I love the concept of getting authentication onto a separate server/service/system. It's crazy that anyone can run "select * from users" and get a whole sites credential listing with a simple SQL injection.
However, how did you come to suggest Kerberos as the Authentication system. There are many others, all it seems with downsides of being overly complex:
-OpenID, OAuth, Radius, CHAP, TACACS+, LDAP, etc.
I have an idea to add on to cameras a listening device that can record audio of nearby people. I think this is a really neat idea that may have many crime fighting uses. Please provide 3 years of research funding for me to get some duct tape and connect a microphone to a camera.
Seriously - why do we need lip reading cameras? Haven't we had microphones on video cameras for 50 years?
If you are going to do lip reading, wouldn't it make more sense to do it on the video player, so you can get the audio of prerecorded video too? This would reduce cost too. I'm sure there are many fewer players than surveillance cameras
I manage an office of about 70 Windows PCs. When I first started many of the PCs had spyware on them. Every other day someone would complain and I would clean it off. When the same people kept asking for spyware removal it became clear that to solve the problem you have to prevent the average user from installing software on their PC.
Want to stop spyware? Do not log in with Administrative rights! 99% of spyware requires administrative rights to install. In the corporate environment this is simple: don't give out the local administrator password to anyone Ever! And don't put regular users in the Administrators group. For home users, create two accounts - one for installing software with admin rights, and one for everyday use without admin rights.
UNIX admins figured this out years ago. You only use root when you must, why don't most Windows users do the same thing? My suspicion is most home users don't like the concept of windows login's and passwords. To solve this I wish XP home had a simple switch for a user to enable or disable software installation.
I am elated that certain states are stepping up to the plate to regulate telemarketers who are clearly showing they have no morals and need regulation. The regulations in California and New York are great! What disappoints me is this isn't national.
<story from hell> In January I dropped MCI as my long distance carrier in favor of Working Assets (a company with morals!). Well despite telling MCI 3 times I had changed phone companies, they kept billing me. I called and complained and they told me it was taken care of.
Then one morning in mid April I got an electronic voice call from MCI telling me to call this 800# immediately to resolve a problem. I called and they were still looking for me to pay for service I didn't get (bill totaling $5.12). I of course had to go through customer service transfer hell, and talk to half a dozen clueless people over the course of 2 hours. Finally I got one rep with a clue who said he cleared up the problem.
Not 5 minutes later I got another electronic voice call - call MCI now or else! I called, 2 reps said I still owed money, their supervisor said I didn't owe, and their system was updating. Well, for the next 5 days I continued to get electronic voice calls from MCI every 2 hours from 8am to 10pm demanding I call this 800# to take care of my problem.
Obviously I was really pissed, not just about this over billing, but these damn calls that wouldn't go away. So after 4 calls I called my local police department and talked to a detective. I was Furious to learn Massachusetts has No laws regulating telemarketers, auto dialers, or electronic voice calls. Despite agreeing with me that these calls are harassing, he said there is nothing he could do, even having these recorded messages on my answering machine.
So after 5 days the calls finally stopped and MCI credited me which is nice, but geesh! </story from hell>
Is sounds like we are all in agreement that downloaders don't have a problem paying a reasonably cheep amount per month for unlimited content as long as RIAA is not involved, and the content generators get the revenues. Great! Butt...
This can't be implemented until Kazaa has an accurate way of determining who the content providers are. This is a HUGE license management nightmare. Not to mention all the tracking that would need to go on to determine how many downloads are going on. Remember this isn't just about Music. Images, software, Movies, documents, all types of media are being shared everyday.
People use Kazaa because it's architecture is efficient to quickly find and download content while distributing the storage and searching. Adding all the License management and tracking required to get the content providers their due, will totally change what Kazaa is today. And I believe the needed overhead will be overly cumbersome to turn users away.
And Who is going to have access to all this download tracking information? *cringe*
Let's all face it, everyone touches their screen now and then. Wallpaper and clothes also have durability issues. Sure it's nice to eliminate the weight of glass surrounding the LCD screen, but I'd be really pissed if when wiping dust or a smudge off of the screen/wall/cloth some of this LCD Paint came off too.
