There are two sides to every coin. My WAP is open.
Sounds fair. The residents were worried about theft of information and logon's. What about the wardrivers ID's? Want into someone's bank or e-mail. Provid a open WAP and packet sniff.
But unless an open network is considered to be open am I liable if my linksys wireless nic connects to your default-settings linksys wireless hub instead of my default-settings linksys wireless hub?
I have a wired LAN. I love putting up a "open wireless" point that is just connected to a unused fresh install WIN box and nothing else with the SSID of "HACKME". It is amazing the traffic I get.
Turning the key off was not preferred as it locks the steering wheel on most cars causing a loss of control.
I drove stick cars for many years. My first was a beetle and my latest a Mustang. I had a throttle stick once (broken spring) and I didn't want to blow the engine. Plan ahead on what to do. Pratice it. I calmly turned the key one click only. Problem solved. Nothing broken.
Newer automatic cars are even simpler. Turn the key off. It won't go into lock until you put the shift in park. They do that on new cars so they won't roll away if you forget to put it in park as it keeps you from removing the keys. To get your keys out, you have to put it in park and then lock the steering. Only then can the keys be removed.
Try it. Shut off the car in your driveway but leave it in nutral or in drive. Try to lock the steering and remove your key.. There are only a few cars that let you remove your key without locking the transmission and steering.
I've got three of them that I can think of, and there are no linux based alternatives for them.
Many people have a PC and a MP3 player. The PC can play MP3's.
I know what does the above have to do with anything? Simple, Find the applications you need to run and get the proper hardware.
For hardened secure computing and almost anything online, it's Linux. For the sepcialty apps not covered by Linux, then use the fitting hardware as another machine and keep it off the net if possible. Don't use it to browse Google results. Untrusted sites are just that... untrusted. This is especialy true with an untrustworthy browser. As soon as it's possible, end of life the old buggy stuff.
Anyone else have solutions, or experiences, with user resistance to installing Linux or a new operating system?
My favorite is locking out IE at the router as a security problem. Spinkle a few Linux boxen around for employee use for web use. Load it with all the regular toys and office productivity apps. Let them play on them on their extended lunch hour to learn it to access the web. They will come upon PDF's and other documents that need opened, saved, edited, etc. Point out the security features. Soon more will be needed as they want net access on their desk and want to upgrade to the new machines so they don't have to wait for a shared machine.
Try it. Windows will start to like an old VCR while Linux starts to look like a TIVO in comparison. It's a little more complicated, has more options, has more choices and decisions that need made, but wow look at what you can do!
This post could be taken as a troll, but seriously consider the following.
Corporation/government etc, considers Linux. Redmond makes a sweet deal, the lever is put aside until next time.
I'm more in the mode of don't wake me until ATT&T deploy Linux enterprise wide. Then I'll pay attention, otherwise it may just be a price leverage move. MS has to make the move in price because if Linux becomes wide spread, then the critical mass can be achieved. If MS prevents critical mass and even kills Linux, then they can go back to pricing as usual.
MS can not permit Linux to reach critical mass at any cost!
I'd be somehow more concerned about the AC part of the power supply.
Most kids that take things apart know enough to expect high voltage in external sealed and marked power supplies. They might not know high voltage is lurking in the display and may assume it's low voltage LED's that light the display. They might appreciate a warning that it may bite. The lamp connections or inverter are not always well labeled as high voltage.
or any of the lovely uses for laptops that people are now marketing in self-contained devices for several hundred dollars a pop.
My main older laptop applications are MIDI piano teacher and GPS Map display.
Many newer laptops have gone to firewire, USB, & Ethernet and have eliminated older ports such as RS-232 and a Joystick port with MPU-401. Many new laptops have no place to connect a MIDI device.
