Purdue University has implemented a limited wireless network. Any engineering student can register for it and it is available when you are near the engineering mall. The school of technology has also begun to deploy wireless networking but they are still too security conscience to give people pr0n while in class.
As for the rest of campus *ahem* school of liberal arts, they aren't worthy.
I saw no mention of security improving. I realize that the hardest part of maintaining a secure environment is making the 'user' comply but there HAS to be a better way of protecting people from themselves. Sort of like if a burglar trips and breaks his leg in your house he can sue you.
I mention security because of the "Presence technology" that was discussed. If somebody can get ahold of my network identity and then use that identity to pinpoint my location we could have a whole new wave of identity theft. Not that I have thought it over much but knowing exactly where somebody is opens up a whole new set of opportunites for exploit.
Old massively parallel mainframe. Equivalent to a cluster of like 500 486's<SMALL>**</SMALL> or one Pentium 3. Get it now for only $500.
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<small>**This would not be an effective way to heat your home.</small>
How about the other way around. Restrict a large portion of your access until you have successfully completed a 'training' course. There could be an extensive multiple choice test so that somebody will the ability to secure their own pc would not have to take the course. And then for all the people that don't pass the test you could provide a short-course about opening email attachments, blah blah blah and then they could provide a shareware firewall package for the users to install. And at the end of the class they should of course administer another 'dumbed-down' version of the first test as to guarentee that users have at least been coherent during the class.
I don't know how big these apartment complexes are but they might be able to set up an agreement with a medium-sized company to provide personal firewall software at a discounted price.
AT&T@Home has been capped with a 128k/s upload speed for over a year. But like others have mentioned download speeds were superb. "Always-on" was never a problem either. According to everybody in the house it has only gone down once since we've had it. (Over a year)
I would be more then satisfied with a 1.5Mpbs download cap if they would in turn raise the upload cap to 384 or something a little bit more reasonable.
Or raise the cap for people who do not "abuse" the network:)
Assuming they are just taking a snapshot and not filming you wouldn't have to sync the frame rates. However you would on occasion have to retake the picture if the monitor was refreshing at the instant she snapped the picture. If that happens you should explain to her the meaning of "User Error" and how technology is infallible.
Putting a camera on a cell phone would be another tool to aid in describing what a user is looking at. Having done my fair share of over the phone tech support it would be nice if the user could take a screen shot of what they are trying to describe and send it via cell phone. Yet another step closer to me not having to drive into work.
If Samsung is smart they will recruit support from palm or any number of other PDA companies so that when/if Openmail gets a larger portion of the market share users can continue to sync their contacts and datebooks. It may not seem crucial now but 10 years ago nobody needed more then 640k memory.
I currently use insight@home and have been unable to get VPN working to connect to my local university. VPN would be extremely beneficial as the university limits your access to many resources based upon your IP address. I don't know if they have blocked VPN access or my ignorance has stopped me from getting it to work.
I didn't see any specs as to the rate of air flow these things can produce. Assuming they are optimized given the 'provided' mathematical models. Any chance these models are as easy to understand as the instructions they put on coke cans?
The article stated that these fans could have blades up to an inch long, anybody have any opinions on whether this could replace the large fans in cars that are used for air flow over the engine and radiator? This would make working on your car while it is still running a little bit safer. But of course the saying "Make something idiot proof and somebody will make a better idiot."
And since the topic of energy consumption was brought up, how about using these instead of ceiling fans in our homes. Being that I have never seen one of these in action I bet you could make them look aestically attractive at least to us nerds. Sort of like having a huge rack of all black stereo equipment.
For those of you who are 'forced' to join passport you can go a step further and starting purchasing items using your newly created passport account and microsoft will give you some money back. Beware I don't think the amount they give back will be comparable to how much somebody could fraudently bill to your account when they get access to your passport account. Errr....wait nobody would be able to do that to a microsoft product because they enforce security through obscurity and it has never failed them.