I think the only practical application for this could eliminate the back side glass, but the front side glass would have to remain. This would obviously make clothing not an option. Wallpaper wouldn't really work either. Perhaps just one large wall, but then how big a sheet of glass/plexi is possible?
I would don't expect them to sell and support every type of handset out there.
This is where the problem lies. Why is the Wireless Provider the one who sells and supports the phone?
In the Tech industry, its the hardware manufactures that sell and support the hardware, and you can by a PC with a modem, Token Ring, or Eithernet or all of the above. The Internet Service Provider only has to support the network and protocol - PPP, DSL, CableModem, Not Every brand PC out there. ISPs would loose lots of businiess if they required you to to use only their computer hardware and software.
I'm not a Wireless Industry expert but it would seem to me that the Cell phone manufactures, Motorola, Nokia, Ericson, Samsung, etc need to change thier business model, to include sales and support.
Customers will win big when they can choose their phone, with multinetwork capabilities. They may pay more for it to access multiple Wireless providers, but they get the choice that way, and the Best Hardware Provider and the Best Network Provider both win.
Lets face it, its a Microsoft world. Until you can run Windows on this hardware, thise will only be a nieche market. Just because the hardware is publicly available doesn't mean squat. How many people are going to run out and buy this? The only time Apple would have serious worries is if Microsoft sells a copy of windows that will run on a mac. Until then, Apple has a great market for selling a complete high quality integrated product.
I started out being an IBM fan, that was of coarse back in the days when it was a PS/2 with a 16Mhz 386 CPU and a wopping 8mg of RAM. I hated that machine from the day it arrived. The design was very clunky, and upgrades? No way!
I have 2 Big problesm with IBM that have never been resolved. 1st, Propriatary designs. I can't stand manufactures that insist you must use their upgrades- memory is the best example, you have to pay double or tripple for IBM memory compaired to generic RAM. what the hell? I don't remember the bus name, but the origanal PC2 had a propriatary bus, not EISA, not ISA, (of course no PCI back then). Any thing you wanted to upgrade, took a 100% IBM premium. No Thanks! And what for, they are not know for being performace leaders. (OK maybe they do OK with today's Disk Drives, but they're pretty darm comparable to Maxtor, and Seagate!)
Secondly: Price. They're prices have always been a minimul of 20% higher than the compitition. And for what? I just don't agree that a Name in the computer business (other than Cisco) can ask a premium. Dells and Compaqs are usually the ones bringing home the support and performance trophies.
IBM's giving up Desktops? They should have right after the PS/2.
In these cooler times, when I have to pay the heating bill, I tend to keep the temp colder. I can always put on a sweater, but it doesn't seem to help keep my mouse hand warm. Gloves are abviously out, so what are the options? I can't be the only one with this prob.
Basiclly the ISPs need to make sure the DSL modems all have XP drivers available. this may take the vendors time, yet the heat is on Microsoft.
> The Sacramento Bee, California via NewsEdge Corporation : Oct.
> 30--When Microsoft unveiled its new Windows XP operating system last
> week, Ronald T. Jones viewed it as a sure way to encourage his wife's
> computer use. After all, the system seemed a breeze for a non-tech
> person, and Jones had heard it would rarely crash.
> But that enthusiasm waned after the engineering project manager at
> Yamas Controls in Sacramento tried to link to the Internet via his
> high-speed DSL connection.
> It didn't work.
> Jones was one of many new XP users whose new operating system didn't
> work with their DSL connections.
> The problem is that the software code used by many Internet service
> providers isn't compatible with XP.
> "DSL (digital subscriber line) is dead in the water for those people
> who upgrade," complained Jones.
> He said he spent more than four hours over the weekend trying to
> address the problem. "I was really upset by the end," he added.
> The alternatives Jones faced: Either revert to a dial-up connection or
> find another Internet link that works with XP.
> While Microsoft declined to make a company spokesman available for a
> telephone interview, it did issue a brief statement to The Bee.
> In essence, the company said it is working with modem manufacturers
> and DSL providers to address the issues and that users who encounter
> problems should contact their Internet service providers to learn the
> timetable for resolution.
