As with any network there are multiple teirs of control, if you clicked my link on open-mesh you'd see they sell hardware with pre-loaded custom firmware. You can buy a small fleet of wrt54g routers and achieve the same result doing the flashing work yourself. The only way you'd have overmind control is to be the owner of the mesh network, not sure why anybody would let anybody administrate their network otherwise. Meraki is a step above in complexity for a mesh network. Sounds like something Starbucks would use to centralize their wifi hotspots.
Fortunately, it doesn't get easier than plug n' play: http://www.open-mesh.com/ . My point is if you don't like the way somebody's conducting a service, become the competition, all 3g/4g devices also connect to... wifi. A $5 a month paywall would also make this project fairly profitable to anybody with the up-front investment cash.
Also requires A LOT of screen cleaner... an excellent investment opportunity for anybody that believes that touch screens will skyrocket in popularity in the near future.
Oh my... this is the only anti-piracy post on slashdot that I can think of that's been modded up:)
And you are right, musicians & artists can't compete with free (could this be why we barely get anymore good movies or music released or is that just me?) , however think of this situation as a seesaw, pre-piracy: there was a heavy lean towards the RIAA & musicians, pay $15-20 a cd, or don't listen to it period. Want to watch last night's episode of walking dead that you missed... buy the season. A bunch of people got onto the other side of the seesaw saying we won't give you a dime for years of fixed pricing, draconian copyright laws, and an overall disregard for the consumer. The seesaw started leveling and eventually tipped in the pirate's favor, everything was free, available and fast in tracker clouds. You'd have to be stupid to go to the store and buy media. And just as the law started catching up to the new technology, things like netflix & $1/song music came along to tip things to a relative balance. Suddenly it becomes: Why pirate this when it's on netflix, or at redbox, or on amazon... $2 for a movie or the potential of a $$$$ fine, redbox it is. So, in the history & future of media, piracy has and will always have its place.
Some may argue that the potential of hacking has only touched the tip of the iceberg.
W/b hacking the power grid during a heat strike & causing some deaths of the young & elderly?
Or causing a component at a factory to explode by overriding it's original programming?
It's no longer about gaining user names / passwords to pron sites and finding out-dated wordpresses. Something like stuxnet has shown the dangers of the next level.
OP mentions "hacking" a lot, but doesn't provide any concrete examples of it besides suspicion. It's ok to not be very computer literate (I care less), but to think everytime there's an error = hacker is kinda dumb. You're probably getting an error on your wi-fi network (is it yours? public? neighbors?) due to misconfigured settings, those tend to throw errors. How do you know your bluetooth is being brute forced? Are there changes on your device you haven't made? Anyways I feel I'm throwing words to the wind here so...
I recommend: An anti-virus such as... Antivirus, or Mcafee, or Symantec (if they have one), a backup solution: Titanium backup is the one you want (requires root). Something like Advanced task killer is good, and last but not least, firefox & it's many security based plugins. Having those 4 puts you in pretty good shape, however... bluetooth hacking can only be done within range of the bluetooth device, if I saw logs on my computer stating an attacker is attempting to brute force my bluetooth key at my home no less, I'd either f' w them, or call the cops.
Or maybe some people could learn that they need to take responsibility in positions that require responsibility to perform. I don't think that measuring & predicting earthquakes is an exact science though, but in this case it was obvious enough to bring up questions of competency & negligence.
Depends on the industry, some companies have far deeper pockets than others, everybody operates at a different level of efficiency... besides all that man hours tend to be the big cost to most employers, so if this is proven to reduce those, the investment will pay for itself over time.
Better yet... being as cops are just people with a typically over-heightened sense of self-importance and there are no personality tests or IQ requirements to get into the force, what if a cop comes across something they shouldn't that's many levels above them, sells it and compromises national security?
Probably to encourage add-on devs to keep their app up to date with their crazy release schedule.
A lot of the current add-ons (or apps if you will) aren't compatible with the latest firefox versions.
So make the user (probably) pay for it & encourage that the add-ons stay in compliance.
Of course there is also the opportunity for new add-ons to be developed that are worth the asking price. An example on the android market would be the psx emulator. FF7 on my phone... worth the modest price of admission.
That's funny considering they need my sig to pull my transcripts from the school. Even the admissions lady for post-grad needed my approval and she works for the school lol. Those things are confidential, give it a few years and you'll know what I'm talking about. All that BS about do good in school is mostly just that BS. Doesn't mean you should do bad enough where you can't graduate:)
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As with any network there are multiple teirs of control, if you clicked my link on open-mesh you'd see they sell hardware with pre-loaded custom firmware. You can buy a small fleet of wrt54g routers and achieve the same result doing the flashing work yourself. The only way you'd have overmind control is to be the owner of the mesh network, not sure why anybody would let anybody administrate their network otherwise. Meraki is a step above in complexity for a mesh network. Sounds like something Starbucks would use to centralize their wifi hotspots.
