Computers and operating systems are made to be used. Other then servers, they are designed to do multiple things and not just sit in the corner. I agree with the logic behind the worms and trojans and idiot users but the MS operating systems are marketed for internet access by Joe Random. If it takes a knowledgeable person with a decent background with computers to use a computer on the internet without it failing, then the objective of "Where do you want to go today" and ease of use has defineatly failed.
MS can claim the numbers look static to them. I'd bet http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com always gets 99.999% IE and 100% beyond anything other then the first page.;)
Real reach a very significant percentage of current and future MP3 owners.
Care to sight some statistics with this? Really. The only thing I can find that references MP3 player sales volume is old. I know the iPod is well liked in Slashdot but I find it hard to believe with the 50-200 models of mp3 players easily available in retail stores that the iPod really makes up a majority percentage of those devices. Remember, along with those referenced portables, there are many mp3/WMA devices like car stereos, DVD players and such. Does anyone have a real statisitics other then heard on/.?
One reference here claims 1.5 million iPods compared to 15 million others. That is 10%. I have no idea of the accuracy of those numbers. I know statistics are like bikinis, what they reveal is suggestive, but wide they cover is vital.
Based on the amount of players I have seen introduced over the years, I believe the iPod penetration is far less then many people on/. would like to believe. Just as the claim above from Glaser about Real having a decent quarter and that many subscribers. Who would have thought.
The 2004 S2000 redlines at 8200, previous years had 8900?. According to what I've read, the 2004 RX8 redlines at 9000. Any or all of my figures could be wrong.
Honda advertised that point only for that specific car (engine/gear combination) because it was by design.
Considering that car peaks at only roughly 146ft/lbs of torque to the tires, high RPM's are the only thing getting it going;) Based on its peak torque figure being at ~6300 RPM, high RPM's are good for this car. That is NOT the general rule in all engine/gear combinations. Cars with torque that peak at high RPM's, can take advantage of gearing to get going once that get into that RPM range.
Maybe the fact they used AMD made them lower cost models? Yes there is definatley a really low priced computer in every add that cuts back on some things (normally a Celeron). I think overall, the AMD and Intel models from the mass producers like HP and E-Machine/Gateway have very similar features with the only exception being the processor. Pull up www.salescircular.com, pick a state and browse computer/monitor/printer packages ads from your local stores, for simplicity, here is a link to the VA ads.
Note that you may need to nudge them out of the hammock first.
Sounds like life on a US Navy Submarine.. They called it "hot racking", you slept in a bunk while person B worked, then you swapped. The last of those older subs are now all decommissioned and the newer subs have enough for everyone in theory but I am sure it still happens on occasion. The step up from sharing a bunk was the bunks with equipment within arms reach, like a 4500# air bank valve actuator, a bleeder valve, or in an open area with the lights on 24/7 with someone coming by every hour and reaching over you to record a pressure gage indication.
Sorry to reply to my own post but I re-read your reply.
With your idea, there would be some verification that some_address@gmail.com actually came from some_address@gmail.com. That would be useful. I do not know how that concept would integrate into various mailing solutions.
That does make sense but that concept is not much different then what existing address filtering can achieve already (white list). Your expectation of use of these certificates would only prevent someone spoofing someone you already know or trust. Although that is a good thing to verify, you would still receive the other 99.99% of junk mail you do now regardless of if it had a certificate or not until you disallow them.
Who would control or gives out the signatures? What or who would be available to get a these signatures and how would a spammer not get one. There are certificate based methods already in place that many people already use, problem is it costs money and configuration that people are not going to spend. Free/open versions of PGP already exist and are in use but again, no restrictions to prevent the bad people from using it. Your idea would help verify who sent a message but not limit who you could get them from.
If you do not submit to Trusted Computing, or if you are not running the mandated software, then the router "quarantines" you until you come into compliance.
