It may be slow, but at least it's expensive! $480Aus = ~$260 US. Alternative "magic boxes" from other companies are about $130-$150. What exactly is the benefit of this thing?
This is not "news". Netgear and Linksys, along with several other companies have had 56K hubs/routers/dial-up managers for some time now. Just because this thing runs linux doesn't increase the "gee-whiz" factor, IMO. Linux is overall for a device like this anyway.
Now if they could just make hard drives silent, we finally could hear ourselves think in a room with 3-4 computers
Fan noise does have an upside, though. In my home office I find that the noise from my SparcUltra10, 2 Regular PC's, Rackmount PC, and 3 laptops drowns out the noise of my wife:)
If the room were silent, I would probably have to respond to her calls to come down and take out the trash or something.
Except that in this case, the "Bad Stuff" isn't sent in the clear, it is encrytped/encoded by nature, and requires a complex set of electronics in order to view/decrypt the data. Sorta like how HBO can say "Fuck" on the Sopranos, but NBC can't say "Fuck" on Friends...(I think that *technically* I'm not supposed to say "Fuck" here, but, well, Fuck it...)
Besides, in order for some kiddie to accidentally view the Pr0n, he would've had to have violated one (or more) of these portions of the TOS:
7.1.11 make any unauthorized attempt to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user
7.1.15 obtain or attempt to obtain Services by any means or device with intent to avoid payment;
7.1.16 unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt, of any information of any Sprint customers or end-users by any means or device;
I read through the TOS (albeit rather quickly). I missed the part about "No Porn", in fact it did have this in there:
7.4 The Internet contains unedited materials that may be offensive or objectionable to you. You access these materials at your own risk. Sprint has no control over and accepts no responsibility for these materials. Customer may wish to utilize software designed to limit access to certain material on the Internet.
Which basically seems to say "Don't come to us if your kiddies are viewing saggytits.com on a regular basis." Not that I really care... Sprint recently cancelled their wireless broadband offering in the metro Detroit area, and I was never applicable for it in the first place.
Yes, if only/. could instinctivly know when each of the billions of pages on the WWW had some new info. How often do YOU go looking for bullet-proof mice?
A large portion of the population with their own power generation capabilities might be a good way to offset the ever-increasing load on the
public utilities, as well.
I agree, you could set it up so that this "power sharing" was linked to small geographic areas like subdivisions or cities. That way if your genset can't cope with an instantaneous load (AC kicking on, for example) you could take up some slack from the neighbors gennie.
It doesn't have to be those *specific* fuel cells, but fuel cells in general. You could also use LP (propane). I currently have a very clean industrial duty standby generator at my house. I can run it off of NG or LP, but it costs about 2x as much as if I use the power companies power.
Yes, NG, or even LP is expensive today, but we also have alternative fuel vehicles emerging. This *should* help to bring the cost of NG down, due to supply and demand and all that.
The most important thing to note, however, is that we are developing realistic alternatives to some of the monopolistic providers.
Of course, it won't be much longer and we'll be able to tell the power companies to piss off. Remember this story from a while back? I'll be the first on my block to live "off the grid".
Joined FIDOnet, DementedNet
Remember InfiNet and CyberCrime? Lots of useful info in there... Who was it that ran those? Nigel something from Florida?
Damn... It's been a long time...
I never could figure out why anyone
would ever want to stop using a shell account and Lynx and start using some RAM hogging *graphical* web browser.
I ran a BBS as well back in the day... Speaking of graphical memory-hogging stuff, remember Robo-board with the Windoze term software and simplistic graphics support?
Yeah... Them were the days...
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!!! That would be kewl, then multiplayer gaming would be kick-ass. I hear there is also a SETI@Home card for the dreamcast that interfaces to an espresso machine!
I've seen undergrad business students write a business plan that has a better chance of succeeding than this crap from mp3.com
Of course, we have to ask ourselves, do they *really* want this to succeed? If it works out, great, they're screwing people to pay to listen to music that they already paid too much for in the first place. If it fails, then the record labels will say that this proves that MP3's have little "value" to people.
Even if I wanted this, it's not worth the trouble, even for free, for me to go to my CD jukebox everytime it prompts me too, especially when I'm away from home. As others have pointed out, the whole scheme is just too prone to being hacked/duped anyway.
It would be nearly impossible, but the record labels need to wake up and re-evaluate their market and their target audience. People *liked* MP3.com because you could get music fast and free. CDs are a huge ripoff. $15 for 12 songs, only 2 of which I've previously heard (on the radio) is a gamble for someone who doesn't have a lot of disposable income. I've been "behind the scenes" in parts of th music industry and have heard labels utter things like "give us at least 10 songs, 3 of which are good". Knowing things like this go on makes it *really* hard for me to want to plunk down my money on the unknown.
If a song is getting continuous airplay, is it really so wrong for me to get it off of Napster? I've already heard the damn song 100+ times without paying for it, so what is the problem? What about the single that's going to be released next month? That'll get played to death also, so I might as well just get it now.
Of course, if CDs were priced appropriately at about $4.99/disc then Napster would never have taken off in the first place. It would be easier for me to buy 10 discs, than to go through the trouble of downloading them.
The record companies are using end-to-end flawed logic and bad assumptions in trying to deal with the Internet and digital music distribution. New bands come along every month, and we're getting more and more clips, albums and whatnot via the Internet. Record companies and record stores are becoming a middleman, desperately trying to keep their hooks in our wallets.
In 10 years, the Olympics may find that trying to squeeze out the last dollar has put them behind re-runs of Silver Spoons in terms of viewership and popularity.
As we all know, the Internet is the ideal media upon which to broadcast or publish Olympic data. So it is only fitting that they would choose to ignore the Internet as a valid media outlet.