Doing piano lessons with the laptop right above the keyboard on a stand puts in in the right place. Seldom will a desktop PC work well in a music setting for lessons. (Voyetra Piano Tutor and The Piano Discovery System)
A TOPO map on a laptop connected to a GPS receiver sure beats the small display on a hand held GPS for off road adventures. (Natonal Geographic Off-Road Explorer)
In both of the above applications, the MS security holes in old versions (Win 95) are not a problem. There is no net connection to exploit.
I am sure you can find a kid who would be interested in disecting it.
If you do find a kid wanting to disect it, be sure he is knowledgable in the care and feeding of the backlight. The tube has mecurey and uses high voltage. It's not the same as tearing apart an old C64.
That is presumably far less than patent litigation would cost to defend yourself against that patent.
Making money with this business model is like projecting how much money can be had by shooting birds on a telephone wire all sitting next to each other. You may nail the first one. After that first shot, the rest of the flock will be hard to find.
It's like the RIAA suing P-P users. The first shots were easy. The remainder of the flock has taken cover and hiding. It'll be very hard for them to sue 50% of the music swapers. It doesn't mean that P-P has gone away. Hardened alternatives are being used.
And it is so much easier to buy patents and sue people than to take, oh, say, $30,000,000 and innovate.
This is where one inovation is killed not because of it's good or poor worth, but because of legal liabilaty.
Lots of people may think this is the way to riches. Wrong, It's the way to kill a format or way of doing something.
Case in point. Happy Birthday.. You don't hear it much anymore. How much royalties has it generated?
Case in point. GIF You don't see many of them anymore on the web.
Case in point. SCO Are they rich defending their IP? If they win, will a BSD or other open source replace Linux without the infringement? We are all waiting for SCO to die before they can grow their extortion racket.
In these cases, alternatives spring up instead of paying the extortion. $30 million in the bank will dry up chasing people to alternatives who simply C & D instead of paying the extortion. The winner and loser is the end user that chooses to use a better or worse alternative.
...since the horizon on flat ground is 25 miles away, how did they manage 55 miles? Must have been some hills involved? If so, then the distance as the crow flies would perhaps be less than 55.1 miles...
Follow the link to the original article of the shootout. 55 miles is the distance between two GPS locations, not the distance to drive to get there. And even if you bothered to read the comic strip, it even mentions finding a road up a canyon. There are not many canyons in flat areas like Florida, but Nevada does have hills and canyons.
Other than not reading the article or comic, good point that the curvature of the earth limits access to 2 points on the ground from beamed communications. Finding 2 points for a long range link in Florida would be difficult unless you could get rooftop access to some downtown buildings in Tampa or Miami.
I wonder if there ever was a LaserDisc of the original release
Close encounters was released on LaserDisc, but I don't know what version. I didn't buy it due to the cost. I mostly sprang for the musicals that the format would be best for such as Fantasia, Fiddler on the Roof, etc. The disks never became reasonably priced to build a substantial library of movies. Went with tape instead at a quarter or less price.
Speaking of Star Wars, the original, does any one know if they edited out the scene where a stormtrouper knocks himself out? Most people miss it. It was supposed to hit the cutting room floor, but somehow made it into the film. It's a scene on the death star with 6 stormtroupers going down a corridor. The one in the back on the far right side catches a low arch right in the forhead and goes down.
I'm worried they may have removed some of the classic bloopers that we enjoy. Are you listening. We want the original.
The article author mentions the camera used the goofy smartmedia format.
Um, it's goofy. Not because of the physical size, but because of the way the memory is managed. With CF and other non-goofy formats, I can plug in any new size that comes out and it works. Not so with smartmedia. I have a Ricoh camera that is getting very hard to find memory for simply because the camera won't take the larger media sizes. It's the primary reason I've replaced my camera. Instead of having to haul 6 64 meg cards, I just use a 256 meg card in the new camera. I could use larger memory without needing to replace the camera.
This will never happen for the same reason that proper corrosion protection will never happen.