As much a grip as MS has on computers, I see many situations where this concept would NOT apply or be useful. What about your PS2, Xbox, your Fluke Linkrunner, various forms of Linux, various switches, Jetdirect cards, home routers, music station, airport, X10, Palm pilot, RF bar code scanners etc.. Or basically ANYTHING that get an IP address. How can these 'random' devices be certified? I do not believe you can default to no access in anything but a very tightly controlled environment like a corporate lan. Of course you can already do these things to some extent in that same corporate environment. I can not see this technology being used anywhere else but in that specific situation. Maybe I am missing something here.
One would expect that whatever device he uses for the NAT would also act as a firewall, discarding such packets.
Is there such a device that does not NAT and not firewall? I guess you could setup NAT yourself and competely ignore, delete, and disregard the rest of the packet filtering aspects of the package but it seems you would have to go out of your way to have it do that on purpose. Someone in this thread claimed he/she has gained access to MANY NAT machines like it was nothing. I assume that person was refering to no prior contact like a worm on the PC that started the transaction or opened a connection to somewhere first. What are these many people everyone is refering to doing or what could they be using to have NAT and not some type of firewall at least blocking internal addresses from coming in from the outside? Firewall and NAT how-to's for Linux have made this point crytal clear since I setup my first NAT box like eight years ago and every home router I have used or read about were firewall/NAT devices.
Every house built in the last roughly 20 years has a service box on the house for the phone jack termination from the phone company. One of the purposes of this box is to provide you a method to isolate the phone company wiring from your house wiring for troubleshooting. It even has quick disconnects and a built in jack to attach a regular rj11 cord and phone for testing. Basically, you own and are responsible for everything after that box. If you ever have a problem with your home phone system, the first thing the phone company will have you do is open that box, pull the disconnect and plug a phone there. Did the phone work or not? If so, your wiring is at fault, if not, the phone companies wiring is at fault.
My point is, it takes about 2 seconds to disable a home phone for anyone who does not have this box in the house (which MANY do not). A "burglar" can disconnect that same thing in 2 seconds also. Maybe a burglar is not that smart but you better have a second plan if faced with that situation. Of course for a medical condition, a shotgun is of no use and I assume your home phone would not be disconnected.
Nothing can prevent that but, that has been happening for years as you could attempt this with anything and obviously people do. I am going into rant mode here but everytime I think about this, I get frustrated. I bought a 8X DVD drive from CompUSA a few years ago. Got home opened it up and wham! It was a used and broken 32x cdrom drive. I took it back within hours and explained exactly what happened. The assistant manager came to the desk and proceded to make strange faces looking at the device and commenting to herself out loud "wow, we don't even carry this model cdrom, I wonder how this happened" etc.. but never actually said anything directly to me or even asked me a single question. In fact, she never even looked directly at me. Then it came... In front of my kids and a bunch of other customers in line at the service desk. She flat out accused me for attempting to defraud them and she stated she was going to call the police and have my thrown in jail if I did not leave the store. A very heated agrument started but I eventually left with my credit card being charged back the full amount and I have not gone to a CompUSA since.
I have done that at home. I got tired of the spyware, holes, and junk filling up my kids computers and telling my kids and their friends to NOT USE IE. I finally fixed the problem by blocking outgoing http requests from anything but my squid box and setting IE on the machines to use a bogus proxy server, not my real one. Has been working perfectly. As an added bonus, most of the spyware/adware they still have or get in other ways, either tries to connect directly or use the IE proxy settings, both of which lead to no where.
You already can to some extent. Set it to use a proxy server that does not exist. This can be pushed to every computer in the domain with a few clicks or entered manually on machines with a reg file. The same security policy can be used to prevent users from changing it back. The potential down side is anything that uses Windows internet settings to get the proxy information will also be blocked. This can usually be worked around also but is application specific.
Cite a case or statute or shut up. Nice, tell someone to cite a claim or shut up and then you rant on with no cite of any claim yourself.
The hotplate issue is a fire hazard where danger of losing life is involved. Attaching a device to the campus network is under their control. Attaching a device to your own computer or your own network is the only issue here. Not a safety issue, not a network issue. Nothing but an issue revolving around use of an unregulated piece of wireless spectrum. The school and many businesses chose to use this technology fuly knowing that it was unregulated. Many experts have raised this issue before and potential downfalls of doing this in an unregulated band. The school should not get any precendence over use of this band as it is unregulated. I guess it comes down to the school attempting to regulate an unregulated spectrum. Your potential cite would have to be very specific to that concept to be meaningful. Remember the issues with home owners associations and condos that tried to ban buds and small sat dishes from certain properties and that got shot down. They can tell you what type of garage door you can have, what color to paint your house, but they are not allowed to interfere with your ability to use a portion of the wireless spectrum.
