Fiber is expensive as hell and many companies like QWEST already have existing dark fiber all over the place. Many corporations have yet taken measures to move unto those strands of unused fibers, and it would cost many companies an arm and leg to replace their cabling, especially when they haven't even used it yet.
Sounds great. So, where's the catch? It's a matter of limits. As communications networks get bigger, busier and more ambitious, the drawbacks of conventional glass fibers are becoming evident, and existing optical-fiber networks will eventually be unable to cope.
This is looking way into the future. Has anyone here actually upgraded to a fiber ethernet based network, or is everyone hoping. In reality its again a very expensive thing to do, cheap to think about, but expensive to do.
With companies like PSInet which is a big ass ISP coming near the brinks of bankruptcy, many companies are in a rush to SAVE money not run out to buy more equipment, upgrade, etc. I would like to see networks get faster, but is it a complete neccessity at this point?... The answer is sadly no, and who knows by the time this is even feasible, with the way technology changes, there's bound to be something even faster by the time this becomes something close to a standard. Kudos to the MIT people though;)
Educational systems out here in the US are slowly turning into a battle zone, so there's little wonder why words were taken so harsh, take for example this "infant" who was suspend for horseplaying with a paper gun.
IMHO little is being done to educate kids by way of showing them the dangers of their actions, suspension is not the key, as there are many students who love the idea of being suspended and not having to go to school. Instead of taking them away, more should be done, to show them what dangers weapons possess, the psychological dangers of being bullied, and bullying someone else.
"why would I want to go back to a school that lies, breaks state laws, and gets rid of bright students who finally snap, merely to 'make the school feel safer?' All the school is doing is satisfying a few parents' false sense of insecurity, brought on by the intense media attention to the recent school shootings, by giving them a false sense of security, at the expense of students like myself. The ONLY reason I'd want to go back is to see my few friends again, and I can keep in contact with them without going to school."
This sense of going to school as if it were a fashion show or sorts seems to also be a problem when it comes to teens. School is the foundation for learning, in order to get ahead in life, sure friends are great, but friends won't be around to pay the bills in the long run. The system is not there to cater to the needs of a teenager who's idea of school is a social club, it's there to teach, not to satisfy the personal needs of an individual.
Sure one can empathize with the feelings of the teen when its stated that officials are appealing to the recent tightening of rules from pressure, but can you blame the parents? You can take away one bad apple before he snaps and save your children, or you could wait until the ticking timebomb explodes... Personally I would want my kid safe.
I wonder if Sean deserves anything more than a useful speech on sensible responses to morons. Perhaps he should be called into an office and told that one of an individual's noblest callings is to make fools reveal themselves.
Doing this would possibly cause more harm than it would help. What should be done is, parents of both the kids should get together along with the kids to work out the differences. Parents who leave the system to "raise" their children as well as teach them, are just as much to blame as the kids are.
This surely can be attributed to parents who have little time to spend with their kids for whatever reason, work, stress, etc. More should come out of the parents of these kids, instead of the parents using the system as a scapegoat.
I find this to be a bit disturbing idea, and I'm glad I'm not dutch. Personal information should be kept personal, and not not stored online by any means, especially not this amount of information. With the increasing amount of security incidents its a miracle this thing wasn't laughed at from the beginning.
Whats more disturbing is the fct that companies will lie in efforts not to disclose these breaches as some UK banks have done, which is an utter disservice to their clients. When will people get their heads right?
But the Commission also proposes that Dutch citizens get the possibility to store other information in their digital safe-deposit, like
medical and financial information. Citizens can decide to whom they will give access to these types of information. The digital safe-deposit
should be located at the web sites of the municipialities. For the protection of the safe-deposits the commission suggests to give each
Dutch citizen an electronic identity card with biometrics information. Citizens who are not on-line should get access to their digital safe-deposit through public terminals at the municipal hall.
As if Biometrics is the answer to all problems. "some biometrics are easy to steal. Imagine a remote system that uses face recognition as a biometric. "In order to gain authorization, take a Polaroid picture of yourself and mail it in.We'll
compare the picture with the one we have in file." What are the attacks here?" (taken from a Bruce Schneier article)
The Commission thinks that the introduction of the system will give a boost to the digitalisation of Dutch society. New developments like electronic commerce and payment systems for driving have a clear need for the availability of reliable personal data that easily can be transferred and checked.
Personally I see a huge influx of identify thefts occuring there if they do go ahead with this system. Its bad enough its extremely easy to get information on anyone as it stands, and now you have the Dutch become more receptive to irresponsibly giving it away for free, to those who can manipulate their (often easily accessible)
networks.
