Sounds like a business opportunity to me!
But the number of possible desirable hotmail.com addresses are limited, too. Does that mean there's a digital divide within that system, too?
* Because google.com returns search results from the world, and the world is a.com place
Yes, and that annoys me sometimes; if I'm looking for products to buy, when Google returns links for European firms it doesn't help me any. What's wrong with having a "popsearch.co.za" search engine that only looks for local companies?
If you're talking about a society that suffers so badly from lack of infrastructure that it can't participate in the global economy, that's not a digital divide, that's a gaping chasm with nothing digital about it.
Once you start stringing wires, then everything changes. Analog phone lines can nearly always support digital communications, even if it's limited to a few kilobits per second. Old and slow computing hardware is cheap, and even if it can't play Quake II without an unacceptably low frame rate, it'll still send email or even run a web browser. (Better uninstall those Flash plug-ins, though.)
Taking cash and throwing it at a project to run fiber through the jungle, and giving Pentium IV machines and free domain names to all the inhabitants, won't help the digital divide one bit. If anything it'd create a cargo cult of the uneducated worshipping the computers, knowing that they will bring prosperity, when in fact they do nothing of the sort. (Well, maybe they'll provide a little recreation, thanks to Solitaire and Minesweeper.)
Saying that effective monopolization of domain registrations is part of a "digital divide" is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. The US has pretty much monopolized the.com/net/org/edu root domains, but that cuts both ways; If you lived in South Africa, you'd tend not to browse.com domains simply because most of those companies don't do business where you live. You'd do your surfing with.co.sa or whichever domain range is valid where you lived.
Also, frankly, vanity domains aren't extremely essential for business on the net. People get their URLs from friends and search engines and price bots, and in my experience nearly never go to "books.com" or "plumbing.com" to see what's there.
I'm sorry, folks. The digital divide only exists in the minds of socialists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hliberals who worry about the poor folk not having computers, when it's largely a matter of education, not wealth. And the real estate along the information superhighway is practically boundless.
Personally, I think that trying to put all that equipment into a single piece of furniture is silly, never mind expensive.
I have a pretty big corner desk I got at Office Depot, with a short bookshelf in matching color sitting on top of the back of one side. Two APC UPSes (one for my dual monitors, one for the computer and some net equipment) act as a stand for a heavy wood platform for both monitors. A second wood platform is supported by a simple pedestal of two 1x6 boards nailed in a "T", standing between the back ends of the monitors, and a 13" TV sits atop that.
Nearby are two shelving units; one is plastic with a cabinet in the bottom, and holds my printer and various supplies. I picked that up at Target. The second is a heavy wire shelving unit on casters that I picked up at Sam's Club. That shelf holds my other CPUs, as well as open workspace and an extra monitor and keyboard for diagnostic purposes. The power and network wires are routed so I can pull the unit away from the wall for easy cabling access.
Does it sound crowded? Well, yes, it is. But it's a hell of a lot less crowded than if I'd attempted to shoehorn the lot into one desk.
Because the DJa aren't the ones who decide what not to play any more; they barely decide what they DO play. That's all upper management, and if they don't toe the line they'll probably get fired. And upper management makes their decisions based on how much cash promoters are willing to pay to get their song played.
A "winmodem" isn't such a bad thing for a laptop computer; having an extra power-draining chip for signal processing is bad for the battery life. 'Course, there are all those compatibility issues; but hasn't the interface been mostly standardized? Why haven't alternative-OS drivers been forthcoming?
I'd been considering setting up a commercial streaming radio server, but news of the MP3 licensing requirements chilled my enthusiasm. Vorbis perked it back up, though, and I anxiously await the release of Icecast's Vorbis-compatible version.
Yes, he broke US law while on US soil; he did it by giving a lecture on how silly the protection used by Adobe was. IMO, that law violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and is therefore invalid.
But Sklyarov wasn't arrested for that violation, or at least not solely for it; take a look at the charges against him. And those charges are for activities that took place outside the US.
The courts of the United States have lately been treating the law as if the entire planet were under their jurisdiction; e.g. Noriega, who was indicted despite never having committed crimes within the US. And while I doubt the local prosecutors would've bothered indicting Sklyarov and then having him kidnapped from Russia, gunning for him while he was in the US proved too great a temptation.
Whether this "alleged" mobster gets off or not isn't the point. Whether the search warrant was worded properly to allow the FBI to intercept keystrokes isn't the point.
The point is, in the near future, once the courts have settled on a procedure, is that the FBI will soon be able to (routinely?) get your keystroke data and use it against you. The point is, if they don't require warrants to get that data, third parties can ALREADY grab your passwords using this method.
So how does one foil this sort of attack? The only way I can think of is to use a monolithic device, similar to a smart card, with its own display and data entry, and use it to store and implement your private keys. It requires its own keypad, so no one can bug it imperceptively; and it requires a display, so you can determine no one's switched it on you.
