Let's take a look at the gulf war. It was fought and ended quickly, with exceptionally low causualties on both sides. In the crusades, the WW's, Vietnam, armies would battle, and thousands would die in order to gain control of a single building, bridge, or piece of equipment. Now, with the pinpoint accuracy of available weapons, the same targets can be achieved in a fraction of the time, with but a handful of killed or wounded.
True, technology is taking the gruesome carnage out of war, but that doesn't mean the person making the decision to use that technology will be able to make that decision any easier, if anything it would make it more difficult. Strange things happened to a lot of grunts in Nam, things that would make one think that abstracting "killing to a small blip on a phosphorescent screen far removed from the actual event" isn't such a bad thing.
- just my 2 cents -
Semper Fi - J.
Hmm.. Let's see. As a full time college student working 15 hours a week at 12 bucks an hour that's about 600 bucks a month after taxes. Figure in monthly home beer costs (18pack @ $10 X 4 = $40), bar beer costs (twice that) burritos ($24) petrol ($60) isp ($40) and rent ($350) and that gives a whole 6 dollars a month to spend on hardware. Now one could save up for almost two years to get a new 256MB stick of ram, or use this program and get a FAST ASS system with the money from taking cans back. The question of which option to take seems like no question at all.
Someone could easily come in through file sharing and install a keystroke logger that records everything you do. They could also add something like pcAnywhere to your start up and then connect remotely with full control of your PC. These are both instances of deliberate attacks on YOU. To protect yourself from your general kiddie looking around to see what stuff their neighbors have, For God's Sake!, never click 'Remember Password'.
Three days after these make it to the market, when someone finally hacks it, we'll finally have the Internet Appliance we've all been waiting for. Touchscreens in the home are limitless in their uses, and will only prove to make the web that much more attractive to joe user. Being able to hit the screen a few times and check your mail while lying on the couch, then throw the pad over to your friend in the lazy boy so they can do the same is alot more convenient than making a special trip to whatever room the computer is in, signing on, going to whatever page, logging in, etc. Suzy homemaker being able to tap the screen a few times in the kitchen to bring up her recipes, rather than fumbling with a flower covered mouse and keyboard is a huge bonus. These devices are going to spurn technological advances in the home we've not yet concieved.
"Our" community is in no way trying to ruin a company or hamper an innovative business model. A minor percentage of individuals with above average intellect and skills, testing those skills on new products, won't in any way cut into the profits of these companies. It is for that reason that, when they change EULA's to specifically target us, and threaten legal action, we fight back. It's the principalities of the matter!
Around here, people continually circumvent routine security restrictions.
When I was in the military we had 3 guys supporting a 400 workstation network with 1100 users. Security!
It was hard enough to explain to everyone that pressing the button on the monitor won't turn the computer on. There was no time or resourses for security.
When I was in high school, I played D&D. We'd load up on Mtn Dew and Doritos and play all day, through the night, and through the next day. When high school was over, our group broke up and went to college. We started using our computers to get together and adventure on MUDs and, as long as there were no frat parties going on, we'd load up on Mtn Dew and Doritos and play all day, through the night, and through the next day. After freshmen year we stopped playing, but I was still on the computer all day, through the night, and through the next day. Role playing games are what got me into computing, and I think it's because in both, it's extremely easy to immerse yourself in what your doing and kind of lose track of everything that's going on around you.
Torpedos aren't dialed in to attack a specific point. Because they're launched at fast moving targets, it's necessary for them to be able to follow that target, by means of sonar and/or (depending on the type of torpedo) magnetics. It just goes in a general direction until it picks something up. That's why chaff can be used to throw the missle off the intended target. If the intended target is missed, however, the torp has no way of knowing this and will continue to search for a target until detonated or timed out.
Right, like the Internet's sole purpose is for us geeks to have something to do. Average users, people who want nothing more than to chat with friends or swap recipes, make up a vast majority of internet users. They create the demand for shopping sites and easy to use tools, which provide programmers, web designers, and network technicians with jobs. Non-knowledge users don't cheapen connectivity, they keep us employed.
will be how much will be paid if a claim is validated. Maybe the insurance companies will keep companies from flagrantly inflating their reported losses from being hacked.
Haven't tried it, but can't you just disable the D: drives auto run and do everything you need; on any system; from explorer. The.msi files are all still there.
E-commerce companies get hammered by credit card fraud. People are more likely to punch in someone else's card number online than use a stolen card in person. The photo thing is probably just joe-site owners way of feeling secure that he's not going to get screwed. I don't see this as a violation of privacy at all. Just an extra added precaution. If it's a hard to get item at a good price, how could sending the pic hurt. Hell, if it's a paranoia thing, just have your friend pose. Nobody will know the difference.
If you own a Metallica album, and you use napster to download a metallica song on that album (say you never figured out how to convert to MP3)then you're doing nothing illegal. Now metallica has napster ban you for pirating music, but you haven't. I think the only logical move is to sue Metallica for having you banned. Anyone for Class Action?
Linux has come as far as it has because it's small and you can alter it to fit your needs; on the software side of things. Netpliance is now faced with the opportunity to finally create the same thing on the harware side. Let's just hope they do good.
Slashdot Mirror
Additionally, you can make your own cd for the NIC that allows you to add anything you want to it, as long as it totals in under 700 meg.
