I'm placing my bid that NAWCAT and Microsoft merge to form 'the worlds most evil corporation ever' putting aside their differences about instant messaging since they are now one company. Then they'll buy out a major oil company like Sun OIL and a major computer manufacturer, and the government will be afraid to break them up or even challenge them because they will control everything. What will their new name be? MYNAWCAT
Mind you, I don't want to promote drinking and driving, I know that it kills people, and that it puts not only you at risk, but everyone else on the highway.
But this is too error prone It seems that it could pick up someone elses breath accidently. Meaning that if you hadn't been drinking, that your sensor STILL would go off signaling you had been drinking. Sure, a nearby cop could pull you over and verify that you hadn't, but should you be subjected to that? Also, bar tenders, or anyone who might have had some alcohol spilled on them would be subjected to the same type of treatment someone who had been drinking had. Even though it's an idea where the intentions are in the right places, it doesn't mean that it's a GOOD idea....
Yes, but you have to churn your own kernel, and you have to be careful if you overclock the cpu becuase it has to be kept in a cold room so that it doesn't overheat...
I don't know which is weirder. The fact that someone actually made this and is selling it on ebay, the fact that someone has actually placed a bid on it, or the fact that it made it to slashdot. I think my favorite things to see sold on ebay yet though were people who were selling their virginity, or their souls. Even if you never buy anything off ebay, it's fun just to type in some random word and see what comes up. Anyone know the freshness date on the butter palm? Or maybe the butter palm is for people who have butter for their hands and are always dropping their palm-pilot/cellphone:)
Yes, but it is fairly acurate. I'm not sure destroying it completely is a good idea, and I don't mean that it should just be put in a museum or something. It would be kind of creepy if someone was able to slowly 'change' the national kilogram. I guess I could see the next level down going electronic, the ones they distribute, but the national kilogram, which they only use something like two or three times a year to check out the duplicates/make new ones should remain I think. Heh. I can just see someone 'hacking' the National Kilogram, talk about a weight-loss program I like;)
I listened to the story on All Things Considered last night, and I laughed when I heard that the RIAA was worried about streaming radio stations on the internet announcing what they were going to play before it was played because people might record it. It would not be any higher quality, and if anything WORSE quality than if you were to record it off the radio. Commonly net broadcasts get cut out due to bandwidth, or sound distorted. I also am rather surprised that this 'fee' that has been setup for online royalties is retroactive, that's not right. But what's eventually going to happen I guess is that the RIAA will sue so many people for so much that they won't be able to continue to run the radio stations, and then the record companies will own the stations, or at least the controlling share of them, then we will get nothing except for what they want to give us. But it won't be a monopoly in the governments eyes, because there will be enough different record companies. Time Warner will control all your media from your internet connection, to your cable tv, to your music on your radio, and you'll sign onto everything using a Microsoft Passport and be billed per the minute off of an authentication server......
There's a good comment. What about making back-ups? I saw a comment a while back from a user here on/. that said something about the ripping of cd's to mp3 and other audio formats. The user said something along the lines of 'Ford would not like it if was a situation where if you crash your car that you could just push a button and make yourself a new one.' Logically, this is true, however one must remember that if you have a car, you most likely have car insurance, and in many states you are required to have it. There is no insurance when you buy a CD from the local CD store, or if your computer crashes and you lose your ebooks. ripping to mp3's and backing up allows us to provide our own insurance. I think that that might not be a bad idea for record companies to look into, especially since not that big of a part of that 18.00 cd price goes to the artist. If my CD gets damaged, I should be able to mail it back to Sony/Columbia/BMG and get a replacement CD, shouldn't I?
