I know about three dozen people that have at least one device with Bluetooth. I only know one peerson using it - to replace a $1 wired cellphone earphone with a $120 wireless headset.
While manufacturers are shipping many BT devices, how many people are actually using the functionality?
(These are the minimum system requirements. Better performance will be seen on more powerful systems.)
* Pentium II 400Mhz (or faster recommended for optimal video playback)
* 64MB of RAM
* 2GB hard drive with 500MB of free space
* Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, or XP
* Internet Explorer 5.01 SP2 (or later), Netscape 4.7 or AOL 6.0 (or later)
* Windows Media Player 7, RealPlayer and Quicktime are recommended for the best experience
* A 56Kbps (or faster) Internet connection
Additional Requirements for using Secure Media and Document Control Features:
* Windows Media Player 7 or later for accessing files encrypted using Windows Media Rights Manager
* Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later for accessing secure PDF documents
There are so many ways to abuse TCP/IP that it's impossible to stop data exchange unless you block all traffic. Heck, you can even communicate using ping, as in:
HOST2: tcpdump -x ip proto \\icmp and src host host1
11:41:51.646216 IP host1 > host2: icmp 64: echo request seq 0
0x0000: 4500 0054 0000 4000 4001 1af7 8752 0886 E..T..@.@....R..
0x0010: 8752 0888 0800 4550 242d 0000 cf6c 7743.R....EP$-...lwC
0x0020: 25e5 0900 face dead 1234 9876 face dead %........4.v....
0x0030: 1234 9876 face dead 1234 9876 face dead.4.v.....4.v....
0x0040: 1234 9876 face dead 1234 9876 face dead.4.v.....4.v....
0x0050: 1234
Sure, you'll see a lot of icmp traffic, but odds are most network folks won't considering the pad data in a ping to be payload.
It's like the old ppp over email implementations. Connectivity means data transfer. If some journalist or newbie network admin thinks otherwise, then it's just that much easier.
Use a laptop for the server, with USB 2.0 / Firewire external drives. Your limiting factor os going to be network bandwidth - the laptop is more than adequate. Using software RAID, you can mirror the external drives. When idle, the laptop (assuming you setup power management correctly) will be in a low power state. The external drives will spin down when idle. It's a very energy efficient configuration, but still able to provide full bandwidth on demand.
We should celebrate this with a day of mourning, for the children whose future has been compromised by this decision. The effects, unless rapidly reversed, will be more devastating to these children than any natural disaster. This disaster was man-made, and the parents allowed it to happen. They could stop it. hey could pull they children from school. The teachers could strike. The ancillary service providers could refuse service. The adults in this situation could make a choice. If they sit by and allow this travesty to proceed, you can't blame those that enacted the policy. They become only the messengers.
Whats the time value of a movie? Netflix turnarounf is about two business days after requesting a new DVD and assuming they have ample supply. With downloading I'd want to be almost as fast to start viewing as I selected it.
According to the movie industry, there is no time value - only a format value. That is, the cost to see a movie in the theater the second week it is open is the same as it is the first week it is open. However, when changing format (to DVD for purchase, and again for rental), the value changes.
I have Netflix too and was thinking the same thing ($1 per movie) but I would be willing to pay $2 for a current release.
Yup, a premium for the latest release is reasonable. Since about 75% of the $1 goes to postage, charging $2 for an "in theaters" release is reasonable (an additional 400% revenue).
"After all, I can go to my local library and get the DVDs/CDs for zero dollars."
So why don't you? If all this content is legitimately available through your local library, why are we having this discussion in the first place?
The proliferation of Internet access and broadband has made people forget about their local library. I personally get a great deal of material from them, but many folks I interact with haven't been to the library in years. Most are even surprised that they have DVDs, video tapes and CDs.
When placing a value of a product, that product needs to be looked at in context. Books, movies and music have a free outlet. That's one point of consideration when establishing a price point, which is the subject of this thread.
You are comparing renting to buying, of course they don't work out.
What make you think the movie industry will allow you to download a copy that you own? It's much more likely that it will be a heavily DRMed self-destructing copy, to prevent it from being uploaded to P2P networks.
Furthermore, the $1/DVD Netflix estimate is unreasonable. Most people with Netflix do not cycle through movies that fast and if they did, then Netflix would have to raise the price to cover the additional costs.
I'm on their 3 at a time plan ($18/month), and go through 20 DVDs a month on average. If folks don't cycle that fast, why wouldn't they go to one of the lower priced plans to keep the cost per DVD lower?
What argument do you have for that? It costs that much just to run iTMS.