I have negative thoughts about removing the the keyboard. I always thought that was a huge plus. Remember, a majority of Blackberry users are the suits who could care less about the technology and just want to do nothing more then send and recieve their corporate email and have the ability to read attachments. Many of these people can not even understand the difference between "GSM", "gprs" and the "GPRS" signals and what they are for. Any learning from the predictive input better be stored on the sim card so when they get a new BB, they do not have to start all over again. Although there will be an interest in smaller, there will always be a nice sized crowd that would rather have a largeer screen and full KB also. I turned down a 7210 which has a color screen in favor of the monochrome 6710 because it had a larger screen.
Fewer keys = fewer moving parts = less breakage I agree in theory but the only thing I've ever seen break on any of the BB's are the thumbwheel and the screen.
I could not find any specifics for the RS version, but a Google seach turns up many of these adapters and all claim that analog is supported feature. I know the newer PS2 DS controllers have a pressure sensitive (analog) X button but the original DS's from the PS1 are not. I wonder if that is an option also. Care to coment more on the RS version to fill us in?
Again, not specific to the RS version but others claim to be very compatible:
Automatically turns on PSX analog mode(no need to switch) -PSX, PS2, PS one accessories are all compatible -256 stages of virtual force feedback function -Unlike video vibration or only one-stage vibration -Fully compatible with MS-DirectX force feedback -Plug-and-play for easy to installation on USB port -No need for extra power adapters -Supports all buttons on PC games -Converts PS joystick, racing wheel, and dancing controller to be used on PC
The best controller I have ever used for racing was the handwheel by Interact?. You gripped it like a fishing rod or a pistol. It had a small spring center return analog wheel (~3.5 in) on top with a hard sponge/rubber wrap and an analog trigger underneath (gas) with one more analog button on top (brake). It was close in design to a typical RC car controller. It worked great for GT1 and GT2 but the unit is not compatible with the PS2? I wish they still made that thing. The DS controllers analog works fine but the limited amount of movement makes it a little odd for something like GT long term.
Real's price is $0.79 per song through Rhapsody. Of course it is $10/month subscription also but includes unlimited streaming of the songs of your choice. I suppose one subsidizes the others but depending on the percentage you do of each streaming and burning, it could be better or worse then a flat $0.99 a track. My kids and I use the streaming portion a LOT so I feel the $10 is well spent even without ever actually using the download for $0.79 option. YMMV
Yes, Windows can boot from a CD. But over the last few years I have seen numerous examples in which the only way for someone to make repairs on a machine is to boot with a floppy and go back to old-school DOS looking stuff.
Booting W2K, W98, etc from CD is the same as using the W2K, W98 boot floppies. Of course the CD is faster but gets you to the exact same old DOS looking stuff as the floppies. Maybe you were refering to other DOS tools not included on the Windows CD's but you could also put those same apps on a bootable CD also.
I have used and tested quite a few freely available bootable Linux iso's to fix or retrieve data from a failed Windows (or Linux) machines. Here's a slightly dated list for starters. I do know where I got the one I use now but it is really basic and only like 20MB. Boot from the cd, start the network, mount a smb network share and the local Windows partition, fire up MC and browse and copy off what I need to the network. Some of the recovery disks have a GUI or a more guided approach but they all allow this basic functionality if you know the commands. Bad sectors and failing HD's require more work.
Funny, I am using Firefox with the same and did not get a single popup (although the audio did play). Are you on Linux or W32? Maybe it was W32 specific or my squid filters blocked something.
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Computers and operating systems are made to be used. Other then servers, they are designed to do multiple things and not just sit in the corner. I agree with the logic behind the worms and trojans and idiot users but the MS operating systems are marketed for internet access by Joe Random. If it takes a knowledgeable person with a decent background with computers to use a computer on the internet without it failing, then the objective of "Where do you want to go today" and ease of use has defineatly failed.
