I'm going to have to agree with this, though also from the Virginia Beach area.
I live in a neighborhood that sees a lot of seasonal visitors and until I went out and got an 802.11n router my internet was faster than my wireless lan. I realize this won't be the case one the summer comes and most of the houses around me are filled and using their connections. However, this is something I know and understand. When the network is congested I expect that Cox will ensure that time sensitive applications, such as my VoIP and Skype calls abroad, will still work correctly.
QoS isn't bad. It isn't necessarily a slippery slope, and it isn't even necessarily a sign of poor network design. P2P file sharing is not a latency dependent application and I expect it to get treated as such.
If you were so concerned about actually getting the full use of your broadband connection, then you probably should have gotten DSL. Otherwise you roll the dice and take your chances.
Looking at the number of cases closed is the wrong statistic. In combating the problem of identity theft, or online fraud in the larger sense, what really matters are the actual losses associated with each case.
I don't really care if some mope dug through my dumpster, stole my credit card pre-approvals, and got caught using the fake card running up $200 worth of porn purchases. The case I worry about is the single criminal or criminal organization that systematically steals millions of pieces of credit card data and efficiently exploits each piece to the maximum extent possible.
If the investigation of each of those scenarios is one case then they have equal weight under the statistic used by the article. In terms of actually combating identity theft the latter example and the resultant prosecution is much more important and effective. Unless they discuss the loss amounts associated with cases of each case, this statistic, the conclusions based on it, and the entire article are missing the point and not talking about actually fighting identity theft and are instead talking about looking like you are fighting identity theft.
The other comments are completely on the money pointing out that this is only closed cases and the difficulty of actually closing an international investigation.
All in all another wholly misinformed article about the real threat of identity theft and online financial fraud.
"...yield even more of their marketshare to Linux."? Maybe. I don't know what you were thinking, but thats what I would like to throw out there.
In my IT department the thinking might go something like this: Windows requires us to replace that moderately priced server we bought last year. Well, if are going to have to replace it, lets try running Linux on it and see if we can provide our services that way.
However, our guys tend to be more open minded than most corporate IT folks.
You must be kidding. Being an American currently in Europe this is a rather pressing topic. The dollar is at an all time low against the Euro, hovering around 1 EUR = $1.34
This article is interesting in the standard kind of wow, high bandwidth wireless kind of way. However, as wireless LAN technologies become more long distance (Wi-Max) and cellular technologies become more high bandwidth (this article), when will the two converge into a united space? I know there is a difference in the licensing of the spectrum, but disregarding governmental interferences, prevents wireless LAN and cellular from essentially becoming the same type of standard?
I read the article when it came out in the times earlier this week.
They point out that it is nothing like the ipod and then continue to say how it has an internal hard drive. I could just as well put a 4 gig compact flash card in there. The point of the leader was that this was some sort of hard drive based video camera. It isn't, it simply uses compact flash. Whoop dee doo
As is so common in mainstream tech writing, the article completely misses the point. They claim that because the camera can use microdrives (compact flash based hard drives) that it is somehow comparable to the ipod. I don't usually consider 4gb equivalent to 40 gb , 60 gb, or whatever the ipod (and other high cap music players) max capacity is now.
To me, the real advance would be a camcorder that used a 60gb (or larger) hard drive like the ipod and directly recorded mpeg2 or mpeg 4. I don't need the thing to be microscopic, it has to be big enough to hold and have a decent battery life. Obviously it would need firewire of USB2.
I find it funny how intel marketting and pr driods can say the names for their processors and keep a straight face. Also the amazing creativity in naming their processors once released is astounding. At this point if Intel released a processor that wasn't named **pentium**** people would probably think it was made by AMD.
Unfortunatly working for the US Treasury I am only getting about $1 a line (averaged over the past month or so), but things have been really slow here, more debugging than writing fresh new code. But hey, someone has to do it.
Who let Hemos post without hitting the preview button and checking his URLs?
Does anyone else see a double standard where we are viewed as the only stupid ones?
*grin*
I think the point is that you train it in how to make up resolution in a certain situation with a certain type of picture. Could be useful in some situations, not that I can really think of any, but if I could well, then I'd have tons of karma and stuff.
