I'm sure this might affect the actor's union one day, but News.com is reporting that Lucas is going to have an animated lead CGI character in the next Star Wars movie. As long as they leave out Jar-Jar, I'll enjoy the ride."
Personally I don't think it'd affect any actors union for one of a few reasons.
1:
3d characters take an extreme amount of time to generate and get right, I used to be in the graphic design field and tinked with some pretty neat programs years back like Strata Pro Studio, Form-Z, etc., and I can remember the little things like hair, motion and overall movements were difficult, and judging byt he strides in today's movies (seeing Final Fantasy commercials too), it'd be hard for a company to get it right and costly.
2:
Even with the 3d generated characters, its likely bluescreens and other high tech stuff will be used to assess moves, etc., and someone will have to pose for this, which means someone is getting paid on so the 3d char isn't really free in respects to pay.
3:
3d movies, cartoons, commercials, etc., are extremely costly and time consuming, they'd end up paying more for animation artisits, modelers, renderers, hardware, software, than they'd pay an up and coming actor.
Judging by the success and overall nature of Lucas Films I think he's doing the movie solely to please himself, then the fans.
German Federal Armed Forces
banish Microsoft programs from fear of US secret services the Foreign Office and the German Federal Armed Forces safety gaps want to conclude. Instead of American software on the national computers in the future German programs will operate.
In computers, which are used in sensitive areas, no software from Microsoft is to be used anymore. After realizations of German security authorities the American espionage service NSA has encoded data all relevant source codes of the US firm and can read in such a way.
Apparently the article and everything it states is directly supported by the article. And it was me not timothy who posted the comment and it was no way done to boost any use of Linux.
Siemens is a mega
corporation, so its going to be neat to
see how this plays out on other European countries using Microsoft based products, as well as the
governments of Germany and America's trust in each other (remember with a company like
Siemens, its not like its a mom and pop company ranting off.) Germany is a very powerful force
within the European Union as well so chances of this rubbing off into other countries will likely
take place in the not-to-distant future.
Another oddity is why would they just come out of the blue and state these transmissions are going
to Denver? Out of all the places (for a conspiracy theorist to mention) in the US Denver and not
someplace like Washington. Well here are the only places I know offhand capable of
capturing, sorting info in the Colorado area along with respective information: ITS, NSA orders
(keep in mind these are publicly accessible websites and known locations)
I wonder if MS would comment on this article or will they ignore it. This isn't the first time MS
has been accused of having backdoored software.
Also its not the first time someone in the European Union has accused the United States of odd
actions involving espionage. There was also something along the lines of ECHELON being by the
U.S. used to promote industrial espionage in order to beat the EU to a large (billions of dollar
large) aerospace deal with Saudi Arabia.
Anyways...
if [ -e bombdropping ];
then
mkdir/jail ; chroot/jail deran9ed
echo "it could happen to you too"
else
for i in `find/somewhere/over/the/rainbow -name deran9ed
do
wget -U spooks www.google.com/query?deran9ed
mv $i/jail
done
fi
Well here's the babelfishified version of the German article:
German Federal Armed Forces banish Microsoft programs from fear of US secret services the
Foreign Office and the German Federal Armed Forces safety gaps want to conclude. Instead of
American software on the national computers in the future German programs will operate.
In computers, which are used in sensitive areas, no software from Microsoft is to be used
anymore. After realizations of German security authorities the American espionage service
NSA has encoded data all relevant source codes of the US firm and can read in such a way. In order
to protect secrets, the Ministry of Defense sets Siemens and Telekom therefore on encoding
techniques of the domestic companies.
The Foreign Office reset meanwhile its plan to introduce video conferences with its representations
abroad. Undersecretary of state Gunter Pleuger experienced with a Telekom presentation in Berlin at
the beginning of March that all satellite transmission ways for technical reasons run over the
American city Denver in the Federal State Colorado.
Pleuger was too uncertain the detour via the USA. " then we can hold our conferences directly in
Langley ", spoettelte a Pleuger coworker. In Langley (Virginia) the American secret service CIA
resides.
Get out a bit more often. Sure its hard when you have a ton of work, but its also healthy for one to socialize more, so take next Friday off for once this past decade, and go out and enjoy yourself. Else you could always logon to www.virtualfindadate.com and pretend your having fun.
Penalties would include a maximum 12-month jail sentence and fines of $15,000 or $10 per e-mail violation, whichever is greater, Goodlatte said.
Penalties for this are a joke and anyone in the justice system who is going to attempt to waste their time going after one spammer will spend more tax dollars taking them to court, then the justice system would gain via fines and jail times.
Nicer solution would have been to sanction ISP's, uplink providers, and hold them for some accountability with the actions generated from their networks. e.g.: Provider gets warning first 20 times then fines subsequent to every infraction thereafter. This would certainly piss ISP's off and force them to open their eyes and see their is illegal actions (spoofing emails, wire fraud believe it or not) stemming on their networks, which they would have to fix or else pay hefty fines per infraction.
Think about it for a second, this law sounds like it intends the greatest good for us who hate spam, but think about someone sending spam outside of the U.S., it won't have any effect. Just try attempting explaining to a jury of homemakers how someone used proxy A, to jump through proxy B to end up in Thailand in order to send bulk spam. It just won't work.
Davis said spam has locked up NetAccess' system several times in recent months.
That must be a hefty load of spam. I've worked in enterprise environments of over 5,000 people, each receiving mailing lists stuff, spam, friends mails, etc., and am just annoyed by it, never once crashing my systems. She must be targeted or using some cheesy systems that spammers are crashing. Let's at least be honest about it, sure we hate spam but crashing your system:\
"Spammers have become very sophisticated," she said. "Usually, the more e-mails they get through, the more they get paid."
This article reeks with clueless people attempting to explain what they don't understand. How is sophistication related to sending more emails? It doesn't take a sopistacted user to search on google for "anonymous email" and "relay". Now had she mentioned illegally relaying to unauthorized servers, via nefarious means such as TCP/IP spoofing then I'd be impressed or more attentive to her story.
there are no laws on the books for spam, the congressmen said.
Sure try bringing someone over from a third world country to prosecute them for sending spam. Then again with the lax security abroad try obtaining log records from these sources, who's only income may be from spamming mind you, and you'll be ignored since they don't have to follow the U.S'. laws
But despite the united front against Napster, behind closed doors the relationship appears to have chilled. The argument is over what the recording industry should pay publishers for the right to stream MP3 files.