MS can claim the numbers look static to them. ;)
I'd bet http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com always gets 99.999% IE and 100% beyond anything other then the first page.
Real reach a very significant percentage of current and future MP3 owners.
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/. would like to believe. Just as the claim above from Glaser about Real having a decent quarter and that many subscribers. Who would have thought.
Care to sight some statistics with this? Really. The only thing I can find that references MP3 player sales volume is old. I know the iPod is well liked in Slashdot but I find it hard to believe with the 50-200 models of mp3 players easily available in retail stores that the iPod really makes up a majority percentage of those devices. Remember, along with those referenced portables, there are many mp3/WMA devices like car stereos, DVD players and such. Does anyone have a real statisitics other then heard on
One reference here claims 1.5 million iPods compared to 15 million others. That is 10%. I have no idea of the accuracy of those numbers.
I know statistics are like bikinis, what they reveal is suggestive, but wide they cover is vital.
Based on the amount of players I have seen introduced over the years, I believe the iPod penetration is far less then many people on
The 2004 S2000 redlines at 8200, previous years had 8900?. According to what I've read, the 2004 RX8 redlines at 9000. Any or all of my figures could be wrong.
Honda advertised that point only for that specific car (engine/gear combination) because it was by design.
;)
Considering that car peaks at only roughly 146ft/lbs of torque to the tires, high RPM's are the only thing getting it going
Based on its peak torque figure being at ~6300 RPM, high RPM's are good for this car. That is NOT the general rule in all engine/gear combinations. Cars with torque that peak at high RPM's, can take advantage of gearing to get going once that get into that RPM range.
(Torque/5252)* RPM = HP
Maybe the fact they used AMD made them lower cost models? Yes there is definatley a really low priced computer in every add that cuts back on some things (normally a Celeron). I think overall, the AMD and Intel models from the mass producers like HP and E-Machine/Gateway have very similar features with the only exception being the processor. Pull up www.salescircular.com, pick a state and browse computer/monitor/printer packages ads from your local stores, for simplicity, here is a link to the VA ads.
Note that you may need to nudge them out of the hammock first.
Sounds like life on a US Navy Submarine.. They called it "hot racking", you slept in a bunk while person B worked, then you swapped. The last of those older subs are now all decommissioned and the newer subs have enough for everyone in theory but I am sure it still happens on occasion. The step up from sharing a bunk was the bunks with equipment within arms reach, like a 4500# air bank valve actuator, a bleeder valve, or in an open area with the lights on 24/7 with someone coming by every hour and reaching over you to record a pressure gage indication.
Sorry to reply to my own post but I re-read your reply.
With your idea, there would be some verification that some_address@gmail.com actually came from some_address@gmail.com. That would be useful. I do not know how that concept would integrate into various mailing solutions.
That does make sense but that concept is not much different then what existing address filtering can achieve already (white list). Your expectation of use of these certificates would only prevent someone spoofing someone you already know or trust. Although that is a good thing to verify, you would still receive the other 99.99% of junk mail you do now regardless of if it had a certificate or not until you disallow them.
Who would control or gives out the signatures? What or who would be available to get a these signatures and how would a spammer not get one. There are certificate based methods already in place that many people already use, problem is it costs money and configuration that people are not going to spend. Free/open versions of PGP already exist and are in use but again, no restrictions to prevent the bad people from using it. Your idea would help verify who sent a message but not limit who you could get them from.
If you do not submit to Trusted Computing, or if you are not running the mandated software, then the router "quarantines" you until you come into compliance.
As much a grip as MS has on computers, I see many situations where this concept would NOT apply or be useful. What about your PS2, Xbox, your Fluke Linkrunner, various forms of Linux, various switches, Jetdirect cards, home routers, music station, airport, X10, Palm pilot, RF bar code scanners etc.. Or basically ANYTHING that get an IP address. How can these 'random' devices be certified? I do not believe you can default to no access in anything but a very tightly controlled environment like a corporate lan. Of course you can already do these things to some extent in that same corporate environment. I can not see this technology being used anywhere else but in that specific situation. Maybe I am missing something here.