One thing I can say is, I'm glad we have groups in the US that counter these types of actions from seeing the light of day out here in the US. Your privacy should be guarded with your life, since it ultimately is your life. Not some stored bit of information legislators wanna use for political agendas such as pushing for an ecommerce or "digitalization" boost to their economies.
TuxBox crew pledges to do what Indrema failed to do -- bring a Linux gaming/multipurpose console to market.
What they should do is approach some of the gaming companies for assistance on the project. One of the failures I saw on Indrema (why it lost funding or hopes of funding) fell into expecting some VC to back them, which we know from stats, won't happen for some time.
The company's founders should have approached a game developer with their idea along with the statistics (or expected analysis) of what they forsaw in terms of users. (which in turn create revenue)
Even a game company no matter which platform they created for would have had to take a look at the marketability for the product, unless MS bullied them
The TuxBox team believes they can have a console ready to sell, with several game titles available, by this fall, even though they haven't been able to salvage any code from Indrema. That goal could
sound unrealistic, or even cocky, but the project's founders are approaching the task with a
matter-of-fact determination and a passion for creating a better gaming console.
Thats a lousy way for the developers to put it "better gaming console", since their underlying job is to bring out a gaming console, and when you have little by way of revenue, going up against heavy hitting marketing teams like that of MS' xbox is a killer in itself.
Instead of being arrogant about it, the company should just do whatever it takes, then brag later.
"We want to allow people to develop for a video game system that may not have enough money to
develop for another big name system," Riley says. "Our development kit will be free and allow
anyone to develop for us."
Again, I hope these guys get it right this time around, and pull together from managing the entire project, from the upper level teamwork to actually getting the code right. (not that it was wrong the first time)
The plan is to have 20 to 30 games, a combination of freeware and commercial titles, ready for the
TuxBox when it's available to buy, and the TuxBox team hopes to offer at least one commercial game with the console. Games being developed for Indrema should have little difficulty transferring
to the TuxBox, Isley and Riley say.
Slightly bad move, what they should do is make cheap games say uner $10.00 US. Lets face it the thought of free my sound inspiring, but it won't you you far, however it will make you broke really fast. Create a pay pal account and have users of their games give what they can under $10.00 (US) this way they have some form of revenue to keep their business afloat, and away from dying as fast as Indrema did.
Riley says having a good number of freeware games is a major advantage TuxBox will have over its
big competitors such as Playstation, and another is the attraction of being able to create your own
games.
Sigh... Going up against a heavy hitter such as Playstation is way far fetched. Even mentioning them when your first project wen to shit makes the whole project laughable. They need to focus on their own product, get it up and running. Talk is cheap.
"No system out there currently, or coming out, will suit my needs for what I want in a console:
freeware games; a free community; develop and distribute your own games for free," Riley says.
This does little for this who are keen to playing games they're familiar with. Again why not approach some of the game developers with an idea of porting all games to their box, and a small price. Everyone makes money, and everyone can look forward to playing games with familiarity as well as propietary games.
Think about it Zelda X on this machine would rock, and everyone would enjoy it, money would be made, the company wouldn't end up on fuckedcompany.com before it even launched.
moming from Ximian, is an all inclusive package where one wouldn't have to download all those other dependencies just to build something.
It gets tiring having to download umpteen amounts of extra baggage via way of additions (glade etc.) just to get something to run. Even moreso gets more tiring searching for those packages hoping they've been updated to follow suit to newer revs of the original product (gnome). Aside from that for those with limited space, it would serve them greatly to have Ximian products include only the neccessities to build the product and not the whole library (whenever possible) to save space.
uhm you must be a dumb ass... That program is written to remove data according to Department of Defense standards. The script I made just uses it to wipe what I specified.
What part of SECURELY WIPING did you miss out on dumb ass
Hopefully the agents who are losing their laptops aren't doing anything super secretive, lord knows if they lose a typical laptop, imagine what could happen with some super secretive 2inch chip;\
To combat this spate of missing-in-action machines, the Defense Ministry plans to outfit their absent-minded workers with secret-agent-style briefcases that protect national secrets by automatically destroying the contents of lost laptops' hard drives.
Shit I could write them a script to do this after three failed attempts, and securely wipe their data beyond comprehension. What they should do is give those agents time off with a suspension, ultimately leading to being fired for incompetence and negligence.
Odd that an MI6 agent would be out bar hopping with her laptop. I know the UK is a bit more relaxed then we are out here in the US, however I still can't grasp losing a laptop, let alone going to a bar with a laptop that had gov secrets on it if I intended to get hammered.
Maybe their government should look into a biometrics fingerprint based system which wipes a laptop on a failed attempt.
By purchasing something like some super elite case, I'm sure those laptops which were stolen will be easier to target the next time around.
