If you open up an airlock into the vaccum of space yes everything will die, however, i suspect that do to the ill-maintenance of mir, and in general the frailty of all spacecraft that use thin material, that the sudden change in atmospheric pressure could cause serious damage, in addition, everything would have to be locked down so as to not be blown out into space. Finally, you would have to rebuild the pressure in the space station in the event that it was not ripped to shreds, or even worse, have developed small cracks and fissures...
another thought just crossed my mind, if there are molds living in this space craft, could there conceivable be molds and viruses living INSIDE other space crafts and satelites that are left floating out there as space junk in space that often hit earth? Will a communications satelite someday hit our planet and the first being ever to set foot on earth from outer space be a non-terran one? (this of course being hundreds of thousands of years from now) Or could a plague of a disease that we thought we ad eradicated (i.e. small pox) survive in a part of a fuel tank that is left floating in space? and years from now fall on earth to wreak havock on future generations... It get's kind of scary.... By the way, I scanned the article, nowhere does it say that the mold is growing OUTSIDE the space station. will my great great great great great grand children be part ringworm? It's all very interesting when you look at it.
Maybe we will get new episodes of show's like "survivor". Imagine, they send 5 people up and they have to survive Mir, the winner (if there is one) receives 100,000$US
Perhaps soon we will be seeing Dinosaurs roaming the earth again that were created by a billionare at a theme park... (thinking bill gates and Michael Eisner team up)
Wait a second, I thought that fungus, being a life form required air to propogate (as in Oxygen) now maybe I am wrong here, but is it not true that space abhors a vaccum? This actually sounds more interesting than you would take it at first glance...
Are these molds native to MIR? existing nowhere else? what did they spawn from or did they hit something in space?
Why am i for some reason reminded of Crichton's Andromeda Strain?
But these molds, are they growing near fissures in the space station where they are getting oxgen? or are they actually existing in the vaccum of space?
a few weeks ago!!! Ummm.... I believe we have a problem here.... Come on/..... let's have some more news....
On the subject of the Airboard post yesterday... I'm sure everyone knows that/. was hacked the other day....and it was theorized that/. may have temporarily may have been put up on a different server, and perhaps that double post was put up as a test or because a backup was restored wrong? (just a theory though... I do not know the intricate details of slashcode as I have not had a chance to play with it yet... anyway..)
Sony launches wireless home Net access device
By: Tony Smith
Posted: 28/09/2000 at 16:18 GMT
Sony has unveiled a product to bring the Net to the Net-less - a home-oriented mobile device that gives users access to the Net without the need for a PC.
Based on home wireless networking, Sony's Airboard is an LCD screen tablet and base-station combo. The base-station hooks straight into the Net and beams requested Web pages and downloaded media files across the ether to the Airboard.
"Without using a PC, users can access information from anywhere, effectively solving the so-called 'digital divide' problem," Sony Electronics' Shizuo Takashino told a press conference held this morning in Japan, referring to the gap between the Net-connected PC-owning elite and... er... everyone else.
for rest of article click here
Interesting that both devices are being released at the same time.... anyone know what the price tag on the audrey is going to be? Or have pics of the sony device? If anyone remembers the last big 'sony pda' (the MagicLink) it was launched to rival the Apple Newton, and was a nice unit, but i don't think they sold to well. It used the magic cap OS, had a built in phone that could be used with a headset, a modem, AOL, and alot of other programs. Anyone know how the 3com and the new Sony device compare to each other?.
It looks like it runs neither PALM nor WINCE like everyone seems to be saying. Take a good look at the pictures. That looks like QNX (http://www.qnx.xom)(http://get.qnx.com)
QNX is a unix clone and the company just released it into the 'free' domain, meaning the base OS is free, as well as some applications. If I recall, the netappliance i-opener that was released earlier this year also runs the qnx platform, and people managed to hack into it and use their own isp's, also people were able to install linux (the linux install required a hardware hack though).
That would mean that this handheld would run a client similar to xwindows. This is a dream come true. Perhaps it is an easily hackable unit also?
Oh, if anyone wants to see QNX, look here QNX website
QNX is a realtime OS also by the way, and I believe is posix compliant....
