A WIFI route with guest account support is rather useful for that: set up a guest account for 2 hours, use a throw-away password and off you go (and keep the guest account from accessing your home network)
- google is not disclosing how they protect our data - google has full access to data that at least I consider is none of their business, so I'd like to be able to supply my own encryption key.
just to put the record straight: the opensim--linden lab interop was done as a proof of concept by colleagues from IBM and Linden Lab. the OpenSim patch (http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=1696) was done by Zha Ewry of IBM Research.
from own experience i can state that they do research on prior art...but, doing research for prior art is not that trivial either (because obviously if you want to file for a patent you do want to make sure that the effort and money you invest is not wasted --- so, you better do a prior arts research yourself [if your are honest about the process]).
Blaiming Phil Zimmermann for coding PGP and releasing it to the public and saying that this makes terrorists attacks possible is a pretty naive (stupid?) train of thoughts. By the same reasoning we then have to blame Boing for manufacturing those airplane, because that enabled the terrorists to carry out those attacks.
It's just that we perceive flying as a necessity without which we (think we) cannot live/survive whereas the need for keeping communications confidential and protected has not yet made it into the mind of the general public. I certainly don't want to belittle what happened in NY/DC, but each year more people die in car crashs---do we ban driving?
... well, even with this licensing model they still have to worry about migrating and so forth --- MS is not saying that they'll provide IS services for those companies, just that they get to pay every X years even though those companies didn't upgrade.
Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) (available in more and more parts of Europe, Canada, Near & Far East, Australia) provides for data casting over radio channels (one channel does 24-384 Kbps). There's provision for Broadcast Web sites in the DAB specs and some stations are already doing that (e.g., BBC in the UK). Psion is releasing a DAB receiver for the PC (USB attached) this month/early next month (WaveFinder).
Broadcasting an FTP site is really not that different...
You could also broadcast those Linux security patches as RPMs/package-format-of-your-choice and have them installed on your machine automatically...
In the US companies like XMRadio and Sirius Radio seem to be looking into data casting via satellite digital audio radio
Just FYI: What you are referring to is DAB: Digital Audio Broadcast. Transmitting in III and L Band (~ 200 MHz and 1.2 Ghz if I remember correctly). Audio is MPEG encoded. DAB uses ensembles that contain a variable number of channels. A channel can carry either audio, audio and Program Associated Data (PAD), or just data (packet mode). One ensemble can have up 2 Mbit/s bandwidth.
The nice thing about DAB is that its channel allocation can be changed on the fly: You can add channels to an ensemble but you can also change the bandwidth requirements of a particular channel. You can even change the bandwidth you allocate to audio versus PAD dynamically (e.g., music part get all the bandwidth, as soon as you have a talk show, say, you decrease the audio bandwidth to 30 kbit/s and increase the bandwidth for the PAD part).
DAB is being deployed all over the world (with the exception of the US, there apparently the NAB is opposing it vehemently).
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router even. sigh.
A WIFI route with guest account support is rather useful for that: set up a guest account for 2 hours, use a throw-away password and off you go (and keep the guest account from accessing your home network)
I think the hoopla is about two things:
- google is not disclosing how they protect our data
- google has full access to data that at least I consider is none of their business, so I'd like to be able to supply my own encryption key.
yep, should have explicitly mentioned this affects android devices, i wrongly assumed that that would be obvious from the context. apologies.
just to put the record straight: the opensim--linden lab interop was done as a proof of concept by colleagues from IBM and Linden Lab. the OpenSim patch (http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=1696) was done by Zha Ewry of IBM Research.
Sun was not really involved in all of that.
from own experience i can state that they do research on prior art...but, doing research for prior art is not that trivial either (because obviously if you want to file for a patent you do want to make sure that the effort and money you invest is not wasted --- so, you better do a prior arts research yourself [if your are honest about the process]).
hmm...the point was that the question should have read "how is it working in the US?" instead of being phrased so broadly.
no, i wasn't bragging, just a reminder that USA != World.
...and I've made use of it taking my mobile number with me when switching GSM providers and also when switching from POTS to VoIP/cable.
(oh, and, yes, I'm talking about Europe here 8=)
if you are in business, you better check whether your app
Blaiming Phil Zimmermann for coding PGP and releasing it to the public and saying that this makes terrorists attacks possible is a pretty naive (stupid?) train of thoughts. By the same reasoning we then have to blame Boing for manufacturing those airplane, because that enabled the terrorists to carry out those attacks.
It's just that we perceive flying as a necessity without which we (think we) cannot live/survive whereas the need for keeping communications confidential and protected has not yet made it into the mind of the general public. I certainly don't want to belittle what happened in NY/DC, but each year more people die in car crashs---do we ban driving?
Have a look at CargoLifter--- that'll be bigger than the Hindenburg. However, it's for cargo only. But still pretty impressive.
... well, even with this licensing model they still have to worry about migrating and so forth --- MS is not saying that they'll provide IS services for those companies, just that they get to pay every X years even though those companies didn't upgrade.
Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) (available in more and more parts of Europe, Canada, Near & Far East, Australia) provides for data casting over radio channels (one channel does 24-384 Kbps). There's provision for Broadcast Web sites in the DAB specs and some stations are already doing that (e.g., BBC in the UK). Psion is releasing a DAB receiver for the PC (USB attached) this month/early next month (WaveFinder).
Broadcasting an FTP site is really not that different...
You could also broadcast those Linux security patches as RPMs/package-format-of-your-choice and have them installed on your machine automatically...
In the US companies like XMRadio and Sirius Radio seem to be looking into data casting via satellite digital audio radio
The nice thing about DAB is that its channel allocation can be changed on the fly: You can add channels to an ensemble but you can also change the bandwidth requirements of a particular channel. You can even change the bandwidth you allocate to audio versus PAD dynamically (e.g., music part get all the bandwidth, as soon as you have a talk show, say, you decrease the audio bandwidth to 30 kbit/s and increase the bandwidth for the PAD part).
DAB is being deployed all over the world (with the exception of the US, there apparently the NAB is opposing it vehemently).
Have a look at the World DAB site.