If you give your personal information to an unknown website for some type of mini-payment, it leaves a huge security hole into your bank account. It's simply easier to avoid the risk and not provide anyone access than get lots of little holes opened into your account that needs constant auditing to detect fraud. It's the risk of lots of.01 purchases showing up on your account as 1.50 debits. It isn't worth the time to find and fight them, so it's easier to avoid them to begin with.
Remember an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
I like the idea, but instead of using GPS for a building, build a custom TX / RX set for the building. Each corner in each room or hall would have a transmitter and using timing + TX id's, it would be possible to calculate the location in the building with high precision. Of course it wouldn't be cheap and would require an atomic master clock for the system.
Umm... I thought GPS worked by measuring doplar shift and time of arrival to compute a position fix. If you lengthen some or all of the signal paths randomly by reflections, the GPS could not calculate a precise position fix. It would however be able to tell the signal is poor and properly display the estimated position error as a large value. You would make your own building a SA encoder to the signal by providing random multipath signal timing errors. There would be no precise phase and time shifts of individual satelite signals to calculate an accurate position due to the added lengths of the reflected signal paths. For an real life example of this, drive downtown in a large city where the signal bounces between buildings to reach the ground. The signal is fair much of the time, but the positioning is lousy.
Maybe their building is a modern all fiberglass and glass job that is transparant to microwaves.. Think Radar Dome.. It couldn't be built out of things like steel, concrete, wood, sheetrock etc..
I tried it. It doesn't work more than about 2 feet from a window. My house is wood. Maybe it will work better there in a concrete and brick building with many stories.;-) NOT! Maybe they are planning on building a better GPS system also that will work indoors.
Having done much checking the calibration of speedometers, I check them on a measured mile at 60 MPH. That is one mile in one minute. Most often the GPS is much closer than the speedometer. It may jump up and down a couple MPH due to position errors going past overpasses, tall buildings, heavy forest etc, but the average is dead on. An SUV with the bigger tires installed always reads the speed slow unless they have the gears in the speedometer changed to match the new tire size. The average shown on a GPS is dead on. I use one all the time now, especially in a borrowed or rented vehicle. I believe the GPS first. I know it's accuracy. BTW a 10 foot position error does not caues much change in indicated speed at 55.
For the older crowd, don't forget the default Novell Netware password was also common as was the 2 secret words in the original Adventure Game. My first password was a cryptic password. It was a number of one of my favorite IC's (not a uP or TTL believe it or not) and a word found printed on one of my first computer keyboards. Happy cracking;-). One of my favorite early programs used keystroke capture for password entry. Enter, backspace, arrow keys, shift keys could all be part of a valid password. Password length could be defined. After stating length, just hit that many keys and it would be recorded as the password.
I always wondered why performers for the mass media of TV, Radio, Film, Music, etc. are called artists. By deffinition they produce a mass media product. There is nothing unique between my CD and your CD.
I'll be sure to check the flyers in the paper for the store that has them for sale. I'll let you know when I find a region free player on a mainstream US retailers flyer. If you find one, post it indicating store chain, make and model. It would be a nice feature to have in a player.
I bought the boxed product Version 2.3 ISBN number 0-9672852-3-2. Anyone want to explain what market forces will entice me to purchase the next upgrade from them instead of going to Red Hat, Susie or someone else? Unfortunately we live in an open market society. I like the product (v2.3) even though it is getting older now. I always try to get the best value. Market forces will either support or not support this business model. I support the companies that put a boxed retail package on the shelf. It's the best way to get joe sixpack to discover Linux and show IT departments it's ready for prime time. Caldera Systems will have to compete somehow to survive.
Actually I'm saying it is illegal to sell them in the US. Why do you think they are hard to find? Only region one standalone players are permitted to be imported into the USA.
Yahoo also allowed stacking the deck. It was too easy to fight for a top spot on Yahoo. Unfortunately this burried what I was looking for under pages and pages of commericial sites. Try looking for free MP3's on Yahoo. It's a waste of time. You may find a teaser file once in a while burried in non MP3 music. Lots of pages of music are for sale in most anything but MP3. I quickly learned to look elswhere. I hope Google does not bury real content under the commercial interests. Yahoo search is one of the reasons Napster is doing so well. Indies can't be found on Yahoo due to the layers of other junk. Currently there is a trickling of sponser entries on Google. They are highlighted to make them easy to spot so you don't have the endless chasing of dead ends on Yahoo.