How are they going to prove whether or not I own a cd? If I buy from blockbuster i may get a code printed on my recipt that lets me download the cd in mp3 format from blockbuster's website. However, If I buy from 'Mom and pop's record emporium' they might use a system that is not equiped. How do I prove ownership then? Does that void me from being able to download the mp3's? In addition, What If I buy a used cd or tape at a garage sale or at a cd trade center? do the rights to download transfer to me or are they voided?
Seems to me that this law is better for large national retailers and etailers and is bad for small town america businesses... Until I see how the 'proof of purchase' is provided I probably won't support the bill.
Now, a final way is to allow the user to download the mp3 if the cd is in the cdrom drive, and then the cd is read by a piece of software before the website allows you to download the file... Now I could loan the cd to my friend so they could download it (of course they could just burn themselves a copy). This might also open up the marketing floodgates. Someone would know EVERY MP3 you had..... Know your music tastes, etc... You'll start getting LOTS of targeted mailings.
Finally, I want to know how a site becomes a site that is allowed to transfer the mp3's. Who decides who has the authority to distribute mp3's and who doesn't?
So in other words, this law will make it legal to download an mp3 file from a certified site or if I owned the album? I think that this is a cool idea and looks great on paper. At least they are not saying that the mp3 format must be banned because of copyright violation.
However I don't think that this is going to satisfy record companies very much. Also, will I be able to download songs and pay by the song if I don't want to buy an entire cd? i.e. I like track 3 on the new 'band name here' cd.... But it isn't going to be released as a single. Everything else on the cd is total crap. Will I be able to download JUST THAT SONG?
Anyway, since this does not seem like it will do much in stopping napster I think the record companies would be more happy with this.
(By the way, how are they going to catalog the ENTIRE internet? and how are they going to monitor chat rooms dcc transfers??... Hmmmm... I think I will change all my.mp3's to.3pm's before i transfer them , and have the receiver change em back.
How are they going to monitor my dcc transfers in chat rooms? Besides, there is an easy way around this problem. CHANGE THE EXTENSION NAMES BEFORE TRANSFERING to something like.txt or . 3PM..... then when the end user receives the file they will change it back to mp3. Will this catch both mp3's and m2a's? how about.ram's?
Honestly this is a crock of #$%%#..... I'll believe it when I see it. Regardless. One could always go to a public lab, say at a university, and download files onto a zip disk and then take them home if the lab has zip drives. Honestly this has to be a crock.
It has taken AOL long enough but it appears that AOL has finally wised up and decided to merge the AIM and ICQ clients. I guess that AOL is trying to get everyone to accept there client as the standard protocol... Make everyone else conform... AOL has been ying to port their AIM client to cell phones, and their is some new top secret device that they have been working on supposingly. I heard a leak about this so cannot verify that it's true. The cellphone one is though. Some sort of hardware based client. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
Well. Let's give a hand then to the people (like myself) who use open source software and linux! That's right. We can SEE the source code. Think about it this way. It's hard to install a backdoor in something without the user knowing if the user has the sourcecode.
On the subject of MS and NSA security holes.... I want to know why they still haven't fixed any of the nuke problems.... hmmm... Why would they want to be able to get into open ports on a computer... Seems strange..
I am living in college in a dorm. I have 9 computers in my dorm room, a dat device, a tape deck, and lots of cables. Note. That's 9 computers in my DORM room. At home I have roughly 12 more. I have been surrounded by computers my entire life. MY computers reach from low end 12mhz machines and a working c64 up to sparcs and high end intel machines. I have more computers than some small companies.
I do not believe that it is the END of politics, as much as it is the end of politics aswe have known it. People will still campaign, people will still vote, but it will be done in new and different ways than it has in the past. In the past debates have been broadcast on television, the radio, and candidates have toured on trains. This will continue of course, but we will start to see political banner ads on web sites etc. In addition the web has given more power to smaller political parites and underdogs. IT may not be far away that someone from the reform party or the green party, or some smaller political party has a seat in the white house. The internet will help to empower more people to run for President and get their ideas out and get noticed. The internet is an empowering device for the delivery of knowledge and ideas. Finally I believe that we will still be going to the polls to vote for many more years. The US government is not ready to move the entire voting process over to the internet. Neither is the American Public. So the idea that Politics is dead is wrong. No, Politics, like the world around us, is just changing everyday.
Well, I guess the difference is in 'what are you measuring?'
