However, when you go to order your pet's favorite food from www.alpo.com, the dog food company will force you to log in via your Passport account, because their servers run.NET
Just because their servers run.net, doesn't mean they need to use Passport. There are other authentication schemes available in the.net framework, including good old HTTP-style authentication, NTLM for NT-based intranets and forms/cookie based authentication.
You get the convenience of one password, right? Your dog food purchase will be correlated with your previous purchases and preferences. Pretty soon, Microsoft will know everything about you.
Uhh, no. A developer CANNOT store any information in your Passport. There is no way for MS to associate what happens on an external site to a particular Passport. From http://www.passport.com/Business/WhitePaper.asp?lc =1033
Passport's contracts with participating sites, as well as the Passport architecture itself, prevent Passport from collecting either "clickstream" data about user sessions at participating sites or purchase-related data from Passport EP transactions.
Really, I don't see why people are so paranoid about Passport. AOL's ScreenName service is exactly the same, as is Yahoo! ID, but Passport is open.
Security sucked. The spec. built-in a "man in the middle". WAP is dependent upon a WAP gateway which bridges the mobile network and the Internet. Because of this gateway, secure connections are not end to end.
In Australia at least, this was corrected. Most phones in Australia, and the three telco gateways supprted 128-bin end-to-end encyrption.
Not to mention GSM's inherent, but admittedly weak 40-bit encryption. Everything transmitted over GSM is encrypted to prevent snooping with a radio scanner (which was a major fault with AMPS)
Fragmentation. Practically speaking, if you have one vendor's browser in your phone, your mobile provider must have that vendor's WAP gateway running in their network.
I can't say I've ever seen this. I've seen Nokias, Ericssons and Siemens work over the one gateway. I'm not sure what the gateway maker is - is there a way of checking?
Phones don't really support packet data yet. Who wants to surf the net at $.10/min?
THIS is why mobile data is failing. In Australia, expect to pay about 40c a minute. That's simply too much. It needs to be either vastly reduced, or changed to a flat rate. An extra $10 a month would be reasonable.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the protocol - HTML is NOT suitable for a phone, as the dynamics of a computer screen and a mobile phone are completely different. You want different information on the phone. Little snippets, not huge lumps of text and Flash movies.
I guess another example on the converse as to why the rules need some work: There is a geographic rule that says that you can not register a.com.au that is the name of a place. This is enforced by using the postcode list of suburbs.
A-ha! So that's why Hutchinson's couldn't get orange.com.au, but Apple could get apple.com.au (even though it's generic)?
The whole.au policies need to be reviewed, as they are so inconsistent and unfair. If you are who I think you are, good luck to you!
Note: I'm an IE6 tester, so I believe I'm reasonably qualified to comment without fear of spreading FUD.
Smart tags can be easily turned off by the end user. There is a BUTTON ON THE TOOLBAR to do this.
Smart tags can be easily turned off by a page author. There is a META tag that does this.
The default smart tags look for any reference to any company in MoneyCentral, and a few US universities. You click on them, and you get info.
Smart tags look nothing like ordinary links. They are purple dotted lines uder the word. When you mouse-over them, an (i) info symbol appears. You CANNOT mistake smart tags for ordinary links.
Thank you for your e-mail to the Australian Competition and Consumer
Commission ('the Commission') concerning your broadband service.
The Commission enforces the Trade Practices Act 1974 ('the Act').
The Commission received complaints late last year concerning the enforcement
by Telstra of its Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) on its cable product. The AUP
allowed Telstra to restrict or suspend users from the service where Telstra
considered that the use created an undue burden to the network or degraded
use of the network by others. A large number of complainants were also
concerned that they could not determine what level of use would breach the
AUP.
You should note that the mere use of an AUP is not illegal, although the
Commission does not encourage the use of this type of term.
The Commissions concern was that the service was advertised as "unlimited
subject to an Acceptable Use Policy". It was the Commission's view at that
time that the use of the term "unlimited" combined with what the Commission
considered was a vague AUP could be misleading within the meaning of the
Act.