One would expect that whatever device he uses for the NAT would also act as a firewall, discarding such packets.
Is there such a device that does not NAT and not firewall? I guess you could setup NAT yourself and competely ignore, delete, and disregard the rest of the packet filtering aspects of the package but it seems you would have to go out of your way to have it do that on purpose. Someone in this thread claimed he/she has gained access to MANY NAT machines like it was nothing. I assume that person was refering to no prior contact like a worm on the PC that started the transaction or opened a connection to somewhere first. What are these many people everyone is refering to doing or what could they be using to have NAT and not some type of firewall at least blocking internal addresses from coming in from the outside? Firewall and NAT how-to's for Linux have made this point crytal clear since I setup my first NAT box like eight years ago and every home router I have used or read about were firewall/NAT devices.
Every house built in the last roughly 20 years has a service box on the house for the phone jack termination from the phone company. One of the purposes of this box is to provide you a method to isolate the phone company wiring from your house wiring for troubleshooting. It even has quick disconnects and a built in jack to attach a regular rj11 cord and phone for testing. Basically, you own and are responsible for everything after that box. If you ever have a problem with your home phone system, the first thing the phone company will have you do is open that box, pull the disconnect and plug a phone there. Did the phone work or not? If so, your wiring is at fault, if not, the phone companies wiring is at fault.
My point is, it takes about 2 seconds to disable a home phone for anyone who does not have this box in the house (which MANY do not). A "burglar" can disconnect that same thing in 2 seconds also. Maybe a burglar is not that smart but you better have a second plan if faced with that situation. Of course for a medical condition, a shotgun is of no use and I assume your home phone would not be disconnected.
Nothing can prevent that but, that has been happening for years as you could attempt this with anything and obviously people do.
I am going into rant mode here but everytime I think about this, I get frustrated.
I bought a 8X DVD drive from CompUSA a few years ago. Got home opened it up and wham! It was a used and broken 32x cdrom drive. I took it back within hours and explained exactly what happened. The assistant manager came to the desk and proceded to make strange faces looking at the device and commenting to herself out loud "wow, we don't even carry this model cdrom, I wonder how this happened" etc.. but never actually said anything directly to me or even asked me a single question. In fact, she never even looked directly at me. Then it came... In front of my kids and a bunch of other customers in line at the service desk. She flat out accused me for attempting to defraud them and she stated she was going to call the police and have my thrown in jail if I did not leave the store. A very heated agrument started but I eventually left with my credit card being charged back the full amount and I have not gone to a CompUSA since.
I have done that at home. I got tired of the spyware, holes, and junk filling up my kids computers and telling my kids and their friends to NOT USE IE. I finally fixed the problem by blocking outgoing http requests from anything but my squid box and setting IE on the machines to use a bogus proxy server, not my real one. Has been working perfectly. As an added bonus, most of the spyware/adware they still have or get in other ways, either tries to connect directly or use the IE proxy settings, both of which lead to no where.
You already can to some extent. Set it to use a proxy server that does not exist. This can be pushed to every computer in the domain with a few clicks or entered manually on machines with a reg file. The same security policy can be used to prevent users from changing it back. The potential down side is anything that uses Windows internet settings to get the proxy information will also be blocked. This can usually be worked around also but is application specific.
Cite a case or statute or shut up.
Nice, tell someone to cite a claim or shut up and then you rant on with no cite of any claim yourself.
The hotplate issue is a fire hazard where danger of losing life is involved. Attaching a device to the campus network is under their control. Attaching a device to your own computer or your own network is the only issue here. Not a safety issue, not a network issue. Nothing but an issue revolving around use of an unregulated piece of wireless spectrum. The school and many businesses chose to use this technology fuly knowing that it was unregulated. Many experts have raised this issue before and potential downfalls of doing this in an unregulated band. The school should not get any precendence over use of this band as it is unregulated. I guess it comes down to the school attempting to regulate an unregulated spectrum. Your potential cite would have to be very specific to that concept to be meaningful.
