FTA: "eBay and our forums vendor, LiveWorld, began taking steps to remedy the situation within an hour after it started."
I'm curious, why would a company the size of eBay (in both $ and employees) use a third party vendor for their forums? Why wouldn't they just invest in developing their own forums and avoid potentially embarrassing publicity?
1) Lightweight equipment. Remember that every pound you add the airplane is another pound they have to get up off the ground every time they take off. This can add up quickly.
2) They have to route the packets back down to earth (or, more likely, back up to a satellite and then back down to earth)
I know a Linksys router is light, but the equipment to route the packets is heaver and they have to fit the plane with this equipment. I'm sure the 100K accounts for labor also.
Because when you are traveling at hundreds of miles per hour, the cell phone towers can't keep up with switching you from one tower to the next as they can when you are traveling in a car.
3. Turnitin.com is storing those papers to make their database bigger thus providing a better service and making more money because their software/website is more accurate.
BTW: (Unless I misunderstand it...) According to the Wikipedia article you quoted, the red is "classified or sensitive information" and black is "classified or sensitive information"
Why would it have to be on top of just police cars? Shoot, they could start mounting them inside EVERY car and mount stationary ones in every traffic light.
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I haven't been around as long as some, but still appreciate everything you've done for the site and Internet!
Agreed
TPA offers free wi-fi already and has for a while.
ooo, I know, I know!
Cops should carry thermometers around and if your drink is less than 30 degrees, you're allowed to drink it.
That would solve that problem!
How low is low?
You can already setup a custom search engine, and just add in the sites that you want:
http://www.google.com/coop/cse/
You can even have multiple contributors that you assumingly trust who can add in sites they think would benefit the custom search engine.
http://www.google.com/romance/
I could be wrong but I think this applies to only government computers and not the whole Country's Internet...
Are you serious? You think Microsoft Surface is just to order a coffee without standing in line?
You have to be the poster-child for Apple fan-boys. Wow.
FTA: "eBay and our forums vendor, LiveWorld, began taking steps to remedy the situation within an hour after it started."
I'm curious, why would a company the size of eBay (in both $ and employees) use a third party vendor for their forums? Why wouldn't they just invest in developing their own forums and avoid potentially embarrassing publicity?
The SSL is only between you and GMail... Once the email leaves GMail and heads toward its destination, it is sent cleartext.
In a related story, people don't remember multiplication tables with the advent of the calculator.... News at 11.
Two reasons come to mind...
1) Lightweight equipment. Remember that every pound you add the airplane is another pound they have to get up off the ground every time they take off. This can add up quickly.
2) They have to route the packets back down to earth (or, more likely, back up to a satellite and then back down to earth)
I know a Linksys router is light, but the equipment to route the packets is heaver and they have to fit the plane with this equipment. I'm sure the 100K accounts for labor also.
Because when you are traveling at hundreds of miles per hour, the cell phone towers can't keep up with switching you from one tower to the next as they can when you are traveling in a car.
I would assume that they couldn't just limit the wifi to people in first/business class... Why would they care if coach passengers use it also?
Convenient you put your referral id in there...
You mean people not reading /.?
eBay does have an API
I guess it is mirrored here:
r text/WWW/TheProject.html
http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hype
It is a shame that the original page still isn't up.
This was on Digg the other day...
3. Turnitin.com is storing those papers to make their database bigger thus providing a better service and making more money because their software/website is more accurate.
but yours is eight...
BTW: (Unless I misunderstand it...) According to the Wikipedia article you quoted, the red is "classified or sensitive information" and black is "classified or sensitive information"
Why would it have to be on top of just police cars? Shoot, they could start mounting them inside EVERY car and mount stationary ones in every traffic light.