I'm afraid I would have to agree. I really enjoy surfing the web at work, and mistyping a site name and being redirected to bunghole.com, just as the boss is walking by. What a treat.
I wonder what kind of traffic these sites actually get... and how many people, *really* click on a banner for some hardcore pr0n site when they were just trying to execute a search on yahoo.com (or whatever one prefers), and mistyped the URL?
Don't forget about the Atari 600XL! My first computer. I'll always remember it, cause it could take cartridges (Moon Patrol...yes!) or we had an Indus disk drive (which I thought was the coolest thing as it had a flip up dust cover to keep stuff out of the drive and an LED indicator to tell you what track the drive was reading/writing)
To most people that read the news on this website, this shouldn't come as a big surprise.
Most larger companies will use a proxy server, and if I am not mistaken, it can keep logs of who pulled what through or from the proxy server. And the content of those pages. That's what a proxy server does!
Not to mention the companies that use the "security" softwares to keep their employees off of "restricted" (read:prOn) sites.
This is not the newest technology around. The company I work for has been experimenting with this for some time now, with High Speed Internet, TV, Phone, all over one one high speed connection.
The way that the "fibre network" in the article is described, is a bit misleading, however. The local Telco/ISP/Cable Provider won't be dropping fibre into everybody's house, rather, they drop it to the distribution box in your neighborhood (not the one in the backyard, but the one that serves the whole neighborhood.) That solves the distance limitation of DSL. Or if you are in a big apartment building, they will drop fibre and an ADM in the basement of the building.
Basically, with such a short distance from the fibre to your dwelling, they can crank up the speed to 15Mbps or something like that, and all the services are streaming over that.
Anybody know what the margin for error with this thing is? I mean, with the millions of possibilities for IP addresses, how accurate can a "random sampling" of 150,000 IP addresses?
Just curious, 'cause I couldn't find an exact number that they published on the site...
"Let them live in their igloos and talk with their funny accents. "
Why, whatever are you talking aboot?:) Mmm, cold in here, better throw another log on the fire before I freeze... uh oh, there goes the AC from the generato^%*^&*^*&
How do they plan to enforce this? Are they going to card you at the video/game rental store? Really. I was able to rent R rated videos when I was 15! I have *never* been carded at a video store.
If someone were to design a cost effective version of a iMac heatsink/case that actually had room for expandability, i'm sure it would catch on. Thing is though, we could get away with having just a CPU heatsink, but it is all the other peripherals that are also generating a lot of heat. Not saying that everyone has one, but those 10,000 RPM drives generate a _LOT_ of heat. Hell, even my 7200 rpm drive gets hot. My graphics card, PS, even my chipset controller gets hot! There is simply no way to cheaply build a case that could effectively take heat away fast enough that wouldn't weigh 100 lbs, or be about 4 feet by 4 feet, by 4 feet. My $.02
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I'm afraid I would have to agree. I really enjoy surfing the web at work, and mistyping a site name and being redirected to bunghole.com, just as the boss is walking by. What a treat.
I wonder what kind of traffic these sites actually get... and how many people, *really* click on a banner for some hardcore pr0n site when they were just trying to execute a search on yahoo.com (or whatever one prefers), and mistyped the URL?
Don't forget about the Atari 600XL! My first computer. I'll always remember it, cause it could take cartridges (Moon Patrol...yes!) or we had an Indus disk drive (which I thought was the coolest thing as it had a flip up dust cover to keep stuff out of the drive and an LED indicator to tell you what track the drive was reading/writing)
Oh well... forget my rambling!
To most people that read the news on this website, this shouldn't come as a big surprise.
Most larger companies will use a proxy server, and if I am not mistaken, it can keep logs of who pulled what through or from the proxy server. And the content of those pages. That's what a proxy server does!
Not to mention the companies that use the "security" softwares to keep their employees off of "restricted" (read:prOn) sites.
This is not the newest technology around. The company I work for has been experimenting with this for some time now, with High Speed Internet, TV, Phone, all over one one high speed connection.
The way that the "fibre network" in the article is described, is a bit misleading, however. The local Telco/ISP/Cable Provider won't be dropping fibre into everybody's house, rather, they drop it to the distribution box in your neighborhood (not the one in the backyard, but the one that serves the whole neighborhood.) That solves the distance limitation of DSL. Or if you are in a big apartment building, they will drop fibre and an ADM in the basement of the building.
Basically, with such a short distance from the fibre to your dwelling, they can crank up the speed to 15Mbps or something like that, and all the services are streaming over that.
This is great! If their chips are anything like their operating systems.... they'll suck.
Maybe they'll become rivals for Intel in the Great Vaporware Chip Race (tm).
(please proceed to mod me into the ground. Thanks.)
Don't forget Windows 98 to provide faster, safer and more convienient access to the internet! :)
I must say, the resolution is downright shameful in those pictures. Even the hi-res ones.
They look like first generation 3D cards did, with
a texture slapped on something that resembles a
circle.
Methinks they could use a wee bit of FSAA around the edges there!
Anybody know what the margin for error with this thing is? I mean, with the millions of possibilities for IP addresses, how accurate can a "random sampling" of 150,000 IP addresses?
Just curious, 'cause I couldn't find an exact number that they published on the site...
"unless the envelopes arrive on the same day :)"
Seeing as it is Canada Post that is running this program, methinks they could handle this little technicality.
Then again... maybe not.
"Let them live in their igloos and talk with their funny accents. "
:)
Why, whatever are you talking aboot?
Mmm, cold in here, better throw another log on the fire before I freeze... uh oh, there goes the AC from the generato^%*^&*^*&
How do they plan to enforce this? Are they going to card you at the video/game rental store? Really. I was able to rent R rated videos when I was 15! I have *never* been carded at a video store.
If someone were to design a cost effective version of a iMac heatsink/case that actually had room for expandability, i'm sure it would catch on. Thing is though, we could get away with having just a CPU heatsink, but it is all the other peripherals that are also generating a lot of heat. Not saying that everyone has one, but those 10,000 RPM drives generate a _LOT_ of heat. Hell, even my 7200 rpm drive gets hot. My graphics card, PS, even my chipset controller gets hot! There is simply no way to cheaply build a case that could effectively take heat away fast enough that wouldn't weigh 100 lbs, or be about 4 feet by 4 feet, by 4 feet. My $.02