Actually its ASCAP thats one of the biggest companies that pays monies to lyricists, composers, etc., so RIAA would have to deal with them before anything is even created.
On March 9, the copyright office responded to the
petitions by opening a public comment period on the question of what kind of licensing digital streaming and downloading of music files should require. Once the office settles the dispute over whether a digital stream is really the same thing as selling someone a CD, then it may arbitrate what the royalty on a digital file delivery should be.
One can argue all day and night over the ethics of RIAA's actions, but most will fail when it all comes down to rights. RIAA has the rights to their controlled assets (music) and can do as they wish with it. Sure its ethically wrong, but has anyone seen any business that was fair? shittt... even the Catholic religion is shaky
Goldsmith thinks the industry's take-no-prisoners strategy may backfire. "They're pissing off the artists," he said. "If they piss off online radio too, what's to prevent a system that doesn't involve the recording industry at all? They're encouraging the development of an alternative relationship between producers and radio stations."
This may be the ultimate solution for artists and online stations to go about. Some artists should think about releasing an online version of their songs prior to committing to anyone like RIAA, ASCAP, etc., this way their songs become more popular, people enjoy their music before its been monopolized, and artists can then leverage more rights from RIAA, and the others, and if those agencies don't like it, the artist (now popular from releasing a net based song) can then press and distribute records on their own, which many successful artists have done.
Why is it always about destruction? It seems that the only purpose people see for robots is to fight with other robots.
Agreed, I wonder why there isn't a comparison a la rap music, television, to this, but being devils advocate, there can be some advantages to programs such as this.
Pros:
If aliens ever show up, we'd use battlebots (hehe)
US spends most on military (less lives lost using robots)
Inventors (students) get a grasp of teamwork and engineering skills
Funding for students is less than hiring vendors (NASA keeps the robots I think)
NASA looking to improve so it doesn't lose another MARS probe
Cons:
Waising tax payer dollars
Creating violence in schools
Isn't telecast with XFL or Survivor for ratings
So there's more pros than cons. Seriously though, we all know about violence in schools, and society as a whole, but these are engineering and science students, not the typical misfit you see shooting up his school. Sure it can have violent tendencies to show this program or even scheme it up in the name of science, but its no different than Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek shows (well its real) on television battling it out week after week.
Think for a second about the pro's involved here. Now when a student brings a bomb to school, we have robots that disengage those bombs (nice comparison huh), well picture the future, a robot who not only disarms the student's bomb, but gives then beats on him afterwards and arrests him (very true there's the LAPD for that).;)
I find this disturbing, because as an area of research, robotics has great promise to actually contribute to the good of the human race. Robots of the potential to effectively accomplish many dangerous and difficult tasks that are today done by poorly paid overworked people.
There are plenty of robots in the workplace we all use everyday, then there are those who'll protest the use of robots in the workplace for fears of losing their jobs.
Robots should be encouraging the formation of a classless society, where everyone has leisure time and a fulfilling creative job. Instead, robots are being developed primarily as a tool of destruction.
Nonsense, that would be scary to have a "leisure" society where no one did anything. Double check that thought. Who would control the robots? Hence who would control society...
Unfortunately, geeks seem to thrive on violence
and don't realize the massive potential that is being thrown away.
Your right just yesterday I was mugged by two geeks who armed with EMP weapons demanded all of my LED lights. They tied me up using synthetic wire (environmentally friendly) and proceeded to cure my diseases with their Palm Pilot database filled with DNA sequencing. I tried to explain to the cops their identities, but failed to describe their pencil pouches.
All these patent suits, infringements, violations, are making me sick to me stomach, not only that, but I'm learning more about laws right now than reading up on my Routing TCP/IP from Cisco Press.
Has an automatic 'authoring tool' that allows an editor to create and store polls (claim 7), including fields for question text, numbers, and answers (claim 4).
Slashdot's poll isn't a tool its created with code GPL'd FREE code. Slashdot isn't making a profit selling their poll so who would bother.
Total votes and percentage fields for displaying
poll results (claim 5). A 'votes table' to track users that have already voted, a "totals table" to contain vote tallies, a 'vote handler' that processes votes, and a 'survey index table' that displays either the poll questions, or results, depending on whether the user has voted (claim 1)."
Personally I think MS may have jumped on the notion of last years infamous Presidential election and option to create a tool based product in hopes all election will be done via hardware/software based computing.
So, is Slashdot's Poll feature enough to constitute prior art in this case?
Companies don't want to go that route since all/. would have to do is post an article every hour about that company and have their sites slashdotted to oblivion, costing them more in bandwidth and administrative pay for bofh's to fix their broken networks. (;) I had to)
There is always the worry that Microsoft can begin acting in the same fashion as NCR has recently (since the patent has been issued), and start throwing lawsuits at every online poll they can find on the net. Including Slashdot's.
MS would spend more money fighting this in court then it would gain by leaving slashdot or any other content based site. Aside from that MS is up shits creek with its odd anti-trust case, and if it went to a jury (polling case) I'm sure a jury would think MS is bullying the defendant as it has done in the past which would then hurt their reputation more than it would help.
Companies who abuse legalities like this should be banned from ever obtaining a patent on anything. Well here's some links regarding patents so someone can post something informative:
With billions of dollars in Internet sales at stake, the proliferation of broad e-commerce patents is sowing confusion, uncertainty and a good deal of cynicism among many software developers and business leaders. Some legal experts, such as Robert Merges, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, believe the sheer number of patents now pending on business methods has "pushed the patent system into crisis."
Chaotic Internet isn't the word. Congress should enact a law that states all judges must know the fruits and details of a technology based case before trying the case in a court of law. If this was the case (judges knowing and understanding whats going on,) there would be an extremely low amount of mockery of broad laws, and companies would suffer severe penalties for attempting to manipulate the justice system.
Amazon.com 5,960,411 one-click purchasing
Amazon.com has used its patent to force changes to Barnes & Noble's Web site.
CyberGold 5,794,210 attention brokerage
Patent covers rewarding Web surfers for paying attention to online advertisements.
E-Data 4,528,643 download-based sales
A judge blocked E-data's attempts to enforce this pre-Internet era patent.
Netcentives 5,774,870 online incentives
One of several recently issued patents covering reward systems for Internet purchasing.
Open Market 5,715,314 electronic shopping carts
This patent may be infringed by many e-commerce sites on the Internet.
