Chicken and egg... Far too few core Harry Potter fans are willing to spend a minimum of $100 (cheapest Palm, or other eBook device) to read a $25 book. JK Rowling knows who buys her books, and the vast majority are kids with limited allowances and school bus rides to read the books on, NOT computer geeks. Sorry, this will not happen, at least not yet.
Ever the skeptic, I greeted the announcement yesterday and went into the demo with tremendous trepidation. I have devoted every single day of the last four years of my life to the DVD format, and have hundreds of well-earned discs to prove it, so how could I not greet the arrival of a new format with anything but a nervous gulp?... HD is simply the Holy Grail of home theater and the demos bore this out.
Sounds more fanzine-ish than serious journalism. But I guess slashdot is like that on other stuff, so I shouldn't be too surprised.
According to the FBI, Austin allegedly defaced at least five commercial Web sites since
1999 using the nickname "Ucaun." On three of the sites, Austin left behind a hacking
program named troop.cgi that was designed to attempt to log in to a computer operated
by the U.S. Army, the FBI affidavit stated.
In the interview, Austin acknowledged that he vandalized the Web sites and that he knew
it was illegal to do so. But he defended the act by saying it was necessary to get his
message out.
Okay, so this guy was an admitted website defacer who posted denial of service tools on victim websites and knew it was illegal but did it anyway.. That he was doing it for some "anticorporate revolution" doesn't matter one iota.
But what I really loved was his comment, later in the article:
"But how many of us are really willing to engage in such an intense form of warfare
through bauds and wires? Who's got the balls? Who's willing to sacrifice everything?" said
the page.
Who indeed? Let's start with this numbskull. I say throw the book at him.
If you do it via the sound card, this would be yet another good use for those old PCs lying around gathering dust. Go do it - then submit to slashdot (on a decent server)!
Trust(m)E is a complete fraud, created by online marketers who want to block meaningful privacy regulation - worse than the BBB by far. They're the ones who crowed about "privacy policies" years ago, which of course were written to allow the merchant to do whatever he wants with your data. Anything they touch turns to shit, as far as I can tell.
So I agree with the other guy: filter any mail with TrustE's signature on it.
Sniffing data going over the airwaves is, with very few exceptions (notably cellphone frequencies), legal. I don't think there's any law prohibiting promiscuous-mode 802.11 cards - and it's not like he's plugging into a physical LAN owned by someone else.
And anyway - it was the IETF for heaven's sake! These are people who design and analyze this stuff for a living. If they can't do simple stuff like a secure login (fuck, even Yahoo Mail lets you do that) then we're really in trouble.
That's exactly what I meant. The parent post implied that it might be web only - which would prevent the very normal practice of using IPSec for remote access over the internet (which I am using, with SecurID for authentication, to post this very message). Passing IPSec normally would be the appropriate design for airport/AirPort.
QoS: No worries: Many IT departments say that prioritizing packets is vital if you want to run applications and send important files over the Internet. Because of Citylink's sheer speed and capacity, De Wit says adding quality of service (QoS) features isn't necessary. "QoS is a problem for others because they only have so much space in the pipe," he says. "We can fit all the traffic we want onto our Ethernet, so why do we need to worry about prioritizing?" Also, because of the generous capacity, DeWit says data collisions, which are often a concern on LANs, aren't such an issue with Citylink.
Seriously. QoS is a waste of time if you just have enough capacity.
This is probably anticompetitive, if my understanding of Bush is correct. He's probably following the Tauzin-Dingell "incentives" line of crap being pushed by the telcos, who want to stop supporting competitive DSL providers. I for one have zero confidence that this particular promise will go anywhere.
I was going to post a "RTFA" saying that you will have to pay for it, then I went and RTFA'd, and found that this is a very odd setup. 802.11 connecitivity will be free, but the thing will make money. How you ask? Because iPass, the ISP, will be charging for wired and kiosk access (I guess) and "access to corporate networks" (I think this means managed VPNs).
I think it's fishy as hell. As 802.11 adoption increases, profits go through the floor. Or they charge for IPSec separately from other protocols, and people develop work-arounds. Meanwhile, JoeHaxor is downloading.isos all day and tying up the service.
Anyone want to bet on how quickly they stop giving away 802.11 free (or ask the airport for a bailout)? Three months?
Unless the thing supports IPSec, it would be 100% useless for business travelers, who would be the ones using it. So that would be in fact the worst practice possible.
A transparent firewall blocking non-standard services might be useful, but keep IPSec, POP/SMTP, etc.
Did you see the SF Chronicle review? $2500 for a 25-user license for a plugin that forwards messages from Exchange or Domino. Hello?! Isn't that just a basic mail rule - send a copy to this email address? Who would pay that?!
Oh, the "enterprise" buyers those fancy consultants always talk about whenever they're discussing something that's wildly overpriced.
As for me, I'll stick with my Palm V, and my cellphone for paging. Why pay more?