This could save many lives especially when certain surgeries could be avoided by taking these pills however I hope these scientists look at all aspects of the scenario before releasing them for use. e.g.: Testing scenarios that many would be subjected to, for instance a patient taking them who works in an industry with massive radio frequencies bouncing around. (Wouldn't want a pill to go bonkers)
Although this miniature pharmacy is promising, it still isn't ready to run independently. The voltage on each reservoir must be controlled by an external power source connected to the chip via wires threaded through the animal's tissue.
Would be nice if they could use the amounts of electric currents already traversing the human body to avoid using too many techie based things.
including squeezing up to 100 drug reservoirs onto some versions. Since each reservoir can hold only minute amounts of either powder or fluid, the company is focusing on using the chips for delivering potent drugs such as pain medications, anticancer agents, hormones and steroids.
I wonder if the scientists have tested to see if some drugs are succeptible to various things such as electronics, would their potency become less or more powerful, can they affect the actual medication? I'm sure they have, and I hate to see stories which leave a lot to question.
Or a radio-controlled chip that would allow a doctor to reprogram the device remotely after implantation, should the patient need a new dosing schedule.
IMHO I don't like the idea of having someone control something while its in my body. Are there going to be educational training seminars for the doctors, and maybe an association to monitor those doctors' actions. For example, what if you piss your doctor off by not paying a bill on time, the thought of them having the power to remotely make you worse is scary.
All in all though I hope it works, it could save many from being scarred by surgery, and it could give doctors better insights into the innards of a sickly human.
Finally we could save our soldiers and send super ninja moths after the Chinese government and Saddam
By feeding the wasps sugar water as he exposed them to the odor of di-nitro toluene, an explosive akin to dynamite, he was able to teach the insects to seek di-nitro toluene in the field.
But having trained his "miniature bloodhounds," Bromenshenk had to be able to track them electronically. Radio transmitters were too heavy, and although scientists had had some success gluing microchips on the bees, the process took too long.
SET US UP THE WASPS
Bromenshenk is waiting for someone to produce a "spray-on" chip.
stops (takes a deep breathe)... laughs hilariously. Funny ass research
more dumb startups got funding (and huge PR) in 1999-2000, and now more of them are toast now.
Kozmo wasn't such a dumb idea, I think they went about management the wrong way. Kozmo could have come in handy to many people if you think about it, handicapped, elderly. If they had something like delivery of medicine to those in need, etc. What happened (IMHO) was their management couldn't get the momentum going after the market started getting shaky in March 2000. If you look at Urban Fetch, and Kozmo, when they started thinking properly, by the time they did get the ball rolling, VC's were pissed that so many of their ventures went to the doghouse, so to think that all companies were dumb, stupid, etc., is unfair.
Maybe you may not think the ideas were so great, but others may have seen things from a different perspective (obviously which is why they invested).
Here in SF everyone wants to dump on the dot-coms, because they brought too many of the "wrong" (smart, educated, young) people into a city that the locals think is exclusively theirs.
Dot.com companies weren't limited to just San Fran, in fact many of the realty companies out here in New York City paid companies to leave so they could move in dot.com co's. In fact many districts including the meat market district (very trendy for models and glamourous types) started becoming something of a dot.com have for many companies, and many bitched about it.
Why should anyone bitch about whom moves where, as long as its in a positive effort.
Certainly many of the stupid startups were a waste of time, money, and office space.
Such fickle minded idiots especially when these dot.com companies often paid the most money for their office space, and I'm sure their employees brought a substantial amount of money into the commnity via way of purchasing food for lunhc, gas, etc.
What I would like to know is, who will be the first to create an online "Hall of Fame(shame)" for the Internet.
Would be nice to reminisce about the failures that plagued the late 90's and early millenium. It could also provide a framework for newcomer businesses to reflect on some of the failures that plagued some of the dead.dot.com's, and how they can avoid going that route.
It's rather sad to see businesses go down, since it shows us that nothing is secure, nothing is given/free, and we shouldn't take anything for granted when dealing with the technology field.
Personally I also think its a huge wake up call to remind many, the Internet is not a neccessity no matter what arguments you care to give, life worked fine without it in the past, and life will continue to work without it, although it has made things better, its still not a fundamental need in life. (not yet at least)
"All three pilots died during the flights, and their names were never officially published,"
Doesn't mean this is any sort of conspiracy by any agency. Have you ever thought that Russian officials were probably embarassed by losing 3 astronauts, and did not want to release their names to avoid bad publicity?
Or perhaps they never released their names at the time to avoid what they saw as threats, finding out what they were doing in the great space race times. Jumping to conclusions, is like jumping off a cliff, whereas even the great conspiracies have some form of paper trial be it legitimate or not.
