Granted it's old, and not sold anymore, but you hooked it up to your serial port, and when there was an incomming call, it could screen it for you and give different answering machine messages to different people. Pretty cool.
National IDs are a great idea. It's inevidble that the government is going to put us in databases, so why not have a little bit of organization. SSNs are terrbile, because there's only one layer of protection, somthing you know. For a system to be secure, you should have: - Something you know (a PIN #) - Something you have (smartcards would be good) - Something you are (biometrics...iris/fingerprint scans)
If we could have that, then at least the government would be spying on me, instead of someone pretending to be me.
You misunderstood me. I wasnt saying that it was a waste of time. I was saying that once certain people realize they've wasted their time, they try to make it into something useful.
Seems to me that people start diaries/journals/blogs/what have you and then realize they've wasted their time, so they try to make money/fame/something useful out of it.
"Now, if only there was an 802.somethingelse hack that let these 'clouds' contact each other over inter-city distances"
That is partially possible. I recently bought two Intel wireless access points where one can act as a repeater. I have a wired network in my house, but it only is at the extent of my office. I wanted to get to the back yard, so I put one AP (access point) in my office, that covers the front of the house. Then, all I did (after *extensive* configuration/headaches) is plug the other AP in to power in the kitchen and put it on top of the cabinets, and voiala! If I'm on the porch, I talk to AP2 who talks to AP1 who talks to my router.:) Looking here you can see the purdy pictures that show you what I'm talking about. The one setback: you cannot do more than 4 hops (I'm doing 1 hop...2 APs), but you could theoretically have one central AP, then multiple APs that only have one hop back to it, but go in different directions.
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Granted it's old, and not sold anymore, but you hooked it up to your serial port, and when there was an incomming call, it could screen it for you and give different answering machine messages to different people. Pretty cool.
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If this suit passes in the favor of the RIAA, then you can kiss justice goodbye, as well as the common sense of that judge.
National IDs are a great idea. It's inevidble that the government is going to put us in databases, so why not have a little bit of organization. SSNs are terrbile, because there's only one layer of protection, somthing you know. For a system to be secure, you should have:
- Something you know (a PIN #)
- Something you have (smartcards would be good)
- Something you are (biometrics...iris/fingerprint scans)
If we could have that, then at least the government would be spying on me, instead of someone pretending to be me.
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You misunderstood me. I wasnt saying that it was a waste of time. I was saying that once certain people realize they've wasted their time, they try to make it into something useful.
Seems to me that people start diaries/journals/blogs/what have you and then realize they've wasted their time, so they try to make money/fame/something useful out of it.
"Now, if only there was an 802.somethingelse hack that let these 'clouds' contact each other over inter-city distances"
:) Looking here you can see the purdy pictures that show you what I'm talking about. The one setback: you cannot do more than 4 hops (I'm doing 1 hop...2 APs), but you could theoretically have one central AP, then multiple APs that only have one hop back to it, but go in different directions.
That is partially possible. I recently bought two Intel wireless access points where one can act as a repeater. I have a wired network in my house, but it only is at the extent of my office. I wanted to get to the back yard, so I put one AP (access point) in my office, that covers the front of the house. Then, all I did (after *extensive* configuration/headaches) is plug the other AP in to power in the kitchen and put it on top of the cabinets, and voiala! If I'm on the porch, I talk to AP2 who talks to AP1 who talks to my router.