I have about 3,100 console games, many not yet played! Granted they are all ROMS on my Web Surfer Pro with two SNES controllers wired to the printer port with SNESkey, but I'll put it back in the web surfer box and even shrink wrap it with plastic wrap and a hair dryer for $70k (($70,000/($50 WS + $17 2 SNES pads) = 104,477.6% return rate)!
I do believe that IPV6 is going to provide the exact functionality you are describing. Although IPV6 has been around about as long as IPV4 in my memory, IPV6 will solve alot of these problems. Check out http://www.ipv6.org/.
Either you are wrong (it hasn't been a year) or i'm wrong (I'm not an old married man) but it hasn't been a year ago already, has it?! Either it's only been a few months or I really am getting old. Scarrier yet is how many people actually remember that article...
@Home frequently runs portscans on their domains to "Make sure their client's aren't running any services they where not aware of." If the scanner finds one it will auto-mail you. This is more political then anything. All my services run above port 40000 and you have to connect to a triger port 500 ms before (which is in the low 1000's) and that fundamentally kills @Home's portscans (as well as the other million portscans I get and failed ftp login attemps with user/pass:warez). If they do find a way to block you, try setting up an SSH tunnel to that port. Use the Linux VPN howto as a template on how to pull this off. Not rocket science.
I read about this over at news.com and some things NEED to be cleared up. 1: The FTC does not care about AOL opening up the protocol because it is a free service. 2: Furthermore the article states "We are planning to put out to the industry a way we think that can be done in terms of commitment to interoperability. (The industry) will hear something from us soon," The SOON means whenever AOL get's around it. They will probably say WE are the standard in their proposal. And it will get drafted to death by Microsoft and others which will delay the process. There is and won't be a universal chat client for a long time.
That will be the headline when this ridiculous technology is released. A person, masquerading as a non-existant person using a stolen credit card number downloads 10's of thousands of songs. As he types in his password into a third party program, it records his typing to the T. Using the appropriate API (i.e. VB SendKeys), the third party programmer passes it to the Biometric validater and the user listens away. All this assuming someone didn't put a few "jmp" and "nop" commands in the Biometric validator to begin with!
A few of my friends up at Purdue and I toyed with a beta we *found* and it was great, but it functioned very stabily (i.e. ran starcraft.) That was back in '98. Now we wait till 2001?
I have personally DRIVEN in my car 1hr round trip to the nearest CompUSA. Here is what I found: 1: They are $199. A special rebate for $150 off is available FROM the manufacturer. You will not walk out of the store with a machine for $49.99. 2: They were pulled from the shelves before the doors opened today. 3: CompUSA has been making changes to their Inventory system and it is NOT real time. I called ahead to check and they had two. When I got in the store they had 0 in stock. They are currently working on a way to make inventory checks real time. Until then, all inventory checks come from Dallas.
In other words, DON'T waste your time; these people are smarter then Netpliance.
Mp3.com electronically duplicated 1,000's of artists music and through it up on their website. They asked for trouble and trouble is what they got. A better method for mp3.com would have been to use their "Scanning" software to verify ownership of an mp3, and then allow the user to enter an href to the verified mp3. The amount of investors' money that went into purchasing, scanning, inventorying, and developing the databases and software must have been enormous. Delete the server side mp3's, donate the CD's to charities (tax relief), and modify the software they've already developed to allow for href's and they will just be another ASP (application service provider), and will be a lot harder to touch.
When building a GUI, you need to accomodate EVERYONE. What does this mean? Keyboard Savy people can use it. Click freaks can use it. Accessiblity-requiring ppl can use it. Grandma can change the wallpaper. Grandma can move the taskbar. The whole kitten caboodle. Everyone needs to be able to use it in any way they are used to Ctrl+D, Click Delete, Hit the Delete button all do the same thing.
The Transmeta chip is an emulation chip, I believe *check article twice* and thus get's away from the ancient x86 architecture. This approach is much like Apple's constant changing of processor architecture, but this relies on a hardware emulator in the chip. Sounds like a lot of speed loss but the benchmarks will prove the point. Of more intrest, lower voltage means lower heat. If this processor doesn't produce as much heat, maybe we could begin to have overclockable laptops. As it stands right now, I'm running a CPU idler (rain) for my laptop (dell inspiron 7500), but it is still too hot to handle. Anyone out their use the built-in functions for "CPU throttling?"