> A call to Citizens Communications was not immediately answered on
> Monday.
> But Jones said he learned that the maker of one modem available for
> Citizens' DSL did not receive instructions from Microsoft in time to
> upgrade to the XP operating system.
> And last week, Verizon warned some of its DSL customers that
> installing Windows XP would cause their connection to stop working.
> Verizon told the Washington Post that its DSL service doesn't run
> under XP but that Verizon plans to update it.
> On Monday, Verizon spokeswoman Julia Wilson in Los Angeles said the
> problem doesn't affect its 176,000 DSL customers in California. Only a
> small number of users on the East Coast were affected, she said,
> because the vast majority of customers have older Microsoft operating
> systems.
> In California, meanwhile, SBC's Pacific Bell issued special alerts to
> XP users about the steps they should take to use their DSL
> connections.
> But Jones said the recommended steps, mirrored in the Microsoft
> upgrade instructions, didn't work -- even with Microsoft technical
> support.
> Finally, Pacific Bell's Web site said certain modems such as Alcatel
> SpeedTouch PC and Efficient 3060/4060 were not yet compatible with XP
> but that they soon would be.
> For Jones, meanwhile, the simple aim of making his computer easier for
> his wife to use has turned into a fiasco.
> That's a problem, he said, because he conducts his personal banking on
> the Web and his children use the Internet extensively.
> "Instead of being one with the Web," he said, "I'm none with the Web."
>
> In the meantime, he said he learned that AT&T Broadband, the cable
> television provider, does offer no-glitch access with XP. And while he
> was happy with his DSL connection via Citizens Communications, he
> refused to wait the days or weeks deemed necessary for the fix.
> "I switched to AT&T Broadband today," he said, adding, "I feel bad
> about leaving Citizens."
>
Well there is a much lower percentage of whites in the NBA than the general population.
Does that mean there should be a $5billion class action lawsuit against the NBA?
NO... There are just more talented black basketball players than their general population represents.
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So why isn't this done for concerts, sporting events, theater, movies, cruises, etc? Seems odd that it's only done for airlines.
I love the concept of getting authentication onto a separate server/service/system. It's crazy that anyone can run "select * from users" and get a whole sites credential listing with a simple SQL injection.
However, how did you come to suggest Kerberos as the Authentication system. There are many others, all it seems with downsides of being overly complex:
-OpenID, OAuth, Radius, CHAP, TACACS+, LDAP, etc.
I have an idea to add on to cameras a listening device that can record audio of nearby people. I think this is a really neat idea that may have many crime fighting uses. Please provide 3 years of research funding for me to get some duct tape and connect a microphone to a camera.
Seriously - why do we need lip reading cameras? Haven't we had microphones on video cameras for 50 years?
If you are going to do lip reading, wouldn't it make more sense to do it on the video player, so you can get the audio of prerecorded video too? This would reduce cost too. I'm sure there are many fewer players than surveillance cameras
For a check on what has been done and is already in production today check out this article: http://www.teea.org/winners/winners_summary.asp?CA TEGORY=INNOVATIVE%20TECHNOLOGY&CURL=9
Because, if you read the article, you would take note that they hadn't yet gotten to the phase of activating a single customer yet.
I manage an office of about 70 Windows PCs. When I first started many of the PCs had spyware on them. Every other day someone would complain and I would clean it off. When the same people kept asking for spyware removal it became clear that to solve the problem you have to prevent the average user from installing software on their PC.
Want to stop spyware? Do not log in with Administrative rights! 99% of spyware requires administrative rights to install. In the corporate environment this is simple: don't give out the local administrator password to anyone Ever! And don't put regular users in the Administrators group. For home users, create two accounts - one for installing software with admin rights, and one for everyday use without admin rights.
UNIX admins figured this out years ago. You only use root when you must, why don't most Windows users do the same thing? My suspicion is most home users don't like the concept of windows login's and passwords. To solve this I wish XP home had a simple switch for a user to enable or disable software installation.
Maybe your should look at his website: http://www.altonbrown.com/pages/behindsc.html
Now how about a nice array of 20 in a 19" rackmouth with raid 1, then we'd be styl'n!