Correction, it has happened, but not many noticed. Ever seen the oil from a Pruis after 7500 miles? It's still clear. They are doing several things right. One of them is agressive coolant temprature management. The new model has a thermos to store the coolant. The hot coolant is reintroduced into the engine before starting. This eliminates much of the cylinder condensation and associated oil contamination. That's one thing they did right. Another is the elimination of long idle times while stuck in traffic. It simply shuts off until needed. These features are some of the reasons it's oil is clear at oil change intervals. I bought a Prius and plan on running it into the ground just to see how reliable it is. Most of the things that go wrong on most cars are left off the Prius.
It does not have....
A belt driven alternator. Belt driven AC compressor (new models, not 2001-2003) Power steering pump... A starter or alternator that has brushes, (the motor/generators are perm magnet brushless) A transmission that has several gear ratios selected by a system of bands and clutches. A hydraulic torque converter. Hydraulic power steering.
When you get down to it, that list is what is most needing repairs in most cars other than collision dammage.
You won't need to visit an auto parts store for starters, alternators, power steering hoses, AC clutch parts etc..
I do expect to eventualy have to replace the inverter electric water pump and some coolant hoses, the AC belt (mines an 02 so it is belt driven) but most of the regular failures with most cars, I won't have to endure.
The big selling points were great picture and sound. No macrovision. It was TRUE NTSC. The big hang up for me was the high cost. Movies on laser disk went up in price, not down. The choices came to getting it on VHS for $10-$15 or on laser disk for $60 and up. If the laser disks were price competitive with videotape, my library would be mostly disks, not tape.
As far as them being huge, I can get more disks on a shelf than tape. They are not as thick. I also don't have to rewind them.
I bought a laser player when blank VHS tapes were still about $15 each and pre-recorded movies were from $30-$90.
The promise was that Laser Disks would soon be cheaper than videotape because they could be mass pressed.
Due to the content lisence issues it never happened. Same reason a Compact Cassette was always less expensive than a cheaper to mass produce Compact Disk.
In a nutshell, my 20 year collection of laserdisks still number less than 15. Then people wonder why the format never really caught on.
I do break out the player about once a year to watch a great copy of Fantasia and Fiddler on the Roof. The soundtracks are outstanding.
and then not releasing the original versions that many people want to buy.
When they released the first one to the big screen, they announced they would never release it to the home market. I saw it on the big screen. Because they would never release it to the home market, piracy couldn't hurt anything. I was overseas and picked up a nth generation VHS copy. (not good quality) Because of piracy, about 4 years later they released a VHS version. They missed the market by not filling the void. They should have sold into the market when the demand was high. It's a case of a company not listening to it's consumers.
Now that consumers may want the original theatrical version, why is a studio going to play the it's not for sale game again.. Will they ever learn.
Some movies I am hesitant to buy simply because it becomes a pig in a poke. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a good example of this. There are at least 3 versions out. The original big screen version I don't think they ever released to the home market. The re-done one (with out the crazy scene of ripping up the garden, upsetting the lady with the ducks next door, and tossing everyting into the kitchen window) and the extended version with the extra footage of the ship.
Get a clue. Release the uncut big screen version in a timely manner. If I know I can get the full version legaly in good quality, than there is less incentive to look elsewhere.
If you want additional scenes, or an alternate ending, put it in the menu on DVD.
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So, either the BPI wins in which case spotty teenager can no longer download his music and has to be a lot more discerning in his musical tastes...
or
spotty teenager wins and it no longer becomes productive for record companies to churn out Britney Sucks clones or boy bands...
Or spotty teenager is afraid and hides by borrowing a WAP in the neighborhood and letting it be a problem for someone else.
This might not be fun. It's the main reason I don't run a WAP.
There are two sides to every coin. My WAP is open.
Sounds fair. The residents were worried about theft of information and logon's. What about the wardrivers ID's? Want into someone's bank or e-mail. Provid a open WAP and packet sniff.