Remember the issues with home owners associations and condos that tried to ban buds and small sat dishes from certain properties and that got shot down. They can tell you what type of garage door you can have, what color to paint your house, but they are not allowed to interfere with your ability to use a portion of the wireless spectrum.
The data capabilities only work with a GPRS signal active. The phone portion of the device will work with any of them.
I have negative thoughts about removing the the keyboard. I always thought that was a huge plus. Remember, a majority of Blackberry users are the suits who could care less about the technology and just want to do nothing more then send and recieve their corporate email and have the ability to read attachments. Many of these people can not even understand the difference between "GSM", "gprs" and the "GPRS" signals and what they are for. Any learning from the predictive input better be stored on the sim card so when they get a new BB, they do not have to start all over again. Although there will be an interest in smaller, there will always be a nice sized crowd that would rather have a largeer screen and full KB also. I turned down a 7210 which has a color screen in favor of the monochrome 6710 because it had a larger screen.
Fewer keys = fewer moving parts = less breakage
I agree in theory but the only thing I've ever seen break on any of the BB's are the thumbwheel and the screen.
Yes, another "does it work with" question..
I could not find any specifics for the RS version, but a Google seach turns up many of these adapters and all claim that analog is supported feature. I know the newer PS2 DS controllers have a pressure sensitive (analog) X button but the original DS's from the PS1 are not. I wonder if that is an option also. Care to coment more on the RS version to fill us in?
Again, not specific to the RS version but others claim to be very compatible:
This model convertor claims:
Automatically turns on PSX analog mode(no need to switch)
-PSX, PS2, PS one accessories are all compatible
-256 stages of virtual force feedback function
-Unlike video vibration or only one-stage vibration
-Fully compatible with MS-DirectX force feedback
-Plug-and-play for easy to installation on USB port
-No need for extra power adapters
-Supports all buttons on PC games
-Converts PS joystick, racing wheel, and dancing controller to be used on PC
The best controller I have ever used for racing was the handwheel by Interact?. You gripped it like a fishing rod or a pistol. It had a small spring center return analog wheel (~3.5 in) on top with a hard sponge/rubber wrap and an analog trigger underneath (gas) with one more analog button on top (brake). It was close in design to a typical RC car controller. It worked great for GT1 and GT2 but the unit is not compatible with the PS2? I wish they still made that thing. The DS controllers analog works fine but the limited amount of movement makes it a little odd for something like GT long term.
Real's price is $0.79 per song through Rhapsody. Of course it is $10/month subscription also but includes unlimited streaming of the songs of your choice. I suppose one subsidizes the others but depending on the percentage you do of each streaming and burning, it could be better or worse then a flat $0.99 a track. My kids and I use the streaming portion a LOT so I feel the $10 is well spent even without ever actually using the download for $0.79 option. YMMV
Yes, Windows can boot from a CD. But over the last few years I have seen numerous examples in which the only way for someone to make repairs on a machine is to boot with a floppy and go back to old-school DOS looking stuff.
Booting W2K, W98, etc from CD is the same as using the W2K, W98 boot floppies. Of course the CD is faster but gets you to the exact same old DOS looking stuff as the floppies.
Maybe you were refering to other DOS tools not included on the Windows CD's but you could also put those same apps on a bootable CD also.
I have used and tested quite a few freely available bootable Linux iso's to fix or retrieve data from a failed Windows (or Linux) machines. Here's a slightly dated list for starters. I do know where I got the one I use now but it is really basic and only like 20MB. Boot from the cd, start the network, mount a smb network share and the local Windows partition, fire up MC and browse and copy off what I need to the network. Some of the recovery disks have a GUI or a more guided approach but they all allow this basic functionality if you know the commands. Bad sectors and failing HD's require more work.
Unless you have a Mac (which can boot off just about anything with a "System" folder on it)
IBM hardware can do the same thing depending on the bios options of your MB.
Your response to this proves my point.
I wrote down a response to your post. Please point out any errors you see.
Funny, I am using Firefox with the same and did not get a single popup (although the audio did play). Are you on Linux or W32? Maybe it was W32 specific or my squid filters blocked something.