Here's a high speed mirror for the low quality file.../ pdv.cs.tu-berlin.de/MARVIN/pressevideoELQ. mpg
http://a516.g.akamai.net/7/516/1/f15ee829e2faf2
Be sure to remove the slashdot added spacing between the dot and mpg
Let's take a look at the gulf war. It was fought and ended quickly, with exceptionally low causualties on both sides. In the crusades, the WW's, Vietnam, armies would battle, and thousands would die in order to gain control of a single building, bridge, or piece of equipment. Now, with the pinpoint accuracy of available weapons, the same targets can be achieved in a fraction of the time, with but a handful of killed or wounded. True, technology is taking the gruesome carnage out of war, but that doesn't mean the person making the decision to use that technology will be able to make that decision any easier, if anything it would make it more difficult. Strange things happened to a lot of grunts in Nam, things that would make one think that abstracting "killing to a small blip on a phosphorescent screen far removed from the actual event" isn't such a bad thing. - just my 2 cents - Semper Fi - J.
And for those readers who don't have a sense of humor, WE KNOW it's not the Boy Scouts of America, it a joke, get it? Ha, Ha?
Hmm.. Let's see. As a full time college student working 15 hours a week at 12 bucks an hour that's about 600 bucks a month after taxes. Figure in monthly home beer costs (18pack @ $10 X 4 = $40), bar beer costs (twice that) burritos ($24) petrol ($60) isp ($40) and rent ($350) and that gives a whole 6 dollars a month to spend on hardware. Now one could save up for almost two years to get a new 256MB stick of ram, or use this program and get a FAST ASS system with the money from taking cans back. The question of which option to take seems like no question at all.
Someone could easily come in through file sharing and install a keystroke logger that records everything you do. They could also add something like pcAnywhere to your start up and then connect remotely with full control of your PC. These are both instances of deliberate attacks on YOU. To protect yourself from your general kiddie looking around to see what stuff their neighbors have, For God's Sake!, never click 'Remember Password'.
If race car drivers are cool, and computer people are geeks, is a computerized race car driver cool, or a geek?
Now I'm going to have to stop singing in the shower to avoid prosecution for illegal distribution of copywrited works.
Three days after these make it to the market, when someone finally hacks it, we'll finally have the Internet Appliance we've all been waiting for. Touchscreens in the home are limitless in their uses, and will only prove to make the web that much more attractive to joe user. Being able to hit the screen a few times and check your mail while lying on the couch, then throw the pad over to your friend in the lazy boy so they can do the same is alot more convenient than making a special trip to whatever room the computer is in, signing on, going to whatever page, logging in, etc. Suzy homemaker being able to tap the screen a few times in the kitchen to bring up her recipes, rather than fumbling with a flower covered mouse and keyboard is a huge bonus. These devices are going to spurn technological advances in the home we've not yet concieved.
"Our" community is in no way trying to ruin a company or hamper an innovative business model. A minor percentage of individuals with above average intellect and skills, testing those skills on new products, won't in any way cut into the profits of these companies. It is for that reason that, when they change EULA's to specifically target us, and threaten legal action, we fight back. It's the principalities of the matter!
When I was in the military we had 3 guys supporting a 400 workstation network with 1100 users. Security! It was hard enough to explain to everyone that pressing the button on the monitor won't turn the computer on. There was no time or resourses for security.
When I was in high school, I played D&D. We'd load up on Mtn Dew and Doritos and play all day, through the night, and through the next day. When high school was over, our group broke up and went to college. We started using our computers to get together and adventure on MUDs and, as long as there were no frat parties going on, we'd load up on Mtn Dew and Doritos and play all day, through the night, and through the next day. After freshmen year we stopped playing, but I was still on the computer all day, through the night, and through the next day. Role playing games are what got me into computing, and I think it's because in both, it's extremely easy to immerse yourself in what your doing and kind of lose track of everything that's going on around you.
Torpedos aren't dialed in to attack a specific point. Because they're launched at fast moving targets, it's necessary for them to be able to follow that target, by means of sonar and/or (depending on the type of torpedo) magnetics. It just goes in a general direction until it picks something up. That's why chaff can be used to throw the missle off the intended target. If the intended target is missed, however, the torp has no way of knowing this and will continue to search for a target until detonated or timed out.
Right, like the Internet's sole purpose is for us geeks to have something to do. Average users, people who want nothing more than to chat with friends or swap recipes, make up a vast majority of internet users. They create the demand for shopping sites and easy to use tools, which provide programmers, web designers, and network technicians with jobs. Non-knowledge users don't cheapen connectivity, they keep us employed.
will be how much will be paid if a claim is validated. Maybe the insurance companies will keep companies from flagrantly inflating their reported losses from being hacked.
Sorry, I'm drunk. I meant from dos executables, not explorer.
Haven't tried it, but can't you just disable the D: drives auto run and do everything you need; on any system; from explorer. The .msi files are all still there.
E-commerce companies get hammered by credit card fraud. People are more likely to punch in someone else's card number online than use a stolen card in person. The photo thing is probably just joe-site owners way of feeling secure that he's not going to get screwed. I don't see this as a violation of privacy at all. Just an extra added precaution. If it's a hard to get item at a good price, how could sending the pic hurt. Hell, if it's a paranoia thing, just have your friend pose. Nobody will know the difference.
If you own a Metallica album, and you use napster to download a metallica song on that album (say you never figured out how to convert to MP3)then you're doing nothing illegal. Now metallica has napster ban you for pirating music, but you haven't. I think the only logical move is to sue Metallica for having you banned. Anyone for Class Action?
Linux has come as far as it has because it's small and you can alter it to fit your needs; on the software side of things. Netpliance is now faced with the opportunity to finally create the same thing on the harware side. Let's just hope they do good.