Hit's from a single IP (50 people might use a single computer in a library a day) or are you monitoring distinct users. Are you counting only one unique user per month per person, or are you counting me everytime i come to your site....Getting honest statistics on the web is not an easy thing i guess... Nielsen ratings are done by 'test groups' that is not the best way to do the web, because there are so many different kinds of people out there and so many different kinds of sites. Some people would also turn off nielsen-type software. (I remember that the nielsen rating system issued a box that you plugged into your tv, if you forgot to turn the box off it would keep reading that you were watching shows even if you turned off the tv.... therefore not giving honest ratings, or people would forget to turn on the box (say if they were watching something they weren't supposed to??))
I think that having a third party monitor your websites traffic and then comparing it to your own readings and then doing an average would be the best idea.... anyway, just my personal ideas....
Oh come on guys.... This isn't entirely foolproof....Someone who is really determined will still be able to rip mp3's off of this.... Does it have a way of preventing me from plugging into a headphone jack, ripping onto a tape, and then ripping back to a wav and converting it to an mp3? yah, that's what i thought... face it, it won't work. What we need is for the record companies just to break down and lower the prices or do like cdnow does, and allow you to make your own CD CHEAP... Please. almost all the profit from a cd goes to the record company, not the artist. Let's lower the prices on cd's and be able to design are own!!!!
Well, I am glad that at least SOME of the major universities are willing to stand up and not cower.... One of my friends is attending FSU and they banned napster.. We got into a heated debate about whether the University is responsible or not. He said yes, I said no. I think that the students should be able to access anything they want online, however if they break the law and get caught they are going to get in trouble, the university isn't going to stand up and protect them. Sheltering your students from the outside world and blocking access to protocols and sites on the net is censorship... It reminds me of the argument that if you make something forbidden people will want to do more, however if it's commonplace and open, less people are likely to do it or abuse it.
oops... noticed a mistake in my post above.... should've previewd it... i am stupid i guess...... bluelight isnot from AOL, bluelight is from yahoo and kmart... Just read the AIM article and I guess i'm still thinking about that.. Look for the TEKMOBL, the chevy with an onboard INTEL chip
I would not have a problem with services like campuspipeline.com if it were an 'opt-in' type system....
I attend MSU, and we do not have it here, however I remember when I was @ Leon High School in the 9th grade that we had AOL cd's in the computer lab... Perhaps this service would be better if when everyone went and got their books it would be in the bags, or maybe there would be a cd already in your dorm when you got there...
Making the system closed like that is no good... And what OS's does it support? Linux (doubt it), MacOS? (maybe), Win 9x and latest versions of NT? of course, 3,1 (doubt it), BeOS (yah right). Please..... I am a compsci major,.... If my university required me to run windoze exclusively to access the internet and worldwide web i'd drop out......however i did just think of an idea of what students stuck with this system could do (fortunately we don't have it at Mississippi State I know that with things like bluelight from AOL and with FreeAV from altavista, which are dialup free internet providers the service requires you to click in the box every so many minutes or you disconnect or at least you have to use the computer.... ping programs won't work.... If it's an 'always on' type deal, set up a cheap box as a router... then everyone behind the router would not have to view the ads... hehehehe...anyway.. just an idea.. Look for the TEKMOBL, the chevy with an onboard INTEL chip
hmmm... I heard another great study the other day... Did everyone know that three out of four people make up seventy five percent of the nations population? That's right! i would never have guessed..... Look for the TEKMOBL, the chevy with an onboard INTEL chip
Ok, so they won't allw the third party apps.... they have a version of AIM for LINUX AVAILABLE?!!!! http://www.aol.com/aim/Linuxbeta.h tml
and even if you could not use that you could always (although i don't reccomend it) use the java version...
yes, it does suck that AOL is not letting third party vendors access it's database, but as a company they can do that. They can close there servers up.. IS it a good idea to not let your users communicate with the outside world? Yes and no... Realistically it ruins the online experience... But for the Service provider (and this is what AOL tries to do) it let's them try to CONTROL your experience.....