Telstra subsequently agreed to remove the word unlimited from the cable
webpages. The word unlimited did not appear on the ADSL webpages. Telstra
also advised that it would change its AUP to allow for greater clarity in
its enforcement.
Telstra has now changed its AUP. In relation to data limits Telstra has set
the limit at 3 Gigabytes per month. In line with its contract Telstra has
allowed users that do not feel that this limit is acceptable to cancel their
contract. If you wish to exercise this option you must advise Telstra by the
18 June 2001.
The Commission is aware that some users of the service are unhappy with the
outcome. However it should be pointed out that the service provided by
Telstra was always subject to an Acceptable Use Policy. Previously this
limit and how it was calculated was not clear to users. The Commission
considers that the increased clarity of the AUP can only assist consumers in
deciding to purchase products.
Similarly the Commission is aware that some consumers are of the view that
the internet products should not be capped or limited. The Commission is not
a price setting body for retail internet products and cannot determine
product characteristics.
Should you have any queries please contact me.
I'm actually glad Tel$tra hasn't cabled my suburb, nor ADSL-enabled my exchange:)
You can say ANYTHING about Gutnick, and he will immediately label you as anti-Semitic and anti-Jew. He's a real egomaniac, just look at what he's doing to the Melbourne footy club.
This case does not surprise me in the slightest. And I hope Gutnick loses. How can he sue a US company? Wota wanka.
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At that price, you might as well as buy a laptop.
Yeah, you could. But you may not need all the functionality and a bulk of a laptop. Just grab one of these fold-up keyboards and chances are that's all you need.
Telnetting? SSH? X Sessions? Are you people on drugs? It's a palmtop, not a full-fledged personal computer.
Actually, telnet and ssh would be very helpful for network admins, coupled with wireless. Things could be fixed while the admins are out having a life:P
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What a load of FUD. Compaq have been able to INCREASE the price of the iPaq, and demand still outstrips supply.
Nope. Palm is bad value for money, and is losing fast. An iPaq for A$999, with 32 meg of RAM, brilliant colour screen, and a 206MHz ARM chip, versus a Palm m505 (we're comparing the two high-end devices here) for A$989, with 8 meg of RAM, pathetic screen, 33MHz Dragonball, and crummy online capabilities.
Only Palm are having any problems -- PocketPC's are thriving.
ASFRecorder doesn't actually decrypt the content. All it does is capture the packets sent by the server and reconstruct them into a file.
If the stream is protected and encrypted with DRM, you can't play it without the license, even after using ASFRecorder.
The thing is... nobody uses the DRM protection options. That's why the author wrote the program, to send a wake-up call to content providers. Who slept right through it.
Of course it certainly could be worse. The article mentions that at Sun, they force their poor employees to use StarOffice.
Not in Australia. We had some Sun guys come out and try to flog us some boxes. The sales engineer dudes did mention they have that policy, but the presentation they gave us was in Microsoft Powerpoint, in Win2k on a Toshiba laptop.
On the iPaq you can press the 'Q' button, and hit 'Close Active Task' or 'Close All Tasks'. And there are third-party apps that put a 'Close' button on all apps.
Couldn't major ISP's (Telstra and Optus in Australia, or AOL, MSN and Earthlink in the States, for example) set their DNS servers to check not only the traditional hierarchy, but these new DNS servers as well?
In exchange, Name.Space or whoever could give, say AOL their own TLD. Rather than give out http://hometown.aol.com/Bob27484947, they could give out http://Bob27484947.aol.
Since when does Passport store 'all your passwords'? Passport sores one password. When you sign into a Passport site, you are redirected to Passport. You sign in, and Passport sends an authentication token to the original site, via your browser, SSL encrypted. Your password isn't transmitted, just a unique ID.
Great work guys! Hopefully, this means that we can see Dreamcasts being used in corporate environments for stuff like firewalls, proxies (obviously without cache), name-servers and static web pages that rarely change, as well as OSS games. This could prolong the DC's live indefinitely.
Sure, Sega wants to abandon it, but I'm sure plenty of geeks would kill to develop for Dreamcast BSD. Especially at the price:)
Real PCMCIA slots (two on 2x00). You could go down to your local computer store, pick up almost any modem, put it in your newton and be relatively sure it would work. Not some special "springboard" module that has to be bought at some special store or online.