But unless an open network is considered to be open am I liable if my linksys wireless nic connects to your default-settings linksys wireless hub instead of my default-settings linksys wireless hub?
I have a wired LAN. I love putting up a "open wireless" point that is just connected to a unused fresh install WIN box and nothing else with the SSID of "HACKME". It is amazing the traffic I get.
Turning the key off was not preferred as it locks the steering wheel on most cars causing a loss of control.
I drove stick cars for many years. My first was a beetle and my latest a Mustang. I had a throttle stick once (broken spring) and I didn't want to blow the engine. Plan ahead on what to do. Pratice it. I calmly turned the key one click only. Problem solved. Nothing broken.
Newer automatic cars are even simpler. Turn the key off. It won't go into lock until you put the shift in park. They do that on new cars so they won't roll away if you forget to put it in park as it keeps you from removing the keys. To get your keys out, you have to put it in park and then lock the steering. Only then can the keys be removed.
Try it. Shut off the car in your driveway but leave it in nutral or in drive. Try to lock the steering and remove your key.. There are only a few cars that let you remove your key without locking the transmission and steering.
I've got three of them that I can think of, and there are no linux based alternatives for them.
Many people have a PC and a MP3 player. The PC can play MP3's.
I know what does the above have to do with anything? Simple, Find the applications you need to run and get the proper hardware.
For hardened secure computing and almost anything online, it's Linux. For the sepcialty apps not covered by Linux, then use the fitting hardware as another machine and keep it off the net if possible. Don't use it to browse Google results. Untrusted sites are just that... untrusted. This is especialy true with an untrustworthy browser. As soon as it's possible, end of life the old buggy stuff.
Anyone else have solutions, or experiences, with user resistance to installing Linux or a new operating system?
My favorite is locking out IE at the router as a security problem. Spinkle a few Linux boxen around for employee use for web use. Load it with all the regular toys and office productivity apps. Let them play on them on their extended lunch hour to learn it to access the web. They will come upon PDF's and other documents that need opened, saved, edited, etc. Point out the security features. Soon more will be needed as they want net access on their desk and want to upgrade to the new machines so they don't have to wait for a shared machine.
Try it. Windows will start to like an old VCR while Linux starts to look like a TIVO in comparison. It's a little more complicated, has more options, has more choices and decisions that need made, but wow look at what you can do!
This post could be taken as a troll, but seriously consider the following.
Corporation/government etc, considers Linux. Redmond makes a sweet deal, the lever is put aside until next time.
I'm more in the mode of don't wake me until ATT&T deploy Linux enterprise wide. Then I'll pay attention, otherwise it may just be a price leverage move. MS has to make the move in price because if Linux becomes wide spread, then the critical mass can be achieved. If MS prevents critical mass and even kills Linux, then they can go back to pricing as usual.
MS can not permit Linux to reach critical mass at any cost!
I'd be somehow more concerned about the AC part of the power supply.
Most kids that take things apart know enough to expect high voltage in external sealed and marked power supplies. They might not know high voltage is lurking in the display and may assume it's low voltage LED's that light the display. They might appreciate a warning that it may bite. The lamp connections or inverter are not always well labeled as high voltage.
or any of the lovely uses for laptops that people are now marketing in self-contained devices for several hundred dollars a pop.
My main older laptop applications are MIDI piano teacher and GPS Map display.
Many newer laptops have gone to firewire, USB, & Ethernet and have eliminated older ports such as RS-232 and a Joystick port with MPU-401. Many new laptops have no place to connect a MIDI device.
Doing piano lessons with the laptop right above the keyboard on a stand puts in in the right place. Seldom will a desktop PC work well in a music setting for lessons. (Voyetra Piano Tutor and The Piano Discovery System)
A TOPO map on a laptop connected to a GPS receiver sure beats the small display on a hand held GPS for off road adventures. (Natonal Geographic Off-Road Explorer)
In both of the above applications, the MS security holes in old versions (Win 95) are not a problem. There is no net connection to exploit.