It's all targeted from the second you logon, they expose you more to what they WANT you to have.... think WALMART... Walmart's design idea is that you will go in, see something you need, see something that would go perfectly with it, and then see something that would complete the set.... Example.. you go in, buy a bigbird, then buy the video right next to it because it would be cool to give it to the kid so they could watch sessamee street together, and then you buy a shirt... it's all targeted marketing.... imagine what kind of targeted mareting could be done if someone could control your tv and your computer... (Think ROADRUNNER from time warner (houston.rr.com)) Time warner supplies cable tv and broadband to your house, they could then start sending ads to your aol account based on what you watch on TV, or they could commit a mortal sin, and display an add on EVERY SINGLE webpage you viewed.... Put it in their proxy server or something.... It's coming..... this marriage between AOL and TIME WARNER is a technically minded marketing persons wet dream... Look for the TEKMOBL, the chevy with an onboard INTEL chip
Yes, Smart Cards ARE a piece of really great and really cool technology, and yes, american express has started implementing them in their 'blue' credit card line...
Now, maybe i am wrong, but the way I see it, a smart card would not neccessarily be 'more secure' in all situations. The smart chip might just store the account number....Now, if the smart card stored a $$$ amount, it might be better... however there is still an oportunity for fraud.... allow me to illustrate what could CONCEIVABLY happen. We figured this out when my friends university installed smart card chips on their id cards. We thought 'hey cool, it's not as easy to copy as a magnetic stripe, it's cool looking, etc..'
We began to disect the way that the system authorizes the smart card.... we found out that the transaction is not 'online' what this would mean is if I could find a way to arbitrarily deposit money that DID NOT EXIST onto my smart chip (with say an HP200LX or a laptop) I could keep going around making small purchases, phone calls, and buying cokes without losing any money. Of course we have never experimented with this, but the way a smart card authorizes needs to be analyzed before it is the answer to all your fraud problems.
I think that something that needs to be looked at in the online credit fraud area is also 'packet sniffing' you have to many people who STILL don't make secure transactions...i.e. they email their credit card number and for SOME REASON THEY THINK THAT NO-ONE inbetween can intercept an EMAIL from AOL or mom&pop isp'r'us.... or it's a 'scheme' that they fall for. (i.e. "FAT REDUCING SOAP!!!" "GET RICH QUICK" etc.....)
Just my thoughts on the subject Look for the TEKMOBL, the chevy with an onboard INTEL chip
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If you open up an airlock into the vaccum of space yes everything will die, however, i suspect that do to the ill-maintenance of mir, and in general the frailty of all spacecraft that use thin material, that the sudden change in atmospheric pressure could cause serious damage, in addition, everything would have to be locked down so as to not be blown out into space. Finally, you would have to rebuild the pressure in the space station in the event that it was not ripped to shreds, or even worse, have developed small cracks and fissures...
another thought just crossed my mind, if there are molds living in this space craft, could there conceivable be molds and viruses living INSIDE other space crafts and satelites that are left floating out there as space junk in space that often hit earth? Will a communications satelite someday hit our planet and the first being ever to set foot on earth from outer space be a non-terran one? (this of course being hundreds of thousands of years from now) Or could a plague of a disease that we thought we ad eradicated (i.e. small pox) survive in a part of a fuel tank that is left floating in space? and years from now fall on earth to wreak havock on future generations... It get's kind of scary.... By the way, I scanned the article, nowhere does it say that the mold is growing OUTSIDE the space station. will my great great great great great grand children be part ringworm? It's all very interesting when you look at it.
Maybe we will get new episodes of show's like "survivor". Imagine, they send 5 people up and they have to survive Mir, the winner (if there is one) receives 100,000$US
On second though, maybe this isn't a good idea...
Perhaps soon we will be seeing Dinosaurs roaming the earth again that were created by a billionare at a theme park... (thinking bill gates and Michael Eisner team up)
Wait a second, I thought that fungus, being a life form required air to propogate (as in Oxygen) now maybe I am wrong here, but is it not true that space abhors a vaccum? This actually sounds more interesting than you would take it at first glance...
Are these molds native to MIR? existing nowhere else? what did they spawn from or did they hit something in space? Why am i for some reason reminded of Crichton's Andromeda Strain?
But these molds, are they growing near fissures in the space station where they are getting oxgen? or are they actually existing in the vaccum of space?
In addition to that... It was mentioned in http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/14/1158228.shtm l This article
/. .... let's have some more news....