My oven has had windows technology for 20 years. It even has a light switch on the outside so the door does not have to be opened to turn on the light.
Notice that for a while Amiga Video Toaster was the leader. Notice Macintosh is still a leader in AV? Kofax is in a niche market. If MS word tried it, Wordperfect and Star Office would get a big boost and Microsoft knows it! That is why they are trying to use the fingerprint of the machine as a dongle instead of shipping one. It's also getting lots of consuer flack. Watch how well it doesn't sell after hardware upgrades breaks it and the word gets out.
I loved field days in the Cayman Islands. Because everyone is trying to contact as many countries as possible in a short time, everyone tries to add the Cayman Islands to the list. ZF1DJ & ZF1JJ would ocasionaly start to rag chew. When asked about it, they said they loved to hear people hovering on the edge waiting for him to finish. We would take the gear to the public beach on Seven Mile Beach and work with the Boy Scouts and Red Cross. It was great to introduce the scouts to ham radio.
There is almost no faster way to get me to switch ISP's. If I am paying for the service, then the customer is always right and has a vote. I always vote with my pocketbook. Why do you think copy protection, dongles and such had a bad time. Lots of people voted it down. Are you old enough to remember when software came with a hardware dongle? Remember how fast it was returned? Get a clue.
I doubt they will make a lot of noise until the damage is done to the VHS end. I expect it will happen just like Microsoft looked the other way on software piracy until it became the standard. Now they have the Business Software Alliance to make everyone shake in their boots. Unfortunately for them it promotes GPL. I am waiting for Pinewood Studios or some other non US studio to start releasing region free DVD's to sell into all markets thus giving the competition fits as market forces show who is king. The US film market needs serious competion in order for this to happen. If Amazon could carry quality region free films for under $10 US including shipping, they could do an end run past the MPAA.
Can you really not buy them in the US? Sad but true. It is impossible to buy a non region one player off the shelf legally. The service menu information and chipping players is a hot underground activity.
I have one. I don't wish to move the tv & stereo into the office, move the office to the living room, or run long wires all over the place. Computer speakers are not high fidelity.
For most people in the US, living on the big island is an OK way of life. However, I have lived in other countries. I have driver licenses in three countries. One for driving on the right and two for driving on the left. I do not wish to start over each time I move and risk sombody's customs office removing my player or library. NTSC, SECAM, PAL are enough of a problem without throwing in Macrovision and Region coding. Adjustable voltage stuff is a way of life except in the US so it's not a problem unless you got it in the USA. Most of my stuff runs on 100, 120, 210, or 240 volt. Most US stuff is 120 only.
You might not have a choice. I went to rent a videotape last night. The major chain had moved all the video tape into 1/4 of the floor space with just the edges of the boxes showing. They also bunched them all together. They were no longer seperated by classics, comedy, drama, action, family, etc.. Anybody else notice this trend? However the few DVD's they did have filled up 3/4 of the floor space. Several shelves were filled with the same title showing the full front of the box 1 deep on the shelf. This is a bold move to herd people to the DVD's and away from the videotapes. The change happened over the last 2 weeks. The title I went to rent was out. They had reduced inventory to one copy. It is not on DVD. I do not wish to watch DVD's on my computer monitor. I refuse to buy a DVD player until either DVD's are released region free, or all-region players are legally on sale here. I can change the region on my computer DVD drive, but it is not part of my living room home entertainment system. My entire DVD library now consists of one computer program on DVD ROM (phone book) and one movie I bought in a second hand store.
You mean someone may actualy want to pay me to watch an infomercial? Someone may pay to get me to answer a telemarketing sales call or read a spam email all the way? Wrong! Why do you think I pay for caller ID, use Proxicom, Junkbusters, and a TV guide. I choose what I want to do with my time Thank You. Actually if you want to buy my time, my rates are $65/hr. Contact my business manager for an appointment.