I am sure you can find a kid who would be interested in disecting it.
If you do find a kid wanting to disect it, be sure he is knowledgable in the care and feeding of the backlight. The tube has mecurey and uses high voltage. It's not the same as tearing apart an old C64.
I hear it every couple of days... it's just as common as ever.
Sorry.. Copyright and Patent both protect IP. I sometimes mix them because both are both used to suppress the use or extort money for the use of IP.
That is presumably far less than patent litigation would cost to defend yourself against that patent.
Making money with this business model is like projecting how much money can be had by shooting birds on a telephone wire all sitting next to each other. You may nail the first one. After that first shot, the rest of the flock will be hard to find.
It's like the RIAA suing P-P users. The first shots were easy. The remainder of the flock has taken cover and hiding. It'll be very hard for them to sue 50% of the music swapers. It doesn't mean that P-P has gone away. Hardened alternatives are being used.
And it is so much easier to buy patents and sue people than to take, oh, say, $30,000,000 and innovate.
This is where one inovation is killed not because of it's good or poor worth, but because of legal liabilaty.
Lots of people may think this is the way to riches. Wrong, It's the way to kill a format or way of doing something.
Case in point. Happy Birthday.. You don't hear it much anymore. How much royalties has it generated?
Case in point. GIF You don't see many of them anymore on the web.
Case in point. SCO Are they rich defending their IP? If they win, will a BSD or other open source replace Linux without the infringement? We are all waiting for SCO to die before they can grow their extortion racket.
In these cases, alternatives spring up instead of paying the extortion. $30 million in the bank will dry up chasing people to alternatives who simply C & D instead of paying the extortion. The winner and loser is the end user that chooses to use a better or worse alternative.
...since the horizon on flat ground is 25 miles away, how did they manage 55 miles? Must have been some hills involved? If so, then the distance as the crow flies would perhaps be less than 55.1 miles...
Follow the link to the original article of the shootout. 55 miles is the distance between two GPS locations, not the distance to drive to get there. And even if you bothered to read the comic strip, it even mentions finding a road up a canyon. There are not many canyons in flat areas like Florida, but Nevada does have hills and canyons.
Other than not reading the article or comic, good point that the curvature of the earth limits access to 2 points on the ground from beamed communications. Finding 2 points for a long range link in Florida would be difficult unless you could get rooftop access to some downtown buildings in Tampa or Miami.
I wonder if there ever was a LaserDisc of the original release
Close encounters was released on LaserDisc, but I don't know what version. I didn't buy it due to the cost. I mostly sprang for the musicals that the format would be best for such as Fantasia, Fiddler on the Roof, etc. The disks never became reasonably priced to build a substantial library of movies. Went with tape instead at a quarter or less price.
Speaking of Star Wars, the original, does any one know if they edited out the scene where a stormtrouper knocks himself out? Most people miss it. It was supposed to hit the cutting room floor, but somehow made it into the film. It's a scene on the death star with 6 stormtroupers going down a corridor. The one in the back on the far right side catches a low arch right in the forhead and goes down.
I'm worried they may have removed some of the classic bloopers that we enjoy. Are you listening. We want the original.
no slashdotters are windows users until a cool tool like that NASA world wind one comes up
Two words..
Employer Supplied
where's the choice then?
Look at the telephone. It's over taxed in the US. VOIP is the end run.
Free over the air TV? P-P and home brew Internet does the end run past passive TV viewing.
Next question..
won't it be more battery friendly to let cpu handle the wireless function instead of having another power hungry minipci wifi card?
On a long flight, there is a lot to be said for simply unplugging the AP and putting it away. Then it uses zero power guranteed.
The article author mentions the camera used the goofy smartmedia format.