I recently got HDTV working here, though I went a cheaper route; I spent $1000 on a store demo RCA HDTV/VGA monitor, and swapped that in place of my Sony Trinitron. I then went to the local Time Warner center and swapped my old digital box for a HDTV box. Plugged three RCA cables between the two, and poof! HDTV.
Time Warner gives me four HDTV channels, HBO and Showtime, East and West coast versions. Not all the shows are broadcast in HDTV, but when they are, they're niiiiice...
I did have a few problems. A slightly loose antenna connection introduced a LOT more noise than you'd think it could, causing one HDTV channel to stop working and another to be contaminated with pretty colored splotches (thank you MPEG).
But all in all, I'm glad I did it. And the computer in my entertainment center is happier with the VGA connection than with S-video.:-)
Quite a while ago, I pounced on what I thought was an absolutely wonderful domain name, wondering why no one had registered it. I went to NetSol's website and signed myself up. 5 minutes later I realized -- "I before E, except after..."
And so I quickly wrote an email to Network Solutions, explaining that I'd made an error registering the domain, and would you please cancel my registration. This was long before the name was entered into the root DNS servers or the WHOIS database.
Anyhow, I still get bills from NetSol, telling me my payment is late. I keep writing them, telling them to stop, but the name is still registered, and I keep getting invoices.
So -- would anyone be interested in "inconcievable.com"? Anyone? It's yours. Gratis. All you have to do is pay NetSol and for the transfer of ownership.
Keep your eyes peeled when browsing around jewelry stores; some mid- and high-range diver's watches have built-in circular log-log calculators around the bezel.
If they want corporate sponsorship, they should release (ugh) Windows binaries. Many banks give out software to people who use their online services; I remember Bank of America gave me a free copy of Managing Your Money. It was pretty bad, and I'm sure BofA had to spend a lot for the software.
Given the availability of a free, GPL'd piece of software that they could give away, I'm sure they'd lend support to port the new transaction data and bill payment protocols. They'd then have the software forever.
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Tomorrow one of Bin Laden's associates was scheduled to be sentenced, in a courthouse right across from the WTC.
* Because hotmail doesnt have a .za address
.com place
Sounds like a business opportunity to me!
But the number of possible desirable hotmail.com addresses are limited, too. Does that mean there's a digital divide within that system, too?
* Because google.com returns search results from the world, and the world is a
Yes, and that annoys me sometimes; if I'm looking for products to buy, when Google returns links for European firms it doesn't help me any. What's wrong with having a "popsearch.co.za" search engine that only looks for local companies?
Karl? Is that you?
You're fired.
:-)~
If you're talking about a society that suffers so badly from lack of infrastructure that it can't participate in the global economy, that's not a digital divide, that's a gaping chasm with nothing digital about it.
Once you start stringing wires, then everything changes. Analog phone lines can nearly always support digital communications, even if it's limited to a few kilobits per second. Old and slow computing hardware is cheap, and even if it can't play Quake II without an unacceptably low frame rate, it'll still send email or even run a web browser. (Better uninstall those Flash plug-ins, though.)
Taking cash and throwing it at a project to run fiber through the jungle, and giving Pentium IV machines and free domain names to all the inhabitants, won't help the digital divide one bit. If anything it'd create a cargo cult of the uneducated worshipping the computers, knowing that they will bring prosperity, when in fact they do nothing of the sort. (Well, maybe they'll provide a little recreation, thanks to Solitaire and Minesweeper.)
Saying that effective monopolization of domain registrations is part of a "digital divide" is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. The US has pretty much monopolized the .com/net/org/edu root domains, but that cuts both ways; If you lived in South Africa, you'd tend not to browse .com domains simply because most of those companies don't do business where you live. You'd do your surfing with .co.sa or whichever domain range is valid where you lived.
Also, frankly, vanity domains aren't extremely essential for business on the net. People get their URLs from friends and search engines and price bots, and in my experience nearly never go to "books.com" or "plumbing.com" to see what's there.
I'm sorry, folks. The digital divide only exists in the minds of socialists^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hliberals who worry about the poor folk not having computers, when it's largely a matter of education, not wealth. And the real estate along the information superhighway is practically boundless.
Personally, I think that trying to put all that equipment into a single piece of furniture is silly, never mind expensive.
I have a pretty big corner desk I got at Office Depot, with a short bookshelf in matching color sitting on top of the back of one side. Two APC UPSes (one for my dual monitors, one for the computer and some net equipment) act as a stand for a heavy wood platform for both monitors. A second wood platform is supported by a simple pedestal of two 1x6 boards nailed in a "T", standing between the back ends of the monitors, and a 13" TV sits atop that.
Nearby are two shelving units; one is plastic with a cabinet in the bottom, and holds my printer and various supplies. I picked that up at Target. The second is a heavy wire shelving unit on casters that I picked up at Sam's Club. That shelf holds my other CPUs, as well as open workspace and an extra monitor and keyboard for diagnostic purposes. The power and network wires are routed so I can pull the unit away from the wall for easy cabling access.
Does it sound crowded? Well, yes, it is. But it's a hell of a lot less crowded than if I'd attempted to shoehorn the lot into one desk.