I think perhaps a reason why there have been so many problems regarding the DMCA is it was written to broadly. Sure, it's great to see better copyright protection for items that are released in a digital world, yes it means that some of your freedom is taken away, but in most situations, the DMCA has been no different than regular copyright laws. It IS in fact ILLEGAL to trade music mp3's that are copies of originals that you do not own. The same goes for warez and other software. We live in a world where we wish everything was free, but it isn't. In some cases though, like in the whole reverse-engineering scheme of things, the DMCA is taken out of context. To say that I can't modify something that is my personal property is blasphemy. As long as I am not making an exact copy of your product, it shouldn't be a problem (and this is the patent offices division too) I guess that is another problem, too many departments and lawmakers in washington scrambling to protect the intellectual property of individuals, with good reason, while not exactly understanding what it is they are going out to protect. Now I don't want to say that they are all imbeciles or fools, but imagine trying to explain tons of material relating to IT to someone who is also being lobbyed from 12 different directions on one item. I guess that what I'm trying to say is that the DMCA, while it had it's good intentions, has turned out to be a bad egg. Unfortunately it's a law that is in place, and the only way we are going to be able to get rid of it is to flood our nations representatives on capitol hill and in the white house with letters explaining WHAT the problem is with the DMCA and HOW they need to go about fixing it. Just remember though, that intellectual property needs to be protected too. Open Source is great, but there are people out there who have to make money off of software, and so they sell their products, and musicians and writers must make their money also. Don't write Washington and say that they should make all warez and illegal mp3 trading legal, but do write them and try to guide their decisions in the right direction and explain exactly what things are to them.
The people who use it say "I got my
grandmother on it" neglecting to mention they have 130 IQ's and are computer professionals. Oops. 130 doesn't seem like that high an IQ to me. What IS the average anyway?
You have publications who have clearly taken
a side and then stick to it. Which is how most magazine style journalism is written, and most online tech news sites are some sort of magazine-style journalism. True, it may be an every day type magazine, but it's still magazine style writing. In the case of 'SLASHDOT' which is more of a FORUM than a news site, the people have some control over the direction of the site. True of course that the final decision makers are CmdrTaco, the current moderators, and the OSDN.
The reality is that the tech companies and their employees are selfish beasts. and you my friend are somehow better than everyone else? Kind of preachy and self-rightous now aren't we?
Oh, iMacs are so
pretty, and Ghandi would have used one.
Well, for a single mom with two kids, pretty is not on the agenda. It could look like it escaped from the mind of R.L. Stine if it worked. Cheap and
functional are the things which should count here, not pretty and cool. Besides, what are we, 16 year olds? Cool is for people with nearly unlimited
disposable incomes Now I myself am not a fan of the Macintosh computer, however if I remember properly, one can get a pretty decent IMAC for a sub 1000$US price can't they?
Many dotmags were as ethically challenged as a Mexican policeman. There sure do seem like there are a lot of comments reffering to people of Mexican decent throughout this that are not good ones and are kind of slanderous....
I guess that this guy is right in saying that Tech Journalism is in fact laid back, but it's also magazine journalism style. Like all publications it's going to have to take SOME side, and most likely it is going to take one of the ones that is going to make money. I think that this author should think differently before he slanders the ENTIRE INDUSTRY about what he wants to write. To me it seems like he is whining and complaining just like the people that he is whining and complaining about in the first part of his story.
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Well. Apparently/. is having trouble with link tags and HTML tags eh? Someone better go up and clean up the mess:)
Porting is cool and all, being able to run anything on anything is neat. But sometimes if you look at ports you have to just ask yourself.... why? And what's the deal with a beowulf cluster of wince devices? You would be better off just making a beowulf cluster of 486 dx 100's or older Pentiums, and you could probably make it 2 or 3 times as big. It's interesting to see stuff ported to WINCE Devices since the hardware is so different, but how decent a server platform is WINCE really? Anyway. I guess it's kind of cool, but more than anything else, it's more of a 'hobbyist/fun' appeal, than having any real world application. I mean I doubt you'll find any 'mission critical' apps running of a wince device. Of course with what I've been reading about/.'s new cluster going up and down, maybe it's based on CE.:)
wonderful, so if the world comes to an end and the data cables that people access your server on get destroyed, you will STILL be able to claim 99.999% uptime, even though NOBODY is able to acess the data, right?
