power per cycle.
SPARC, Netbeans, OpenOffice and probably others that have heavy sun development.
In addition to the fact that google know where I live and probably what I had for breakfast this morning, I'm right on the extremity of a zip code, and there's usually quite a big difference in local directions between my house and the centroid.
I know You Tube have a ton of cash to burn through, but could they support lots of users streaming full music videos while at work just to have something to listen to?
Hmmm... yeah probably can say the same.a ngements_15_august_2006.html
http://www.easyjet.co.uk/EN/News/new_security_arr
There's a reasonable chance your American Airlines flight will be a British Airways codeshare, although i haven't flown with either of them in quite a few years.
Easyjet had over 31 million passengers last year, making them a little bigger than JetBlue. And if you dont care about british companies then wtf are you even commenting on an article in a British newspaper. I've heard the web is world wide now.
I regularly google for
"1234 My Street, 80516 to somewhereelse, 80999"
in order to get driving directions.
If I were up to something nefarious then it would probably be quite obvious. Although i'm not up to anything and don't really care.
At the time I thought Easyjet was the first airline to handle all its reservations online (they surcharge you heavily if you call them). I wasn't aware of any other airline operating that way at that time.
The drudge report has little relevance to europeans, yet i was definitely aware of it's existance and influence.
Slight OT, but what does the community here make of rsync.net warrant canary
http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
They have a statement, updated weekly, that says that they have never been served a warrant.
Their reasoning is that they can be forced to not inform their userbase that a warrant has been issued, but they believe that they cannot be forced to continue updating the canary page. As such if the page stops updating, we can assume that they either got lazy or were served a warrant.
FriendsReunited is a school reunion site, or probably a Web 2.0 social networking paradigm. I can only think of about 1 person in my high school class that isn't listed, it's got phenomenal scope. Unfortunately they started charging to contact people, and quite honestly i dont care that much about contacting old friends... after all I lost contact with them for good reason.
OTOH easyjet are huge. I'm not sure how you could miss them, they pretty much changed the european airline industry.
I thought it was actually a fairly good list. Considering i've used almost every one of those sites, and at least half of them would be in my personal top 10.
Shouldn't it be mandatory in the workplace? There's no real competitive advantage to a lumberyard using these tools because they'll incur extra costs and the only benificiaries will be their mininum wage wood choppers.
I agree that it would be stupid to try and foist on hobbyists, but i'd probably get one if they were reasonably priced. My radial arm saw scares the crap out of me.
I've probably flown on about 40 flights in the US and Europe in the last 5 years and I've never had than happen to me.
I'm unconvinced that there's a problem.
I can read the screen easily and i have far less eye strain than I did working at a CRT all day long.
I've got the 1920x1200 at 15.4" on my latitude and it's fantastic.
With the editor font in eclipse at 8pt, i can fit so much code on the screen. Probably about 80 lines vertically and enough columns to get two full size code views side by side.
It's an amazing productivity booster and for the first time I'm actually using a windows system like a unix box and not having everything maximized.