Check our your link. Still good and offer still valid. I have one on the way in the mail. It'll be fun to play with it (has to be better than the mess of wires hanging off my mother board with duckt tape).
The RF power switch is available from Radio Shack for about $20 per kit. It comes in three frequencies A,B, and C. If you want to turn on multiple lights at once, be sure to get all of the same requency. There is NO way to turn on both an A and a B at the same time without wiring both controllers to your PC.
I purchased two RF switchable power sockets. The kit comes with what looks like a clapper and a key-chain controller (like that for your car). Cracked the case of the controller and ran it into a serial controller card, but you could probably accomplish the same feat if you can program serial ports. Then I just used perl to launch my shell script that, for all intents and purposes, pushed the on or off button on the controller and turned on the lights. To answer your next question in advance, NO I WILL NOT GIVE YOU THE URL (The/. effect on my household lights would land me a spot on the couch tonight).
Perl's an amazing language. Follow the links and you see that you can be either a liberal arts major (poetry) or a CS major (PerlOS). Scarry stuff. I've got perl turning my lights on and off in my house, wonder what's next.
Tracking (from an anonymous stand point) by an ISP can help the ISP to create better, more efficient (optional) proxy servers. I.E. You go through the proxy, you get tracked. Most common sites get cached, speeding up your connection, less hits on the webservers and faster connections for everyone everywhere. Keys to this are: 1: Logging is NOT done by source IP and 2: The user can disable logging period. If results are sent to a third company, money earned should be contributed toward particpating users' monthly ISP bill.
This could be a good thing, depending on the scope. If it only tracked http: movement and you could turn off the tracking, that would be great pending some of the income earned by the ISP came back to you (i.e. surf for 20 hrs a month with check box on and you don't get a bill in the mail from your ISP. I could live with that.
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I have about 3,100 console games, many not yet played! Granted they are all ROMS on my Web Surfer Pro with two SNES controllers wired to the printer port with SNESkey, but I'll put it back in the web surfer box and even shrink wrap it with plastic wrap and a hair dryer for $70k (($70,000/($50 WS + $17 2 SNES pads) = 104,477.6% return rate)!
I do believe that IPV6 is going to provide the exact functionality you are describing. Although IPV6 has been around about as long as IPV4 in my memory, IPV6 will solve alot of these problems. Check out http://www.ipv6.org/.
You can look at some of the damage that was done to the DNS @ Internic as of 8:30 this morning.
Either you are wrong (it hasn't been a year) or i'm wrong (I'm not an old married man) but it hasn't been a year ago already, has it?! Either it's only been a few months or I really am getting old. Scarrier yet is how many people actually remember that article...
@Home frequently runs portscans on their domains to "Make sure their client's aren't running any services they where not aware of." If the scanner finds one it will auto-mail you. This is more political then anything. All my services run above port 40000 and you have to connect to a triger port 500 ms before (which is in the low 1000's) and that fundamentally kills @Home's portscans (as well as the other million portscans I get and failed ftp login attemps with user/pass:warez). If they do find a way to block you, try setting up an SSH tunnel to that port. Use the Linux VPN howto as a template on how to pull this off. Not rocket science.
/. just wasted 49 minutes of my life. I want them back.
I read about this over at news.com and some things NEED to be cleared up.
1: The FTC does not care about AOL opening up the protocol because it is a free service.
2: Furthermore the article states "We are planning to put out to the industry a way we think that can be done in terms of commitment to interoperability. (The industry) will hear something from us soon,"
The SOON means whenever AOL get's around it. They will probably say WE are the standard in their proposal. And it will get drafted to death by Microsoft and others which will delay the process. There is and won't be a universal chat client for a long time.
That will be the headline when this ridiculous technology is released. A person, masquerading as a non-existant person using a stolen credit card number downloads 10's of thousands of songs. As he types in his password into a third party program, it records his typing to the T. Using the appropriate API (i.e. VB SendKeys), the third party programmer passes it to the Biometric validater and the user listens away. All this assuming someone didn't put a few "jmp" and "nop" commands in the Biometric validator to begin with!