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Guess how many times they rebooted before they found out nothing was wrong.
Maybe we need to take off the tin foil hats from our heads and put them on our wallets just to block the signal from prying scanners.
Don't worry, It doesn't have enough memory to run Windows. Who would want to wait that long at a checkout for thir bills to reboot?
I like the idea, but instead of using GPS for a building, build a custom TX / RX set for the building. Each corner in each room or hall would have a transmitter and using timing + TX id's, it would be possible to calculate the location in the building with high precision. Of course it wouldn't be cheap and would require an atomic master clock for the system.
Umm... I thought GPS worked by measuring doplar shift and time of arrival to compute a position fix. If you lengthen some or all of the signal paths randomly by reflections, the GPS could not calculate a precise position fix. It would however be able to tell the signal is poor and properly display the estimated position error as a large value. You would make your own building a SA encoder to the signal by providing random multipath signal timing errors. There would be no precise phase and time shifts of individual satelite signals to calculate an accurate position due to the added lengths of the reflected signal paths. For an real life example of this, drive downtown in a large city where the signal bounces between buildings to reach the ground. The signal is fair much of the time, but the positioning is lousy.
Maybe their building is a modern all fiberglass and glass job that is transparant to microwaves.. Think Radar Dome.. It couldn't be built out of things like steel, concrete, wood, sheetrock etc..
I tried it. It doesn't work more than about 2 feet from a window. My house is wood. Maybe it will work better there in a concrete and brick building with many stories. ;-) NOT! Maybe they are planning on building a better GPS system also that will work indoors.
Having done much checking the calibration of speedometers, I check them on a measured mile at 60 MPH. That is one mile in one minute. Most often the GPS is much closer than the speedometer. It may jump up and down a couple MPH due to position errors going past overpasses, tall buildings, heavy forest etc, but the average is dead on. An SUV with the bigger tires installed always reads the speed slow unless they have the gears in the speedometer changed to match the new tire size. The average shown on a GPS is dead on. I use one all the time now, especially in a borrowed or rented vehicle. I believe the GPS first. I know it's accuracy. BTW a 10 foot position error does not caues much change in indicated speed at 55.
For the older crowd, don't forget the default Novell Netware password was also common as was the 2 secret words in the original Adventure Game. My first password was a cryptic password. It was a number of one of my favorite IC's (not a uP or TTL believe it or not) and a word found printed on one of my first computer keyboards. Happy cracking ;-). One of my favorite early programs used keystroke capture for password entry. Enter, backspace, arrow keys, shift keys could all be part of a valid password. Password length could be defined. After stating length, just hit that many keys and it would be recorded as the password.
I always wondered why performers for the mass media of TV, Radio, Film, Music, etc. are called artists. By deffinition they produce a mass media product. There is nothing unique between my CD and your CD.
I'll be sure to check the flyers in the paper for the store that has them for sale. I'll let you know when I find a region free player on a mainstream US retailers flyer. If you find one, post it indicating store chain, make and model. It would be a nice feature to have in a player.
I bought the boxed product Version 2.3 ISBN number 0-9672852-3-2. Anyone want to explain what market forces will entice me to purchase the next upgrade from them instead of going to Red Hat, Susie or someone else? Unfortunately we live in an open market society. I like the product (v2.3) even though it is getting older now. I always try to get the best value. Market forces will either support or not support this business model. I support the companies that put a boxed retail package on the shelf. It's the best way to get joe sixpack to discover Linux and show IT departments it's ready for prime time. Caldera Systems will have to compete somehow to survive.
Actually I'm saying it is illegal to sell them in the US. Why do you think they are hard to find? Only region one standalone players are permitted to be imported into the USA.
Yahoo also allowed stacking the deck. It was too easy to fight for a top spot on Yahoo. Unfortunately this burried what I was looking for under pages and pages of commericial sites. Try looking for free MP3's on Yahoo. It's a waste of time. You may find a teaser file once in a while burried in non MP3 music. Lots of pages of music are for sale in most anything but MP3. I quickly learned to look elswhere. I hope Google does not bury real content under the commercial interests. Yahoo search is one of the reasons Napster is doing so well. Indies can't be found on Yahoo due to the layers of other junk. Currently there is a trickling of sponser entries on Google. They are highlighted to make them easy to spot so you don't have the endless chasing of dead ends on Yahoo.
