These software programs are called packet sniffers and many can be downloaded free online. They are typically set up to capture passwords, credit card numbers and bank account information -- which is why Mr. Vamosi says shopping on the Web is not a great way to kill time during a flight delay.
Michael Sellitto, a graduate student studying international security at Harvard, said that even though he encrypted any sensitive data on his laptop, he planned to sign up for a service like HotSpotVPN to add another level of security when he is traveling, especially when using poorly protected networks at cafes and hotels.
Have these guys heard of SSL? SSH? Can you say overkill? And who is this Sellitto guy, sounds like a liberal arts major that can't cut it in a real security field. *breathes into paperbag*
Does anyone have any pictures of this broad? Is the hot?
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Remember the first Xboxes or PS2s getting resold on eBay for 4-digit sums? It really makes perfect sense for PS3 to launch at $600. I bet it will go down once the initial early adopter wave passes by.
I remember seeing a talk about MEMS tunable lasers where one end of the lasing cavity was mechanically movable... I think the application was intended for optical switches, but maybe the tuning range is large enough for displays too.
Man, I wish the news would pay the same respect to me. Just imagine:
"On Saturday, if the weather holds, Mike will deliver a 200lbs payload. He is expected to raise the vehicle on jack stands, and make necessary repairs for the coming week's commuting mission. MFMA (Mike's Fleet Maintenance Agency) reports that Mike will replace the transmission, perform an oil change, and inspect the ball joints."
Science is about PROVING or DISPROVING a hypothesis. (Or, at least, making the attempt to do so.) Does Wolfram do this? Absolutely not. The title of his book makes sense, though. It is a new kind of science...the bad/wrong kind with zero consequences or illumination.
You sound like he ran over your dog:) I find the basic idea of that book is very thought provoking. So what if doesn't prove or disprove a hypothesis? It's really interesting and maybe it could even *lead* to new science in the future. Conversely, there is plenty of real science out there that is pretty droll and uninteresting. So what if you can prove that the Boolean anti-binary least-square approach is NP-complete? I doubt you could get a credit card based on that.
This seems counter to the rest of your argument; after all, if you can reduce brain activity completely into a series of reactions, then it should be possible to model those on a computer. Which would make the computer think exactly like a brain.
Because some of us have to show up for work on time. Have too many problems with your car and you're fired. Oh, and I'd like to not frighten women away from me by the car I'm driving.
Only adult in the house. 2000 Corrola, purchased used.
Wait a sec, you're not my parent poster... that guy complained about having to make all these car and insurance payments. It looks like you took care of business and got a cheap used car;)
As far as scaring women away, I agree with you. But a 2000 Corolla???:)
An international team of scientists labors for many years to construct an artificial intelligence. They put together a vast supercomputer with state-of-the-art interconnects etc etc and finally get ready to turn it on. They argue for a while what the first question they ask it should be, and then the lead scientist types it in:
Saying I have a selfish attitude because I secure my AP is no more reasonable than saying I have a selfish attitude because I secure my SMTP server against open relays.
"Selfish" was probably incorrect. Nosy? Righteous? Perhaps. It's not my business to direct how you run your systems. If you lock down your WiFi and secure your SMTP server I applaud you. But please don't tell me how to run mine:)
At normal temperatures, gasoline has a vapour pressure sufficient that there will be a flammable vapour above any standing liquid gasoline. The flashpoint of gasoline is -40 (that's minus forty) degrees; at any temperature above that there can be sufficient vapour present to ignite and explode.
He never said anything about the gasoline not igniting. He just claimed that the match will go out, which is generally correct.
You secure your own damn AP, I'll leave mine wide open thank you.
That way, if my new neighbors are waiting two months for DSL to roll in they can still get online. Or if someone is lost and needs to look up directions, they can.
then the carrier should be liable, because they are intimately involved with monitoring the data being passed back and forth (how else would they be enforcing their charges against big sites?).
Great, then not only will they be charging based on content, but they will be censoring it as well. Sign me up!
Steve Jobs' turtleneck has seen ripping as his neck muscles strained in anger. The other Steve's polished head was seen shining smugly in camera lights.
Not just a shell, but also Web versions of most commonly used apps.
The claims about the local bus bandwidths etc. from the article are a little crazy, but if you squint a little they can be rephrased: the local capacity used by most common apps is lower than the available network bandwidth. Given this assumption it makes a great deal of sense to create an Internet "OS."
I'd guess the #1 problem with an environment like this would be outages. I've used GMail to collaborate on a paper with some coworkers, and it was a bone chilling experience--first our ISP link ran into some turbulence (and I'm talking about a big institution with double digit OC lines), and second the emails took unpredicable amounts of time to show up as we sent each other updated versions of the document. This all hours before the deadline.
A big advantage over local systems is accessibility. Being able to access things like e-mail, calendar, to-do lists etc. from anywhere is a big plus.
I tried that, it doesn't work very well. The problem is that the surface area of the copper tubing is far too small; if you look at even a cheap AC unit's radiator you will get an idea of how inadequate the tubing is.
No, because their users can still be at an ISP that hinders Google unless Google pays them off.
I can see this work the other way too: Google refuses to pay off ISP X, X loses customers.
I suggest you go take a look at the wire mess in the typical Asian city to see what such deregulation does. You REALLY don't want what that results in.