According to this sony site, the service is only $9.99/month if you activate it online. It is $14.99/month if you call the 800 number and sign up. This sounds like a company that is preparing to offer very little in the way of good customer service. Right from the beginning their business model seems to say "We are going to charge you more if you want to talk to us." Being charged $5/month more to talk to a real person is a little to futuristic to me. My local bank operates the same way which is why I closed my accounts with them.
Ya but you could turn on the heat and have a comfy place to sleep that night. Assuming you were in a nice car and not a geo metro. Not to say that Geo Metro's aren't nice cars for all the little people out there.
I don't know about other universities but Purdue implements a policy that they do not give out personal information to entities that complain about students who cause trouble using university resources. I know of several cases where students were contacted by the Dean of Students and informed of their wrong doing but that their information was not given out to whoever complained. There are however exceptions to the rule for what I would assume are extreme cases. For instance several students were arrested in connection with a child pornography case. Anybody else know of policies like this at other universities and what the exact guidelines are?
I work at a company that does the exact same thing. Not only do they block attachments that are potentially dangerous but they get daily updates from numerous servers with new virus info. They also run updated virus scanners on each of the desktops. We decided that we would rather manually retrieve any attachments that users need then spend an entire weekend trying to clean out the exchange server and users desktops each time another kid wanted to kick microsoft in the junk.
Depending on your OS....can't you create your daughter her own login/pass and then have her settings allow flash and other pretty stuff and use your login however you wish?
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If this 5% isn't reachable then is it really on the net?
Didn't this story run already? But I guess the slogan for this site is "News for Nerds" not "Breaking News for Nerds."
I missed quite a few different security topics but one can only post so much while waiting for another email to arrive.
Purdue University has implemented a limited wireless network. Any engineering student can register for it and it is available when you are near the engineering mall. The school of technology has also begun to deploy wireless networking but they are still too security conscience to give people pr0n while in class.
As for the rest of campus *ahem* school of liberal arts, they aren't worthy.
I saw no mention of security improving. I realize that the hardest part of maintaining a secure environment is making the 'user' comply but there HAS to be a better way of protecting people from themselves. Sort of like if a burglar trips and breaks his leg in your house he can sue you.
I mention security because of the "Presence technology" that was discussed. If somebody can get ahold of my network identity and then use that identity to pinpoint my location we could have a whole new wave of identity theft. Not that I have thought it over much but knowing exactly where somebody is opens up a whole new set of opportunites for exploit.
White collar criminal -**- Signing Off.
Old massively parallel mainframe. Equivalent to a cluster of like 500 486's<SMALL>**</SMALL> or one Pentium 3. Get it now for only $500.
<P><P><P><P>
<small>**This would not be an effective way to heat your home.</small>
How about the other way around. Restrict a large portion of your access until you have successfully completed a 'training' course. There could be an extensive multiple choice test so that somebody will the ability to secure their own pc would not have to take the course. And then for all the people that don't pass the test you could provide a short-course about opening email attachments, blah blah blah and then they could provide a shareware firewall package for the users to install. And at the end of the class they should of course administer another 'dumbed-down' version of the first test as to guarentee that users have at least been coherent during the class.
I don't know how big these apartment complexes are but they might be able to set up an agreement with a medium-sized company to provide personal firewall software at a discounted price.
AT&T@Home has been capped with a 128k/s upload speed for over a year. But like others have mentioned download speeds were superb. "Always-on" was never a problem either. According to everybody in the house it has only gone down once since we've had it. (Over a year)
:)
I would be more then satisfied with a 1.5Mpbs download cap if they would in turn raise the upload cap to 384 or something a little bit more reasonable.
Or raise the cap for people who do not "abuse" the network
Assuming they are just taking a snapshot and not filming you wouldn't have to sync the frame rates. However you would on occasion have to retake the picture if the monitor was refreshing at the instant she snapped the picture. If that happens you should explain to her the meaning of "User Error" and how technology is infallible.