I don't know how other peoples phones work, but I know that my phones sms is email based anyway, which is what I suspect most networks in the US are using. IMHE (in my humble experience) the only time that I have ever met a network in the US that appears to be using any TRUE based SMS network was Powertel. Now I'm on the east coast, and I know that TRUE-GSM900/1900 sim based PCS systems have been more widely used there *or so I've been told* in my personal experience, out of five different carriers I've used, and dozens my friends have used, our 'SMS' messages have always been sent in email format, just without all the header junk. Seems like this won't really require THAT much modification to the Carnivore system if it works like they say it does.
Of course [BOMB] I am not sure that [Terrorist] [Echelon] Carnivore isn't [2600] anything except a [hacker] paper tiger, [UN] or in this [FBI] case, a paper [Area 51] Dinosaur.:)
What college is he going to? whom the author says are hostile towards the scientific studies because becoming an Elementary teacher is the only way to graduate from college without needing to take a single science course),
in my experience most elementary education majors that I have met have been required to take AT LEAST one lab based, but usually TWO lab-based sciences. Now, they don't necessarily have to take the advanced chemistries or physics, but still. I don't think that that comment was necessarily fair. I had many teachers in elementary school who had a passion for the arts and the sciences, all the way up into middle and high school. It was actually in HIGH SCHOOL where the science teachers started to seem to care less. I think that perhaps this guy should go back and re-check some of his data, and do some more in-depth studies.
Of course the average user is going to distrust AOL. One has to think, out of all of the users on the Internet, how many are probably AOL users? AOL is in their eyes 'the authority figure over all the internet' because it is what they use to get on the internet. So is this distrust misplaced? No. I think that one could safely say that AOL TIME-Warner, just like we have noted with Microsoft, is one of the 'big companies' that we should have to keep our eyes on. Think about it, AOL/Time-Warner controls so much of the media and multi-media world and so many people's access to the internet with Road Runner and AOL it's almost scary when you think about it. If AOL/Time-Warner wanted to push an agenda or put a company out of business, they could do it easily. I guess what I'm trying to say is, that there is always going to be distrust, and by scruptiously looking at companies as they 'come into power' as controllers of the information and providers of it to the population, being at least a little distrusting is definitely in order. But does that mean that we should start necessarily start believing everything that is in a less-legitimate or large scale newspaper, perhaps the National Enquirer? No....
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The more parts of a program you have refferencing any single variable in programming C/C++, the more chance for a margin of error you have
Security works the same way. The more places you use a key, or the more people you give a copy of your key to, the higher risk you have for errors, being hacked, identiy theft, being robbed, etc. A 'single sign-on' like the MSN/Hotmail passport or AOL's new Single-Signon or Screenname (not sure what they are calling it) that all AIM accounts/AOL accounts now have become are just another invitation of risk.
Users need to be alerted of this fact, that these systems may not be secure, and users need to understand that the more people who they use their single sign-on for, the higher the risk becomes.
In this situation though, you have to wonder. If the person issuing the 'keys', microsoft in this case, does not do a good job of protecting them and making sure that their security is up to date, can it be any better than if you had a safe deposit box that sat unlocked in the middle of Times Square?
I can't wait to see what happens when in addition to all these Single Sign-on and Passport type programs, that we have Digital Signatures too. That should be interesting.
Hey, get a group of people together and buy up the market in your area (think of the iridium satellite thing that someone had planned) but on a smaller scale. Offer free wireless or low cost wireless internet access to everyone in your town. If you can get a good enough deal (which sometimes you can at auctions) you might just be able to do it if you do it as a group.
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Yes, and so does Domino Link here and Pizza Hut (in some markets) through http://www.quikorder.com . You've been able to order pizza online for years. It used to be though that you would order it, but then have to get offline (unless you had two phone lines or broadband) because they would call you to confirm. I think I remember ordering Pizza online over two or three years ago. It's just becoming mainstream now. But the big deal here is not the ordering pizza online, but the give-away and construction of a wireless network to consumers of the pizza. However, how often do free internet companies succeed?
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Yes, but is Papa John's offering you free BROADBAND WIRELESS internet access? I doubt it. That's what the big story is here. For years pizza chains have allowed you to order online. Other fast food restaraunts too. But what the interesting piece of information here is is that you can order your pizza online, and they are going to give away free broadband access. It may just be a pipe dream though. From what I've noticed, companies that give away free internet access don't do well. But maybe in Malaysia things work differently.