Someone needs to take Commerce101 :)
Fortunately, it doesn't get easier than plug n' play: http://www.open-mesh.com/ . My point is if you don't like the way somebody's conducting a service, become the competition, all 3g/4g devices also connect to... wifi. A $5 a month paywall would also make this project fairly profitable to anybody with the up-front investment cash.
Also requires A LOT of screen cleaner... an excellent investment opportunity for anybody that believes that touch screens will skyrocket in popularity in the near future.
netflix
If only, if only, somebody thought of this... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesh_networking
Oh my... this is the only anti-piracy post on slashdot that I can think of that's been modded up :)
And you are right, musicians & artists can't compete with free (could this be why we barely get anymore good movies or music released or is that just me?) , however think of this situation as a seesaw, pre-piracy: there was a heavy lean towards the RIAA & musicians, pay $15-20 a cd, or don't listen to it period. Want to watch last night's episode of walking dead that you missed... buy the season. A bunch of people got onto the other side of the seesaw saying we won't give you a dime for years of fixed pricing, draconian copyright laws, and an overall disregard for the consumer. The seesaw started leveling and eventually tipped in the pirate's favor, everything was free, available and fast in tracker clouds. You'd have to be stupid to go to the store and buy media. And just as the law started catching up to the new technology, things like netflix & $1/song music came along to tip things to a relative balance. Suddenly it becomes: Why pirate this when it's on netflix, or at redbox, or on amazon... $2 for a movie or the potential of a $$$$ fine, redbox it is. So, in the history & future of media, piracy has and will always have its place.
And off to the side all but forgotten, APUs bid their time...
Some may argue that the potential of hacking has only touched the tip of the iceberg.
W/b hacking the power grid during a heat strike & causing some deaths of the young & elderly?
Or causing a component at a factory to explode by overriding it's original programming?
It's no longer about gaining user names / passwords to pron sites and finding out-dated wordpresses. Something like stuxnet has shown the dangers of the next level.
Then... please stop using netflix, itunes, amazon video & music, etc...
Piracy was only about stealing to some, to the rest it was a way of saying I'm sick of paying $15 for a cd to hear one song 10x.
Shhh... nobodies caught on yet!
Makes sense... I was thinking lower manufacturing > lower consumer pricing and I know Apple has never done that.
On the other, Apple is well-known for demanding and pushing lower pricing
Since when???
2nded.
OP mentions "hacking" a lot, but doesn't provide any concrete examples of it besides suspicion. It's ok to not be very computer literate (I care less), but to think everytime there's an error = hacker is kinda dumb. You're probably getting an error on your wi-fi network (is it yours? public? neighbors?) due to misconfigured settings, those tend to throw errors. How do you know your bluetooth is being brute forced? Are there changes on your device you haven't made? Anyways I feel I'm throwing words to the wind here so...
I recommend: An anti-virus such as... Antivirus, or Mcafee, or Symantec (if they have one), a backup solution: Titanium backup is the one you want (requires root). Something like Advanced task killer is good, and last but not least, firefox & it's many security based plugins. Having those 4 puts you in pretty good shape, however... bluetooth hacking can only be done within range of the bluetooth device, if I saw logs on my computer stating an attacker is attempting to brute force my bluetooth key at my home no less, I'd either f' w them, or call the cops.
Or maybe some people could learn that they need to take responsibility in positions that require responsibility to perform. I don't think that measuring & predicting earthquakes is an exact science though, but in this case it was obvious enough to bring up questions of competency & negligence.
Depends on the industry, some companies have far deeper pockets than others, everybody operates at a different level of efficiency... besides all that man hours tend to be the big cost to most employers, so if this is proven to reduce those, the investment will pay for itself over time.
An ipod touch, yes...http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipod/family/ipod_touch
Did I see Christopher Nolan in that dream last night?
Better yet... being as cops are just people with a typically over-heightened sense of self-importance and there are no personality tests or IQ requirements to get into the force, what if a cop comes across something they shouldn't that's many levels above them, sells it and compromises national security?
Why?
Probably to encourage add-on devs to keep their app up to date with their crazy release schedule.
A lot of the current add-ons (or apps if you will) aren't compatible with the latest firefox versions.
So make the user (probably) pay for it & encourage that the add-ons stay in compliance.
Of course there is also the opportunity for new add-ons to be developed that are worth the asking price. An example on the android market would be the psx emulator. FF7 on my phone... worth the modest price of admission.
I don't think energy is what they're trying to solve here, but rather the looming fuel shortage, or at least fears of no matter how far out.
Another 200 years later... oh shit we're now going to run out of water if we keep producing petrol from it, quick let's revisit converting sea water.
There's more ways to steal from someone than to physically take something that belongs to them...
That's funny considering they need my sig to pull my transcripts from the school. Even the admissions lady for post-grad needed my approval and she works for the school lol. Those things are confidential, give it a few years and you'll know what I'm talking about. All that BS about do good in school is mostly just that BS. Doesn't mean you should do bad enough where you can't graduate :)
As well as possibly an underground lost civilization with ghosts and monsters n' shit.