This story just claims Russia lost three astronauts..
phunk, for instance, writes: "Swamped with thousands of complaints from users, Yahoo! Inc. said Friday it will stop selling X-rated videos and other pornographic material on its Web pages.
Odd that Yahoo even with the complaints stopped from going forward. One thing I would think is, most of these complaints came from people in the US, since Europe has lighter views on nudity, porn, etc., maybe what they should have done is gone with softcore porn. (Wasn't there an arguement between college students, and faculty about the right to search for xxx related articles?) To each their own, and IMHO, Yahoo should've proceeded with their plan, by creating an adult section restricted (points and laughs) to minors. </yahoo>
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Well it looks like they are going to have to go back to using good old-fashioned soap and water. No more money and they where oh so close to shipping."
Its about time VC's started focusing on real advantages of spending money on tech that could actually make a difference for a change. Its a shame that companies with the most moronic ideas screwed things up for other companies with real insights and ideas.
I'm glad iSmell went out, personally I wouldn't want someone I pissed off sending me data that smelled liked shit. </ismell>
Creating another so called standard seems to be something no one definitive company, nor collaboration of companies seems to be good at, at this is mainly a yellow pages type consortium. What will end up happening is something similar to WSDL, where it will be thought up, boasted about for a while then end up dying slowly.
You could take a good like at bluetooth for example where its sometimes touted as thee thing, yet after some minor time in the spotlight it seems bluetooth will rot in idealand.
These independent efforts to develop web-based services come at just the right time, when defensive business managers are seeking to find ways to preserve their bottom lines, while simultaneously staying astride their customers' and partners' rapidly growing expectations for
service quality and technical flexibility in their trading relationships.
Wrong too many independent efforts overshadow the one good idea, often confusing the shit out of everyone. Whats that saying? "Too many hands in the pot spoil the stew" something like that. Maybe an RFC should be drafted for something like this, sure its not technology based as most RFC's, but a standard should be drafted, and a consortium created where it would be the one and only, not some new hyped-up-only-to-last-for-a-few-months acronym.
Bottom line, UDDI will succeed because its technical underpinnings work for the geeks, and the geeks will use SOAP, UDDI, and other layers of the emerging web services stack to bridge a wide
range of heterogeneous collaboration, supply chain, and EAI solutions. These bridges will make
good on B2B e-commerce's promise to help companies trade and make products more efficiently than ever before.
I beg to differ on this. Think about the entire scope of this for a quick second. Microsoft, Sun, etc., most are competitors, coming together for a cause, one which could affect the outcame of their sales, yet their just going to wholeheartedly make something for the interest of the customer? Especially when MS seems to take their business lightly via way of security and the way its implemented in their products.
I personally don't buy it, and see it as another buzzword counting the days till its dead.
For some reason, I can't find the higher-end one on the site -- am I alone? With 64MB, this beats all but my most recent computer. Pop in my
Merlin wireless card, and I can roam the city talking to myself all day? Excellent.
The way this post sounded, one would think this dude is a basehead on a binge or something. 64mb on your PC? Well for the price of that little toy you could jack your pc's mem up easily.
I never understood why one would rush out to buy the latest hardware or even software, especially when their brand spanking new, when as tech shows up, next month something more high powered is about to hit the big screen and so called "blow your mind." So why the big hooplah over this.
You criticise the article for things it doesn't say and accuse them of making things 'juicy' without denying the validity of the points made.
What part did I make up about the article saying when everything I copied was related to the article with my own comments? The subject of PGP is something I wanted to say since I'm entitled to my opinion I think thats what this forum was for.
Well instead of whining about it, all the people who are concerned have whats called voting
power, and if nothing is done other than bitch, then what could you expect.
Maybe your misconstruing what I've said which is your own problem, as the only thing thats off key in my post would be the PGP section which again is my own damn opinion.
patterns of association that, whether you are guilty or not, may connect you to terrorists or criminals.
Thats sort of a dumb comment to make. Being a member of a mailing list with some bad apples
would not constitute you being a bad apple.
Reading comprehension not a strong point for you?
What I mean by this is by this author saying this would be a broad comment as Im sure that the government their would not arrest or consider someone a criminal because a criminal lives on their street. If this person has had his own problem so be it, but to make a broad statment like this is utter bullshit.
You criticise the article for things it doesn't say and accuse them of making things 'juicy' without denying the validity of the points made. Have you considered a career in politics?
Who the hell denied anything? You should re-read my first paragraph stating the need to use crypto dumb ass. Secondly as I stated instead of people only bitching about things... Don't they have the power to vote, I doubt politicians in the UK have oh so disgracefully taken those rights away from the people.