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So I tried to OPT out of the x10.com ads. You know, through their website. I did it multiple times. The first time I visited a website that had an X10 ad It tried to display it, detected the cookie, and directed me to a different ad instead.
I tried opting out again reccently. Now instead of receiving the tiny ads, I receive big HALF PAGE ads. *sigh*
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I'm not sure that this is Microsoft coming around. Think about it. Microsoft has been giving Open-Source a hard time and even wanted it banned.
Something doesn't smell right about this. I'm REALLY not sure that I would use MONO if it's backed by Microsoft. I was kinda hoping for a 'complete alternative' rather than MONO be the version of.NET for linux. I was hoping for MONO to eventually be ported to other OS's to rival.NET.
Just remember the old saying, don't trust a wolf in sheeps clothing. Something just isn't right about this...
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I agree. I mean, I'm not out to 'DESTROY MICROSOFT' or anything. I just want to make sure it's a fair market. It isn't right now. Open-Source and free software are an interesting alternative. But we need to have other big business alternatives besides Microsoft. Yes, I know it sounds kinda weird hearing an open-source guy talk about big busineses being a good thing in the industry. But with the whole microsoft thing some more big businesses may be necessary. Think about it, businesses have the advertising $$ to reach Joe Average.
I'm guessing that what I'd like to say is, yes, linux and all the other open-source projects are a great thing. But they don't have the advertising budget. I'd even be happy to see Macintosh release MacOs for the PC. Just something to chip away at some of Microsofts dominance in the desktop market. UNfortunately, at this time I'm not sure that Linux can do that, maybe in a few years. But not yet. I would like to see a large portion of Microsofts business taken away. I would like them to be forced to inovate, not just say they are. Perhaps finally have them have to go out and buildbetter products because they have to, not just because they want to.
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I'm placing my bid that NAWCAT and Microsoft merge to form 'the worlds most evil corporation ever' putting aside their differences about instant messaging since they are now one company. Then they'll buy out a major oil company like Sun OIL and a major computer manufacturer, and the government will be afraid to break them up or even challenge them because they will control everything. What will their new name be? MYNAWCAT
Mind you, I don't want to promote drinking and driving, I know that it kills people, and that it puts not only you at risk, but everyone else on the highway.
But this is too error prone
It seems that it could pick up someone elses breath accidently. Meaning that if you hadn't been drinking, that your sensor STILL would go off signaling you had been drinking. Sure, a nearby cop could pull you over and verify that you hadn't, but should you be subjected to that? Also, bar tenders, or anyone who might have had some alcohol spilled on them would be subjected to the same type of treatment someone who had been drinking had.
Even though it's an idea where the intentions are in the right places, it doesn't mean that it's a GOOD idea....
Perhaps that's why big designers have people whose single task is to do ui (user interface) and why good ui designers get paid so well.
Dry Ice : $10.00
Shipping Costs : $40.00
Being able to update your schedule and check off items on your to-do list by eating breakfast?
Priceless
Some things in life you can't put a price on, for everything else, there's the Butter Palm ©
Yes, but you have to churn your own kernel, and you have to be careful if you overclock the cpu becuase it has to be kept in a cold room so that it doesn't overheat...