Ain't gonna happen. People actually don't care about sound quality as much as they say they do, from what I understand from talking to folks in the industry.
IIRC TDMA (used by AT&T) allows the carrier to select various levels of sound quality, cramming more calls onto the circuit in exchange for crappier sound; since users always complain about dropped calls and don't usually complain about tinny voices, you can guess which choice they made.
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Chicken and egg... Far too few core Harry Potter fans are willing to spend a minimum of $100 (cheapest Palm, or other eBook device) to read a $25 book. JK Rowling knows who buys her books, and the vast majority are kids with limited allowances and school bus rides to read the books on, NOT computer geeks. Sorry, this will not happen, at least not yet.
Good.
Many anime fans, in the states, speak Japanese. So region coding is a problem.
seriously - it's hard down! bwahahahahahaa
Ever the skeptic, I greeted the announcement yesterday and went into the demo with tremendous trepidation. I have devoted every single day of the last four years of my life to the DVD format, and have hundreds of well-earned discs to prove it, so how could I not greet the arrival of a new format with anything but a nervous gulp? ... HD is simply the Holy Grail of home theater and the demos bore this out.
Sounds more fanzine-ish than serious journalism. But I guess slashdot is like that on other stuff, so I shouldn't be too surprised.
like this crap?
What, you didn't click on the 100 X10 popups you got each day?
This guy deserves everything he gets. What, he can't handle a little publicity? Doesn't he want to SACRIFICE for the cause?
According to the FBI, Austin allegedly defaced at least five commercial Web sites since 1999 using the nickname "Ucaun." On three of the sites, Austin left behind a hacking program named troop.cgi that was designed to attempt to log in to a computer operated by the U.S. Army, the FBI affidavit stated. In the interview, Austin acknowledged that he vandalized the Web sites and that he knew it was illegal to do so. But he defended the act by saying it was necessary to get his message out.
Okay, so this guy was an admitted website defacer who posted denial of service tools on victim websites and knew it was illegal but did it anyway.. That he was doing it for some "anticorporate revolution" doesn't matter one iota.
But what I really loved was his comment, later in the article:
"But how many of us are really willing to engage in such an intense form of warfare through bauds and wires? Who's got the balls? Who's willing to sacrifice everything?" said the page.
Who indeed? Let's start with this numbskull. I say throw the book at him.
If you do it via the sound card, this would be yet another good use for those old PCs lying around gathering dust. Go do it - then submit to slashdot (on a decent server)!
So I agree with the other guy: filter any mail with TrustE's signature on it.
And anyway - it was the IETF for heaven's sake! These are people who design and analyze this stuff for a living. If they can't do simple stuff like a secure login (fuck, even Yahoo Mail lets you do that) then we're really in trouble.
That's exactly what I meant. The parent post implied that it might be web only - which would prevent the very normal practice of using IPSec for remote access over the internet (which I am using, with SecurID for authentication, to post this very message). Passing IPSec normally would be the appropriate design for airport/AirPort.
don't forget: 85% of statistics are made up.
QoS: No worries: Many IT departments say that prioritizing packets is vital if you want to run applications and send important files over the Internet. Because of Citylink's sheer speed and capacity, De Wit says adding quality of service (QoS) features isn't necessary. "QoS is a problem for others because they only have so much space in the pipe," he says. "We can fit all the traffic we want onto our Ethernet, so why do we need to worry about prioritizing?" Also, because of the generous capacity, DeWit says data collisions, which are often a concern on LANs, aren't such an issue with Citylink.
Seriously. QoS is a waste of time if you just have enough capacity.
This is probably anticompetitive, if my understanding of Bush is correct. He's probably following the Tauzin-Dingell "incentives" line of crap being pushed by the telcos, who want to stop supporting competitive DSL providers. I for one have zero confidence that this particular promise will go anywhere.
this should be in the spam category
Almost as cruel as slashdotting a Lego brick!
I think it's fishy as hell. As 802.11 adoption increases, profits go through the floor. Or they charge for IPSec separately from other protocols, and people develop work-arounds. Meanwhile, JoeHaxor is downloading .isos all day and tying up the service.
Anyone want to bet on how quickly they stop giving away 802.11 free (or ask the airport for a bailout)? Three months?
And ... ummmm ... I AM an egotistical ass. Thanks for noticing!
A transparent firewall blocking non-standard services might be useful, but keep IPSec, POP/SMTP, etc.
ummmm... who cares? This is a public, untrusted network. So what if someone's snooping? Use IPSec if you don't want to be snooped.
Well, it snowed in San Francisco yesterday...
Oh, the "enterprise" buyers those fancy consultants always talk about whenever they're discussing something that's wildly overpriced.
As for me, I'll stick with my Palm V, and my cellphone for paging. Why pay more?
IIRC TDMA (used by AT&T) allows the carrier to select various levels of sound quality, cramming more calls onto the circuit in exchange for crappier sound; since users always complain about dropped calls and don't usually complain about tinny voices, you can guess which choice they made.