Various arguements have been posted here as to why apple can't move to X86 hardware, and for the most part I believe them. The only possible way would be for Apple to create a proprietary motherboard/bios combination that only allowed booting if their OS and all that. If apple is looking for more power on a platform that doesn't have the ability to piss off MS and loose all hardware sales, they should look to the alpha. It has all the power they will need, its already 64 bit, and in terms of a highly powerful graphical OS there aren't too many options, no one is going to go and run NT 4 on a new alpha, there are openVMS and Tru64, but I don't think they are competing at quite the same spot. FreeBSD and Linux also come for the alpha, but there aren't that many graphics drivers for X. All that it would really take is Apple developing some proprietary PAL code, as has been done before on the alphas to prevent some OS's from booting, and then they would have control of their hardware platform, and have screaming performance. The only problem being that the alpha seems to be in its last days unfortunatly, after being sold (given) to Intel, who will likely do little to help keep it a leading edge competitor to Itanium, and it will probably die the slow death that a good number of other superior technologies have suffered at the hands of stupid and greedy MBA's.
Sorry for the run on sentance.
Right dude, you might want to keep both your position on abortion and your thoughts on religion to yourself or we are gonna have a huge flame war here.
Intelligence, in my mind, is the ability to make connections between data, hence why even people who don't know much (young kids) can be intelligent, the can synthesize (sp?) conclusions from seemingly random and unconnected pieces of data. Red. Truck. for instance, most kids would probably spit back fire truck or something on those lines.
To have an intelligent system it would need the same data that we get, but also an amazing way to link that data, and even have conflicting data.
While I don't know if cyc is going to achieve true AI having all of that data entered could prove useful to other projects later on.
and are you really patient enough to wait 5 seconds for a window to open? I'm sorry but unless its one HELL of a big app, I really don't see why it should take too much longer than a second to do most things. I have an athlon 700/384MB and I stopped using mozilla because the interface took too long to come up. Galeon is just as good and loads faster.
Call me impatient, but user experience is all about speed, and gnome isn't going to gain more users by having them wait 5 or 7 seconds to open every new window.
Wouldn't this be a not smart thing for a submarine, which is supposed to remain silent. Seems if a sub transmits anything it would make it easier to detect it. It would be fine for comercial subs, maybe even better since that would be more noise for the enemy's sonar system to try and get rid of before finding the sub they are looking for. I don't see a military sub using this just for the noise reasons, plus what do they need e-mail for? They already have secure methods of communication to recieve orders from.
From what I remember if you submit a story to them it has to be written up in atleast one newspaper, or have some other kind of validation. If I were able to get through to there site right now I'd check on their guidelines, I'm sure they are on there. Either way, there are certain guidelines to getting a Darwin award, ie. it must have happened / be true
They didn't let the community down, the whole point was to prove how secure a standard DEFAULT install was. I think it did rather well, I don't know how well redhat 6.1 would fare in that same type of contest.
Before the Common Era (IIRC), its been a while since i gave two shits about being politcally correct
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The fact that they came up with a BS reason for using an old kernel, even when that was written back in May is what people are really complaining about. I haven't heard any reports of any of the 2.2.* series' tcp-ip stack "breaking" connection with win95 boxes. They should have used the latest RELEASED kernel, or just gotten whatever updates were availible from caldera. Seeing as Windows 2k hasn't been RELEASED yet (I don't care to use pirated beta version from a newsgroup) there is no good reason for them to have used it. I do agree that linux might be a little harder to configure, but i prefer having one or two text files to tweak my webserver as opposed to 10's of tiny menus and trying to remember where each option was.
I don't think so, I just did an ftp install of both FreeBSD and OpenBSD recently (loading up a gateway/ftp server at home) and they were both MUCH shorter downloads than something like rh6.1 which would have prolly taken longer than I am willing to wait. Personally I settled on OpenBSD as it was smaller and who can ever argue with a very secure os like that. The biggest thing that bugs me about that artice is that they didn't even recognize the BSD family, any of who would have made a strong showing.
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I'm going to have to agree with this, though also from the Virginia Beach area.
I live in a neighborhood that sees a lot of seasonal visitors and until I went out and got an 802.11n router my internet was faster than my wireless lan. I realize this won't be the case one the summer comes and most of the houses around me are filled and using their connections. However, this is something I know and understand.
