Why don't you write it anyway (strictly for your own use, to start with), and then once it is working well (and you are happy with it), pitch it back to the manufacturer?
If you look at it from their perspective: through reverse-engineering, you have created a driver for their product which potentially extends the market of that product for no up-front cost to them. What's more, assuming you don't release it into the wild without their consent, you have given them a chance to decide how they want to proceed with it -- you are playing fair with them.
Worst case, they get all legal about it, and cease/desist/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-and-wat er, but assuming you find someone with some imagination, they might actually help you with it (or indeed, if you are really lucky, employ you...)
I've some experience of this procedure, and generally it works seamlessly. Furthermore, it seems to stimulate the market (both for the telcos and the handset vendors), rather than damage it.
It surprises me therefore, that the carriers are fighting this so hard...
Knowing how to drive a browser is not sufficient. A course teaching meaningful search construction, search-result filtering (on relevance and reliability), and the often-successful art of 'guessing-a-URL', could be of value, and of interest.
Of course, I guess these are the study/research skills we're all supposed to learn at school...right?
I just wonder what the billing mechanism will be for this service.
The article seems to suggest that the billing will be done on a per-burger basis i.e. you buy your burger, you get a little card with a pin# on it, and you then connect to the LAN.
This seems to suggest an anonymous means of surfing (all for the cost of a burger) - an approach that would land McD's in difficulties within hours of launching the service.
The other approach is a 'customer-registration' service, and I for one am not sure I need McD's to know where I (burger-swilling-geek that I am) live.
I find it surprising that this doesn't exist already - surely this is something like a slightly shinier version of UK Government Secure Intranet which has been operational for some time.
Surely the US government has something equivalent...?
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For what its worth, the Register also has a review.
They may not be any more independent, but at least they're honest...
This is a bit of a non-story, I think. Why? Well...
1) Misconfigured routers cause much more trouble that compromised ones. Routers seem to be cursed so that admins (especially junior ones) feel the need to 'tweak' them endlessly.
2) A compromised router (i.e. one that is under the control of someone 'bad' - a Junior admin for example) is a pain whatever - BGP extends the range of the damage that can be caused, but ultimately securing the router is more important.
Yes, I think S-BGP is a good idea, but hiding those router passwords is a better one.
A while back (~1987) the bbc produced a drama-documentary called "Life Story: a double helix", about the discovery of DNA (starring Tim Piggot-Smith & Jeff Goldblum).
If you get the opportunity (it has been shown a number of times on US and UK TV), it is worth seeing as a very fair-minded and interesting history of the discovery. Unfortunately, I don't believe it is available on video, unless anyone knows different.
I can see a nice distributed implementation for burst-searching - a "mod_ephemera" module for apache.
The module would count words/phrases most commonly served (less tags and the top-n most common words in the language-encoding), then serves out the top-10 as HTTP header messages. That way, the results are unobtrusive and easy to recover.
Of course, this approach would inevitably be easy to skew/cheat. Anyway, that's my sixpeneth:)
IM..(ever-so)..HO the airlines would be better served by extending the availability of in-seat power sockets.
It would be nice to be able to work/surf/watch-DVDs on a long-haul flight without having to carry your body-weight in spare batteries....and now that I've got that off my chest, I feel better now:)
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Why don't you write it anyway (strictly for your own use, to start with), and then once it is working well (and you are happy with it), pitch it back to the manufacturer?
t er, but assuming you find someone with some imagination, they might actually help you with it (or indeed, if you are really lucky, employ you...)
If you look at it from their perspective: through reverse-engineering, you have created a driver for their product which potentially extends the market of that product for no up-front cost to them. What's more, assuming you don't release it into the wild without their consent, you have given them a chance to decide how they want to proceed with it -- you are playing fair with them.
Worst case, they get all legal about it, and cease/desist/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-and-wa
and indeed, that they wash their hands afterwards, or McD's palm-scanners will get full of grease...
...and wouldn't that be a shame
I've some experience of this procedure, and generally it works seamlessly. Furthermore, it seems to stimulate the market (both for the telcos and the handset vendors), rather than damage it.
It surprises me therefore, that the carriers are fighting this so hard...
Actually, you make a good point.
Knowing how to drive a browser is not sufficient. A course teaching meaningful search construction, search-result filtering (on relevance and reliability), and the often-successful art of 'guessing-a-URL', could be of value, and of interest.
Of course, I guess these are the study/research skills we're all supposed to learn at school...right?
Not sure about this one...
I find myself imagining coming home from my holidays to discover my camera's been hacked and I've got someone else's holiday photos...spooky.
I just wonder what the billing mechanism will be for this service.
The article seems to suggest that the billing will be done on a per-burger basis i.e. you buy your burger, you get a little card with a pin# on it, and you then connect to the LAN.
This seems to suggest an anonymous means of surfing (all for the cost of a burger) - an approach that would land McD's in difficulties within hours of launching the service.
The other approach is a 'customer-registration' service, and I for one am not sure I need McD's to know where I (burger-swilling-geek that I am) live.
I find it surprising that this doesn't exist already - surely this is something like a slightly shinier version of UK Government Secure Intranet which has been operational for some time.
Surely the US government has something equivalent...?
For what its worth, the Register also has a review.
They may not be any more independent, but at least they're honest...
This is a bit of a non-story, I think. Why? Well...
1) Misconfigured routers cause much more trouble that compromised ones. Routers seem to be cursed so that admins (especially junior ones) feel the need to 'tweak' them endlessly.
2) A compromised router (i.e. one that is under the control of someone 'bad' - a Junior admin for example) is a pain whatever - BGP extends the range of the damage that can be caused, but ultimately securing the router is more important.
Yes, I think S-BGP is a good idea, but hiding those router passwords is a better one.
A while back (~1987) the bbc produced a drama-documentary called "Life Story: a double helix", about the discovery of DNA (starring Tim Piggot-Smith & Jeff Goldblum).
If you get the opportunity (it has been shown a number of times on US and UK TV), it is worth seeing as a very fair-minded and interesting history of the discovery. Unfortunately, I don't believe it is available on video, unless anyone knows different.
I can see a nice distributed implementation for burst-searching - a "mod_ephemera" module for apache.
:)
The module would count words/phrases most commonly served (less tags and the top-n most common words in the language-encoding), then serves out the top-10 as HTTP header messages. That way, the results are unobtrusive and easy to recover.
Of course, this approach would inevitably be easy to skew/cheat. Anyway, that's my sixpeneth
IM..(ever-so)..HO the airlines would be better served by extending the availability of in-seat power sockets.
...and now that I've got that off my chest, I feel better now :)
It would be nice to be able to work/surf/watch-DVDs on a long-haul flight without having to carry your body-weight in spare batteries.