When you add into that mix internet usage and e-mails - neither of which are remotely secure unless you go out of your way to make sure they are - it becomes easy to build up staggeringly detailed pictures of the lives and habits of almost anybody.
One of the things I think many people often forget, or may not even realize, is that emails can also get you into legal trouble. PGP should not only be used to encrypt data, but many should use it to ensure that they are the persons sending out their own email, to protect themselves should a situation arise.
Sure reading through someone's email "may" give someone insights into their habits, but so can cookies, so that statement I guess was thrown into the story to make it jucier I guess.
Indeed, there is an automated global system code-named Echelon, operated by the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which is believed to intercept up to 3 billion communications a day, trawling through them for sensitive words that might indicate a security threat - it may well pick up this article in transit. Some claim that 90% of internet traffic is scanned by Echelon. The exact figures are unknown, because the system is top secret. Indeed, Britain, alone among these countries, does not even admit it exists. Simon Davies, head of the pressure group Privacy International and a self-confessed cypherpunk, describes Echelon as "black-helicopter" Mulder-and-Scully stuff". As in The X Files, the truth is out there, but so is somebody who doesn't want you to know.
If someone is extremely concerned or paranoid about these things, then one method to avoid them is to halt using digital communications. Sure we all use things digital to facilitate our lives but its not a neccessity and no one is going to die from not using the Internet or digital related equipment.
For those who are concerned with ECHELON or others, then encryption is the only route to go unless you plan on reverting to morse code or something.
Even by just collating all the addresses of your e-mail correspondents, the security services can construct "friendship trees", patterns of association that, whether you are guilty or not, may connect you to terrorists or criminals.
Thats sort of a dumb comment to make. Being a member of a mailing list with some bad apples would not constitute you being a bad apple. Thats like saying because a criminal lives on your block you too may have criminal tendencies. Thats again something I see that was probably added to spice up the article.
"We have far more of these cameras that any other country," Graham tells me, "though Germany and the US are now catching up. Why? Well, I suppose we
have fewer constitutional and political fears about invasions of privacy.
We have a huge fear of crime and we have no totalitarian past like almost all the other countries in Europe."
Well instead of whining about it, all the people who are concerned have whats called voting power, and if nothing is done other than bitch, then what could you expect.
I've read studies which stated that these cameras haven't even lowered the crime rate anyways, so who's fooling whom over in the UK.
And I will restate this from a prior post, installing more cameras might deter crime, but it won't stop it, its only a matter of time if it hasn't happened yet, that criminals will just get sneakier. All it would take is one smart criminal creating a nice EMP weapon and zap all those little monitors' insides.
If you havent read that document you would see it says license*, there are no definitives in it whatsoever to differentiate between any licensing schemes no matter which you post. Which is why I even mentioned GPL.
The software is not commercially available for
use by the taxpayer (as where the software cannot be purchased, leased, or licensed)
Wouldn't the GPL or whatever the hell Open Source "License", just kill all those thoughts of geeks getting a tax break.
Primarily for internal use. All relevant facts and circumstances are to be considered in determining if computer software is developed primarily for the taxpayer's internal use. If computer software is developed primarily for the taxpayer's internal use, the requirements of this
paragraph apply even though the taxpayer intends to, or subsequently does, sell, lease, or license the computer software.
Suggestion would be to honestly ask a CPA or so, someone is likely going to end up shafting themselves if they think that program they just wrote for SourceForge qualifies for a break.
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Fiber is expensive as hell and many companies like QWEST already have existing dark fiber all over the place. Many corporations have yet taken measures to move unto those strands of unused fibers, and it would cost many companies an arm and leg to replace their cabling, especially when they haven't even used it yet. This is looking way into the future. Has anyone here actually upgraded to a fiber ethernet based network, or is everyone hoping. In reality its again a very expensive thing to do, cheap to think about, but expensive to do.
With companies like PSInet which is a big ass ISP coming near the brinks of bankruptcy, many companies are in a rush to SAVE money not run out to buy more equipment, upgrade, etc. I would like to see networks get faster, but is it a complete neccessity at this point?
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Educational systems out here in the US are slowly turning into a battle zone, so there's little wonder why words were taken so harsh, take for example this "infant" who was suspend for horseplaying with a paper gun.
IMHO little is being done to educate kids by way of showing them the dangers of their actions, suspension is not the key, as there are many students who love the idea of being suspended and not having to go to school. Instead of taking them away, more should be done, to show them what dangers weapons possess, the psychological dangers of being bullied, and bullying someone else. This sense of going to school as if it were a fashion show or sorts seems to also be a problem when it comes to teens. School is the foundation for learning, in order to get ahead in life, sure friends are great, but friends won't be around to pay the bills in the long run. The system is not there to cater to the needs of a teenager who's idea of school is a social club, it's there to teach, not to satisfy the personal needs of an individual.