It's well documented (Google) that about 90% of the cost of an iTMS download is being taken by the music industry. That means that running the store, bandwidth, and Apple's profit is coming from less than 10 cents per download. In other words, the music industry is charging 500% to 1000% as much as the movie industry. That's an industry long overdue for a reality check.
Netflix is $18/month for 3 DVDs at a time. I currently average 20 DVDs/month, which actually makes it a little less than $1/DVD. Delivering just the movie (minus any extras) via broadband certainly costs less than the 74 cents postage per DVD Netflix is paying. If the movie industry took the difference, they would be getting almost twice the revenue of a rental through Netflix. $1/movie download is more than generous.
I use an existing model - Netflix - to determine reasonable pricing. It's about $1 per DVD (including any extras). For that dollar, Netflix is able to pay round-trip postage (i.e., network transport) and give the movie industry their cut.
Movie downloads should cost no more that $1.
Music downloads, compared to other media downloads (movies, above), should cost no more than 10 cents per track or $1 per album.
After all, I can go to my local library and get the DVDs/CDs for zero dollars.
Just as iTunes music is priced incorrectly (it should be about 10 cents/track).
NetFlix delivers a DVD to me for about $1 (including round-trip shipping). For TV series, that's typically about 4 episodes of the show (plus extras), or about 25 cents per episode for non-DRM material.
In addition, TV shows are frequently posted for (illegal) download within an hour of broadcast, obviously at zero cost.
That's the existing market the TV studios are trying to enter.
I don't do business with iTunes, because I don't think songs are worth $1 to download. For example, I recently heard Gary Jules version of the song Mad World on an episode of CSI. Downloading the song is $1 on iTunes, or I can NetFlix the DVD of Donny Darko for that same $1, which also has the song. Oh, and a whole movie, some other good songs, and more.
If the TV studios want to charge $1 for a download of a DVD iso, that's fine. Why pay more for less?
My cordless phone has a range of about 3000 miles, and I don't need my PC on! The handset is free, and I can make all the night, weekend and phone-to-phone (on net) calls I want at no extra charge. For other calls, I just pay for a block of minutes allocated monthly. It's so cool! I'm not tethered to my PC anymore for calls!
Seriously, get a cell phone. It's 2005 for goodness sake.
The Open Source Zimbra AJAX email server/client is news. When MSN develops a commercial application, that's just an advertisement. Well, I guess you can use it as a confirmation that it's the direction email is going, since commercial vendors are deploying the technologies.
It's awfully nice of Microsoft to guarantee that they won't compete in the Linux environment. By doing so, they are providing a safe haven for those commercial developers that do want to enter the market, but fear being consumed by Microsoft. Without the substantial foothold that office would bring with it, any other applications would be competing on a level playing field. It's great that Microsoft has seen the error of its past anti-competitive behavior, and is taking this stand.
Now, back to reality... As soon as Microsoft sees a decline in Windows market share, they will push their sole remaining profitable product, Office, anywhere they can. That includes Linux, regardless of the current market-speak.
I've seen some vendor configuration tools that incorrectly create the hex key from a pass-phrase. That is, the same pass-phrase with the same encryption settings generate two unique hex strings. To get around the problem, I just use the hex string directly.
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False hope means that there is no reasonable chance of success; that's not the case. Stop reading Slashdot and start reading EurekAlert for a while; it's likely not as far off as you think.
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The recipient would have to take powerful anti-rejection drugs for life
Where "for life" is defined as being "until medical science can figure out a way around the problem". Chimeras have distinct DNA in parts of their body, yet somehow their immune systems have recognized the tissue as not requiring an immune response. Eventually medical science will figure out how to "introduce" new tissue to the body to prevent rejection.
Retailers are always putting accesspoints and wireless NICs on sale for less than $5 each (like CompUSA). That makes your cost $10 to go wireless; I don't actually consider that an "investment".
You can switch between wired and wireless operation depending on your bandwidth/mobility needs of the moment, so you're not giving anything up.
Yup, it's off. I probably turned it off on all the machines for the earlier Schmoo vulnerability. If that protects against this as well, then I think I'll leave it off.:)
Still nothing. Another post indicates that the actual exploit is not as indicated, and the details are being kept restricted until the fix is ready. That some folks are crashing on the link seems to mean that they have the proper set of conditions (more than just the URL and the character encoding). Another post indicated character encoding ISO8859-1, but that also only causes a problem for some. We'll have to wait for the whole story.
The company could have used this as a viral marketing tool to their advantage - or sold it to some entertainment company (new reality show, with an email component?). It clearly caught the interest and attention of many people.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Duress code. A PIN number that grants perfectly normal access to the account, but also flags the transaction, trips an alarm, and sets off all of the cameras and what not in the ATM booth.