/. was hacked the other day....and it was theorized that /. may have temporarily may have been put up on a different server, and perhaps that double post was put up as a test or because a backup was restored wrong? (just a theory though... I do not know the intricate details of slashcode as I have not had a chance to play with it yet... anyway..)
a few weeks ago!!! Ummm.... I believe we have a problem here.... Come on
On the subject of the Airboard post yesterday... I'm sure everyone knows that
Regardless, We want some new news this week! br
Even better! copy 3 pages with the same message, tape them together, and hit send. it will eternally send the fax as a loop!
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Sony launches wireless home Net access device By: Tony Smith Posted: 28/09/2000 at 16:18 GMT Sony has unveiled a product to bring the Net to the Net-less - a home-oriented mobile device that gives users access to the Net without the need for a PC. Based on home wireless networking, Sony's Airboard is an LCD screen tablet and base-station combo. The base-station hooks straight into the Net and beams requested Web pages and downloaded media files across the ether to the Airboard. "Without using a PC, users can access information from anywhere, effectively solving the so-called 'digital divide' problem," Sony Electronics' Shizuo Takashino told a press conference held this morning in Japan, referring to the gap between the Net-connected PC-owning elite and... er... everyone else. for rest of article click here
Interesting that both devices are being released at the same time.... anyone know what the price tag on the audrey is going to be? Or have pics of the sony device? If anyone remembers the last big 'sony pda' (the MagicLink) it was launched to rival the Apple Newton, and was a nice unit, but i don't think they sold to well. It used the magic cap OS, had a built in phone that could be used with a headset, a modem, AOL, and alot of other programs. Anyone know how the 3com and the new Sony device compare to each other?.
It looks like it runs neither PALM nor WINCE like everyone seems to be saying. Take a good look at the pictures. That looks like QNX
(http://www.qnx.xom)(http://get.qnx.com)
QNX is a unix clone and the company just released it into the 'free' domain, meaning the base OS is free, as well as some applications. If I recall, the netappliance i-opener that was released earlier this year also runs the qnx platform, and people managed to hack into it and use their own isp's, also people were able to install linux (the linux install required a hardware hack though).
That would mean that this handheld would run a client similar to xwindows. This is a dream come true. Perhaps it is an easily hackable unit also?
Oh, if anyone wants to see QNX, look here QNX website
QNX is a realtime OS also by the way, and I believe is posix compliant....
How are they going to prove whether or not I own a cd? If I buy from blockbuster i may get a code printed on my recipt that lets me download the cd in mp3 format from blockbuster's website. However, If I buy from 'Mom and pop's record emporium' they might use a system that is not equiped. How do I prove ownership then? Does that void me from being able to download the mp3's? In addition, What If I buy a used cd or tape at a garage sale or at a cd trade center? do the rights to download transfer to me or are they voided?
Seems to me that this law is better for large national retailers and etailers and is bad for small town america businesses... Until I see how the 'proof of purchase' is provided I probably won't support the bill.
Now, a final way is to allow the user to download the mp3 if the cd is in the cdrom drive, and then the cd is read by a piece of software before the website allows you to download the file... Now I could loan the cd to my friend so they could download it (of course they could just burn themselves a copy). This might also open up the marketing floodgates. Someone would know EVERY MP3 you had..... Know your music tastes, etc... You'll start getting LOTS of targeted mailings.
Finally, I want to know how a site becomes a site that is allowed to transfer the mp3's. Who decides who has the authority to distribute mp3's and who doesn't?
So in other words, this law will make it legal to download an mp3 file from a certified site or if I owned the album? I think that this is a cool idea and looks great on paper. At least they are not saying that the mp3 format must be banned because of copyright violation.
.mp3's to .3pm's before i transfer them , and have the receiver change em back.
However I don't think that this is going to satisfy record companies very much. Also, will I be able to download songs and pay by the song if I don't want to buy an entire cd? i.e. I like track 3 on the new 'band name here' cd.... But it isn't going to be released as a single. Everything else on the cd is total crap. Will I be able to download JUST THAT SONG?
Anyway, since this does not seem like it will do much in stopping napster I think the record companies would be more happy with this.
(By the way, how are they going to catalog the ENTIRE internet? and how are they going to monitor chat rooms dcc transfers??... Hmmmm... I think I will change all my
How are they going to monitor my dcc transfers in chat rooms? Besides, there is an easy way around this problem. CHANGE THE EXTENSION NAMES BEFORE TRANSFERING to something like .txt or . 3PM ..... then when the end user receives the file they will change it back to mp3. Will this catch both mp3's and m2a's? how about .ram's?
