It is my understanding that today's 1394 connections do not check to see if the data that was sent actually got to it's destination, meaning no built in error-correction. The thinking behind this was that if 1394 was targeted for high speed audio and video, then there was no need for error correction in the specification.
  My question is, if this technology is used for wireless LANs and such, how can a person tell that thier data was not corrupted by, say, a lightning strike (don't know if that would affect the 60Ghz range but anyway).
  Or has this been implemented in the new wireless specification?
thanks
It is like knocking on the door to see if anyone is home, then if someone is home, see if the door is open to be able to get in.
There are many legitimate reasons to knock on the door to see if anyone is home (looking for the FTP port on a machine that you KNOW is running a warez FTP), but there is no reason to check for vulnerabilities (within the program with the port open)
ok this could've been better, but it is late.......
you forget, though that many schools announce homecoming court but not homecoming king and queen until the (wasn't it football in this case?) game......I know my school does it this way for basketball and football homecomings.
Counting the # of shipments is the only way to tell how profitable Linux is......we all know it is popular, but it will never catch on with the mainstream unless they buy tech support, books, ect....which are all usually included with Linux distros....
This is especially true of the non computer-literate (we are talking about people not past the "MOUSE!?? KILL IT!! oh..." stage yet...
They want to be able to get help when they have problems and fuss if it still doesn't work, something you just don't get when you download something for free
open source is too "open" for a government agency...if they did that anyone could go over the code and find an exploit.....maybe... But when it comes to matters of the FBI even I, who disagrees with carnivore's existence, think that "maybe" is too much of a risk...If someone figured out an exploit they could possibly hack the file containing the list of whose email is getting filtered, and then notify the person....not a good thing because the FBI is only going to set this system to catch criminals, and I wouldn't want criminals to know they are bieng monitored......would you? Maybe the snapshot of the source code that deals with the actual methods of filtering could be made public...that way we would have some assurance that they aren't just copying all packets to 2 files, one that contains suspect emails, and one that contains all the rest..... Then what would stop them from posting dummy code??
The reason they do not up the display resolution is because they want the PDA's to be portable, and to be portable they have to be viewable in conditions ranging almost direct sunlight to complete darkness
I once read that the normal human eye cannot differentiate between the sharpness of a (720X480) 13 inch TV Screen and a 11 inch TV screen of the same resolution because the 13 inch TV screen showed the highest density of pixels that the human eye can see without magnification
What happens when an appliance running Embedded Red Hat Linux has a security hole? Let's say it is a refrigerator...for the sake of privacy you wouldn't really want anyone in the world to see what you eat on a daily basis...... So how would you be able to upgrade the refrigerator's OS? Flash BIOS would be inconvenient, even if they were automatically updated, because it leaves a big margin for errors on Red Hat's side...if they rush out a security fix or are lazy writing one and it is buggy, how would someone like my mother be able to fix it?
Remember....Most people that buy these once they become mainstream will be computer literate in the worst way......
Hey I got lucky.......right about the time school (high school) started and I had LOTS less money, Napster came out....I am getting for free what I wouldn't have paid for anyway It may not technically be legal, but it is from my viewpoint, ethical
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  It is my understanding that today's 1394 connections do not check to see if the data that was sent actually got to it's destination, meaning no built in error-correction. The thinking behind this was that if 1394 was targeted for high speed audio and video, then there was no need for error correction in the specification.
  My question is, if this technology is used for wireless LANs and such, how can a person tell that thier data was not corrupted by, say, a lightning strike (don't know if that would affect the 60Ghz range but anyway).
  Or has this been implemented in the new wireless specification?
thanks
I like this better:
It is like knocking on the door to see if anyone is home, then if someone is home, see if the door is open to be able to get in.
There are many legitimate reasons to knock on the door to see if anyone is home (looking for the FTP port on a machine that you KNOW is running a warez FTP), but there is no reason to check for vulnerabilities (within the program with the port open)
ok this could've been better, but it is late.......
you forget, though that many schools announce homecoming court but not homecoming king and queen until the (wasn't it football in this case?) game......I know my school does it this way for basketball and football homecomings.
Counting the # of shipments is the only way to tell how profitable Linux is......we all know it is popular, but it will never catch on with the mainstream unless they buy tech support, books, ect....which are all usually included with Linux distros....
This is especially true of the non computer-literate (we are talking about people not past the "MOUSE!?? KILL IT!! oh..." stage yet...
They want to be able to get help when they have problems and fuss if it still doesn't work, something you just don't get when you download something for free
open source is too "open" for a government agency...if they did that anyone could go over the code and find an exploit.....maybe...
But when it comes to matters of the FBI even I, who disagrees with carnivore's existence, think that "maybe" is too much of a risk...If someone figured out an exploit they could possibly hack the file containing the list of whose email is getting filtered, and then notify the person....not a good thing because the FBI is only going to set this system to catch criminals, and I wouldn't want criminals to know they are bieng monitored......would you?
Maybe the snapshot of the source code that deals with the actual methods of filtering could be made public...that way we would have some assurance that they aren't just copying all packets to 2 files, one that contains suspect emails, and one that contains all the rest..... Then what would stop them from posting dummy code??
Get them to design a new set of protocols for something fairly well-known, such as email, or maybe a new set of file transfer protocols
Then have them write a program in whatever language they wish that will provide basic funtionality for the protocol
The reason they do not up the display resolution is because they want the PDA's to be portable, and to be portable they have to be viewable in conditions ranging almost direct sunlight to complete darkness
I once read that the normal human eye cannot differentiate between the sharpness of a (720X480) 13 inch TV Screen and a 11 inch TV screen of the same resolution because the 13 inch TV screen showed the highest density of pixels that the human eye can see without magnification
What happens when an appliance running Embedded Red Hat Linux has a security hole? Let's say it is a refrigerator...for the sake of privacy you wouldn't really want anyone in the world to see what you eat on a daily basis......
So how would you be able to upgrade the refrigerator's OS? Flash BIOS would be inconvenient, even if they were automatically updated, because it leaves a big margin for errors on Red Hat's side...if they rush out a security fix or are lazy writing one and it is buggy, how would someone like my mother be able to fix it?
Remember....Most people that buy these once they become mainstream will be computer literate in the worst way......
Copy Protection is (virtually) impossible to do......it won't take long for someone to figure a way around it
Hey I got lucky.......right about the time school (high school) started and I had LOTS less money, Napster came out....I am getting for free what I wouldn't have paid for anyway It may not technically be legal, but it is from my viewpoint, ethical