We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform
I thought this thing bombed and was scrapped like 3 months after release?
Like the author, I am shocked to hear that N-Gage is even still around. I think I want one just to put on my mantle piece as a conversational topic as one of the biggest video game blunders ever.
I would have nothing opposed to sharing internet access if I was not aware of the dangers imposed with it. The problem with insecure routers is that you leave yourself open to whims of anyone who can use it.
You can leave it open, and share, and you'd be doing a good thing. You may never run across a bad guy in your life. Likewise, you can leave your car unlocked and no one will ever enter it.
But I personally have never been in the scenario where I KNOW my neighbours nor have I ever been in a situation where I Had my laptop with me and I wanted to check my email, thus forcing me to use someone elses wifi or using Wifi without paying for it.
If you can afford a Laptop nowadays, you can afford a decent phone, and you can use that for the internet.
The potential cost for someone malicious on your network doesn't approach the social good of you leaving it open to everyone. If you want to share it with your neighbours, send them the key.
Or those guys who just moved in, wanting to eat up your bandwidth downloading music and playing world of warcraft without paying for their own internet service?
Thinking that you shouldn't secure a wireless network is ridiculous. Do you leave your door open and encourage people to use the washroom? Do you leave your keys in the ignition to encourage your neighbours to do their grocery runs with your car?
If so, you are a very unique, not to mention naive character, who will only be taught once they get scammed.
May sound cynical, but my motto is: Assume the worst of people you will never meet.
The cost of a single piece of paper and the amount of ink I would have used is trivial to me being able to deny them internet access. They had it completely open, broadcasted the SSID, and left the router with the default username and password. I could have locked them out from their own internet if I had wished it. Sure, they could press the button on the bottom to restore factory defaults, but then I could do it over and over again. Or, if I were in the business of stealing personal information, I would have had very little standing in the way.
If they wanted to share, they should have at least locked down access to the rest of their network (PC, Printer, Router/Gateway).
If you leave your car unlocked and someone uses your pen and post its to tell you to lock your car, are you going to be pissed?
WEP is better? Has it always been better? I used WEP for the longest time until I figured I could set my own (short & easy) password with WPA. Should I switch back? Not that I expect my neighbours to be leet hackers...
But one time not too long ago I logged into my one of my neighbours unsecured network (no idea who owned it) and noticed they had a printer on the network. So I downloaded the drivers off of HP and then sent a message to their printer telling them they should secure their wireless, and a website to show them how.
Now to you or I, this would seem like a noble act in educating people on good security measures, but everyone else (meaning not computer people) thought that this was an outright invasion of privacy and advised me "Never to attempt that kind of stunt again" (not that I'll listen to them).
Anyways, ever since then I've had this itching feeling that someones going to break into my wireless and show me whats what in a sort of karmic irony.
As someone who works closely with our network admin, I can tell you that small inbox restrictions are usually to discourage the unnecessary emails that make their way to the company inboxes and spread fast. You know, the kind with pictures of cats with captions, or jokes, or funny pictures, or heartwarming motivational stories.
Those things always end up being like 20 megs with an extra meg just in attached email Forwards and replies, and when one person gets it they send it to everyone in their inter office friends.
Long story short, its not that they think 250MB is enough for you, its that they think you'll try to manage that space more efficiently so that the admins don't have to bitch you out for having a 50 meg image filled email that has 0 to do with business.
Microsoft's Speech to Text software built into every laptop nowadays does a better job of Google Voice's transcripts, but mostly because Microsoft's version has you read a short article, sentence by sentence, to determine any accents, slurs, or otherwise imperfections in your speech to properly align the computer to your voice.
The problem lies in determining the actual message - just like throwing something a google or babblefish text-to-text translator, the message may come out a little backwards, or broken, or in Engrish.
I agree with the whole efficiency of plants - you'd be surprised what some companies go through to reduce emissions.
As for batteries, how do you determine the life of the car in an electric car? Gasoline powered vehicles tend to have a limitted life because of all the combustion that takes place inside which requires lots of moving parts and oil for all those moving parts and eventually the stress will just kill it in one section or another. I've not known someone who's driven a car for more than 5 years who hasn't had to replace SOMETHING under the hood.
Given an electric car doesn't have nearly as many explosions or moving parts to it - its lifetime could be exceptionally longer than a regular car, which means its impossible to guage the lifetime of a battery of a car that could live forever.