Priceline.com 5,794,207 buyer-driven sales
Priceline has sued Microsoft and its Expedia travel site for copying its patented business method.
Sightsound.com 5,191,573 music downloads
Sightsound is demanding a 1% royalty from all online music sellers, and has sued Time Warner's
CDNow.com music site for infringing its patent.
And the winner is.... Sightsound who can now sue the entire Internet and 95% of students on campuses worldwide for patent infringement.
An OpenSource company should teach one of these companies a lesson and misconstrue the GPL just to piss these abusers off.
First off sorry for the typo on submission of the article... Tom Christiansen wrote a nifty little comparison between Perl vs. Python. I've used Python quite a few times and don't know Perl
well enough to even consider myself a programmer. However many times I've had to modify
plenty of Perl scripts in order to use certain things I found useful, and one reason I would use
Python over Perl is its ease of scripting. Perl can sometimes be confusing as heck.
According to Jon Udell here are his findings on Perl vs. Python
Perl Is Bigger, But Python Is Growing Faster.
Python Is More Deeply Object-Oriented.
Perl Is more Powerful And More Mature In Some Ways.
Perl Lacks A Killer App, Zope Is Python's Killer App.
Python Is Designed To Be A Good First Language For A Beginning Programmer, Whereas Perl Is Most Useful To Programmers Familiar With C, Sed Or Awk, And UNIX Command Idioms.
His complete write up is here. (warning
the article is a bit long... 4 pages)
More Patent Woes Abroad Posted by deran9ed
March 15, 2001
from the: well-someone-had-to-poke-fun-at-it-dept
Campbell Soup (
NYSE:CPB), is prepared to
sue thousands of script kiddies worldwide for breaking the
patents on their product. With the release of "Script Kiddies Soup" (which was direct marketing
ploy to attract the younger, cyber generation of the world), lawyers for the Campbell Soup
Corporation have denied authorizing anyone to use the replacements of numbers of altered ASCII into
existing alphabets, and are looking forward to their days in court.
"Campbell soup is already a house hold name amongst mothers and on-the-go type families.
As Script Kiddies became familiar with our soup which contains a form of "hacker-Ebonics" where
E's are 3's, I's are 1's and so on, Script Kiddies have misused our product and must now pay for
their actions."
Following this news, Campbell's has stated that its Script Kiddie Soup will be relaced with
Distributed Denials of Soup v.1 which will include #,$,%,@,!, and / within the cans, as well
as a MOTD on the inside label. We also are doing an AOL:Keywords spin off for those who aren't
really hackers, but enjoy on-line soup-eating actives. They can expect a flood of ad's inside their
labels." , Said Dan R. Morris president and chief executive officer
"DoubleClick is in the midst of providing streaming ads once their patent suit is settled, and we
contend that Campbell's will be the leading e-Soup retailer in the world."
"But what about security? Just how secure is a can of Script Kiddie soup? If current hacker trends
run parrallel with history, we can expect that sooner or later someone will find a buffer overflow
and exploit the can for root-access. I would say patches wi ll be out soon to fix the compromising
areas." Said JP of antisouponline, a popular main stream security site. Others disagree stating,
"it's just a can of soup. Shut up and eat it.
Officials at the Department of Justice are now asking whether or not to file an anti-trust
suit against the Campbell Soup Corporation in attempts to see whether the company is acting in good
faith by claiming patents on numbers replaced by letters, and ultimately the alphabet.
John Ashcroft is appointing a special prosecutor to oversee the case as he vows to spend billions
in surplus tax dollars to get to the core of the latest patent war. "We're confident we will
uncover the nature of this after the NSA decrypts messages retrieved from current cans of this
soup, some of which may invoke proof of terrorism as an agent's child had the word 0s4m4 on his
spoon. We will ensure this case is brought to justice." stated Mr. Ashcroft.
Ok so its a trolling story, but you have to laugh at some of the stuff going on with all this
patent and copyright news;) Bits and pieces for this story was taken from this article
NCR then sued the students for not asking permission down the chain of command while using their Palms, following the students claim of Invasion of Privacy by guards who glimpsed (unauthorized) at their screens to determine that the students indeed were playing Quake. Pending is the reaction from IDSoftware who's latest filings show the students had not sought permission to port Q3 to the AtheOS operating system.
Imagine, if you will, hundreds of students taking a test in a large classroom. One of them, near the back of the room, perhaps, has a little chat session running on his handheld, allowing his friend who took that test during the previous period to feed him all kinds of useful information. Hmmm.
Now imagine if you will, a professor who took the time to wander through that large classroom or assistants along with the professor who monitored what was going on during the exam instead of sitting back reading the latest news instead of doing his job
Coming up with a dozen other ways to cheat on exams using a campus-wide wireless network is left as an exersize for the reader. Coming up with a reliable way to prevent such cheating is a great career move for anyone interested in an IT position with the school.
People are people and they don't neccessarily need a wireless device to cheat on an exam as they've done so for years before computers were even used in school, so this argument to me is a bit meaningless.
I will take note though that some of these campuses are overspending budget funds by purchasing some of these services (Internet based) I mean think about it on a reality based level, do you need a T1 or even a fraction of one coming into a college dorm? Sure they need net access to study but a better method would have been a reimbursement based plan to pay what they use, this way tax payer dollars stay down, colleges can purchase more, overspending is cut down, and abuse doesn't skyrocket.
Thats funny I just read about Wireless Vending Machines, and would like to point something out for the admins at GIT (if any browse here) as well as anyone using wireless networks.
The industry is rushing to wireless as it did to the Internet, and it's making the same hurried mistakes regarding security: minimizing its importance to get applications in the hands of users.
In an environment where beating the market reigns supreme and security takes second chair to proliferation, many experts predict that, much like on the wired Internet, wireless users and IT managers will end up fending off a steady stream of virus attacks, dealing with hacks into user accounts and scrambling to patch security holes. Security efforts that are under way are hampered by divergent networks and protocols and bickering over which methods are best for the wireless world.
Wow patent suits seem to be all the rage. Thoughts on this may stem from the beating companies are now taking on stock markets worldwide, and the finances their losing by the millions.
This may be a turnkey business in the next few months as businesses are attempting to stay afloat amidst the dryout of funding, etc., so I predict a flurry of Patent Law classes in law schools getting a boost as did the Physical Therapy route few years back.
The patents at issue, both granted in 1987, are for a ''Portable personal terminal for use in a system for handling transactions,'' and for a ``System for handling transactions including a portable personal terminal.''