Sure one can empathize with the feelings of the teen when its stated that officials are appealing to the recent tightening of rules from pressure, but can you blame the parents? You can take away one bad apple before he snaps and save your children, or you could wait until the ticking timebomb explodes... Personally I would want my kid safe. Doing this would possibly cause more harm than it would help. What should be done is, parents of both the kids should get together along with the kids to work out the differences. Parents who leave the system to "raise" their children as well as teach them, are just as much to blame as the kids are.
This surely can be attributed to parents who have little time to spend with their kids for whatever reason, work, stress, etc. More should come out of the parents of these kids, instead of the parents using the system as a scapegoat.
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I find this to be a bit disturbing idea, and I'm glad I'm not dutch. Personal information should be kept personal, and not not stored online by any means, especially not this amount of information. With the increasing amount of security incidents its a miracle this thing wasn't laughed at from the beginning.
Whats more disturbing is the fct that companies will lie in efforts not to disclose these breaches as some UK banks have done, which is an utter disservice to their clients. When will people get their heads right?
As if Biometrics is the answer to all problems. "some biometrics are easy to steal. Imagine a remote system that uses face recognition as a biometric. "In order to gain authorization, take a Polaroid picture of yourself and mail it in.We'll compare the picture with the one we have in file." What are the attacks here?" (taken from a Bruce Schneier article)
Personally I see a huge influx of identify thefts occuring there if they do go ahead with this system. Its bad enough its extremely easy to get information on anyone as it stands, and now you have the Dutch become more receptive to irresponsibly giving it away for free, to those who can manipulate their (often easily accessible) networks.
One thing I can say is, I'm glad we have groups in the US that counter these types of actions from seeing the light of day out here in the US. Your privacy should be guarded with your life, since it ultimately is your life. Not some stored bit of information legislators wanna use for political agendas such as pushing for an ecommerce or "digitalization" boost to their economies.
AntiOffline -- Securing the world from itself
What they should do is approach some of the gaming companies for assistance on the project. One of the failures I saw on Indrema (why it lost funding or hopes of funding) fell into expecting some VC to back them, which we know from stats, won't happen for some time.
The company's founders should have approached a game developer with their idea along with the statistics (or expected analysis) of what they forsaw in terms of users. (which in turn create revenue)
Even a game company no matter which platform they created for would have had to take a look at the marketability for the product, unless MS bullied them
Thats a lousy way for the developers to put it "better gaming console", since their underlying job is to bring out a gaming console, and when you have little by way of revenue, going up against heavy hitting marketing teams like that of MS' xbox is a killer in itself.Instead of being arrogant about it, the company should just do whatever it takes, then brag later.
Again, I hope these guys get it right this time around, and pull together from managing the entire project, from the upper level teamwork to actually getting the code right. (not that it was wrong the first time) Slightly bad move, what they should do is make cheap games say uner $10.00 US. Lets face it the thought of free my sound inspiring, but it won't you you far, however it will make you broke really fast. Create a pay pal account and have users of their games give what they can under $10.00 (US) this way they have some form of revenue to keep their business afloat, and away from dying as fast as Indrema did. Sigh... Going up against a heavy hitter such as Playstation is way far fetched. Even mentioning them when your first project wen to shit makes the whole project laughable. They need to focus on their own product, get it up and running. Talk is cheap. This does little for this who are keen to playing games they're familiar with. Again why not approach some of the game developers with an idea of porting all games to their box, and a small price. Everyone makes money, and everyone can look forward to playing games with familiarity as well as propietary games.Think about it Zelda X on this machine would rock, and everyone would enjoy it, money would be made, the company wouldn't end up on fuckedcompany.com before it even launched.
who is deran9ed?
Now can I bug you for a buck to save my fsckedcompany from going out of business!
why hackers scare me
moming from Ximian, is an all inclusive package where one wouldn't have to download all those other dependencies just to build something.
It gets tiring having to download umpteen amounts of extra baggage via way of additions (glade etc.) just to get something to run. Even moreso gets more tiring searching for those packages hoping they've been updated to follow suit to newer revs of the original product (gnome).
Aside from that for those with limited space, it would serve them greatly to have Ximian products include only the neccessities to build the product and not the whole library (whenever possible) to save space.
why hackers scare me
SET US UP THE TIVO... err BETAMAX... err... WTF
Electro magnetic pulse
uhm you must be a dumb ass... That program is written to remove data according to Department of Defense standards. The script I made just uses it to wipe what I specified.