Battlebots applied for their first US trademark in late 1999. They didn't receive it till October 2000, though. Check it out at http://www.uspto.gov.
Because the DJa aren't the ones who decide what not to play any more; they barely decide what they DO play. That's all upper management, and if they don't toe the line they'll probably get fired. And upper management makes their decisions based on how much cash promoters are willing to pay to get their song played.
If you're talking about an IRC that's been modified to get rid of some of the exploits, try IRCX.
If you're talking about a chat system where all communications are encrypted (though the crypto is suspect), try Filetopia.
Would someone please take that !@*$@)#$* OCX, disable it, and give it a version number so high it'll never be "upgraded"? Thanks.
A "winmodem" isn't such a bad thing for a laptop computer; having an extra power-draining chip for signal processing is bad for the battery life. 'Course, there are all those compatibility issues; but hasn't the interface been mostly standardized? Why haven't alternative-OS drivers been forthcoming?
I'd been considering setting up a commercial streaming radio server, but news of the MP3 licensing requirements chilled my enthusiasm. Vorbis perked it back up, though, and I anxiously await the release of Icecast's Vorbis-compatible version.
Yes, he broke US law while on US soil; he did it by giving a lecture on how silly the protection used by Adobe was. IMO, that law violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and is therefore invalid.
But Sklyarov wasn't arrested for that violation, or at least not solely for it; take a look at the charges against him. And those charges are for activities that took place outside the US.
The courts of the United States have lately been treating the law as if the entire planet were under their jurisdiction; e.g. Noriega, who was indicted despite never having committed crimes within the US. And while I doubt the local prosecutors would've bothered indicting Sklyarov and then having him kidnapped from Russia, gunning for him while he was in the US proved too great a temptation.
Whether this "alleged" mobster gets off or not isn't the point. Whether the search warrant was worded properly to allow the FBI to intercept keystrokes isn't the point.
The point is, in the near future, once the courts have settled on a procedure, is that the FBI will soon be able to (routinely?) get your keystroke data and use it against you. The point is, if they don't require warrants to get that data, third parties can ALREADY grab your passwords using this method.
So how does one foil this sort of attack? The only way I can think of is to use a monolithic device, similar to a smart card, with its own display and data entry, and use it to store and implement your private keys. It requires its own keypad, so no one can bug it imperceptively; and it requires a display, so you can determine no one's switched it on you.
What part of "the internet treats censorship as damage and routes around it" don't you understand?
;-)
I recently got HDTV working here, though I went a cheaper route; I spent $1000 on a store demo RCA HDTV/VGA monitor, and swapped that in place of my Sony Trinitron. I then went to the local Time Warner center and swapped my old digital box for a HDTV box. Plugged three RCA cables between the two, and poof! HDTV.
:-)
Time Warner gives me four HDTV channels, HBO and Showtime, East and West coast versions. Not all the shows are broadcast in HDTV, but when they are, they're niiiiice...
I did have a few problems. A slightly loose antenna connection introduced a LOT more noise than you'd think it could, causing one HDTV channel to stop working and another to be contaminated with pretty colored splotches (thank you MPEG).
But all in all, I'm glad I did it. And the computer in my entertainment center is happier with the VGA connection than with S-video.
As a computer technician, I sincerely hope this method does not catch on. Ow! My aching back!
"You want me to upgrade the video card? Okay. Hand me that chisel."
Quite a while ago, I pounced on what I thought was an absolutely wonderful domain name, wondering why no one had registered it. I went to NetSol's website and signed myself up. 5 minutes later I realized -- "I before E, except after..."
And so I quickly wrote an email to Network Solutions, explaining that I'd made an error registering the domain, and would you please cancel my registration. This was long before the name was entered into the root DNS servers or the WHOIS database.
Anyhow, I still get bills from NetSol, telling me my payment is late. I keep writing them, telling them to stop, but the name is still registered, and I keep getting invoices.
So -- would anyone be interested in "inconcievable.com"? Anyone? It's yours. Gratis. All you have to do is pay NetSol and for the transfer of ownership.
I'm sorry -- it's PILOT'S WATCHES that have the rules.s ky/promaster_sky_thunderbirds.htm
http://www.citizen.com.hk/eng/products/promaster/
Keep your eyes peeled when browsing around jewelry stores; some mid- and high-range diver's watches have built-in circular log-log calculators around the bezel.
If they want corporate sponsorship, they should release (ugh) Windows binaries. Many banks give out software to people who use their online services; I remember Bank of America gave me a free copy of Managing Your Money. It was pretty bad, and I'm sure BofA had to spend a lot for the software.
Given the availability of a free, GPL'd piece of software that they could give away, I'm sure they'd lend support to port the new transaction data and bill payment protocols. They'd then have the software forever.
Whatever happened to e-gold.com? I think I'd trust them nore than this new guy.
I'd heard Suck.com was just taking the summer off.
The engine needed for a hybrid like the Insight has to be small and must start reliably; diesel isn't best suited for either.