These are very broad claims, and its unfortunate the article didn't zoom in on specifics. Its (the article, in my opinion) as if an auto maker states: We're patenting an auto that runs on four rubber wheels for personal use.
How are we to know what kind of auto they meant, sedan, suv, sports car, etc., they (patent committees) should do more when assessing patent rights to ensure those in possession of the patent don't get abused, as well as protect others from being abused by the owners of the patent themselves, which to me might be the case here judging from the time it took to bring this to court, current market conditions, and the overwhelming popularity of Palm. (jealousy kills)
NCR asked for a jury trial on its demands that Palm and Handspring be blocked from making any more of the products, and that NCR be awarded compensatory and actual damages.
I don't think NCR knows the value of having a "jury of its peers" means they're likely to get a bunch of homemakers with little clues on what the heck is going on in all fairness to both companies. They'll become quickly bored and this may go against NCR altogether. (my experience dealing with computers and the legal system)
Whereas, comments from the public have been received on a web-based public comment forum and at a Public Forum held on 12 March 2001;
Taking this out of context, I don't recall myself or anyone I know of posting any kind of public opinion of any kind in relevance to TLD's. Maybe what ICANN should have done is sent an email to existing domain owners in order to get some form of feedback in regards to new TLD's
RESOLVED [01.25] that the Board shall be notified of the complete posting of the agreement and appendices for any of the four unsponsored top-level domains (.biz,.info,.name, and.pro) and after that notification seven days shall be allowed for Board members to make any additional comments to the President and General Counsel;
This does not mean that the new TLD's will be out and about within 7 days, what it means is when all board member have made any comments, the board is then allowed an additional 7 days to add comments. Whats not known is if any board members point out a problem or deficiency, if the board goes back through the entire procedure again.
I used to work at Register.com and remember whenever ICANN made some noise the CEO and others would quickly brainstorm with lawyers in order to understand some of the enigmatic policies ICANN would sometimes introduce. Knowing more or less what ICANN is and what ICANN does, I feel bad for the non-profit organization, as they have to deal with what I call "brats on the Internet".
This ruling though will not speed up the introduction of the new TLD's though =\
With the declining ratins of the X-Files within the past 2 years, this may be just a ploy by Fox in order to boost the X-Files ratings via a publicity based case of Fox vs. "X Files Fan Club" or something.
One of the things to keep in mind is any unauthorized used of X Files (copywritten) items such as logo's, graphics, etc., may be in full violation if you don't have the prior consent of the owners. Its sort of like that warning message that comes up when you play a DVD or VHS movie, which we all ignore.
Sure it sounds as petty as all heck, but there has to be a bit more for the reasoning of Fox going after a school based fan club site which is not mentioned anywhere.
In fact, only government agents and a few privileged defense contractors were able to expend meaningful resources on crypto research.
Apparently he may have not known where exactly to look for information, cryptographic published articles were rare, and due to the time frame with no internet, it doesn't mean that they weren't available, solely harder to come across. There are documents dating back to ancient Egyptian times regarding crytpo, its the mathematics I guess is what may have been meant here.
it is also the story of that wars' enemy, the National Security Agency. The cryptography bureaucracy, gaining most of its resources during the Second World War, had built quite a palace around anything that involved codes.
This is likely to be Venona and what took place with the Enigma machines. Government of course is going to attempt to be the fundamental leader in technology at this time, as it is a highly stressful time of war, and the NSA was trying to gain ground on the Germans, to think they're the enemy is a bit of a misstatement, sure we can hate them, but the NSA is solely doing what they're told.
spooks were able to keep their lock on cryptography by invoking a mentality of "if only you knew what I know..." in classified briefings to politicians and contract negotiations with defense contractors like IBM.
Sorry to say, but in order to give a fair and just look at the whole scenario I would have preferred non "tech-racist" terms such as a spook. Sure we know what a spook is (those into security and technology), but to judge an agency while writing a book shows a dislike for government, and while I like them as much as I like mad cow disease, I think some views may be biased, which is not a fair rendition of the full spectrum of it all.
I just think I'll go out and buy the book for clarity's sake instead of rambling on.
Bandwidth isn't even a problem, the problem is wasteful spending from the inception of a site which has carried over, and or continues within the company (of the site) often leading to fund cutting by investors who've ran from NASDAQ and may not look back for now.
Think about costs some of these companies have put into their high tech sites, I've posted on this yesterday and I'll reflect more on it today with harsher numbers.
4 Sun E450's (for databases) 100,000.00
Rack space at Exodus 25,000.00 monthly (mini cage)
Lets just guesstimate 50,000.00 monthly with the company gaining a measly even 10,000.00 in banner revenue, its a losing battle.
These figures are minute to whats out there and its hard for a company with little to no real world experience to keep up with no revenue coming in. You can talk an investors ear off, but if the investor sees himself throwing away his money he will pull out no matter what you propose. Whats happening often is these companies haven't fully understood this, and are now trying to revamp their business models which will also scare investors away, as the company does not have a solid game plan for success.
Micropayments, banner ads are the gist of it all, these companies need to overhaul and cut spending drastically and show they can compete with close to nothing in order to get more funding.
Please forgive me for playing the devils advocate here, and I totally agree on most your points, hell I've been using BSD's for some time now and Windows is completely banned (as I jokingly put it) from my home.
This is why sys admins exist and why we are paid rather well.
Take a quick look at the sagging markets, and truthfully ask yourself if things will continue to flourish for sysadmins who get paid well. I'm in the sys admin/security based field and get paid well, but when it comes down to the nitty gritty, I often wonder is it really neccessary, when by using simple products, most people can be taught to fix things on their own leaving a sys admin in the cold.
What about Linux with X up and a well configured WM is *not* point and click. My wife can do it. I have given it to many secretaries all of whom with ~1 hour of training can do it.
What about when X has a huge gaping security hole, or she gets an error like connection refused, or anyone with simple relative skills, should companies spend their money waiting for admins to fix these problems often having few minutes worth of unproductive downtime?
With M$ it has been the case that people have had to play amatuer sys admin either because there was no good way to stop them from doing it or there was no really good way to do it for them.
Uh yes MS' Windows NT has perms just like Unix based systems, sure people are going to want to modify their own systems since they are the ones using it. Now take a *Nix based system and by chance you get a curious user who asks whats rm do on a live machine? Well I hope the admin took the time to ensure everything was in the proper groups.