When the network is congested I expect that Cox will ensure that time sensitive applications, such as my VoIP and Skype calls abroad, will still work correctly.
QoS isn't bad. It isn't necessarily a slippery slope, and it isn't even necessarily a sign of poor network design. P2P file sharing is not a latency dependent application and I expect it to get treated as such.
If you were so concerned about actually getting the full use of your broadband connection, then you probably should have gotten DSL. Otherwise you roll the dice and take your chances.
Looking at the number of cases closed is the wrong statistic. In combating the problem of identity theft, or online fraud in the larger sense, what really matters are the actual losses associated with each case.
I don't really care if some mope dug through my dumpster, stole my credit card pre-approvals, and got caught using the fake card running up $200 worth of porn purchases. The case I worry about is the single criminal or criminal organization that systematically steals millions of pieces of credit card data and efficiently exploits each piece to the maximum extent possible.
If the investigation of each of those scenarios is one case then they have equal weight under the statistic used by the article. In terms of actually combating identity theft the latter example and the resultant prosecution is much more important and effective. Unless they discuss the loss amounts associated with cases of each case, this statistic, the conclusions based on it, and the entire article are missing the point and not talking about actually fighting identity theft and are instead talking about looking like you are fighting identity theft.
The other comments are completely on the money pointing out that this is only closed cases and the difficulty of actually closing an international investigation.
All in all another wholly misinformed article about the real threat of identity theft and online financial fraud.
You overclock your laptop? That has to be brilliant for the battery life.
"...yield even more of their marketshare to Linux."? Maybe. I don't know what you were thinking, but thats what I would like to throw out there.
In my IT department the thinking might go something like this:
Windows requires us to replace that moderately priced server we bought last year. Well, if are going to have to replace it, lets try running Linux on it and see if we can provide our services that way.
However, our guys tend to be more open minded than most corporate IT folks.
You must be kidding. Being an American currently in Europe this is a rather pressing topic. The dollar is at an all time low against the Euro, hovering around 1 EUR = $1.34
This article is interesting in the standard kind of wow, high bandwidth wireless kind of way. However, as wireless LAN technologies become more long distance (Wi-Max) and cellular technologies become more high bandwidth (this article), when will the two converge into a united space?
I know there is a difference in the licensing of the spectrum, but disregarding governmental interferences, prevents wireless LAN and cellular from essentially becoming the same type of standard?
I read the article when it came out in the times earlier this week.
They point out that it is nothing like the ipod and then continue to say how it has an internal hard drive. I could just as well put a 4 gig compact flash card in there. The point of the leader was that this was some sort of hard drive based video camera. It isn't, it simply uses compact flash. Whoop dee doo
As is so common in mainstream tech writing, the article completely misses the point. They claim that because the camera can use microdrives (compact flash based hard drives) that it is somehow comparable to the ipod. I don't usually consider 4gb equivalent to 40 gb , 60 gb, or whatever the ipod (and other high cap music players) max capacity is now.
To me, the real advance would be a camcorder that used a 60gb (or larger) hard drive like the ipod and directly recorded mpeg2 or mpeg 4. I don't need the thing to be microscopic, it has to be big enough to hold and have a decent battery life. Obviously it would need firewire of USB2.
Does anyone have a camera like that coming?
I find it funny how intel marketting and pr driods can say the names for their processors and keep a straight face. Also the amazing creativity in naming their processors once released is astounding. At this point if Intel released a processor that wasn't named **pentium**** people would probably think it was made by AMD.
Unfortunatly working for the US Treasury I am only getting about $1 a line (averaged over the past month or so), but things have been really slow here, more debugging than writing fresh new code. But hey, someone has to do it.
Who let Hemos post without hitting the preview button and checking his URLs?
Does anyone else see a double standard where we are viewed as the only stupid ones?
*grin*
I think the point is that you train it in how to make up resolution in a certain situation with a certain type of picture. Could be useful in some situations, not that I can really think of any, but if I could well, then I'd have tons of karma and stuff.