Thought of a good advertising campaign
It melts in your mouth, and in your Palm ©
I don't know which is weirder. The fact that someone actually made this and is selling it on ebay, the fact that someone has actually placed a bid on it, or the fact that it made it to slashdot. I think my favorite things to see sold on ebay yet though were people who were selling their virginity, or their souls. Even if you never buy anything off ebay, it's fun just to type in some random word and see what comes up. :)
Anyone know the freshness date on the butter palm? Or maybe the butter palm is for people who have butter for their hands and are always dropping their palm-pilot/cellphone
Yes, but it is fairly acurate. I'm not sure destroying it completely is a good idea, and I don't mean that it should just be put in a museum or something. It would be kind of creepy if someone was able to slowly 'change' the national kilogram. I guess I could see the next level down going electronic, the ones they distribute, but the national kilogram, which they only use something like two or three times a year to check out the duplicates/make new ones should remain I think. Heh. I can just see someone 'hacking' the National Kilogram, talk about a weight-loss program I like ;)
I listened to the story on All Things Considered last night, and I laughed when I heard that the RIAA was worried about streaming radio stations on the internet announcing what they were going to play before it was played because people might record it. It would not be any higher quality, and if anything WORSE quality than if you were to record it off the radio. Commonly net broadcasts get cut out due to bandwidth, or sound distorted. I also am rather surprised that this 'fee' that has been setup for online royalties is retroactive, that's not right. But what's eventually going to happen I guess is that the RIAA will sue so many people for so much that they won't be able to continue to run the radio stations, and then the record companies will own the stations, or at least the controlling share of them, then we will get nothing except for what they want to give us. But it won't be a monopoly in the governments eyes, because there will be enough different record companies. Time Warner will control all your media from your internet connection, to your cable tv, to your music on your radio, and you'll sign onto everything using a Microsoft Passport and be billed per the minute off of an authentication server......
There's a good comment. What about making back-ups? I saw a comment a while back from a user here on /. that said something about the ripping of cd's to mp3 and other audio formats. The user said something along the lines of 'Ford would not like it if was a situation where if you crash your car that you could just push a button and make yourself a new one.' Logically, this is true, however one must remember that if you have a car, you most likely have car insurance, and in many states you are required to have it. There is no insurance when you buy a CD from the local CD store, or if your computer crashes and you lose your ebooks. ripping to mp3's and backing up allows us to provide our own insurance. I think that that might not be a bad idea for record companies to look into, especially since not that big of a part of that 18.00 cd price goes to the artist. If my CD gets damaged, I should be able to mail it back to Sony/Columbia/BMG and get a replacement CD, shouldn't I?
I think perhaps a reason why there have been so many problems regarding the DMCA is it was written to broadly. Sure, it's great to see better copyright protection for items that are released in a digital world, yes it means that some of your freedom is taken away, but in most situations, the DMCA has been no different than regular copyright laws. It IS in fact ILLEGAL to trade music mp3's that are copies of originals that you do not own. The same goes for warez and other software. We live in a world where we wish everything was free, but it isn't. In some cases though, like in the whole reverse-engineering scheme of things, the DMCA is taken out of context. To say that I can't modify something that is my personal property is blasphemy. As long as I am not making an exact copy of your product, it shouldn't be a problem (and this is the patent offices division too) I guess that is another problem, too many departments and lawmakers in washington scrambling to protect the intellectual property of individuals, with good reason, while not exactly understanding what it is they are going out to protect. Now I don't want to say that they are all imbeciles or fools, but imagine trying to explain tons of material relating to IT to someone who is also being lobbyed from 12 different directions on one item. I guess that what I'm trying to say is that the DMCA, while it had it's good intentions, has turned out to be a bad egg. Unfortunately it's a law that is in place, and the only way we are going to be able to get rid of it is to flood our nations representatives on capitol hill and in the white house with letters explaining WHAT the problem is with the DMCA and HOW they need to go about fixing it. Just remember though, that intellectual property needs to be protected too. Open Source is great, but there are people out there who have to make money off of software, and so they sell their products, and musicians and writers must make their money also. Don't write Washington and say that they should make all warez and illegal mp3 trading legal, but do write them and try to guide their decisions in the right direction and explain exactly what things are to them.
grandmother on it" neglecting to mention they have 130 IQ's and are computer professionals. Oops.
130 doesn't seem like that high an IQ to me. What IS the average anyway?
You have publications who have clearly taken
a side and then stick to it.
Which is how most magazine style journalism is written, and most online tech news sites are some sort of magazine-style journalism. True, it may be an every day type magazine, but it's still magazine style writing. In the case of 'SLASHDOT' which is more of a FORUM than a news site, the people have some control over the direction of the site. True of course that the final decision makers are CmdrTaco, the current moderators, and the OSDN.
The reality is that the tech companies and their employees are selfish beasts.
and you my friend are somehow better than everyone else? Kind of preachy and self-rightous now aren't we?
Oh, iMacs are so
pretty, and Ghandi would have used one.