This is of course excluding the occurances of vehicular accidents.
When there isn't enough competition around, companies don't have to worry about Quality - the people will buy whats available, and if no one is offering a higher quality product, the low quality product will still sell.
If this market is to mature they need a company to step in with the emphasis on quality.
Google has also announced Google Maps Navigation, a GPS application for Android 2.0 that takes voice input and integrates with internet searches and Street View.
Since the SDK is released I can see alot of custom apps that basically listen to everything you say in a conversation. Imagine the phone just sitting there listening to you and your buddy's converse Me: "Hey man, are you hungry?" Friend: "Yeah totally. Haven't eaten all day." Me: "In the mood for sushi?" Android: "I know a great Sushi restaurant 3km East of here"
And whenever you say "I'm bored" it can point you in the direction of the red light district!
No. You don't. That's why there is the big blue FBI Warning before the movies. It pretty much states that you can't legally make money off it in any way, shape, or form.
Considering all the different types of ends and Voltages that laptops use, it'll either be impractical to carry them all, or for those "Universal Adapters", quite possible another fire hazard waiting to happen.
Well all we're saying is that the Spanish are to blame for there not being any more Mayan texts around today. No one was saying it wasn't in their best interests at the time.
Just for those who are hardcore interested in history, its upsetting to know that what could be a priceless manuscript was burned for an empire which now has nothing to show for it.
All of them though? What if they unknowingly were burning crop records, financial information, Poetry, etc etc. Were they going to find some Heresy, for sure, but they didn't bother to weed it out from what could have been potentially valuable. Like a Rosetta Stone that helped translate things amongst Olmec, Incas, Aztecs, and other cultures of Ancient Central America.
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Nothing. But just because Canada is okay doesn't mean I don't want to visit Europe.
We will no longer publish new games for the N-Gage platform
I thought this thing bombed and was scrapped like 3 months after release?
Like the author, I am shocked to hear that N-Gage is even still around. I think I want one just to put on my mantle piece as a conversational topic as one of the biggest video game blunders ever.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the "Can-Spam Act" is meant to stop people from spamming, specifically from the false and misleading type?
Why not a gold farm?
I kid, I kid!
I would have nothing opposed to sharing internet access if I was not aware of the dangers imposed with it. The problem with insecure routers is that you leave yourself open to whims of anyone who can use it.
You can leave it open, and share, and you'd be doing a good thing. You may never run across a bad guy in your life. Likewise, you can leave your car unlocked and no one will ever enter it.
But I personally have never been in the scenario where I KNOW my neighbours nor have I ever been in a situation where I Had my laptop with me and I wanted to check my email, thus forcing me to use someone elses wifi or using Wifi without paying for it.
If you can afford a Laptop nowadays, you can afford a decent phone, and you can use that for the internet.
The potential cost for someone malicious on your network doesn't approach the social good of you leaving it open to everyone. If you want to share it with your neighbours, send them the key.
Or those guys who just moved in, wanting to eat up your bandwidth downloading music and playing world of warcraft without paying for their own internet service?
Thinking that you shouldn't secure a wireless network is ridiculous. Do you leave your door open and encourage people to use the washroom? Do you leave your keys in the ignition to encourage your neighbours to do their grocery runs with your car?
If so, you are a very unique, not to mention naive character, who will only be taught once they get scammed.
May sound cynical, but my motto is: Assume the worst of people you will never meet.
The cost of a single piece of paper and the amount of ink I would have used is trivial to me being able to deny them internet access. They had it completely open, broadcasted the SSID, and left the router with the default username and password. I could have locked them out from their own internet if I had wished it. Sure, they could press the button on the bottom to restore factory defaults, but then I could do it over and over again. Or, if I were in the business of stealing personal information, I would have had very little standing in the way.
If they wanted to share, they should have at least locked down access to the rest of their network (PC, Printer, Router/Gateway).
If you leave your car unlocked and someone uses your pen and post its to tell you to lock your car, are you going to be pissed?
WEP is not better. Don't use WEP.
WPA2+AES is better.
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WEP takes a very long time to break. Somewhere on the order of 15-30 minutes
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WEP has always been less secure than WPA
Well thats reassuring. You learn something new everyday.
WEP is better? Has it always been better? I used WEP for the longest time until I figured I could set my own (short & easy) password with WPA.
Should I switch back? Not that I expect my neighbours to be leet hackers...