Honestly this is a crock of #$%%#..... I'll believe it when I see it. Regardless. One could always go to a public lab, say at a university, and download files onto a zip disk and then take them home if the lab has zip drives. Honestly this has to be a crock.
It has taken AOL long enough but it appears that AOL has finally wised up and decided to merge the AIM and ICQ clients. I guess that AOL is trying to get everyone to accept there client as the standard protocol... Make everyone else conform... AOL has been ying to port their AIM client to cell phones, and their is some new top secret device that they have been working on supposingly. I heard a leak about this so cannot verify that it's true. The cellphone one is though. Some sort of hardware based client. It'll be interesting to see what happens.
Well. Let's give a hand then to the people (like myself) who use open source software and linux! That's right. We can SEE the source code. Think about it this way. It's hard to install a backdoor in something without the user knowing if the user has the sourcecode.
On the subject of MS and NSA security holes.... I want to know why they still haven't fixed any of the nuke problems.... hmmm... Why would they want to be able to get into open ports on a computer... Seems strange..
Bill Gates is God
Hey Wait a second!!!! I didn't write that!
I am living in college in a dorm. I have 9 computers in my dorm room, a dat device, a tape deck, and lots of cables. Note. That's 9 computers in my DORM room. At home I have roughly 12 more. I have been surrounded by computers my entire life. MY computers reach from low end 12mhz machines and a working c64 up to sparcs and high end intel machines. I have more computers than some small companies.
I left out the fact that the internet will also allow voters to become more informed of the issues, and in turn, become better voters.
I do not believe that it is the END of politics, as much as it is the end of politics aswe have known it. People will still campaign, people will still vote, but it will be done in new and different ways than it has in the past. In the past debates have been broadcast on television, the radio, and candidates have toured on trains. This will continue of course, but we will start to see political banner ads on web sites etc.
In addition the web has given more power to smaller political parites and underdogs. IT may not be far away that someone from the reform party or the green party, or some smaller political party has a seat in the white house. The internet will help to empower more people to run for President and get their ideas out and get noticed. The internet is an empowering device for the delivery of knowledge and ideas.
Finally I believe that we will still be going to the polls to vote for many more years. The US government is not ready to move the entire voting process over to the internet. Neither is the American Public. So the idea that Politics is dead is wrong. No, Politics, like the world around us, is just changing everyday.
Well, I guess the difference is in 'what are you measuring?'
Hit's from a single IP (50 people might use a single computer in a library a day) or are you monitoring distinct users. Are you counting only one unique user per month per person, or are you counting me everytime i come to your site....Getting honest statistics on the web is not an easy thing i guess... Nielsen ratings are done by 'test groups' that is not the best way to do the web, because there are so many different kinds of people out there and so many different kinds of sites. Some people would also turn off nielsen-type software. (I remember that the nielsen rating system issued a box that you plugged into your tv, if you forgot to turn the box off it would keep reading that you were watching shows even if you turned off the tv.... therefore not giving honest ratings, or people would forget to turn on the box (say if they were watching something they weren't supposed to??))
I think that having a third party monitor your websites traffic and then comparing it to your own readings and then doing an average would be the best idea....
anyway, just my personal ideas....
Oh come on guys.... This isn't entirely foolproof....Someone who is really determined will still be able to rip mp3's off of this.... Does it have a way of preventing me from plugging into a headphone jack, ripping onto a tape, and then ripping back to a wav and converting it to an mp3? yah, that's what i thought... face it, it won't work. What we need is for the record companies just to break down and lower the prices or do like cdnow does, and allow you to make your own CD CHEAP... Please. almost all the profit from a cd goes to the record company, not the artist. Let's lower the prices on cd's and be able to design are own!!!!
Well, I am glad that at least SOME of the major universities are willing to stand up and not cower.... One of my friends is attending FSU and they banned napster.. We got into a heated debate about whether the University is responsible or not. He said yes, I said no. I think that the students should be able to access anything they want online, however if they break the law and get caught they are going to get in trouble, the university isn't going to stand up and protect them. Sheltering your students from the outside world and blocking access to protocols and sites on the net is censorship...