Well, for a single mom with two kids, pretty is not on the agenda. It could look like it escaped from the mind of R.L. Stine if it worked. Cheap and
functional are the things which should count here, not pretty and cool. Besides, what are we, 16 year olds? Cool is for people with nearly unlimited
disposable incomes
Now I myself am not a fan of the Macintosh computer, however if I remember properly, one can get a pretty decent IMAC for a sub 1000$US price can't they?
Many dotmags were as ethically challenged as a Mexican policeman.
There sure do seem like there are a lot of comments reffering to people of Mexican decent throughout this that are not good ones and are kind of slanderous....
I guess that this guy is right in saying that Tech Journalism is in fact laid back, but it's also magazine journalism style. Like all publications it's going to have to take SOME side, and most likely it is going to take one of the ones that is going to make money. I think that this author should think differently before he slanders the ENTIRE INDUSTRY about what he wants to write. To me it seems like he is whining and complaining just like the people that he is whining and complaining about in the first part of his story.
Well. Apparently /. is having trouble with link tags and HTML tags eh? Someone better go up and clean up the mess :)
/.'s new cluster going up and down, maybe it's based on CE. :)
Porting is cool and all, being able to run anything on anything is neat. But sometimes if you look at ports you have to just ask yourself.... why? And what's the deal with a beowulf cluster of wince devices? You would be better off just making a beowulf cluster of 486 dx 100's or older Pentiums, and you could probably make it 2 or 3 times as big. It's interesting to see stuff ported to WINCE Devices since the hardware is so different, but how decent a server platform is WINCE really?
Anyway. I guess it's kind of cool, but more than anything else, it's more of a 'hobbyist/fun' appeal, than having any real world application. I mean I doubt you'll find any 'mission critical' apps running of a wince device. Of course with what I've been reading about
wonderful, so if the world comes to an end and the data cables that people access your server on get destroyed, you will STILL be able to claim 99.999% uptime, even though NOBODY is able to acess the data, right?
I don't know how other peoples phones work, but I know that my phones sms is email based anyway, which is what I suspect most networks in the US are using. IMHE (in my humble experience) the only time that I have ever met a network in the US that appears to be using any TRUE based SMS network was Powertel. Now I'm on the east coast, and I know that TRUE-GSM900/1900 sim based PCS systems have been more widely used there *or so I've been told* in my personal experience, out of five different carriers I've used, and dozens my friends have used, our 'SMS' messages have always been sent in email format, just without all the header junk. Seems like this won't really require THAT much modification to the Carnivore system if it works like they say it does.
:)
Of course [BOMB] I am not sure that [Terrorist] [Echelon] Carnivore isn't [2600] anything except a [hacker] paper tiger, [UN] or in this [FBI] case, a paper [Area 51] Dinosaur.
What college is he going to?
whom the author says are hostile towards the scientific studies because becoming an Elementary teacher is the only way to graduate from college without needing to take a single science course),
in my experience most elementary education majors that I have met have been required to take AT LEAST one lab based, but usually TWO lab-based sciences. Now, they don't necessarily have to take the advanced chemistries or physics, but still. I don't think that that comment was necessarily fair. I had many teachers in elementary school who had a passion for the arts and the sciences, all the way up into middle and high school. It was actually in HIGH SCHOOL where the science teachers started to seem to care less. I think that perhaps this guy should go back and re-check some of his data, and do some more in-depth studies.
Of course the average user is going to distrust AOL. One has to think, out of all of the users on the Internet, how many are probably AOL users? AOL is in their eyes 'the authority figure over all the internet' because it is what they use to get on the internet.
So is this distrust misplaced? No. I think that one could safely say that AOL TIME-Warner, just like we have noted with Microsoft, is one of the 'big companies' that we should have to keep our eyes on. Think about it, AOL/Time-Warner controls so much of the media and multi-media world and so many people's access to the internet with Road Runner and AOL it's almost scary when you think about it. If AOL/Time-Warner wanted to push an agenda or put a company out of business, they could do it easily.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, that there is always going to be distrust, and by scruptiously looking at companies as they 'come into power' as controllers of the information and providers of it to the population, being at least a little distrusting is definitely in order. But does that mean that we should start necessarily start believing everything that is in a less-legitimate or large scale newspaper, perhaps the National Enquirer?