With *nix I can use SSH to admin boxen on the other side of town and not get out of my chair.
If you haven't noticed Windows has remote administration tools including ssh now. It can easily be modified remotely.
Anyways I don't want to sound at all like an MS advocate or even Linux advocate, I just wanted to point out instances which for us geeks are simple, but in a simple world difficult.
Recently I was in a discussion with some older CTO type people and the arguements of Linux vs. MS came into play. Attempting to explain why (I thought) Linux can make some steps in the future to be where Microsoft is, I brought up the different distros, their functions, benefits over MS, etc.. One of the gentleman made some very sharp points though which no one can really refute, sure Linux is better at certain aspects of computing vs. other OS' but heres some of the failures which came in the picture of which I could not think up a retribution based answer.
Typical dekstop workplace environment
Susie the secretary will not understand *Nix vs. point and click.
Too many variations of Linux
Which one is really better as they all claim one or two niches over the other.
Gnome vs. KDE vs. etc.
Why so many desktop environments, sure alternatives are good, but when work needs to be done, money is burnt by time spent figuring out whats what on Linux vs. point and click MS
And this went on for hours. We would like to think Linux would overtake MS as the most used OS, but the fact remains, most of the people jumping online, and working on the "typical" PC based application solely need simple functions out of their pc, and them having to gcc -o something something.c or./configure --with-some-new-package ; make ; make install is just not going to cut it.
One of the toughest things to do right about now is mention words like "hurt, kill, weapon, etc.," in any school system in the United States and we all know why.
Regardless if the student was only posting information for a quote for his webpage it doesn't surprise me he was paid a visit by authorities, sure we can rant on about a scalar value of Perl or the right of free speech, but the authorities are only doing their job.
One thing I will note though is, authorities rarely take the time to dive deep into investigation when it comes to computer related crimes, as they often don't understand the full spectrum of it all (computing). Things are only going to get worse.
Trying to fight a computer based crime altogether is a nightmare in itself, as attempting to find a jury to prove your innocence while explaining what TCP/IP is, firewalls, etc., will confuse and bore the crap out of any jury sitting there, your 99% likely to lose, since as stated many won't understand whats going on, many will be bored, and many will fall for anything a DA tells them, especially if you have some circumstantial material against you.
Its a shame that things are this way, but thats the way the cookie crumbles, and theres only so much you can do to protect your rights online.
Is it just me, or is the main use of a hard link to the internet the "always on" availability?
Personally after reading through the "features" on the router gizmo they're selling, I take it as Helius trying to do a few things.
Capitalize on not-so-tech-savvy people
Capitalize on "that Linux groove going on
Sell people on MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY based router
Now this Maximum Availability ploy they mention is for them to reconfigure your router when a network or cable connection is down and will do little to nothing to get someone on the net, so they win with the not-so-tech-savvy people who spend their money thinking its an always redundant connection.
I probably rather take an "always on" 128k line over a dial up satellite deal like this one.
Ahh simplicity. Well the typical person will not need a fraction of a t1 connection to their homes for some time unless everything becomes bloat. People are often confused by the myriads of technology stuff so obscure and shoved down their throats they take little time to read the fine print.
More power to Helius for gaining some sort of niche on the market somehow, as for me I'll stick with my SoHo Cisco 1xxx based home DSL router which serves me fine and has throughout the years at the fraction of the cost of this product. 700.00 US a year ago on ebay;)
but are cellular phones a necessity? Ten years ago we would have laughed at the idea of phones being a necessity.
In theory we all would love to think they're neccessities and they sure have simplified things in major ways, but remember the world was fine without them. I carry the whole bit, cell, palm, laptop, motorola x1000 typewriting pager and so much other stuff sometimes I have to stop and ask, "Why do I need this for?". Its mostly a gimmick we tell ourselves is a need because we're in the techie field, but the bottom line is millions survive and do just fine without something as common as a cellular phone.
Palm hopes that the future will hold a similar fate for digital wireless, and they are probably right. We won't *need* to check our email and stock quotes while waiting on a table at a restaurant, but we will come to expect the capability, and many will become somewhat dependant on it.
Don't get me wrong on my post I am not against signifying anything is the next best thing, but I do think in both now and yesterday as history does tend to repeat itself. Take a look at NASDAQ and the pounding its taking, now take 1000 investors and sell them wireless. Have them dump billions into it only to have some new technology come out next month. Its counting chickens before they hatch my friend;)
Slashdot Mirror
Personally I don't think it'd affect any actors union for one of a few reasons.
Judging by the success and overall nature of Lucas Films I think he's doing the movie solely to please himself, then the fans.
vroom vroom
besides... last uname -a I did showed FreeBSD
Siemens is a mega corporation, so its going to be neat to see how this plays out on other European countries using Microsoft based products, as well as the governments of Germany and America's trust in each other (remember with a company like Siemens, its not like its a mom and pop company ranting off.) Germany is a very powerful force within the European Union as well so chances of this rubbing off into other countries will likely take place in the not-to-distant future.
Another oddity is why would they just come out of the blue and state these transmissions are going to Denver? Out of all the places (for a conspiracy theorist to mention) in the US Denver and not someplace like Washington. Well here are the only places I know offhand capable of capturing, sorting info in the Colorado area along with respective information: ITS, NSA orders (keep in mind these are publicly accessible websites and known locations)
I wonder if MS would comment on this article or will they ignore it. This isn't the first time MS has been accused of having backdoored software.
(In fact here ya go enjoy... gov doc a, gov doc b, Slashdot's prior MS/Backdoor article)
Also its not the first time someone in the European Union has accused the United States of odd actions involving espionage. There was also something along the lines of ECHELON being by the U.S. used to promote industrial espionage in order to beat the EU to a large (billions of dollar large) aerospace deal with Saudi Arabia.
Anyways...
Well here's the babelfishified version of the German article:
crummy translation...
vroom vroom
Pink slip parties
Copyright/Patent courts
Napster protests
Consoling women after a school shooting
Workplace (make sure she signs an NDA though)
Get out a bit more often. Sure its hard when you have a ton of work, but its also healthy for one to socialize more, so take next Friday off for once this past decade, and go out and enjoy yourself. Else you could always logon to www.virtualfindadate.com and pretend your having fun.
Penalties for this are a joke and anyone in the justice system who is going to attempt to waste their time going after one spammer will spend more tax dollars taking them to court, then the justice system would gain via fines and jail times.
