What we need to do is forget about the "Wire" in wireless and forcus on just the "less". I expect that one day I'll step out the door and fire up my browser not worrying about who is providing the service, how I'm being routed, or any of that. It needs to be that simple. Like roaming on a cell phone we could put antennas+satellites all over the place, maybe retrofit cell towers. Forget user accounts as that would depend on a server to store and validate that info. In an age where every kitchen appliance has an IP will they all need logins and passwords to? Login: Toaster Password: wheatbread
Of course not (at least I hope).
So why couldn't you get an on-screen keyboard to protect against something like this? If there's no wire there can be no tap right? If they had access to the internals of your computer and it's OS you'd be screwed anyways so unless they can tap the physical keyboard you're safe. Keep it all-in-one and their job becomes much more difficult;)
Of course wireless hasn't caught onto the mainstream... their brand new computers are all shipping with land line internet access deals along with the NIC/Modem included. It's stupid to think you can sell wireless access to the masses in their own homes when they're already wired for regular access. Wireless will take off when manufacturers put out a decent wireless client product or laptops ship with more of them. If you leave it up to Joe user to go out, buy a wireless card and mod his system plus setup you'll go belly up in a month. This stuff needs to come -pre- configured in the system you buy for your grandma off the shelf before it will take off. Before they can do that though they need to establish decent reliable service over a good sized coverage area for a long enough time to establish a reputation. It's not wireless that needs to mature... it's the companies trying to sell it to you that have only been in business two weeks.
Portland, OR has been doing it now for almost a year. Once you get used to it it's no big deal.. not like adding an area code and changing everyone's numbers. 10 digit dialing is just about adding the area code to the front and I'd take that over new area codes every week any day.
So there are fewer and fewer "clubs" now days for computing and everything else. Think about some of the reasons clubs were started in the past.. IMO you joined a club (or started your own) because you wanted to interact with people that shared a common interest with you. It wasn't -only- for the interaction though.. it was to learn and better your understanding by working in a group. Now with the internet anyone who is curious about a topic can simply look it up. In the past there was no central resource like the internet is today. If you wanted information you either went to the library (if you were lucky enough to be near a good one) or started a club so you could share the experience. Fidning info and indulging your own curiousity was hard work.
So it makes total sense that there are fewer clubs and memberships are declining. With the rise of the internet and instant gratification there simply is no psychological need to have a club. Evertyhing you want/need to know is at your fingertips and you don't have to go out of your way to get at it. Why should you risk rejection by your peers when you can send an e-mail half way around the world in less time than it takes you to blink? It's a sad situation but this is where we are.
Lack of time is probably another factor. Now no one is 100% busy all the time but media and pop culture has created this image that we all should be busy 100% of the time. So even if we're not we say we are or we find ways to fill up our schedule. No one will admit they have time for a club. The internet is bringing to the front a lot of psychological nuances that have never been explored.
I agree with previous posts, a TIS requirement is a terrible idea and would certainly put more red tape in the way. We need -less- red tape. I will develop new technology and I will use it. I will also use a lot of the technology that others like me develop. If I (or they) do something with the technology that goes against the grain what will you do about it? Sue me into oblivian? Maybe. But will that stop the technology? Hardly.
Bottom line is if you can't keep up with the new world you become extinct. Not that you shouldn't challenge technologies you don't agree with, go ahead. But if you stumble on the way you will certainly be trampled by the flocks running after. This is life.
The Webmaster over at the school was more than willing to hand over the administration's e-mail addresses... Below is the Principal and the Super Intendant. Tell them how you feel.
Jerry Davis-> jdaivs@mail.manhattah.k12.ca.us
Lynn McCormack -> lmccormack@mail.manhattan.k12.ca.us
Mira Costa High School's web page is here ;
For some reason they have another web page: here
Like most high school web sites I've seen both are full of broken links and poor formatting but they do include phone numbers, addresses, and e-mail addresses.... let's tell them what we think...
does anyone know if there's an e-mail address for these "administrators" or a web page or something? If so please please post it... even a snail mail address would be handy. It's incidents like this that make my gut wrench
If you do it in a legit way you could have your automated station with a web site that takes requests... think about it, log on to the site, select a song, it either gets added to a queue or put up for voting (most votes comes on next). Alternatively you could let users type a short dedication which the computer could read over the air... endless possibilities...
The CIO had all of this sensitive unencrypted material just sitting on his desk... there's this thing I heard about called a SAFE. How hard would that have been? What if the building burns down in the middle of the night? Did that super encryption keep your sensitive data safe from the fire? NOPE. The flood? Riiiight. If it's important, protect it (duh, right?). This means protection from hackers, burglars, and the elements... get a safe and use it. simple.
Come on, I could pick the mayo out of my garbage can, throw it on a piece of paper, scan it, and call it art? I was making scribbles in Teal on my original Palm Pro. way before he even picked up a stylus... it's pathetic where "art" is heading. What's wrong with these people?