But one time not too long ago I logged into my one of my neighbours unsecured network (no idea who owned it) and noticed they had a printer on the network. So I downloaded the drivers off of HP and then sent a message to their printer telling them they should secure their wireless, and a website to show them how.
Now to you or I, this would seem like a noble act in educating people on good security measures, but everyone else (meaning not computer people) thought that this was an outright invasion of privacy and advised me "Never to attempt that kind of stunt again" (not that I'll listen to them).
Anyways, ever since then I've had this itching feeling that someones going to break into my wireless and show me whats what in a sort of karmic irony.
As someone who works closely with our network admin, I can tell you that small inbox restrictions are usually to discourage the unnecessary emails that make their way to the company inboxes and spread fast. You know, the kind with pictures of cats with captions, or jokes, or funny pictures, or heartwarming motivational stories.
Those things always end up being like 20 megs with an extra meg just in attached email Forwards and replies, and when one person gets it they send it to everyone in their inter office friends.
Long story short, its not that they think 250MB is enough for you, its that they think you'll try to manage that space more efficiently so that the admins don't have to bitch you out for having a 50 meg image filled email that has 0 to do with business.
Does this mean I will be losing some of the 7385 MB available for my inbox space? I'm already using a whole 1% of that!
Microsoft's Speech to Text software built into every laptop nowadays does a better job of Google Voice's transcripts, but mostly because Microsoft's version has you read a short article, sentence by sentence, to determine any accents, slurs, or otherwise imperfections in your speech to properly align the computer to your voice.
The problem lies in determining the actual message - just like throwing something a google or babblefish text-to-text translator, the message may come out a little backwards, or broken, or in Engrish.
Take off every Zig!
But someone must be getting paid to write articles - otherwise no one would write them.
Why can't the internet have Salaried journalists?
I agree with the whole efficiency of plants - you'd be surprised what some companies go through to reduce emissions.
As for batteries, how do you determine the life of the car in an electric car? Gasoline powered vehicles tend to have a limitted life because of all the combustion that takes place inside which requires lots of moving parts and oil for all those moving parts and eventually the stress will just kill it in one section or another. I've not known someone who's driven a car for more than 5 years who hasn't had to replace SOMETHING under the hood.
Given an electric car doesn't have nearly as many explosions or moving parts to it - its lifetime could be exceptionally longer than a regular car, which means its impossible to guage the lifetime of a battery of a car that could live forever.
This is of course excluding the occurances of vehicular accidents.
When there isn't enough competition around, companies don't have to worry about Quality - the people will buy whats available, and if no one is offering a higher quality product, the low quality product will still sell.
If this market is to mature they need a company to step in with the emphasis on quality.
Google has also announced Google Maps Navigation, a GPS application for Android 2.0 that takes voice input and integrates with internet searches and Street View.
Since the SDK is released I can see alot of custom apps that basically listen to everything you say in a conversation.
Imagine the phone just sitting there listening to you and your buddy's converse
Me: "Hey man, are you hungry?"
Friend: "Yeah totally. Haven't eaten all day."
Me: "In the mood for sushi?"
Android: "I know a great Sushi restaurant 3km East of here"
And whenever you say "I'm bored" it can point you in the direction of the red light district!
Some of those 4chan gifs can get pretty big in size. And you can go through like 10 of those a minute.
No. You don't. That's why there is the big blue FBI Warning before the movies. It pretty much states that you can't legally make money off it in any way, shape, or form.
Considering all the different types of ends and Voltages that laptops use, it'll either be impractical to carry them all, or for those "Universal Adapters", quite possible another fire hazard waiting to happen.
What good is my water bottle without water?
People won't bother to claim they died if it means it locks them out of their account as well.
After all, a real dead person can't update his/her status.
Accidentally modded down, posting to remove my mod points from this thread (ignore this post)
Well all we're saying is that the Spanish are to blame for there not being any more Mayan texts around today. No one was saying it wasn't in their best interests at the time.
Just for those who are hardcore interested in history, its upsetting to know that what could be a priceless manuscript was burned for an empire which now has nothing to show for it.
All of them though? What if they unknowingly were burning crop records, financial information, Poetry, etc etc. Were they going to find some Heresy, for sure, but they didn't bother to weed it out from what could have been potentially valuable. Like a Rosetta Stone that helped translate things amongst Olmec, Incas, Aztecs, and other cultures of Ancient Central America.