What part of SECURELY WIPING did you miss out on dumb ass
Hopefully the agents who are losing their laptops aren't doing anything super secretive, lord knows if they lose a typical laptop, imagine what could happen with some super secretive 2inch chip
Shit I could write them a script to do this after three failed attempts, and securely wipe their data beyond comprehension. What they should do is give those agents time off with a suspension, ultimately leading to being fired for incompetence and negligence.
Odd that an MI6 agent would be out bar hopping with her laptop. I know the UK is a bit more relaxed then we are out here in the US, however I still can't grasp losing a laptop, let alone going to a bar with a laptop that had gov secrets on it if I intended to get hammered.
Maybe their government should look into a biometrics fingerprint based system which wipes a laptop on a failed attempt.
By purchasing something like some super elite case, I'm sure those laptops which were stolen will be easier to target the next time around.
privacy for the masses
This could save many lives especially when certain surgeries could be avoided by taking these pills however I hope these scientists look at all aspects of the scenario before releasing them for use. e.g.: Testing scenarios that many would be subjected to, for instance a patient taking them who works in an industry with massive radio frequencies bouncing around. (Wouldn't want a pill to go bonkers) Would be nice if they could use the amounts of electric currents already traversing the human body to avoid using too many techie based things.
I wonder if the scientists have tested to see if some drugs are succeptible to various things such as electronics, would their potency become less or more powerful, can they affect the actual medication? I'm sure they have, and I hate to see stories which leave a lot to question.
IMHO I don't like the idea of having someone control something while its in my body. Are there going to be educational training seminars for the doctors, and maybe an association to monitor those doctors' actions. For example, what if you piss your doctor off by not paying a bill on time, the thought of them having the power to remotely make you worse is scary.
All in all though I hope it works, it could save many from being scarred by surgery, and it could give doctors better insights into the innards of a sickly human.
going out of stories sale
Finally we could save our soldiers and send super ninja moths after the Chinese government and Saddam SET US UP THE WASPS stops (takes a deep breathe)
going out of stories sale
Maybe you may not think the ideas were so great, but others may have seen things from a different perspective (obviously which is why they invested).
Dot.com companies weren't limited to just San Fran, in fact many of the realty companies out here in New York City paid companies to leave so they could move in dot.com co's. In fact many districts including the meat market district (very trendy for models and glamourous types) started becoming something of a dot.com have for many companies, and many bitched about it.
Why should anyone bitch about whom moves where, as long as its in a positive effort. Such fickle minded idiots especially when these dot.com companies often paid the most money for their office space, and I'm sure their employees brought a substantial amount of money into the commnity via way of purchasing food for lunhc, gas, etc.
going out of business
What I would like to know is, who will be the first to create an online "Hall of Fame(shame)" for the Internet.
Would be nice to reminisce about the failures that plagued the late 90's and early millenium. It could also provide a framework for newcomer businesses to reflect on some of the failures that plagued some of the dead.dot.com's, and how they can avoid going that route.
It's rather sad to see businesses go down, since it shows us that nothing is secure, nothing is given/free, and we shouldn't take anything for granted when dealing with the technology field.
Personally I also think its a huge wake up call to remind many, the Internet is not a neccessity no matter what arguments you care to give, life worked fine without it in the past, and life will continue to work without it, although it has made things better, its still not a fundamental need in life. (not yet at least)
who'd of thought?
"All three pilots died during the flights, and their names were never officially published,"
Doesn't mean this is any sort of conspiracy by any agency. Have you ever thought that Russian officials were probably embarassed by losing 3 astronauts, and did not want to release their names to avoid bad publicity?
Or perhaps they never released their names at the time to avoid what they saw as threats, finding out what they were doing in the great space race times. Jumping to conclusions, is like jumping off a cliff, whereas even the great conspiracies have some form of paper trial be it legitimate or not.
This story just claims Russia lost three astronauts..
printf "\aShit Happens\n";
Electro Magnetic Pulse
<yahoo> Odd that Yahoo even with the complaints stopped from going forward. One thing I would think is, most of these complaints came from people in the US, since Europe has lighter views on nudity, porn, etc., maybe what they should have done is gone with softcore porn. (Wasn't there an arguement between college students, and faculty about the right to search for xxx related articles?) To each their own, and IMHO, Yahoo should've proceeded with their plan, by creating an adult section restricted (points and laughs) to minors.
</yahoo>
<ismell> Its about time VC's started focusing on real advantages of spending money on tech that could actually make a difference for a change. Its a shame that companies with the most moronic ideas screwed things up for other companies with real insights and ideas.
I'm glad iSmell went out, personally I wouldn't want someone I pissed off sending me data that smelled liked shit.
</ismell>
packet rape
Sorry dont feel like making a rambling post... So here goes China's newly passed laws
Creating another so called standard seems to be something no one definitive company, nor collaboration of companies seems to be good at, at this is mainly a yellow pages type consortium. What will end up happening is something similar to WSDL, where it will be thought up, boasted about for a while then end up dying slowly.