Various arguements have been posted here as to why apple can't move to X86 hardware, and for the most part I believe them. The only possible way would be for Apple to create a proprietary motherboard/bios combination that only allowed booting if their OS and all that. If apple is looking for more power on a platform that doesn't have the ability to piss off MS and loose all hardware sales, they should look to the alpha. It has all the power they will need, its already 64 bit, and in terms of a highly powerful graphical OS there aren't too many options, no one is going to go and run NT 4 on a new alpha, there are openVMS and Tru64, but I don't think they are competing at quite the same spot. FreeBSD and Linux also come for the alpha, but there aren't that many graphics drivers for X. All that it would really take is Apple developing some proprietary PAL code, as has been done before on the alphas to prevent some OS's from booting, and then they would have control of their hardware platform, and have screaming performance. The only problem being that the alpha seems to be in its last days unfortunatly, after being sold (given) to Intel, who will likely do little to help keep it a leading edge competitor to Itanium, and it will probably die the slow death that a good number of other superior technologies have suffered at the hands of stupid and greedy MBA's.
Sorry for the run on sentance.
Right dude, you might want to keep both your position on abortion and your thoughts on religion to yourself or we are gonna have a huge flame war here.
Intelligence, in my mind, is the ability to make connections between data, hence why even people who don't know much (young kids) can be intelligent, the can synthesize (sp?) conclusions from seemingly random and unconnected pieces of data. Red. Truck. for instance, most kids would probably spit back fire truck or something on those lines.
To have an intelligent system it would need the same data that we get, but also an amazing way to link that data, and even have conflicting data.
While I don't know if cyc is going to achieve true AI having all of that data entered could prove useful to other projects later on.
How about berlin, it scales up resolution without making everything small, granted its still very very much in development, but hey, its out there.
and are you really patient enough to wait 5 seconds for a window to open? I'm sorry but unless its one HELL of a big app, I really don't see why it should take too much longer than a second to do most things. I have an athlon 700/384MB and I stopped using mozilla because the interface took too long to come up. Galeon is just as good and loads faster.
Call me impatient, but user experience is all about speed, and gnome isn't going to gain more users by having them wait 5 or 7 seconds to open every new window.
Wouldn't this be a not smart thing for a submarine, which is supposed to remain silent. Seems if a sub transmits anything it would make it easier to detect it. It would be fine for comercial subs, maybe even better since that would be more noise for the enemy's sonar system to try and get rid of before finding the sub they are looking for.
I don't see a military sub using this just for the noise reasons, plus what do they need e-mail for? They already have secure methods of communication to recieve orders from.
That might be a bit hard since the rumor/comment was only about the source for win98. It usually helps to think/read before posting.
From what I remember if you submit a story to them it has to be written up in atleast one newspaper, or have some other kind of validation. If I were able to get through to there site right now I'd check on their guidelines, I'm sure they are on there. Either way, there are certain guidelines to getting a Darwin award, ie. it must have happened / be true
They didn't let the community down, the whole point was to prove how secure a standard DEFAULT install was. I think it did rather well, I don't know how well redhat 6.1 would fare in that same type of contest.
Before the Common Era (IIRC), its been a while since i gave two shits about being politcally correct
The fact that they came up with a BS reason for using an old kernel, even when that was written back in May is what people are really complaining about. I haven't heard any reports of any of the 2.2.* series' tcp-ip stack "breaking" connection with win95 boxes. They should have used the latest RELEASED kernel, or just gotten whatever updates were availible from caldera. Seeing as Windows 2k hasn't been RELEASED yet (I don't care to use pirated beta version from a newsgroup) there is no good reason for them to have used it. I do agree that linux might be a little harder to configure, but i prefer having one or two text files to tweak my webserver as opposed to 10's of tiny menus and trying to remember where each option was.
IIRC They combined some features of netBSD and FreeBSD to come up with what they used in Mac OS X
I don't think so, I just did an ftp install of both FreeBSD and OpenBSD recently (loading up a gateway/ftp server at home) and they were both MUCH shorter downloads than something like rh6.1 which would have prolly taken longer than I am willing to wait. Personally I settled on OpenBSD as it was smaller and who can ever argue with a very secure os like that. The biggest thing that bugs me about that artice is that they didn't even recognize the BSD family, any of who would have made a strong showing.