for which they then have to shell out more money for DRM-encrusted content.
Nonsense. There are a ton of drm free books out there. I subscribe to Analog magazine for example, and get more drm-free books than I have time to read from fictionwise.com. If something is released only in crippled formats, then that's their loss, as it means I read one of the many other things on my list instead, or, if I *really* want to read it, as happened recently, I buy used paper. That's only happened once though, and I've been ebooking now for about 3 years (albeit my Treo and Sony Reader, but I know the Kindle supports drm free formats too).
the guy at the border is looking for a 5 minutes spree tops
When I went into Canada, they had it for a half hour or so, twice (they decided since I was bringing in some commercial gear that triggered the whole thing in the first place, I had to use a different border crossing). Not enough to decrypt, but not just a quick skim either.
I've recently found a very nice tool for things like warcraft, which I'm only a casual player of, that require subscriptions: virtual debit card. I pay for the month I want to play with a single use card, and play for a while when I have the chance. As is often the case, when I don't have time to play for a while, I don't have to keep paying for something I'm not using.
I don't have to imagine - after a recent spate of account hijackings to send spam, I ran a check and found 127 users with passwords of "password". This is a case where I reset their passwords without talking to them first as well as imposing some requirements on the passwords. It annoyed the call center, but it's better than getting blacklisted for spamming.
The only "puzzle" game I found that was any good was 7th Guest, though the Gabriel Knight werewolf tale wasn't too bad. Most, like Myst and Rama were more about inspecting every square inch to find some trinket that you then had to poke around in random places without any clues as to what to do with it. I found them boring and painful.
OK, RTFA... Uggh. p2p'ing 1 minute buffers. What a hack. But the problem with multicast is that it requires isp support (which I know *we* don't have setup, and I doubt many do or are willing to do --- it's hard enough to get people to think about ipv6 and it has a lot more compelling justification), or non-trivial tunnel setup, where as this just works as is. On that basis, I have to admit grudging admiration for cleverness, but ugggh! It's still s..t..r.e.....a.m...i.n.g...
multicast requires that everyone be watching it at the same time. What I don't understand is why everyone keeps trying to s..t...r.e...a....m stuff over the internet. Maybe you don't have to have the disk space to cache it, but give me a quality download any day...
Whether or not the target deserves everything she gets, is this *really* a legal precedent you want to see set? It's important to look at how this might be applied in the future, not just the current circumstances.
It's also worth thinking about the validity of the notion "they deserve it, hang 'em with anything that will stick!" That's not justice, it's a lynching. Hang 'em for what they deserve and move on...
IANAL, but I don't think PC Mag or "CW33" read the law. Per Section 4a1 and 4b, it only applies if you're specifically snooping in the data on the computer. It says nothing about normal repair. Not that someone disgruntled couldn't try to make a case out of it...
I recently thought it was time to upgrade to faster net access, and a better camera would be handy too. I thought the processor must be faster too, being newer, but silly me didn't check. So I caved to the lockin and got a Treo 755p from the Sprint store.
The faster networking is nice, but the phone renders so slow, it's not a major win
The camera is the first of my treos (previous ones were 600 and 650) with a useable camera
Comes with a few more apps, and particularly like the voice recorder button, which always seemed like an obvious thing to have. I confess to getting addicted to Bejeweled on it too
Then I fired up Acrobat. See, my treo is my primary reading device. I have gone digital, and my entire library fits in the sd card (ok, I've kept a number of real books I can't get digital yet, but there's more digital content available than I have time to read, so for practical purposes...). This is one of the primary applications I use on the phone, at least the equal of actually using it as a phone or a pda, and one it's surprisingly good at. Well, the 650 is. Granted, it's a little slow --- 1-2 second page turns. Not really so different from paper page turns though. Not so the 755: 5-10 seconds. I kid you not --- I timed it. Particularly going backwards. I finally checked the specs, and it uses the same processor the 650 does, so it should be at least as fast, but something they've done really slowed it down. Didn't matter if the book was in local memory or the sd card either.
Given that the improvements were marginal, spending $300 and getting locked into it for two years (or another $200) was just silly. Hopefully Android or Openmoku will work well on a phone with a useable keyboard (ssh is another critical app, though not frequently used)...
Why people put up with "streaming" video postage stamps is beyond me. Maybe for short clips of something silly, but for real video, p2p download is the only practical way to go. If you really have to watch something live, use and pay for a network designed for it. Seems like an interesting idea would be a separate IP network that was broadcast or multicast only with the live streams. I think they call it "digital cable".
For all the complaining about throttling, just see the screams that would come if they got charged what it would cost to provide all that bandwidth for real...