There are different degrees of deregulation. For example, how about something along the lines of how different DSL providers use the same local loops, extended to cable companies, and without the sabotage problems that happened between a telco and its client ISPs. Further, things like WiMAX could allow even more local competition.
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Have these guys heard of SSL? SSH? Can you say overkill? And who is this Sellitto guy, sounds like a liberal arts major that can't cut it in a real security field. *breathes into paperbag*
Does anyone have any pictures of this broad? Is the hot?
Remember the first Xboxes or PS2s getting resold on eBay for 4-digit sums? It really makes perfect sense for PS3 to launch at $600. I bet it will go down once the initial early adopter wave passes by.
I remember seeing a talk about MEMS tunable lasers where one end of the lasing cavity was mechanically movable... I think the application was intended for optical switches, but maybe the tuning range is large enough for displays too.
Heavy patients in *Japan*? Please. They are clearly fixin' to take over the world.
Man, I wish the news would pay the same respect to me. Just imagine:
"On Saturday, if the weather holds, Mike will deliver a 200lbs payload. He is expected to raise the vehicle on jack stands, and make necessary repairs for the coming week's commuting mission. MFMA (Mike's Fleet Maintenance Agency) reports that Mike will replace the transmission, perform an oil change, and inspect the ball joints."
Not fair!
Why do you assume this is impossible?
Couple this service with wireless networks and we get the...
TV show Friis free space propagation
*rimshot*
As far as scaring women away, I agree with you. But a 2000 Corolla???
I get paid bi-weekly and the check I receive at the end of each month is completely wiped out by just my house payment, car payment,
How about switching to a used car for $1-2k and erase the car payments?
How about switching to minimum allowed insurance?
I live in MA and I pay $400 to insure my $1600 '93 Benz for the whole year. An additional benefit is that the excise extorti... tax is much lower too.
An international team of scientists labors for many years to construct an artificial intelligence. They put together a vast supercomputer with state-of-the-art interconnects etc etc and finally get ready to turn it on. They argue for a while what the first question they ask it should be, and then the lead scientist types it in:
"Does God exist?"
"It does now!"
Saying I have a selfish attitude because I secure my AP is no more reasonable than saying I have a selfish attitude because I secure my SMTP server against open relays.
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"Selfish" was probably incorrect. Nosy? Righteous? Perhaps. It's not my business to direct how you run your systems. If you lock down your WiFi and secure your SMTP server I applaud you. But please don't tell me how to run mine
I love me some smell of lithium-ion electrolyte fumes in the morning!
Seriously, I left a bunch of them charging overnight on a wrong voltage, and came back to a characteristic odor and bloated battery packs.
At normal temperatures, gasoline has a vapour pressure sufficient that there will be a flammable vapour above any standing liquid gasoline. The flashpoint of gasoline is -40 (that's minus forty) degrees; at any temperature above that there can be sufficient vapour present to ignite and explode.
He never said anything about the gasoline not igniting. He just claimed that the match will go out, which is generally correct.
Next!
Secure your damn AP, please.
You secure your own damn AP, I'll leave mine wide open thank you.
That way, if my new neighbors are waiting two months for DSL to roll in they can still get online. Or if someone is lost and needs to look up directions, they can.
Your selfish attitude disgusts me.
...where much more of their conversation happens through phones (probably Blackberries).
then the carrier should be liable, because they are intimately involved with monitoring the data being passed back and forth (how else would they be enforcing their charges against big sites?).
Great, then not only will they be charging based on content, but they will be censoring it as well. Sign me up!
Steve Jobs' turtleneck has seen ripping as his neck muscles strained in anger. The other Steve's polished head was seen shining smugly in camera lights.
Not just a shell, but also Web versions of most commonly used apps.
The claims about the local bus bandwidths etc. from the article are a little crazy, but if you squint a little they can be rephrased: the local capacity used by most common apps is lower than the available network bandwidth. Given this assumption it makes a great deal of sense to create an Internet "OS."
I'd guess the #1 problem with an environment like this would be outages. I've used GMail to collaborate on a paper with some coworkers, and it was a bone chilling experience--first our ISP link ran into some turbulence (and I'm talking about a big institution with double digit OC lines), and second the emails took unpredicable amounts of time to show up as we sent each other updated versions of the document. This all hours before the deadline.
A big advantage over local systems is accessibility. Being able to access things like e-mail, calendar, to-do lists etc. from anywhere is a big plus.
I understand your sentiment, but I think the other side has a point. What good is redundancy if it won't survive events like terrorist attacks?
Mapquest and MSN maps have been losing business.
If they do fold, I sure will miss the interstate exit numbers that Google Maps so helpfully does not provide.
the story was about a poorly designed French Power Module not working with alternating current
I tried that, it doesn't work very well. The problem is that the surface area of the copper tubing is far too small; if you look at even a cheap AC unit's radiator you will get an idea of how inadequate the tubing is.
No, because their users can still be at an ISP that hinders Google unless Google pays them off.
I can see this work the other way too: Google refuses to pay off ISP X, X loses customers.
I suggest you go take a look at the wire mess in the typical Asian city to see what such deregulation does. You REALLY don't want what that results in.
There are different degrees of deregulation. For example, how about something along the lines of how different DSL providers use the same local loops, extended to cable companies, and without the sabotage problems that happened between a telco and its client ISPs. Further, things like WiMAX could allow even more local competition.