You can get a sleeve for the iPaq that lets you use PCMCIA cards. Adds a lot of bulk to the unit, though.
But I agree with a later comment. The Newton was way ahead of it's time. Only the PPC is just catching up now.
Yep, definitely agree there:)
Transcriber is on the ActiveSync CD you get with your PPC. I guess the reason it's not included on the ROM is that some people won't use it, and the performance on lower end PPC's may not be great (it works beautifully on my iPaq:)
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Just because their servers run .net, doesn't mean they need to use Passport. There are other authentication schemes available in the .net framework, including good old HTTP-style authentication, NTLM for NT-based intranets and forms/cookie based authentication.
You get the convenience of one password, right? Your dog food purchase will be correlated with your previous purchases and preferences. Pretty soon, Microsoft will know everything about you.
Uhh, no. A developer CANNOT store any information in your Passport. There is no way for MS to associate what happens on an external site to a particular Passport. From http://www.passport.com/Business/WhitePaper.asp?lc =1033
Really, I don't see why people are so paranoid about Passport. AOL's ScreenName service is exactly the same, as is Yahoo! ID, but Passport is open.In Australia at least, this was corrected. Most phones in Australia, and the three telco gateways supprted 128-bin end-to-end encyrption.
Not to mention GSM's inherent, but admittedly weak 40-bit encryption. Everything transmitted over GSM is encrypted to prevent snooping with a radio scanner (which was a major fault with AMPS)
Fragmentation. Practically speaking, if you have one vendor's browser in your phone, your mobile provider must have that vendor's WAP gateway running in their network.
I can't say I've ever seen this. I've seen Nokias, Ericssons and Siemens work over the one gateway. I'm not sure what the gateway maker is - is there a way of checking?
Phones don't really support packet data yet. Who wants to surf the net at $.10/min?
THIS is why mobile data is failing. In Australia, expect to pay about 40c a minute. That's simply too much. It needs to be either vastly reduced, or changed to a flat rate. An extra $10 a month would be reasonable.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the protocol - HTML is NOT suitable for a phone, as the dynamics of a computer screen and a mobile phone are completely different. You want different information on the phone. Little snippets, not huge lumps of text and Flash movies.
A-ha! So that's why Hutchinson's couldn't get orange.com.au, but Apple could get apple.com.au (even though it's generic)?
The whole .au policies need to be reviewed, as they are so inconsistent and unfair. If you are who I think you are, good luck to you!
- Smart tags can be easily turned off by the end user. There is a BUTTON ON THE TOOLBAR to do this.
- Smart tags can be easily turned off by a page author. There is a META tag that does this.
- The default smart tags look for any reference to any company in MoneyCentral, and a few US universities. You click on them, and you get info.
- Smart tags look nothing like ordinary links. They are purple dotted lines uder the word. When you mouse-over them, an (i) info symbol appears. You CANNOT mistake smart tags for ordinary links.
- IMO, they are a pain, but easily disabled.
Nothing to see here. Move along.Thank you for your e-mail to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ('the Commission') concerning your broadband service.
The Commission enforces the Trade Practices Act 1974 ('the Act').
The Commission received complaints late last year concerning the enforcement by Telstra of its Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) on its cable product. The AUP allowed Telstra to restrict or suspend users from the service where Telstra considered that the use created an undue burden to the network or degraded use of the network by others. A large number of complainants were also concerned that they could not determine what level of use would breach the AUP.
You should note that the mere use of an AUP is not illegal, although the Commission does not encourage the use of this type of term.
The Commissions concern was that the service was advertised as "unlimited subject to an Acceptable Use Policy". It was the Commission's view at that time that the use of the term "unlimited" combined with what the Commission considered was a vague AUP could be misleading within the meaning of the Act.
Telstra subsequently agreed to remove the word unlimited from the cable webpages. The word unlimited did not appear on the ADSL webpages. Telstra also advised that it would change its AUP to allow for greater clarity in its enforcement.