My understanding of the way this works is that the devices at the ISPs are basically sniffers keeping track of who's interested in what. Web servers that serve ads then sign up with the ad companies and link to ads on the ad company web servers, which then match up who's viewing the web site with what stuff they've shown an interest in and return an appropriate ad. The result is that nothing is replaced, it just controls what they serve up in the first place, and only for sites that request it.
When you think about the data volumes in question, it's actually surprising they can do that much, actually modifying existing content on the fly would be very "challenging".
That doesn't mitigate the privacy issues, but at least it's not as evil as one might think. I'm still thinking about using a tunnel to a proxy server though.
I don't always want to be packing even an eee around all the time, whereas my treo is always there and can be used in a pinch if something's down while I'm away from a real connection. And to be honest, I'm not sure typing on the eee is any easier. It's too small to touch type on really, and too big to thumboard. At least for me, and I really wanted to like it too...
It may very well be that the original question was a well intentioned response to a gut feel about the resource usage issues, but it comes across as a BOFH "it's mine and you just stay away!", like the "gut feel response" is "NO! now what was the question?". I much prefer "I can, but this is what will happen", or in this case, "A customer wants read only access to a database; I'm nervous about this, but not sure what actual harm they could cause" as opposed to "I don't want to give them access, give me some reasons why I can say no". There is a big difference between the two.
All of these articles and comments about "worse for safety" miss the point that everything has impact, but the key point is where the threshold is. Driving 25 is safer than driving 55, but no one seriously expects the speed limit to be set to 15 or 25 mph. If cell phones were really as dangerous as everyone seems to think they are, accident rates would have soared over the last decade. People have been multitasking and driving for then entire life of the automobile, and the wagon before that. It only matters when your load increases past the threshold of your ability to handle it, and only the individual can judge that.
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...but your tap water is recycled urine too, it just happens to be a mostly natural process...
for which they then have to shell out more money for DRM-encrusted content.
Nonsense. There are a ton of drm free books out there. I subscribe to Analog magazine for example, and get more drm-free books than I have time to read from fictionwise.com. If something is released only in crippled formats, then that's their loss, as it means I read one of the many other things on my list instead, or, if I *really* want to read it, as happened recently, I buy used paper. That's only happened once though, and I've been ebooking now for about 3 years (albeit my Treo and Sony Reader, but I know the Kindle supports drm free formats too).
My Escape Hybrid is quite the reverse: 30+ @65, 27@70, 25@75, 23@80...
the guy at the border is looking for a 5 minutes spree tops
When I went into Canada, they had it for a half hour or so, twice (they decided since I was bringing in some commercial gear that triggered the whole thing in the first place, I had to use a different border crossing). Not enough to decrypt, but not just a quick skim either.
I can't, for example, view two tabs side by side or above/below each other.
They call those "windows".
And it's why FF3 is very annoying: even when it's set to open in a new window, it hides it in a tab instead. Tabs are evil spawn of the devil.
Similar to these is the subscription-based model
I've recently found a very nice tool for things like warcraft, which I'm only a casual player of, that require subscriptions: virtual debit card. I pay for the month I want to play with a single use card, and play for a while when I have the chance. As is often the case, when I don't have time to play for a while, I don't have to keep paying for something I'm not using.
Imagine your password is 'password.'
I don't have to imagine - after a recent spate of account hijackings to send spam, I ran a check and found 127 users with passwords of "password". This is a case where I reset their passwords without talking to them first as well as imposing some requirements on the passwords. It annoyed the call center, but it's better than getting blacklisted for spamming.
I'll bet organized crime has the trackers faster than the police do. Probably stolen *from* the police...
rsnapshot takes care of managing the snapshots for you as well...
The only "puzzle" game I found that was any good was 7th Guest, though the Gabriel Knight werewolf tale wasn't too bad. Most, like Myst and Rama were more about inspecting every square inch to find some trinket that you then had to poke around in random places without any clues as to what to do with it. I found them boring and painful.
OK, RTFA ... Uggh. p2p'ing 1 minute buffers. What a hack. But the problem with multicast is that it requires isp support (which I know *we* don't have setup, and I doubt many do or are willing to do --- it's hard enough to get people to think about ipv6 and it has a lot more compelling justification), or non-trivial tunnel setup, where as this just works as is. On that basis, I have to admit grudging admiration for cleverness, but ugggh! It's still s..t..r.e.....a.m...i.n.g...
multicast requires that everyone be watching it at the same time. What I don't understand is why everyone keeps trying to s..t...r.e...a....m stuff over the internet. Maybe you don't have to have the disk space to cache it, but give me a quality download any day...
Whether or not the target deserves everything she gets, is this *really* a legal precedent you want to see set? It's important to look at how this might be applied in the future, not just the current circumstances.