Sony will paint it red and call it Taibo. It's cute, it's cudly, and a total body workout! Insert our proprietary memory stick up it's ace and listen to any one of these mono quality beat tracks at an annoyingly loud volume!
The article is way over the top. Seems like everyone these days thinks it's fashionable to have an opinion about all the legal battles and how corporate america is crushing the freedom of the net. As a result, every half-wit journalist out there is trying to write something intelligent about it but often times their incompetence and shallow understanding of the real issues is the only thing that comes accross.
If things continue to get worse a new medium will rise to fill the gap. People will just stop using the internet the way tehy use it now. The internet will become a convenient shopping center. One big catalog. There will be a new means for people to communicate free thoughts and ideas. Some people think "oh, well it's to expensive to build a private internet" or "big business will always control the computer technology market" but those people aren't thinking. Who says computers will be the preferred means of sharing information in the future? Like the invention of the microchip who's to say that a completely new technnology that we can't even conceive isn't just beyond the horizon? If it isn't maybe you should be the one to use your brain and figure it out, someone has to. If we lose this battle for protection, free speech, and privacy on the net a new group of geniuses will find a way to create a second revolution. That's human nature.
This is an all time new low for stories... just reading the subject line makes me drowzy. Even the article is only about half a page long, who cares what gets under the keys in your keyboard? How is that news for nerds? Shake the keyboard upside down to clear the crud... a true poweruser tip... This is the lamest story of all time
And insisting in doing SETI is inhuman. I mean, enough of the people in *our* planet are starving; yet all these self-described geeks would rather find out if there's life in another planet than see if there's still life in Somalia.
People are starving. Great. People have always been starving. The US and other nations have tried many times to help third world countries only to be thwarted by third world dictators and corrupt governments not delivering the aide to "their" people. SETI@Home has nothing to do with starving kids with big brown eyes on infomercials.
SETI@Home is a wonderful project. Will they ever find e.t. life? Who knows. Will they solve all the worlds problems? Nope. But is it an incredible idea and an intriguing adventure? Absolutely. So what if they never ever find anything? My computer wasn't doing anything at the time anyways so the extra processor cycles may as well be used in this great experiment. SETI@Home is bringing together thousands and thousands of people in a new and unique way and together all of them are working towards a common goal. Their project is an inspiration to those who think that their dreams are unreasonable or their goals are too big and unrealistic. If the people who say SETI@Home is a waste controlled the world there would be no international space station, no trip to the moon, no freedom, the world would be flat, and the earth would still be the center of the universe. People are telling SETI@Home that they can't/won't because they're afraid that they might.
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What we need to do is forget about the "Wire" in wireless and forcus on just the "less". I expect that one day I'll step out the door and fire up my browser not worrying about who is providing the service, how I'm being routed, or any of that. It needs to be that simple. Like roaming on a cell phone we could put antennas+satellites all over the place, maybe retrofit cell towers. Forget user accounts as that would depend on a server to store and validate that info. In an age where every kitchen appliance has an IP will they all need logins and passwords to?
Login: Toaster
Password: wheatbread
Of course not (at least I hope).
So why couldn't you get an on-screen keyboard to protect against something like this? If there's no wire there can be no tap right? If they had access to the internals of your computer and it's OS you'd be screwed anyways so unless they can tap the physical keyboard you're safe. Keep it all-in-one and their job becomes much more difficult ;)
Of course wireless hasn't caught onto the mainstream... their brand new computers are all shipping with land line internet access deals along with the NIC/Modem included. It's stupid to think you can sell wireless access to the masses in their own homes when they're already wired for regular access. Wireless will take off when manufacturers put out a decent wireless client product or laptops ship with more of them. If you leave it up to Joe user to go out, buy a wireless card and mod his system plus setup you'll go belly up in a month. This stuff needs to come -pre- configured in the system you buy for your grandma off the shelf before it will take off. Before they can do that though they need to establish decent reliable service over a good sized coverage area for a long enough time to establish a reputation. It's not wireless that needs to mature... it's the companies trying to sell it to you that have only been in business two weeks.
Portland, OR has been doing it now for almost a year. Once you get used to it it's no big deal.. not like adding an area code and changing everyone's numbers. 10 digit dialing is just about adding the area code to the front and I'd take that over new area codes every week any day.
So there are fewer and fewer "clubs" now days for computing and everything else. Think about some of the reasons clubs were started in the past.. IMO you joined a club (or started your own) because you wanted to interact with people that shared a common interest with you. It wasn't -only- for the interaction though.. it was to learn and better your understanding by working in a group. Now with the internet anyone who is curious about a topic can simply look it up. In the past there was no central resource like the internet is today. If you wanted information you either went to the library (if you were lucky enough to be near a good one) or started a club so you could share the experience. Fidning info and indulging your own curiousity was hard work.
So it makes total sense that there are fewer clubs and memberships are declining. With the rise of the internet and instant gratification there simply is no psychological need to have a club. Evertyhing you want/need to know is at your fingertips and you don't have to go out of your way to get at it. Why should you risk rejection by your peers when you can send an e-mail half way around the world in less time than it takes you to blink? It's a sad situation but this is where we are.