A few of my friends up at Purdue and I toyed with a beta we *found* and it was great, but it functioned very stabily (i.e. ran starcraft.) That was back in '98. Now we wait till 2001?
How can I lay out my website so it does not fall victim to the /. effect?
I have personally DRIVEN in my car 1hr round trip to the nearest CompUSA. Here is what I found:
1: They are $199. A special rebate for $150 off is available FROM the manufacturer. You will not walk out of the store with a machine for $49.99.
2: They were pulled from the shelves before the doors opened today.
3: CompUSA has been making changes to their Inventory system and it is NOT real time. I called ahead to check and they had two. When I got in the store they had 0 in stock. They are currently working on a way to make inventory checks real time. Until then, all inventory checks come from Dallas.
In other words, DON'T waste your time; these people are smarter then Netpliance.
Mp3.com electronically duplicated 1,000's of artists music and through it up on their website. They asked for trouble and trouble is what they got. A better method for mp3.com would have been to use their "Scanning" software to verify ownership of an mp3, and then allow the user to enter an href to the verified mp3. The amount of investors' money that went into purchasing, scanning, inventorying, and developing the databases and software must have been enormous. Delete the server side mp3's, donate the CD's to charities (tax relief), and modify the software they've already developed to allow for href's and they will just be another ASP (application service provider), and will be a lot harder to touch.
When building a GUI, you need to accomodate EVERYONE. What does this mean?
Keyboard Savy people can use it.
Click freaks can use it.
Accessiblity-requiring ppl can use it.
Grandma can change the wallpaper.
Grandma can move the taskbar.
The whole kitten caboodle. Everyone needs to be able to use it in any way they are used to Ctrl+D, Click Delete, Hit the Delete button all do the same thing.
The Transmeta chip is an emulation chip, I believe *check article twice* and thus get's away from the ancient x86 architecture. This approach is much like Apple's constant changing of processor architecture, but this relies on a hardware emulator in the chip. Sounds like a lot of speed loss but the benchmarks will prove the point. Of more intrest, lower voltage means lower heat. If this processor doesn't produce as much heat, maybe we could begin to have overclockable laptops. As it stands right now, I'm running a CPU idler (rain) for my laptop (dell inspiron 7500), but it is still too hot to handle. Anyone out their use the built-in functions for "CPU throttling?"
Check our your link. Still good and offer still valid. I have one on the way in the mail. It'll be fun to play with it (has to be better than the mess of wires hanging off my mother board with duckt tape).
The RF power switch is available from Radio Shack for about $20 per kit. It comes in three frequencies A,B, and C. If you want to turn on multiple lights at once, be sure to get all of the same requency. There is NO way to turn on both an A and a B at the same time without wiring both controllers to your PC.
I purchased two RF switchable power sockets. The kit comes with what looks like a clapper and a key-chain controller (like that for your car). Cracked the case of the controller and ran it into a serial controller card, but you could probably accomplish the same feat if you can program serial ports. Then I just used perl to launch my shell script that, for all intents and purposes, pushed the on or off button on the controller and turned on the lights. To answer your next question in advance, NO I WILL NOT GIVE YOU THE URL (The /. effect on my household lights would land me a spot on the couch tonight).
Perl's an amazing language. Follow the links and you see that you can be either a liberal arts major (poetry) or a CS major (PerlOS). Scarry stuff. I've got perl turning my lights on and off in my house, wonder what's next.
Tracking (from an anonymous stand point) by an ISP can help the ISP to create better, more efficient (optional) proxy servers. I.E. You go through the proxy, you get tracked. Most common sites get cached, speeding up your connection, less hits on the webservers and faster connections for everyone everywhere. Keys to this are: 1: Logging is NOT done by source IP and 2: The user can disable logging period. If results are sent to a third company, money earned should be contributed toward particpating users' monthly ISP bill.
This could be a good thing, depending on the scope. If it only tracked http: movement and you could turn off the tracking, that would be great pending some of the income earned by the ISP came back to you (i.e. surf for 20 hrs a month with check box on and you don't get a bill in the mail from your ISP. I could live with that.