Telstra has now changed its AUP. In relation to data limits Telstra has set the limit at 3 Gigabytes per month. In line with its contract Telstra has allowed users that do not feel that this limit is acceptable to cancel their contract. If you wish to exercise this option you must advise Telstra by the 18 June 2001.
The Commission is aware that some users of the service are unhappy with the outcome. However it should be pointed out that the service provided by Telstra was always subject to an Acceptable Use Policy. Previously this limit and how it was calculated was not clear to users. The Commission considers that the increased clarity of the AUP can only assist consumers in deciding to purchase products.
Similarly the Commission is aware that some consumers are of the view that the internet products should not be capped or limited. The Commission is not a price setting body for retail internet products and cannot determine product characteristics.
Should you have any queries please contact me.
I'm actually glad Tel$tra hasn't cabled my suburb, nor ADSL-enabled my exchange :)
This case does not surprise me in the slightest. And I hope Gutnick loses. How can he sue a US company? Wota wanka.
Yeah, you could. But you may not need all the functionality and a bulk of a laptop. Just grab one of these fold-up keyboards and chances are that's all you need.
Actually, telnet and ssh would be very helpful for network admins, coupled with wireless. Things could be fixed while the admins are out having a life :P
Nope. Palm is bad value for money, and is losing fast. An iPaq for A$999, with 32 meg of RAM, brilliant colour screen, and a 206MHz ARM chip, versus a Palm m505 (we're comparing the two high-end devices here) for A$989, with 8 meg of RAM, pathetic screen, 33MHz Dragonball, and crummy online capabilities.
Only Palm are having any problems -- PocketPC's are thriving.
ASFRecorder doesn't actually decrypt the content. All it does is capture the packets sent by the server and reconstruct them into a file. If the stream is protected and encrypted with DRM, you can't play it without the license, even after using ASFRecorder. The thing is ... nobody uses the DRM protection options. That's why the author wrote the program, to send a wake-up call to content providers. Who slept right through it.
Not in Australia. We had some Sun guys come out and try to flog us some boxes. The sales engineer dudes did mention they have that policy, but the presentation they gave us was in Microsoft Powerpoint, in Win2k on a Toshiba laptop.
On the iPaq you can press the 'Q' button, and hit 'Close Active Task' or 'Close All Tasks'. And there are third-party apps that put a 'Close' button on all apps.
Nah, it'e _easier_ to filter AOL users :P Just block *.aol :)
In exchange, Name.Space or whoever could give, say AOL their own TLD. Rather than give out http://hometown.aol.com/Bob27484947, they could give out http://Bob27484947.aol.
Just a thought ... dunno if its feasible or not.
Haven't tried it yet. May get around to it tonight.
See http://www.passport.com/Business/SingleSignInOverv iew.asp?PPlcid=1033 for a high level overview, or http://www.passport.com/DevInfo/Start_Goals.asp?f= 0 for implementation details (requires Passport)
I get about 3 days using it as a straight PDA, taking notes, calendar, Pocket Word and Excel, even a few games of Solitaire.
In deep sleep mode the batteries last a few days (?)
Deep sleep mode? You mean not switched on?
First of all, HP is NOT Compaq. Repeat after me. HP is NOT Compaq.
Secondly, the HP Jornada's aren't high end PocketPC's. The HP's are actually quite slow.
Please, get your facts right BEFORE sprouting off crud.
IIRC, you had to copy the image to your server, then embed the image. And IIRC, Netscape did the same thing.
Sure, Sega wants to abandon it, but I'm sure plenty of geeks would kill to develop for Dreamcast BSD. Especially at the price :)
You're right, I haven't used a Newton. That's why I want to get hold of one :)
You can get a sleeve for the iPaq that lets you use PCMCIA cards. Adds a lot of bulk to the unit, though.
But I agree with a later comment. The Newton was way ahead of it's time. Only the PPC is just catching up now.
I so want to get hold of a Newton .. ;)
Yep, definitely agree there :)
Transcriber is on the ActiveSync CD you get with your PPC. I guess the reason it's not included on the ROM is that some people won't use it, and the performance on lower end PPC's may not be great (it works beautifully on my iPaq :)
Umm, WindowsMedia is supported on Windows, Mac, Solaris and HPUX.