Putting a camera on a cell phone would be another tool to aid in describing what a user is looking at. Having done my fair share of over the phone tech support it would be nice if the user could take a screen shot of what they are trying to describe and send it via cell phone. Yet another step closer to me not having to drive into work.
From their website
Top of Page:
"No Drivers are required. "
Bottom of Page:
"* Windows 98 Drivers will be available for download"
Am i missing something?
If Samsung is smart they will recruit support from palm or any number of other PDA companies so that when/if Openmail gets a larger portion of the market share users can continue to sync their contacts and datebooks. It may not seem crucial now but 10 years ago nobody needed more then 640k memory.
I currently use insight@home and have been unable to get VPN working to connect to my local university. VPN would be extremely beneficial as the university limits your access to many resources based upon your IP address. I don't know if they have blocked VPN access or my ignorance has stopped me from getting it to work.
I didn't see any specs as to the rate of air flow these things can produce. Assuming they are optimized given the 'provided' mathematical models. Any chance these models are as easy to understand as the instructions they put on coke cans?
The article stated that these fans could have blades up to an inch long, anybody have any opinions on whether this could replace the large fans in cars that are used for air flow over the engine and radiator? This would make working on your car while it is still running a little bit safer. But of course the saying "Make something idiot proof and somebody will make a better idiot."
And since the topic of energy consumption was brought up, how about using these instead of ceiling fans in our homes. Being that I have never seen one of these in action I bet you could make them look aestically attractive at least to us nerds. Sort of like having a huge rack of all black stereo equipment.
For those of you who are 'forced' to join passport you can go a step further and starting purchasing items using your newly created passport account and microsoft will give you some money back. Beware I don't think the amount they give back will be comparable to how much somebody could fraudently bill to your account when they get access to your passport account. Errr....wait nobody would be able to do that to a microsoft product because they enforce security through obscurity and it has never failed them.
Me and my beowulf cluster are ready.
So in one sentence your saying "Linux users are more vunerable then somebody using a *cough* microsoft product?."
According to this sony site, the service is only $9.99/month if you activate it online. It is $14.99/month if you call the 800 number and sign up. This sounds like a company that is preparing to offer very little in the way of good customer service. Right from the beginning their business model seems to say "We are going to charge you more if you want to talk to us." Being charged $5/month more to talk to a real person is a little to futuristic to me. My local bank operates the same way which is why I closed my accounts with them.
Your name and address? So i can send your information to MS...OH WAIT they don't get involved in piracy investigations i'm thinking of the FBI.
Ya but you could turn on the heat and have a comfy place to sleep that night. Assuming you were in a nice car and not a geo metro. Not to say that Geo Metro's aren't nice cars for all the little people out there.
Ya except our corn fields smell like . Oh wait that is the toxic river, known as the wabash to the non-locals.
I don't know about other universities but Purdue implements a policy that they do not give out personal information to entities that complain about students who cause trouble using university resources. I know of several cases where students were contacted by the Dean of Students and informed of their wrong doing but that their information was not given out to whoever complained. There are however exceptions to the rule for what I would assume are extreme cases. For instance several students were arrested in connection with a child pornography case. Anybody else know of policies like this at other universities and what the exact guidelines are?
Purdue (and microsoft) give students a copy of XP for $5. If thats not preparing for the future, I don't know what is.
I work at a company that does the exact same thing. Not only do they block attachments that are potentially dangerous but they get daily updates from numerous servers with new virus info. They also run updated virus scanners on each of the desktops. We decided that we would rather manually retrieve any attachments that users need then spend an entire weekend trying to clean out the exchange server and users desktops each time another kid wanted to kick microsoft in the junk.
Depending on your OS....can't you create your daughter her own login/pass and then have her settings allow flash and other pretty stuff and use your login however you wish?
But only if she is screaming "FIRE!" because I've always been told that screaming "HELP MY GEO METRO IS GETTING JACKED!" never works.