Nicer solution would have been to sanction ISP's, uplink providers, and hold them for some accountability with the actions generated from their networks. e.g.: Provider gets warning first 20 times then fines subsequent to every infraction thereafter. This would certainly piss ISP's off and force them to open their eyes and see their is illegal actions (spoofing emails, wire fraud believe it or not) stemming on their networks, which they would have to fix or else pay hefty fines per infraction.
Think about it for a second, this law sounds like it intends the greatest good for us who hate spam, but think about someone sending spam outside of the U.S., it won't have any effect. Just try attempting explaining to a jury of homemakers how someone used proxy A, to jump through proxy B to end up in Thailand in order to send bulk spam. It just won't work.
That must be a hefty load of spam. I've worked in enterprise environments of over 5,000 people, each receiving mailing lists stuff, spam, friends mails, etc., and am just annoyed by it, never once crashing my systems. She must be targeted or using some cheesy systems that spammers are crashing. Let's at least be honest about it, sure we hate spam but crashing your system
This article reeks with clueless people attempting to explain what they don't understand. How is sophistication related to sending more emails? It doesn't take a sopistacted user to search on google for "anonymous email" and "relay". Now had she mentioned illegally relaying to unauthorized servers, via nefarious means such as TCP/IP spoofing then I'd be impressed or more attentive to her story.
Sure try bringing someone over from a third world country to prosecute them for sending spam. Then again with the lax security abroad try obtaining log records from these sources, who's only income may be from spamming mind you, and you'll be ignored since they don't have to follow the U.S'. laws
Actually its ASCAP thats one of the biggest companies that pays monies to lyricists, composers, etc., so RIAA would have to deal with them before anything is even created.
One can argue all day and night over the ethics of RIAA's actions, but most will fail when it all comes down to rights. RIAA has the rights to their controlled assets (music) and can do as they wish with it. Sure its ethically wrong, but has anyone seen any business that was fair? shittt... even the Catholic religion is shaky
This may be the ultimate solution for artists and online stations to go about. Some artists should think about releasing an online version of their songs prior to committing to anyone like RIAA, ASCAP, etc., this way their songs become more popular, people enjoy their music before its been monopolized, and artists can then leverage more rights from RIAA, and the others, and if those agencies don't like it, the artist (now popular from releasing a net based song) can then press and distribute records on their own, which many successful artists have done.
L. Ron Hubbard's FBI files a la FOIA
./rant Agreed, I wonder why there isn't a comparison a la rap music, television, to this, but being devils advocate, there can be some advantages to programs such as this.
Pros:
If aliens ever show up, we'd use battlebots (hehe)
US spends most on military (less lives lost using robots)
Inventors (students) get a grasp of teamwork and engineering skills
Funding for students is less than hiring vendors (NASA keeps the robots I think)
NASA looking to improve so it doesn't lose another MARS probe
Cons:
Waising tax payer dollars
Creating violence in schools
Isn't telecast with XFL or Survivor for ratings
;)
There are plenty of robots in the workplace we all use everyday, then there are those who'll protest the use of robots in the workplace for fears of losing their jobs.So there's more pros than cons. Seriously though, we all know about violence in schools, and society as a whole, but these are engineering and science students, not the typical misfit you see shooting up his school. Sure it can have violent tendencies to show this program or even scheme it up in the name of science, but its no different than Gene Rodenberry's Star Trek shows (well its real) on television battling it out week after week.
Think for a second about the pro's involved here. Now when a student brings a bomb to school, we have robots that disengage those bombs (nice comparison huh), well picture the future, a robot who not only disarms the student's bomb, but gives then beats on him afterwards and arrests him (very true there's the LAPD for that).
Nonsense, that would be scary to have a "leisure" society where no one did anything. Double check that thought. Who would control the robots? Hence who would control society...
Your right just yesterday I was mugged by two geeks who armed with EMP weapons demanded all of my LED lights. They tied me up using synthetic wire (environmentally friendly) and proceeded to cure my diseases with their Palm Pilot database filled with DNA sequencing. I tried to explain to the cops their identities, but failed to describe their pencil pouches.
Better the ASPCA than those deran9ed Scientologist. Better yet, who's gonna search for the patent on the role-playing of god and sue?
All these patent suits, infringements, violations, are making me sick to me stomach, not only that, but I'm learning more about laws right now than reading up on my Routing TCP/IP from Cisco Press.
Slashdot's poll isn't a tool its created with code GPL'd FREE code. Slashdot isn't making a profit selling their poll so who would bother.
Personally I think MS may have jumped on the notion of last years infamous Presidential election and option to create a tool based product in hopes all election will be done via hardware/software based computing.
Companies don't want to go that route since all
MS would spend more money fighting this in court then it would gain by leaving slashdot or any other content based site. Aside from that MS is up shits creek with its odd anti-trust case, and if it went to a jury (polling case) I'm sure a jury would think MS is bullying the defendant as it has done in the past which would then hurt their reputation more than it would help.
killall -9 myrants
more Patent woes
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:
Software Patent Institute
Bustpatents.com
invalid/withdrawn/pathetic software patents.
"Software Patents Tangle the Web,"
Chaotic Internet isn't the word. Congress should enact a law that states all judges must know the fruits and details of a technology based case before trying the case in a court of law. If this was the case (judges knowing and understanding whats going on,) there would be an extremely low amount of mockery of broad laws, and companies would suffer severe penalties for attempting to manipulate the justice system.Amazon.com 5,960,411 one-click purchasing
Amazon.com has used its patent to force changes to Barnes & Noble's Web site.
CyberGold 5,794,210 attention brokerage
Patent covers rewarding Web surfers for paying attention to online advertisements.
E-Data 4,528,643 download-based sales
A judge blocked E-data's attempts to enforce this pre-Internet era patent.
Netcentives 5,774,870 online incentives
One of several recently issued patents covering reward systems for Internet purchasing.
Open Market 5,715,314 electronic shopping carts
This patent may be infringed by many e-commerce sites on the Internet.
Priceline.com
5,794,207 buyer-driven sales
Priceline has sued Microsoft and its Expedia travel site for copying its patented business method.
Sightsound.com 5,191,573 music downloads
Sightsound is demanding a 1% royalty from all online music sellers, and has sued Time Warner's CDNow.com music site for infringing its patent.
And the winner is.... Sightsound who can now sue the entire Internet and 95% of students on campuses worldwide for patent infringement.