No....
The more parts of a program you have refferencing any single variable in programming C/C++, the more chance for a margin of error you have
Security works the same way. The more places you use a key, or the more people you give a copy of your key to, the higher risk you have for errors, being hacked, identiy theft, being robbed, etc. A 'single sign-on' like the MSN/Hotmail passport or AOL's new Single-Signon or Screenname (not sure what they are calling it) that all AIM accounts/AOL accounts now have become are just another invitation of risk.
Users need to be alerted of this fact, that these systems may not be secure, and users need to understand that the more people who they use their single sign-on for, the higher the risk becomes.
In this situation though, you have to wonder. If the person issuing the 'keys', microsoft in this case, does not do a good job of protecting them and making sure that their security is up to date, can it be any better than if you had a safe deposit box that sat unlocked in the middle of Times Square?
I can't wait to see what happens when in addition to all these Single Sign-on and Passport type programs, that we have Digital Signatures too. That should be interesting.
Hey, get a group of people together and buy up the market in your area (think of the iridium satellite thing that someone had planned) but on a smaller scale. Offer free wireless or low cost wireless internet access to everyone in your town. If you can get a good enough deal (which sometimes you can at auctions) you might just be able to do it if you do it as a group.
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Yes, and so does Domino Link here and Pizza Hut (in some markets) through http://www.quikorder.com . You've been able to order pizza online for years. It used to be though that you would order it, but then have to get offline (unless you had two phone lines or broadband) because they would call you to confirm. I think I remember ordering Pizza online over two or three years ago. It's just becoming mainstream now. But the big deal here is not the ordering pizza online, but the give-away and construction of a wireless network to consumers of the pizza. However, how often do free internet companies succeed?
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Yes, but is Papa John's offering you free BROADBAND WIRELESS internet access? I doubt it. That's what the big story is here. For years pizza chains have allowed you to order online. Other fast food restaraunts too. But what the interesting piece of information here is is that you can order your pizza online, and they are going to give away free broadband access. It may just be a pipe dream though. From what I've noticed, companies that give away free internet access don't do well. But maybe in Malaysia things work differently.
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And before I get a reply about did I clear my cache. I didn't the cookie is still there.
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So I tried to OPT out of the x10.com ads. You know, through their website. I did it multiple times. The first time I visited a website that had an X10 ad It tried to display it, detected the cookie, and directed me to a different ad instead.
I tried opting out again reccently. Now instead of receiving the tiny ads, I receive big HALF PAGE ads.
*sigh*
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I'm not sure that this is Microsoft coming around. Think about it. Microsoft has been giving Open-Source a hard time and even wanted it banned.
.NET for linux. I was hoping for MONO to eventually be ported to other OS's to rival .NET.
Something doesn't smell right about this. I'm REALLY not sure that I would use MONO if it's backed by Microsoft. I was kinda hoping for a 'complete alternative' rather than MONO be the version of
Just remember the old saying, don't trust a wolf in sheeps clothing. Something just isn't right about this...
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I agree. I mean, I'm not out to 'DESTROY MICROSOFT' or anything. I just want to make sure it's a fair market. It isn't right now. Open-Source and free software are an interesting alternative. But we need to have other big business alternatives besides Microsoft. Yes, I know it sounds kinda weird hearing an open-source guy talk about big busineses being a good thing in the industry. But with the whole microsoft thing some more big businesses may be necessary. Think about it, businesses have the advertising $$ to reach Joe Average.
I'm guessing that what I'd like to say is, yes, linux and all the other open-source projects are a great thing. But they don't have the advertising budget. I'd even be happy to see Macintosh release MacOs for the PC. Just something to chip away at some of Microsofts dominance in the desktop market. UNfortunately, at this time I'm not sure that Linux can do that, maybe in a few years. But not yet. I would like to see a large portion of Microsofts business taken away. I would like them to be forced to inovate, not just say they are. Perhaps finally have them have to go out and buildbetter products because they have to, not just because they want to.
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