That would be ideal. However, it means your bank would actually have to care about you in addition to your money and implement a duress code. I don't know of any that have. Not to mention that the police would have to care about protecting you; as they've publicly stated many times, it's not their job.
I don't think there's a perfect solution. Until technology can can read our minds to determine intent (and that brings its own problems), this is something that we have to live with.
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I know about three dozen people that have at least one device with Bluetooth. I only know one peerson using it - to replace a $1 wired cellphone earphone with a $120 wireless headset.
While manufacturers are shipping many BT devices, how many people are actually using the functionality?
From the kontiki site follow. Looks like no Mac or Linux:
System Requirements:
(These are the minimum system requirements. Better performance will be seen on more powerful systems.)
* Pentium II 400Mhz (or faster recommended for optimal video playback)
* 64MB of RAM
* 2GB hard drive with 500MB of free space
* Windows 98, ME, NT4, 2000, or XP
* Internet Explorer 5.01 SP2 (or later), Netscape 4.7 or AOL 6.0 (or later)
* Windows Media Player 7, RealPlayer and Quicktime are recommended for the best experience
* A 56Kbps (or faster) Internet connection
Additional Requirements for using Secure Media and Document Control Features:
* Windows Media Player 7 or later for accessing files encrypted using Windows Media Rights Manager
* Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later for accessing secure PDF documents
HOST1: ping -c 1 -p facedead12349876 host2
PATTERN: 0xfacedead12349876
HOST2: tcpdump -x ip proto \\icmp and src host host1 .R....EP$-...lwC
.4.v.....4.v....
.4.v.....4.v....
11:41:51.646216 IP host1 > host2: icmp 64: echo request seq 0
0x0000: 4500 0054 0000 4000 4001 1af7 8752 0886 E..T..@.@....R..
0x0010: 8752 0888 0800 4550 242d 0000 cf6c 7743
0x0020: 25e5 0900 face dead 1234 9876 face dead %........4.v....
0x0030: 1234 9876 face dead 1234 9876 face dead
0x0040: 1234 9876 face dead 1234 9876 face dead
0x0050: 1234
Sure, you'll see a lot of icmp traffic, but odds are most network folks won't considering the pad data in a ping to be payload.
It's like the old ppp over email implementations. Connectivity means data transfer. If some journalist or newbie network admin thinks otherwise, then it's just that much easier.
Use a laptop for the server, with USB 2.0 / Firewire external drives. Your limiting factor os going to be network bandwidth - the laptop is more than adequate. Using software RAID, you can mirror the external drives. When idle, the laptop (assuming you setup power management correctly) will be in a low power state. The external drives will spin down when idle. It's a very energy efficient configuration, but still able to provide full bandwidth on demand.
We should celebrate this with a day of mourning, for the children whose future has been compromised by this decision. The effects, unless rapidly reversed, will be more devastating to these children than any natural disaster. This disaster was man-made, and the parents allowed it to happen. They could stop it. hey could pull they children from school. The teachers could strike. The ancillary service providers could refuse service. The adults in this situation could make a choice. If they sit by and allow this travesty to proceed, you can't blame those that enacted the policy. They become only the messengers.
According to the movie industry, there is no time value - only a format value. That is, the cost to see a movie in the theater the second week it is open is the same as it is the first week it is open. However, when changing format (to DVD for purchase, and again for rental), the value changes.
Yup, a premium for the latest release is reasonable. Since about 75% of the $1 goes to postage, charging $2 for an "in theaters" release is reasonable (an additional 400% revenue).
So why don't you? If all this content is legitimately available through your local library, why are we having this discussion in the first place?
The proliferation of Internet access and broadband has made people forget about their local library. I personally get a great deal of material from them, but many folks I interact with haven't been to the library in years. Most are even surprised that they have DVDs, video tapes and CDs.
When placing a value of a product, that product needs to be looked at in context. Books, movies and music have a free outlet. That's one point of consideration when establishing a price point, which is the subject of this thread.
What make you think the movie industry will allow you to download a copy that you own? It's much more likely that it will be a heavily DRMed self-destructing copy, to prevent it from being uploaded to P2P networks.
Furthermore, the $1/DVD Netflix estimate is unreasonable. Most people with Netflix do not cycle through movies that fast and if they did, then Netflix would have to raise the price to cover the additional costs.
I'm on their 3 at a time plan ($18/month), and go through 20 DVDs a month on average. If folks don't cycle that fast, why wouldn't they go to one of the lower priced plans to keep the cost per DVD lower?