Um, it's goofy. Not because of the physical size, but because of the way the memory is managed. With CF and other non-goofy formats, I can plug in any new size that comes out and it works. Not so with smartmedia. I have a Ricoh camera that is getting very hard to find memory for simply because the camera won't take the larger media sizes. It's the primary reason I've replaced my camera. Instead of having to haul 6 64 meg cards, I just use a 256 meg card in the new camera. I could use larger memory without needing to replace the camera.
It's the interface limitations that's goofy.
This will never happen for the same reason that proper corrosion protection will never happen.
Correction, it has happened, but not many noticed. Ever seen the oil from a Pruis after 7500 miles? It's still clear. They are doing several things right. One of them is agressive coolant temprature management. The new model has a thermos to store the coolant. The hot coolant is reintroduced into the engine before starting. This eliminates much of the cylinder condensation and associated oil contamination. That's one thing they did right. Another is the elimination of long idle times while stuck in traffic. It simply shuts off until needed. These features are some of the reasons it's oil is clear at oil change intervals. I bought a Prius and plan on running it into the ground just to see how reliable it is. Most of the things that go wrong on most cars are left off the Prius.
It does not have....
A belt driven alternator.
Belt driven AC compressor (new models, not 2001-2003)
Power steering pump...
A starter or alternator that has brushes, (the motor/generators are perm magnet brushless)
A transmission that has several gear ratios selected by a system of bands and clutches.
A hydraulic torque converter.
Hydraulic power steering.
When you get down to it, that list is what is most needing repairs in most cars other than collision dammage.
You won't need to visit an auto parts store for starters, alternators, power steering hoses, AC clutch parts etc..
I do expect to eventualy have to replace the inverter electric water pump and some coolant hoses, the AC belt (mines an 02 so it is belt driven) but most of the regular failures with most cars, I won't have to endure.
The engine oil stays amazingly clean
I second that. I've switched to the 7500 mile interval. Even then the oil is still clear with just a slight darkening.
The big selling points were great picture and sound. No macrovision. It was TRUE NTSC. The big hang up for me was the high cost. Movies on laser disk went up in price, not down. The choices came to getting it on VHS for $10-$15 or on laser disk for $60 and up. If the laser disks were price competitive with videotape, my library would be mostly disks, not tape.
As far as them being huge, I can get more disks on a shelf than tape. They are not as thick. I also don't have to rewind them.
I bought a laser player when blank VHS tapes were still about $15 each and pre-recorded movies were from $30-$90.
The promise was that Laser Disks would soon be cheaper than videotape because they could be mass pressed.
Due to the content lisence issues it never happened. Same reason a Compact Cassette was always less expensive than a cheaper to mass produce Compact Disk.
In a nutshell, my 20 year collection of laserdisks still number less than 15. Then people wonder why the format never really caught on.
I do break out the player about once a year to watch a great copy of Fantasia and Fiddler on the Roof. The soundtracks are outstanding.
and then not releasing the original versions that many people want to buy.
When they released the first one to the big screen, they announced they would never release it to the home market. I saw it on the big screen. Because they would never release it to the home market, piracy couldn't hurt anything. I was overseas and picked up a nth generation VHS copy. (not good quality) Because of piracy, about 4 years later they released a VHS version. They missed the market by not filling the void. They should have sold into the market when the demand was high. It's a case of a company not listening to it's consumers.
Now that consumers may want the original theatrical version, why is a studio going to play the it's not for sale game again.. Will they ever learn.
Some movies I am hesitant to buy simply because it becomes a pig in a poke. Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a good example of this. There are at least 3 versions out. The original big screen version I don't think they ever released to the home market. The re-done one (with out the crazy scene of ripping up the garden, upsetting the lady with the ducks next door, and tossing everyting into the kitchen window) and the extended version with the extra footage of the ship.
Get a clue. Release the uncut big screen version in a timely manner. If I know I can get the full version legaly in good quality, than there is less incentive to look elsewhere.
If you want additional scenes, or an alternate ending, put it in the menu on DVD.