It's also worth thinking about the validity of the notion "they deserve it, hang 'em with anything that will stick!" That's not justice, it's a lynching. Hang 'em for what they deserve and move on...
IANAL, but I don't think PC Mag or "CW33" read the law. Per Section 4a1 and 4b, it only applies if you're specifically snooping in the data on the computer. It says nothing about normal repair. Not that someone disgruntled couldn't try to make a case out of it...
I recently thought it was time to upgrade to faster net access, and a better camera would be handy too. I thought the processor must be faster too, being newer, but silly me didn't check. So I caved to the lockin and got a Treo 755p from the Sprint store.
The faster networking is nice, but the phone renders so slow, it's not a major win
The camera is the first of my treos (previous ones were 600 and 650) with a useable camera
Comes with a few more apps, and particularly like the voice recorder button, which always seemed like an obvious thing to have. I confess to getting addicted to Bejeweled on it too
Then I fired up Acrobat. See, my treo is my primary reading device. I have gone digital, and my entire library fits in the sd card (ok, I've kept a number of real books I can't get digital yet, but there's more digital content available than I have time to read, so for practical purposes...). This is one of the primary applications I use on the phone, at least the equal of actually using it as a phone or a pda, and one it's surprisingly good at. Well, the 650 is. Granted, it's a little slow --- 1-2 second page turns. Not really so different from paper page turns though. Not so the 755: 5-10 seconds. I kid you not --- I timed it. Particularly going backwards. I finally checked the specs, and it uses the same processor the 650 does, so it should be at least as fast, but something they've done really slowed it down. Didn't matter if the book was in local memory or the sd card either.
Given that the improvements were marginal, spending $300 and getting locked into it for two years (or another $200) was just silly. Hopefully Android or Openmoku will work well on a phone with a useable keyboard (ssh is another critical app, though not frequently used)...
And I bought bejeweled for the 650 ;-)
Sony may not be going broke, but they stopped the rootkit. Even as big as they are, perhaps *because* they're as big as they are, publicity matters.
...as Sony learned with the rootkit. Any software that does crap like that will quickly find itself shunned like the malware it is...
Why people put up with "streaming" video postage stamps is beyond me. Maybe for short clips of something silly, but for real video, p2p download is the only practical way to go. If you really have to watch something live, use and pay for a network designed for it. Seems like an interesting idea would be a separate IP network that was broadcast or multicast only with the live streams. I think they call it "digital cable".
For all the complaining about throttling, just see the screams that would come if they got charged what it would cost to provide all that bandwidth for real...
My understanding of the way this works is that the devices at the ISPs are basically sniffers keeping track of who's interested in what. Web servers that serve ads then sign up with the ad companies and link to ads on the ad company web servers, which then match up who's viewing the web site with what stuff they've shown an interest in and return an appropriate ad. The result is that nothing is replaced, it just controls what they serve up in the first place, and only for sites that request it.
When you think about the data volumes in question, it's actually surprising they can do that much, actually modifying existing content on the fly would be very "challenging".
That doesn't mitigate the privacy issues, but at least it's not as evil as one might think. I'm still thinking about using a tunnel to a proxy server though.
It is amazingly fast, you'd think it was a *real* command line environment: fast and efficient.
I don't always want to be packing even an eee around all the time, whereas my treo is always there and can be used in a pinch if something's down while I'm away from a real connection. And to be honest, I'm not sure typing on the eee is any easier. It's too small to touch type on really, and too big to thumboard. At least for me, and I really wanted to like it too...
It may very well be that the original question was a well intentioned response to a gut feel about the resource usage issues, but it comes across as a BOFH "it's mine and you just stay away!", like the "gut feel response" is "NO! now what was the question?". I much prefer "I can, but this is what will happen", or in this case, "A customer wants read only access to a database; I'm nervous about this, but not sure what actual harm they could cause" as opposed to "I don't want to give them access, give me some reasons why I can say no". There is a big difference between the two.
All of these articles and comments about "worse for safety" miss the point that everything has impact, but the key point is where the threshold is. Driving 25 is safer than driving 55, but no one seriously expects the speed limit to be set to 15 or 25 mph. If cell phones were really as dangerous as everyone seems to think they are, accident rates would have soared over the last decade. People have been multitasking and driving for then entire life of the automobile, and the wagon before that. It only matters when your load increases past the threshold of your ability to handle it, and only the individual can judge that.
I don't believe it's possible to trust a public terminal. I'm planning on getting the 9" eee so it's at least more portable.
There were also the sole sponsor shows too, just like this latest round: Kraft Television Theater, Philco Television Playhouse, etc...