What argument do you have for that? It costs that much just to run iTMS.
It's well documented (Google) that about 90% of the cost of an iTMS download is being taken by the music industry. That means that running the store, bandwidth, and Apple's profit is coming from less than 10 cents per download. In other words, the music industry is charging 500% to 1000% as much as the movie industry. That's an industry long overdue for a reality check.
Netflix is $18/month for 3 DVDs at a time. I currently average 20 DVDs/month, which actually makes it a little less than $1/DVD. Delivering just the movie (minus any extras) via broadband certainly costs less than the 74 cents postage per DVD Netflix is paying. If the movie industry took the difference, they would be getting almost twice the revenue of a rental through Netflix. $1/movie download is more than generous.
I use an existing model - Netflix - to determine reasonable pricing. It's about $1 per DVD (including any extras). For that dollar, Netflix is able to pay round-trip postage (i.e., network transport) and give the movie industry their cut.
Movie downloads should cost no more that $1.
Music downloads, compared to other media downloads (movies, above), should cost no more than 10 cents per track or $1 per album.
After all, I can go to my local library and get the DVDs/CDs for zero dollars.
Just as iTunes music is priced incorrectly (it should be about 10 cents/track).
NetFlix delivers a DVD to me for about $1 (including round-trip shipping). For TV series, that's typically about 4 episodes of the show (plus extras), or about 25 cents per episode for non-DRM material.
In addition, TV shows are frequently posted for (illegal) download within an hour of broadcast, obviously at zero cost.
That's the existing market the TV studios are trying to enter.
I don't do business with iTunes, because I don't think songs are worth $1 to download. For example, I recently heard Gary Jules version of the song Mad World on an episode of CSI. Downloading the song is $1 on iTunes, or I can NetFlix the DVD of Donny Darko for that same $1, which also has the song. Oh, and a whole movie, some other good songs, and more.
If the TV studios want to charge $1 for a download of a DVD iso, that's fine. Why pay more for less?
My cordless phone has a range of about 3000 miles, and I don't need my PC on! The handset is free, and I can make all the night, weekend and phone-to-phone (on net) calls I want at no extra charge. For other calls, I just pay for a block of minutes allocated monthly. It's so cool! I'm not tethered to my PC anymore for calls! Seriously, get a cell phone. It's 2005 for goodness sake.
The Open Source Zimbra AJAX email server/client is news. When MSN develops a commercial application, that's just an advertisement. Well, I guess you can use it as a confirmation that it's the direction email is going, since commercial vendors are deploying the technologies.
Now, back to reality... As soon as Microsoft sees a decline in Windows market share, they will push their sole remaining profitable product, Office, anywhere they can. That includes Linux, regardless of the current market-speak.
I've seen some vendor configuration tools that incorrectly create the hex key from a pass-phrase. That is, the same pass-phrase with the same encryption settings generate two unique hex strings. To get around the problem, I just use the hex string directly.
False hope means that there is no reasonable chance of success; that's not the case. Stop reading Slashdot and start reading EurekAlert for a while; it's likely not as far off as you think.
Where "for life" is defined as being "until medical science can figure out a way around the problem". Chimeras have distinct DNA in parts of their body, yet somehow their immune systems have recognized the tissue as not requiring an immune response. Eventually medical science will figure out how to "introduce" new tissue to the body to prevent rejection.
You can switch between wired and wireless operation depending on your bandwidth/mobility needs of the moment, so you're not giving anything up.
Yup, it's off. I probably turned it off on all the machines for the earlier Schmoo vulnerability. If that protects against this as well, then I think I'll leave it off. :)
Still nothing. Another post indicates that the actual exploit is not as indicated, and the details are being kept restricted until the fix is ready. That some folks are crashing on the link seems to mean that they have the proper set of conditions (more than just the URL and the character encoding). Another post indicated character encoding ISO8859-1, but that also only causes a problem for some. We'll have to wait for the whole story.
Nope that link does nothing (FF 1.06 on Linux).
I'll be generous and say Gartner is only five years away from getting a clue.
The company could have used this as a viral marketing tool to their advantage - or sold it to some entertainment company (new reality show, with an email component?). It clearly caught the interest and attention of many people.
That would be ideal. However, it means your bank would actually have to care about you in addition to your money and implement a duress code. I don't know of any that have. Not to mention that the police would have to care about protecting you; as they've publicly stated many times, it's not their job.
I don't think there's a perfect solution. Until technology can can read our minds to determine intent (and that brings its own problems), this is something that we have to live with.