<story from hell> In January I dropped MCI as my long distance carrier in favor of Working Assets (a company with morals!). Well despite telling MCI 3 times I had changed phone companies, they kept billing me. I called and complained and they told me it was taken care of.
Then one morning in mid April I got an electronic voice call from MCI telling me to call this 800# immediately to resolve a problem. I called and they were still looking for me to pay for service I didn't get (bill totaling $5.12). I of course had to go through customer service transfer hell, and talk to half a dozen clueless people over the course of 2 hours. Finally I got one rep with a clue who said he cleared up the problem.
Not 5 minutes later I got another electronic voice call - call MCI now or else! I called, 2 reps said I still owed money, their supervisor said I didn't owe, and their system was updating. Well, for the next 5 days I continued to get electronic voice calls from MCI every 2 hours from 8am to 10pm demanding I call this 800# to take care of my problem.
Obviously I was really pissed, not just about this over billing, but these damn calls that wouldn't go away. So after 4 calls I called my local police department and talked to a detective. I was Furious to learn Massachusetts has No laws regulating telemarketers, auto dialers, or electronic voice calls. Despite agreeing with me that these calls are harassing, he said there is nothing he could do, even having these recorded messages on my answering machine.
So after 5 days the calls finally stopped and MCI credited me which is nice, but geesh! </story from hell>
Please make these laws National!
This can't be implemented until Kazaa has an accurate way of determining who the content providers are. This is a HUGE license management nightmare. Not to mention all the tracking that would need to go on to determine how many downloads are going on. Remember this isn't just about Music. Images, software, Movies, documents, all types of media are being shared everyday.
People use Kazaa because it's architecture is efficient to quickly find and download content while distributing the storage and searching. Adding all the License management and tracking required to get the content providers their due, will totally change what Kazaa is today. And I believe the needed overhead will be overly cumbersome to turn users away.
And Who is going to have access to all this download tracking information? *cringe*
I think the only practical application for this could eliminate the back side glass, but the front side glass would have to remain. This would obviously make clothing not an option. Wallpaper wouldn't really work either. Perhaps just one large wall, but then how big a sheet of glass/plexi is possible?
Must be "More than Meets the Eye!"
This is where the problem lies. Why is the Wireless Provider the one who sells and supports the phone?
In the Tech industry, its the hardware manufactures that sell and support the hardware, and you can by a PC with a modem, Token Ring, or Eithernet or all of the above. The Internet Service Provider only has to support the network and protocol - PPP, DSL, CableModem, Not Every brand PC out there. ISPs would loose lots of businiess if they required you to to use only their computer hardware and software.
I'm not a Wireless Industry expert but it would seem to me that the Cell phone manufactures, Motorola, Nokia, Ericson, Samsung, etc need to change thier business model, to include sales and support.
Customers will win big when they can choose their phone, with multinetwork capabilities. They may pay more for it to access multiple Wireless providers, but they get the choice that way, and the Best Hardware Provider and the Best Network Provider both win.
Lets face it, its a Microsoft world. Until you can run Windows on this hardware, thise will only be a nieche market. Just because the hardware is publicly available doesn't mean squat. How many people are going to run out and buy this? The only time Apple would have serious worries is if Microsoft sells a copy of windows that will run on a mac. Until then, Apple has a great market for selling a complete high quality integrated product.
I started out being an IBM fan, that was of coarse back in the days when it was a PS/2 with a 16Mhz 386 CPU and a wopping 8mg of RAM. I hated that machine from the day it arrived. The design was very clunky, and upgrades? No way!
I have 2 Big problesm with IBM that have never been resolved. 1st, Propriatary designs. I can't stand manufactures that insist you must use their upgrades- memory is the best example, you have to pay double or tripple for IBM memory compaired to generic RAM. what the hell? I don't remember the bus name, but the origanal PC2 had a propriatary bus, not EISA, not ISA, (of course no PCI back then). Any thing you wanted to upgrade, took a 100% IBM premium. No Thanks! And what for, they are not know for being performace leaders. (OK maybe they do OK with today's Disk Drives, but they're pretty darm comparable to Maxtor, and Seagate!)