An OpenSource company should teach one of these companies a lesson and misconstrue the GPL just to piss these abusers off.
more Patent infringments
First off sorry for the typo on submission of the article... Tom Christiansen wrote a nifty little comparison between Perl vs. Python. I've used Python quite a few times and don't know Perl well enough to even consider myself a programmer. However many times I've had to modify plenty of Perl scripts in order to use certain things I found useful, and one reason I would use Python over Perl is its ease of scripting. Perl can sometimes be confusing as heck.
According to Jon Udell here are his findings on Perl vs. Python
Perl Is Bigger, But Python Is Growing Faster.
Python Is More Deeply Object-Oriented.
Perl Is more Powerful And More Mature In Some Ways.
Perl Lacks A Killer App, Zope Is Python's Killer App.
Python Is Designed To Be A Good First Language For A Beginning Programmer, Whereas Perl Is Most Useful To Programmers Familiar With C, Sed Or Awk, And UNIX Command Idioms.
His complete write up is here. (warning the article is a bit long... 4 pages)
And finally Python Humor
Posted by deran9ed
March 15, 2001
from the: well-someone-had-to-poke-fun-at-it-dept
Ok so its a trolling story, but you have to laugh at some of the stuff going on with all this patent and copyright news
NCR then sued the students for not asking permission down the chain of command while using their Palms, following the students claim of Invasion of Privacy by guards who glimpsed (unauthorized) at their screens to determine that the students indeed were playing Quake. Pending is the reaction from IDSoftware who's latest filings show the students had not sought permission to port Q3 to the AtheOS operating system.
Shakespeare in dub
Now imagine if you will, a professor who took the time to wander through that large classroom or assistants along with the professor who monitored what was going on during the exam instead of sitting back reading the latest news instead of doing his job
People are people and they don't neccessarily need a wireless device to cheat on an exam as they've done so for years before computers were even used in school, so this argument to me is a bit meaningless.
I will take note though that some of these campuses are overspending budget funds by purchasing some of these services (Internet based) I mean think about it on a reality based level, do you need a T1 or even a fraction of one coming into a college dorm? Sure they need net access to study but a better method would have been a reimbursement based plan to pay what they use, this way tax payer dollars stay down, colleges can purchase more, overspending is cut down, and abuse doesn't skyrocket.
Where in the world is SpeedyGrl
Thats funny I just read about Wireless Vending Machines, and would like to point something out for the admins at GIT (if any browse here) as well as anyone using wireless networks.
Full article here and its pretty straightforward.
AntiOffline uncovers F.B.I's secret mole
Wow patent suits seem to be all the rage. Thoughts on this may stem from the beating companies are now taking on stock markets worldwide, and the finances their losing by the millions.
This may be a turnkey business in the next few months as businesses are attempting to stay afloat amidst the dryout of funding, etc., so I predict a flurry of Patent Law classes in law schools getting a boost as did the Physical Therapy route few years back.
These are very broad claims, and its unfortunate the article didn't zoom in on specifics. Its (the article, in my opinion) as if an auto maker states: We're patenting an auto that runs on four rubber wheels for personal use.
How are we to know what kind of auto they meant, sedan, suv, sports car, etc., they (patent committees) should do more when assessing patent rights to ensure those in possession of the patent don't get abused, as well as protect others from being abused by the owners of the patent themselves, which to me might be the case here judging from the time it took to bring this to court, current market conditions, and the overwhelming popularity of Palm. (jealousy kills)
I don't think NCR knows the value of having a "jury of its peers" means they're likely to get a bunch of homemakers with little clues on what the heck is going on in all fairness to both companies. They'll become quickly bored and this may go against NCR altogether. (my experience dealing with computers and the legal system)
Theories in DoS
Taking this out of context, I don't recall myself or anyone I know of posting any kind of public opinion of any kind in relevance to TLD's. Maybe what ICANN should have done is sent an email to existing domain owners in order to get some form of feedback in regards to new TLD's
This does not mean that the new TLD's will be out and about within 7 days, what it means is when all board member have made any comments, the board is then allowed an additional 7 days to add comments. Whats not known is if any board members point out a problem or deficiency, if the board goes back through the entire procedure again.
I used to work at Register.com and remember whenever ICANN made some noise the CEO and others would quickly brainstorm with lawyers in order to understand some of the enigmatic policies ICANN would sometimes introduce. Knowing more or less what ICANN is and what ICANN does, I feel bad for the non-profit organization, as they have to deal with what I call "brats on the Internet".
This ruling though will not speed up the introduction of the new TLD's though =\
AntiOffline.com vs. Register.com
With the declining ratins of the X-Files within the past 2 years, this may be just a ploy by Fox in order to boost the X-Files ratings via a publicity based case of Fox vs. "X Files Fan Club" or something.
One of the things to keep in mind is any unauthorized used of X Files (copywritten) items such as logo's, graphics, etc., may be in full violation if you don't have the prior consent of the owners. Its sort of like that warning message that comes up when you play a DVD or VHS movie, which we all ignore.
Sure it sounds as petty as all heck, but there has to be a bit more for the reasoning of Fox going after a school based fan club site which is not mentioned anywhere.
SpeedyGrl Files
Apparently he may have not known where exactly to look for information, cryptographic published articles were rare, and due to the time frame with no internet, it doesn't mean that they weren't available, solely harder to come across. There are documents dating back to ancient Egyptian times regarding crytpo, its the mathematics I guess is what may have been meant here.
This is likely to be Venona and what took place with the Enigma machines. Government of course is going to attempt to be the fundamental leader in technology at this time, as it is a highly stressful time of war, and the NSA was trying to gain ground on the Germans, to think they're the enemy is a bit of a misstatement, sure we can hate them, but the NSA is solely doing what they're told.
Sorry to say, but in order to give a fair and just look at the whole scenario I would have preferred non "tech-racist" terms such as a spook. Sure we know what a spook is (those into security and technology), but to judge an agency while writing a book shows a dislike for government, and while I like them as much as I like mad cow disease, I think some views may be biased, which is not a fair rendition of the full spectrum of it all.
I just think I'll go out and buy the book for clarity's sake instead of rambling on.
CIA vs. Soviets (top secret declassified docs)
Bandwidth isn't even a problem, the problem is wasteful spending from the inception of a site which has carried over, and or continues within the company (of the site) often leading to fund cutting by investors who've ran from NASDAQ and may not look back for now.