It reminds me of the argument that if you make something forbidden people will want to do more, however if it's commonplace and open, less people are likely to do it or abuse it.
oops... noticed a mistake in my post above.... should've previewd it... i am stupid i guess...... bluelight isnot from AOL, bluelight is from yahoo and kmart... Just read the AIM article and I guess i'm still thinking about that..
Look for the TEKMOBL, the chevy with an onboard INTEL chip
I would not have a problem with services like campuspipeline.com if it were an 'opt-in' type system....
I attend MSU, and we do not have it here, however I remember when I was @ Leon High School in the 9th grade that we had AOL cd's in the computer lab... Perhaps this service would be better if when everyone went and got their books it would be in the bags, or maybe there would be a cd already in your dorm when you got there...
Making the system closed like that is no good... And what OS's does it support? Linux (doubt it), MacOS? (maybe), Win 9x and latest versions of NT? of course, 3,1 (doubt it), BeOS (yah right).
Please..... I am a compsci major,.... If my university required me to run windoze exclusively to access the internet and worldwide web i'd drop out......however i did just think of an idea of what students stuck with this system could do (fortunately we don't have it at Mississippi State I know that with things like bluelight from AOL and with FreeAV from altavista, which are dialup free internet providers the service requires you to click in the box every so many minutes or you disconnect or at least you have to use the computer.... ping programs won't work....
If it's an 'always on' type deal, set up a cheap box as a router... then everyone behind the router would not have to view the ads... hehehehe...anyway.. just an idea..
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hmmm... I heard another great study the other day... Did everyone know that three out of four people make up seventy five percent of the nations population? That's right! i would never have guessed.....
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Ok, so they won't allw the third party apps.... they have a version of AIM for LINUX AVAILABLE?!!!!h tml
http://www.aol.com/aim/Linuxbeta.
and even if you could not use that you could always (although i don't reccomend it) use the java version...
yes, it does suck that AOL is not letting third party vendors access it's database, but as a company they can do that. They can close there servers up.. IS it a good idea to not let your users communicate with the outside world? Yes and no... Realistically it ruins the online experience... But for the Service provider (and this is what AOL tries to do) it let's them try to CONTROL your experience.....
It's all targeted from the second you logon, they expose you more to what they WANT you to have.... think WALMART... Walmart's design idea is that you will go in, see something you need, see something that would go perfectly with it, and then see something that would complete the set.... Example.. you go in, buy a bigbird, then buy the video right next to it because it would be cool to give it to the kid so they could watch sessamee street together, and then you buy a shirt... it's all targeted marketing.... imagine what kind of targeted mareting could be done if someone could control your tv and your computer... (Think ROADRUNNER from time warner (houston.rr.com)) Time warner supplies cable tv and broadband to your house, they could then start sending ads to your aol account based on what you watch on TV, or they could commit a mortal sin, and display an add on EVERY SINGLE webpage you viewed.... Put it in their proxy server or something.... It's coming..... this marriage between AOL and TIME WARNER is a technically minded marketing persons wet dream...
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Yes, Smart Cards ARE a piece of really great and really cool technology, and yes, american express has started implementing them in their 'blue' credit card line...
Now, maybe i am wrong, but the way I see it, a smart card would not neccessarily be 'more secure' in all situations. The smart chip might just store the account number....Now, if the smart card stored a $$$ amount, it might be better... however there is still an oportunity for fraud.... allow me to illustrate what could CONCEIVABLY happen. We figured this out when my friends university installed smart card chips on their id cards. We thought 'hey cool, it's not as easy to copy as a magnetic stripe, it's cool looking, etc..'
We began to disect the way that the system authorizes the smart card.... we found out that the transaction is not 'online' what this would mean is if I could find a way to arbitrarily deposit money that DID NOT EXIST onto my smart chip (with say an HP200LX or a laptop) I could keep going around making small purchases, phone calls, and buying cokes without losing any money. Of course we have never experimented with this, but the way a smart card authorizes needs to be analyzed before it is the answer to all your fraud problems.
I think that something that needs to be looked at in the online credit fraud area is also 'packet sniffing' you have to many people who STILL don't make secure transactions...i.e. they email their credit card number and for SOME REASON THEY THINK THAT NO-ONE inbetween can intercept an EMAIL from AOL or mom&pop isp'r'us....
or it's a 'scheme' that they fall for. (i.e. "FAT REDUCING SOAP!!!" "GET RICH QUICK" etc.....)
Just my thoughts on the subject
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