Somebody should write worms that infect, propagate, and then kill/wipe the host. Maybe the cleanup/restore required will result in a more secure machine.
I let my kids (3 and 5) play games on MAME (they like Contra, Raiden, Rampage and Kung Fu Master). They watch violent TV (Power Rangers, etc.) and when I come home they like to "fight" with me. I don't think it's a problem, but I'll let you know in 10 years.
I played with Edubuntu, which out of the box sets up a LTSP server. It's cool, but I think hybrid clients may be a better way to go: diskless, boot off the network, but applications run locally. You get less maintenance on the desktop (no disk = centralized configuration) and don't need as much server horsepower (apps run on each client).
Maybe somebody will release a hybrid out of the box distribution, similar to the way Edubuntu works.
Even if Vista were perfect and beyond any cracks/hacks, the DRM on the media will be defeated on other platforms. The content will then spread without DRM. Somebody in Hong Kong or Vietnam will make a standalone Blu-Ray/HD-DVD player that rips directly to open formats, and that will be that.
All the effort MS is putting into this will not make the studios happy, and will not make the customers happy. I think they made a bad choice.
Here's the sales pitch: "When you boot this CD, after you turn your computer off there's NO EVIDENCE on the computer that shows what you browsed to. And the browser history will be intact when your wife logs in normally, so she'll have no idea what you did with the Magic Porn CD."
The downsides are that the ISPs are required to put forth effort that doesn't directly, immediately help them.
1. The user agreements should allow this type of action 2. Now ISPs have to monitor outbound traffic for spam. 3. And block port 25 on offending machines
Step 3 is the boner. They have to create rules for blocking, procedures for unblocking, allocate resources to the effort, etc.
Or, if they block port 25 for everybody, they now have to spend tech support dollars on helping the people who were using it legitimately and the people who had their mail clients misconfigured. And some of those might have spambots!
It's web based, but I like it better than Family Tree Maker. It's a lot easier to give a relative a login and grant them access to their branch of the tree than it is to collect and maintain a PC-based database. It's not very good at making printed trees, but that can be overcome.
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They store an encrypted version of your private key. It's decrypted in memory on the client side, I think, when you use the Java client.
Or you could just use hushmail.com and not worry about all the other pieces.
Come on, all you have to do is check the MEAL_BREAK_MENU_DESCRIPTION meta tag
At some point, this kind of CGI will be so cheap that they'll make live-action porn featuring hot, hot Giant Robot on Giant Robot (GR-GR) action!
Somebody should write worms that infect, propagate, and then kill/wipe the host. Maybe the cleanup/restore required will result in a more secure machine.
I let my kids (3 and 5) play games on MAME (they like Contra, Raiden, Rampage and Kung Fu Master). They watch violent TV (Power Rangers, etc.) and when I come home they like to "fight" with me. I don't think it's a problem, but I'll let you know in 10 years.
http://www.bigtimeconsulting.com/?toon_id=124
Yes, I'm pimping my own cartoon, but it's applicable!
I played with Edubuntu, which out of the box sets up a LTSP server. It's cool, but I think hybrid clients may be a better way to go: diskless, boot off the network, but applications run locally. You get less maintenance on the desktop (no disk = centralized configuration) and don't need as much server horsepower (apps run on each client).
Maybe somebody will release a hybrid out of the box distribution, similar to the way Edubuntu works.
Even if Vista were perfect and beyond any cracks/hacks, the DRM on the media will be defeated on other platforms. The content will then spread without DRM. Somebody in Hong Kong or Vietnam will make a standalone Blu-Ray/HD-DVD player that rips directly to open formats, and that will be that.
All the effort MS is putting into this will not make the studios happy, and will not make the customers happy. I think they made a bad choice.
Until the economics work, none of this stuff matters.
Also true for your DNA, so putting that in a database is OK then?
Yes. And it is already (I was in the Air Force, they took blood for the express purpose of using it to identify me).
From the article you linked: "In order to fake a fingerprint, one needs an original first."
- The database entry isn't an image of my finger print
- Anybody who wants to see what my fingerprint looks like can lift a print anywhere I've been
My fingerprints are in at least one government database (for non-criminal reasons). It doesn't bother me.
When I decide to rob banks or kill people, then I'll be worried.
That hardly qualifies as "most companies"
Here's the sales pitch: "When you boot this CD, after you turn your computer off there's NO EVIDENCE on the computer that shows what you browsed to. And the browser history will be intact when your wife logs in normally, so she'll have no idea what you did with the Magic Porn CD."
The downsides are that the ISPs are required to put forth effort that doesn't directly, immediately help them.
1. The user agreements should allow this type of action
2. Now ISPs have to monitor outbound traffic for spam.
3. And block port 25 on offending machines
Step 3 is the boner. They have to create rules for blocking, procedures for unblocking, allocate resources to the effort, etc.
Or, if they block port 25 for everybody, they now have to spend tech support dollars on helping the people who were using it legitimately and the people who had their mail clients misconfigured. And some of those might have spambots!
In the event of, say, a major volcanic eruption or meteor impact, world power production would plummet.
Luckily, I've been working on an energy generating technology powered by falling ash.
Family tree software: http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php
It's web based, but I like it better than Family Tree Maker. It's a lot easier to give a relative a login and grant them access to their branch of the tree than it is to collect and maintain a PC-based database. It's not very good at making printed trees, but that can be overcome.
If they allow SSH I can simply tunnel through a proxy and skip all the ads.
If they don't allow SSH, it's a crippled connection (port 80 only?) that will also break other network services people expect (VPN, etc.).
Municipal WiFi should be provided as a service (free or otherwise) and should not be limited.
Google translation: "Memory card leader"
Is that some kind of ethnic humor?!
Pull all the disk drives out, install an Edubuntu server, PXE boot each LTSP client, problems over.
Probably a few days after IE7 comes out we'll have "new and improved" websites that only work on IE7.
Or maybe 499,999 didn't crash, and one of them crashed 450,000 times.
Galaga
Raiden
Joust
Rampage
Asteroids
Just hide a nannycam pointed at your kid's computer display.