Think about costs some of these companies have put into their high tech sites, I've posted on this yesterday and I'll reflect more on it today with harsher numbers.
4 Sun E450's (for databases) 100,000.00
Rack space at Exodus 25,000.00 monthly (mini cage)
20 Misc Servers Apache, etc. VAR501's 3,000.00
Admins for the hardware software 6,000.00 monthly
Content, programmers, etc authors, 6,000.00 monthly
Office space 6,000 monthly
Lets just guesstimate 50,000.00 monthly with the company gaining a measly even 10,000.00 in banner revenue, its a losing battle.
These figures are minute to whats out there and its hard for a company with little to no real world experience to keep up with no revenue coming in. You can talk an investors ear off, but if the investor sees himself throwing away his money he will pull out no matter what you propose. Whats happening often is these companies haven't fully understood this, and are now trying to revamp their business models which will also scare investors away, as the company does not have a solid game plan for success.
Micropayments, banner ads are the gist of it all, these companies need to overhaul and cut spending drastically and show they can compete with close to nothing in order to get more funding.
Money Talks
Please forgive me for playing the devils advocate here, and I totally agree on most your points, hell I've been using BSD's for some time now and Windows is completely banned (as I jokingly put it) from my home.
Take a quick look at the sagging markets, and truthfully ask yourself if things will continue to flourish for sysadmins who get paid well. I'm in the sys admin/security based field and get paid well, but when it comes down to the nitty gritty, I often wonder is it really neccessary, when by using simple products, most people can be taught to fix things on their own leaving a sys admin in the cold.
What about when X has a huge gaping security hole, or she gets an error like connection refused, or anyone with simple relative skills, should companies spend their money waiting for admins to fix these problems often having few minutes worth of unproductive downtime?
Uh yes MS' Windows NT has perms just like Unix based systems, sure people are going to want to modify their own systems since they are the ones using it. Now take a *Nix based system and by chance you get a curious user who asks whats rm do on a live machine? Well I hope the admin took the time to ensure everything was in the proper groups.
If you haven't noticed Windows has remote administration tools including ssh now. It can easily be modified remotely.
Anyways I don't want to sound at all like an MS advocate or even Linux advocate, I just wanted to point out instances which for us geeks are simple, but in a simple world difficult.
Recently I was in a discussion with some older CTO type people and the arguements of Linux vs. MS came into play. Attempting to explain why (I thought) Linux can make some steps in the future to be where Microsoft is, I brought up the different distros, their functions, benefits over MS, etc.. One of the gentleman made some very sharp points though which no one can really refute, sure Linux is better at certain aspects of computing vs. other OS' but heres some of the failures which came in the picture of which I could not think up a retribution based answer.
Typical dekstop workplace environment
Susie the secretary will not understand *Nix vs. point and click.
Too many variations of Linux
Which one is really better as they all claim one or two niches over the other.
Gnome vs. KDE vs. etc.
./configure --with-some-new-package ; make ; make install is just not going to cut it.
Why so many desktop environments, sure alternatives are good, but when work needs to be done, money is burnt by time spent figuring out whats what on Linux vs. point and click MS
And this went on for hours. We would like to think Linux would overtake MS as the most used OS, but the fact remains, most of the people jumping online, and working on the "typical" PC based application solely need simple functions out of their pc, and them having to gcc -o something something.c or
The Big Breach"
One of the toughest things to do right about now is mention words like "hurt, kill, weapon, etc.," in any school system in the United States and we all know why.
Regardless if the student was only posting information for a quote for his webpage it doesn't surprise me he was paid a visit by authorities, sure we can rant on about a scalar value of Perl or the right of free speech, but the authorities are only doing their job.
One thing I will note though is, authorities rarely take the time to dive deep into investigation when it comes to computer related crimes, as they often don't understand the full spectrum of it all (computing). Things are only going to get worse.
Trying to fight a computer based crime altogether is a nightmare in itself, as attempting to find a jury to prove your innocence while explaining what TCP/IP is, firewalls, etc., will confuse and bore the crap out of any jury sitting there, your 99% likely to lose, since as stated many won't understand whats going on, many will be bored, and many will fall for anything a DA tells them, especially if you have some circumstantial material against you.
Its a shame that things are this way, but thats the way the cookie crumbles, and theres only so much you can do to protect your rights online.
Our IRC server is up
Is it just me, or is the main use of a hard link to the internet the "always on" availability?
Personally after reading through the "features" on the router gizmo they're selling, I take it as Helius trying to do a few things.
Capitalize on not-so-tech-savvy people
Capitalize on "that Linux groove going on
Sell people on MAXIMUM AVAILABILITY based router
;)
Now this Maximum Availability ploy they mention is for them to reconfigure your router when a network or cable connection is down and will do little to nothing to get someone on the net, so they win with the not-so-tech-savvy people who spend their money thinking its an always redundant connection.
I probably rather take an "always on" 128k line over a dial up satellite deal like this one.
Ahh simplicity. Well the typical person will not need a fraction of a t1 connection to their homes for some time unless everything becomes bloat. People are often confused by the myriads of technology stuff so obscure and shoved down their throats they take little time to read the fine print.
More power to Helius for gaining some sort of niche on the market somehow, as for me I'll stick with my SoHo Cisco 1xxx based home DSL router which serves me fine and has throughout the years at the fraction of the cost of this product. 700.00 US a year ago on ebay
True Life James Bond
but are cellular phones a necessity? Ten years ago we would have laughed at the idea of phones being a necessity.
;)
In theory we all would love to think they're neccessities and they sure have simplified things in major ways, but remember the world was fine without them. I carry the whole bit, cell, palm, laptop, motorola x1000 typewriting pager and so much other stuff sometimes I have to stop and ask, "Why do I need this for?". Its mostly a gimmick we tell ourselves is a need because we're in the techie field, but the bottom line is millions survive and do just fine without something as common as a cellular phone.
Palm hopes that the future will hold a similar fate for digital wireless, and they are probably right. We won't *need* to check our email and stock quotes while waiting on a table at a restaurant, but we will come to expect the capability, and many will become somewhat dependant on it.
Don't get me wrong on my post I am not against signifying anything is the next best thing, but I do think in both now and yesterday as history does tend to repeat itself. Take a look at NASDAQ and the pounding its taking, now take 1000 investors and sell them wireless. Have them dump billions into it only to have some new technology come out next month. Its counting chickens before they hatch my friend