You could take a good like at bluetooth for example where its sometimes touted as thee thing, yet after some minor time in the spotlight it seems bluetooth will rot in idealand. Wrong too many independent efforts overshadow the one good idea, often confusing the shit out of everyone. Whats that saying? "Too many hands in the pot spoil the stew" something like that. Maybe an RFC should be drafted for something like this, sure its not technology based as most RFC's, but a standard should be drafted, and a consortium created where it would be the one and only, not some new hyped-up-only-to-last-for-a-few-months acronym.
I beg to differ on this. Think about the entire scope of this for a quick second. Microsoft, Sun, etc., most are competitors, coming together for a cause, one which could affect the outcame of their sales, yet their just going to wholeheartedly make something for the interest of the customer? Especially when MS seems to take their business lightly via way of security and the way its implemented in their products.
I personally don't buy it, and see it as another buzzword counting the days till its dead.
so sue me
For some reason, I can't find the higher-end one on the site -- am I alone? With 64MB, this beats all but my most recent computer. Pop in my Merlin wireless card, and I can roam the city talking to myself all day? Excellent.
The way this post sounded, one would think this dude is a basehead on a binge or something. 64mb on your PC? Well for the price of that little toy you could jack your pc's mem up easily.
I never understood why one would rush out to buy the latest hardware or even software, especially when their brand spanking new, when as tech shows up, next month something more high powered is about to hit the big screen and so called "blow your mind." So why the big hooplah over this.
As you were
When the US apologizes then maybe I'll consider it.
What part did I make up about the article saying when everything I copied was related to the article with my own comments? The subject of PGP is something I wanted to say since I'm entitled to my opinion I think thats what this forum was for.
Well instead of whining about it, all the people who are concerned have whats called voting power, and if nothing is done other than bitch, then what could you expect.
Maybe your misconstruing what I've said which is your own problem, as the only thing thats off key in my post would be the PGP section which again is my own damn opinion.
What I mean by this is by this author saying this would be a broad comment as Im sure that the government their would not arrest or consider someone a criminal because a criminal lives on their street. If this person has had his own problem so be it, but to make a broad statment like this is utter bullshit.
Keep waiting for an apology
You criticise the article for things it doesn't say and accuse them of making things 'juicy' without denying the validity of the points made. Have you considered a career in politics?
Who the hell denied anything? You should re-read my first paragraph stating the need to use crypto dumb ass. Secondly as I stated instead of people only bitching about things... Don't they have the power to vote, I doubt politicians in the UK have oh so disgracefully taken those rights away from the people.
Sure reading through someone's email "may" give someone insights into their habits, but so can cookies, so that statement I guess was thrown into the story to make it jucier I guess.
If someone is extremely concerned or paranoid about these things, then one method to avoid them is to halt using digital communications. Sure we all use things digital to facilitate our lives but its not a neccessity and no one is going to die from not using the Internet or digital related equipment.
For those who are concerned with ECHELON or others, then encryption is the only route to go unless you plan on reverting to morse code or something.
Thats sort of a dumb comment to make. Being a member of a mailing list with some bad apples would not constitute you being a bad apple. Thats like saying because a criminal lives on your block you too may have criminal tendencies. Thats again something I see that was probably added to spice up the article.
Well instead of whining about it, all the people who are concerned have whats called voting power, and if nothing is done other than bitch, then what could you expect.
I've read studies which stated that these cameras haven't even lowered the crime rate anyways, so who's fooling whom over in the UK.
And I will restate this from a prior post, installing more cameras might deter crime, but it won't stop it, its only a matter of time if it hasn't happened yet, that criminals will just get sneakier. All it would take is one smart criminal creating a nice EMP weapon and zap all those little monitors' insides.
G.I.T.S.
If you havent read that document you would see it says license*, there are no definitives in it whatsoever to differentiate between any licensing schemes no matter which you post. Which is why I even mentioned GPL.
The software is not commercially available for use by the taxpayer (as where the software cannot be purchased, leased, or licensed)
Wouldn't the GPL or whatever the hell Open Source "License", just kill all those thoughts of geeks getting a tax break.
Primarily for internal use. All relevant facts and circumstances are to be considered in determining if computer software is developed primarily for the taxpayer's internal use. If computer software is developed primarily for the taxpayer's internal use, the requirements of this paragraph apply even though the taxpayer intends to, or subsequently does, sell, lease, or license the computer software.
Suggestion would be to honestly ask a CPA or so, someone is likely going to end up shafting themselves if they think that program they just wrote for SourceForge qualifies for a break.
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