Secondly: Price. They're prices have always been a minimul of 20% higher than the compitition. And for what? I just don't agree that a Name in the computer business (other than Cisco) can ask a premium. Dells and Compaqs are usually the ones bringing home the support and performance trophies.
IBM's giving up Desktops? They should have right after the PS/2.
In these cooler times, when I have to pay the heating bill, I tend to keep the temp colder. I can always put on a sweater, but it doesn't seem to help keep my mouse hand warm. Gloves are abviously out, so what are the options? I can't be the only one with this prob.
I've been online all day with AT&T Broadband through their MediaOne network. All is well here in MA.
I recieved this spam:
Basiclly the ISPs need to make sure the DSL modems all have XP drivers available. this may take the vendors time, yet the heat is on Microsoft.
> The Sacramento Bee, California via NewsEdge Corporation : Oct.
> 30--When Microsoft unveiled its new Windows XP operating system last
> week, Ronald T. Jones viewed it as a sure way to encourage his wife's
> computer use. After all, the system seemed a breeze for a non-tech
> person, and Jones had heard it would rarely crash.
> But that enthusiasm waned after the engineering project manager at
> Yamas Controls in Sacramento tried to link to the Internet via his
> high-speed DSL connection.
> It didn't work.
> Jones was one of many new XP users whose new operating system didn't
> work with their DSL connections.
> The problem is that the software code used by many Internet service
> providers isn't compatible with XP.
> "DSL (digital subscriber line) is dead in the water for those people
> who upgrade," complained Jones.
> He said he spent more than four hours over the weekend trying to
> address the problem. "I was really upset by the end," he added.
> The alternatives Jones faced: Either revert to a dial-up connection or
> find another Internet link that works with XP.
> While Microsoft declined to make a company spokesman available for a
> telephone interview, it did issue a brief statement to The Bee.
> In essence, the company said it is working with modem manufacturers
> and DSL providers to address the issues and that users who encounter
> problems should contact their Internet service providers to learn the
> timetable for resolution.
> A call to Citizens Communications was not immediately answered on
> Monday.
> But Jones said he learned that the maker of one modem available for
> Citizens' DSL did not receive instructions from Microsoft in time to
> upgrade to the XP operating system.
> And last week, Verizon warned some of its DSL customers that
> installing Windows XP would cause their connection to stop working.
> Verizon told the Washington Post that its DSL service doesn't run
> under XP but that Verizon plans to update it.
> On Monday, Verizon spokeswoman Julia Wilson in Los Angeles said the
> problem doesn't affect its 176,000 DSL customers in California. Only a
> small number of users on the East Coast were affected, she said,
> because the vast majority of customers have older Microsoft operating
> systems.
> In California, meanwhile, SBC's Pacific Bell issued special alerts to
> XP users about the steps they should take to use their DSL
> connections.
> But Jones said the recommended steps, mirrored in the Microsoft
> upgrade instructions, didn't work -- even with Microsoft technical
> support.
> Finally, Pacific Bell's Web site said certain modems such as Alcatel
> SpeedTouch PC and Efficient 3060/4060 were not yet compatible with XP
> but that they soon would be.
> For Jones, meanwhile, the simple aim of making his computer easier for
> his wife to use has turned into a fiasco.
> That's a problem, he said, because he conducts his personal banking on
> the Web and his children use the Internet extensively.
> "Instead of being one with the Web," he said, "I'm none with the Web."
>
> In the meantime, he said he learned that AT&T Broadband, the cable
> television provider, does offer no-glitch access with XP. And while he
> was happy with his DSL connection via Citizens Communications, he
> refused to wait the days or weeks deemed necessary for the fix.
> "I switched to AT&T Broadband today," he said, adding, "I feel bad
> about leaving Citizens."
>
One man was killed when he attempted to chop out a gigantic crystal that fell from the ceiling and crushed him
I never thought of associating a soda machine, and crystal before. Crystal Pepsi anyone?
Well there is a much lower percentage of whites in the NBA than the general population.
Does that mean there should be a $5billion class action lawsuit against the NBA?
NO... There are just more talented black basketball players than their general population represents.