My oven has had windows technology for 20 years. It even has a light switch on the outside so the door does not have to be opened to turn on the light.
Notice that for a while Amiga Video Toaster was the leader. Notice Macintosh is still a leader in AV? Kofax is in a niche market. If MS word tried it, Wordperfect and Star Office would get a big boost and Microsoft knows it! That is why they are trying to use the fingerprint of the machine as a dongle instead of shipping one. It's also getting lots of consuer flack. Watch how well it doesn't sell after hardware upgrades breaks it and the word gets out.
I loved field days in the Cayman Islands. Because everyone is trying to contact as many countries as possible in a short time, everyone tries to add the Cayman Islands to the list. ZF1DJ & ZF1JJ would ocasionaly start to rag chew. When asked about it, they said they loved to hear people hovering on the edge waiting for him to finish. We would take the gear to the public beach on Seven Mile Beach and work with the Boy Scouts and Red Cross. It was great to introduce the scouts to ham radio.
There is almost no faster way to get me to switch ISP's. If I am paying for the service, then the customer is always right and has a vote. I always vote with my pocketbook. Why do you think copy protection, dongles and such had a bad time. Lots of people voted it down. Are you old enough to remember when software came with a hardware dongle? Remember how fast it was returned? Get a clue.
I doubt they will make a lot of noise until the damage is done to the VHS end. I expect it will happen just like Microsoft looked the other way on software piracy until it became the standard. Now they have the Business Software Alliance to make everyone shake in their boots. Unfortunately for them it promotes GPL. I am waiting for Pinewood Studios or some other non US studio to start releasing region free DVD's to sell into all markets thus giving the competition fits as market forces show who is king. The US film market needs serious competion in order for this to happen. If Amazon could carry quality region free films for under $10 US including shipping, they could do an end run past the MPAA.
Can you really not buy them in the US? Sad but true. It is impossible to buy a non region one player off the shelf legally. The service menu information and chipping players is a hot underground activity.
I have one. I don't wish to move the tv & stereo into the office, move the office to the living room, or run long wires all over the place. Computer speakers are not high fidelity.
For most people in the US, living on the big island is an OK way of life. However, I have lived in other countries. I have driver licenses in three countries. One for driving on the right and two for driving on the left. I do not wish to start over each time I move and risk sombody's customs office removing my player or library. NTSC, SECAM, PAL are enough of a problem without throwing in Macrovision and Region coding. Adjustable voltage stuff is a way of life except in the US so it's not a problem unless you got it in the USA. Most of my stuff runs on 100, 120, 210, or 240 volt. Most US stuff is 120 only.
You might not have a choice. I went to rent a videotape last night. The major chain had moved all the video tape into 1/4 of the floor space with just the edges of the boxes showing. They also bunched them all together. They were no longer seperated by classics, comedy, drama, action, family, etc.. Anybody else notice this trend? However the few DVD's they did have filled up 3/4 of the floor space. Several shelves were filled with the same title showing the full front of the box 1 deep on the shelf. This is a bold move to herd people to the DVD's and away from the videotapes. The change happened over the last 2 weeks. The title I went to rent was out. They had reduced inventory to one copy. It is not on DVD. I do not wish to watch DVD's on my computer monitor. I refuse to buy a DVD player until either DVD's are released region free, or all-region players are legally on sale here. I can change the region on my computer DVD drive, but it is not part of my living room home entertainment system. My entire DVD library now consists of one computer program on DVD ROM (phone book) and one movie I bought in a second hand store.
You mean someone may actualy want to pay me to watch an infomercial? Someone may pay to get me to answer a telemarketing sales call or read a spam email all the way? Wrong! Why do you think I pay for caller ID, use Proxicom, Junkbusters, and a TV guide. I choose what I want to do with my time Thank You. Actually if you want to buy my time, my rates are $65/hr. Contact my business manager for an appointment.