Lack of time is probably another factor. Now no one is 100% busy all the time but media and pop culture has created this image that we all should be busy 100% of the time. So even if we're not we say we are or we find ways to fill up our schedule. No one will admit they have time for a club. The internet is bringing to the front a lot of psychological nuances that have never been explored.
I agree with previous posts, a TIS requirement is a terrible idea and would certainly put more red tape in the way. We need -less- red tape. I will develop new technology and I will use it. I will also use a lot of the technology that others like me develop. If I (or they) do something with the technology that goes against the grain what will you do about it? Sue me into oblivian? Maybe. But will that stop the technology? Hardly.
Bottom line is if you can't keep up with the new world you become extinct. Not that you shouldn't challenge technologies you don't agree with, go ahead. But if you stumble on the way you will certainly be trampled by the flocks running after. This is life.
The Webmaster over at the school was more than willing to hand over the administration's e-mail addresses... Below is the Principal and the Super Intendant. Tell them how you feel.
Jerry Davis-> jdaivs@mail.manhattah.k12.ca.us
Lynn McCormack -> lmccormack@mail.manhattan.k12.ca.us
Mira Costa High School's web page is
here
; For some reason they have another web page:
here
Like most high school web sites I've seen both are full of broken links and poor formatting but they do include phone numbers, addresses, and e-mail addresses.... let's tell them what we think...
does anyone know if there's an e-mail address for these "administrators" or a web page or something? If so please please post it... even a snail mail address would be handy. It's incidents like this that make my gut wrench
If you do it in a legit way you could have your automated station with a web site that takes requests... think about it, log on to the site, select a song, it either gets added to a queue or put up for voting (most votes comes on next). Alternatively you could let users type a short dedication which the computer could read over the air... endless possibilities...
The CIO had all of this sensitive unencrypted material just sitting on his desk... there's this thing I heard about called a SAFE. How hard would that have been? What if the building burns down in the middle of the night? Did that super encryption keep your sensitive data safe from the fire? NOPE. The flood? Riiiight. If it's important, protect it (duh, right?). This means protection from hackers, burglars, and the elements... get a safe and use it. simple.
Come on, I could pick the mayo out of my garbage can, throw it on a piece of paper, scan it, and call it art? I was making scribbles in Teal on my original Palm Pro. way before he even picked up a stylus... it's pathetic where "art" is heading. What's wrong with these people?
Sony will paint it red and call it Taibo. It's cute, it's cudly, and a total body workout! Insert our proprietary memory stick up it's ace and listen to any one of these mono quality beat tracks at an annoyingly loud volume!
The article is way over the top. Seems like everyone these days thinks it's fashionable to have an opinion about all the legal battles and how corporate america is crushing the freedom of the net. As a result, every half-wit journalist out there is trying to write something intelligent about it but often times their incompetence and shallow understanding of the real issues is the only thing that comes accross. If things continue to get worse a new medium will rise to fill the gap. People will just stop using the internet the way tehy use it now. The internet will become a convenient shopping center. One big catalog. There will be a new means for people to communicate free thoughts and ideas. Some people think "oh, well it's to expensive to build a private internet" or "big business will always control the computer technology market" but those people aren't thinking. Who says computers will be the preferred means of sharing information in the future? Like the invention of the microchip who's to say that a completely new technnology that we can't even conceive isn't just beyond the horizon? If it isn't maybe you should be the one to use your brain and figure it out, someone has to. If we lose this battle for protection, free speech, and privacy on the net a new group of geniuses will find a way to create a second revolution. That's human nature.
This is an all time new low for stories... just reading the subject line makes me drowzy. Even the article is only about half a page long, who cares what gets under the keys in your keyboard? How is that news for nerds? Shake the keyboard upside down to clear the crud... a true poweruser tip... This is the lamest story of all time
And insisting in doing SETI is inhuman. I mean, enough of the people in *our* planet are starving; yet all these self-described geeks would rather find out if there's life in another planet than see if there's still life in Somalia.
People are starving. Great. People have always been starving. The US and other nations have tried many times to help third world countries only to be thwarted by third world dictators and corrupt governments not delivering the aide to "their" people. SETI@Home has nothing to do with starving kids with big brown eyes on infomercials.
SETI@Home is a wonderful project. Will they ever find e.t. life? Who knows. Will they solve all the worlds problems? Nope. But is it an incredible idea and an intriguing adventure? Absolutely. So what if they never ever find anything? My computer wasn't doing anything at the time anyways so the extra processor cycles may as well be used in this great experiment. SETI@Home is bringing together thousands and thousands of people in a new and unique way and together all of them are working towards a common goal. Their project is an inspiration to those who think that their dreams are unreasonable or their goals are too big and unrealistic. If the people who say SETI@Home is a waste controlled the world there would be no international space station, no trip to the moon, no freedom, the world would be flat, and the earth would still be the center of the universe. People are telling SETI@Home that they can't/won't because they're afraid that they might.