To take this further... He didn't try to publish this book as some underground how-to: manual, nor did he continue on this path after he had matured enough to realize that this wasn't the best route through life. Passing bad check is _is_ a Bad Thing, but he later went on the advise banks and financial companies on how to spot others' trying to follow in his footsteps.
Personally, I think that without the White Hats, or maybe even the Grey Hats, the world would be worse off...
The only way anything gets fixed is when Big Corp has egg on it's face. If this guy would've simply identified the weaknesses he found in these companies, they would've just said "Thanks, now go away", and continued to operate, while putting YOU and I at risk. Risk of losing our money in the banks, risk of airport security, etc.
You really can't compare some psycho murdering twit with a guy who learns how to beat "The System".
why should
I spend $200 more to make sure the DVD player has those features?
The idea is that if you're buying a DVD player today, to watch movies (ie: not to watch "Purty Pictures") then you will most likely have an upgrade path in mind that will eventually get you a DD/Surround Sound audio system, as well as a better quality TV. You _could_ move the cheapie DVD player to the bedroom, or you could get a channel modulator so that you can watch the DVD, Tivo, VCR, Security Cams, etc from ANY TV in the house...
I don't anticipate being able to afford an HDTV in the next five years,
5 years ago, you probably didn't anticipate being able to afford an 80G HDD, either...
I first read this one about 10 years ago, and keep a paperback copy for "reference". One recurring theme in the book is one that any Social Engineer learns early on: Act like you're supposed to be there/doing that.
The author of the book spent time spoofing as an airline pilot, doctor, lawyer, and other trades. In each case he managed to fool people in these trades into believing that he belonged. There are a lot of good Think On Your Feet examples in the book as well.
I think one of the first questions you have to ask yourself is: Do you want to watch pretty pictures on the Tee-Vee, or do you want a real DVD player?
The world is moving toward HDTV, or at the very least, higher quality outputs. A Good DVD player should support DTS and DD outputs, have optical and coaxial digital outputs, and have component outputs. This unit should cost less than $250. Additional features (the ability to play MP3s, CD's, etc) are nice, but not required. A higher quality DVD player will have progressive scan outputs. Personally, I wouldn't recommend anything less than a progressive scan DVD player (I use a Panasonic DVDH1000 with a Panasonic PT56WXF95 Tv). Seeing the difference between 480i and 480p makes all the other gizmo features moot.
However, if all you want to do is watch pretty pictures, then a $150 DVD player will do you just fine. You'd be better off buying a half-way decent DVD player AND a decent CD/MP3 player for just a little more cash outlay (in the $300-$400 range).
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It may be slow, but at least it's expensive! $480Aus = ~$260 US. Alternative "magic boxes" from other companies are about $130-$150. What exactly is the benefit of this thing?
This is not "news". Netgear and Linksys, along with several other companies have had 56K hubs/routers/dial-up managers for some time now. Just because this thing runs linux doesn't increase the "gee-whiz" factor, IMO. Linux is overall for a device like this anyway.
It's a well-known fact, anyone that picks on spelling/grammar is a Big Poo Poo Head.
Now if they could just make hard drives silent, we finally could hear ourselves think in a room with 3-4 computers
:)
Fan noise does have an upside, though. In my home office I find that the noise from my SparcUltra10, 2 Regular PC's, Rackmount PC, and 3 laptops drowns out the noise of my wife
If the room were silent, I would probably have to respond to her calls to come down and take out the trash or something.
Except that in this case, the "Bad Stuff" isn't sent in the clear, it is encrytped/encoded by nature, and requires a complex set of electronics in order to view/decrypt the data. Sorta like how HBO can say "Fuck" on the Sopranos, but NBC can't say "Fuck" on Friends...(I think that *technically* I'm not supposed to say "Fuck" here, but, well, Fuck it...)
Besides, in order for some kiddie to accidentally view the Pr0n, he would've had to have violated one (or more) of these portions of the TOS:
7.1.11 make any unauthorized attempt to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user
7.1.15 obtain or attempt to obtain Services by any means or device with intent to avoid payment;
7.1.16 unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt, of any information of any Sprint customers or end-users by any means or device;
I read through the TOS (albeit rather quickly). I missed the part about "No Porn", in fact it did have this in there:
7.4 The Internet contains unedited materials that may be offensive or objectionable to you. You access these materials at your own risk. Sprint has no control over and accepts no responsibility for these materials. Customer may wish to utilize software designed to limit access to certain material on the Internet.
Which basically seems to say "Don't come to us if your kiddies are viewing saggytits.com on a regular basis." Not that I really care... Sprint recently cancelled their wireless broadband offering in the metro Detroit area, and I was never applicable for it in the first place.
Perhaps then you should maybe backup the data in your phone, Einstein?
Yes, if only /. could instinctivly know when each of the billions of pages on the WWW had some new info. How often do YOU go looking for bullet-proof mice?
It's not referring to Intel's *chips*, it's referring to Intel's factories.
Try this for a breath of fresh air.
A large portion of the population with their own power generation capabilities might be a good way to offset the ever-increasing load on the public utilities, as well.
I agree, you could set it up so that this "power sharing" was linked to small geographic areas like subdivisions or cities. That way if your genset can't cope with an instantaneous load (AC kicking on, for example) you could take up some slack from the neighbors gennie.
Yeah, it "seems like it", but you can't. Feel free to re-join reality at any time.
It doesn't have to be those *specific* fuel cells, but fuel cells in general. You could also use LP (propane). I currently have a very clean industrial duty standby generator at my house. I can run it off of NG or LP, but it costs about 2x as much as if I use the power companies power.
Yes, NG, or even LP is expensive today, but we also have alternative fuel vehicles emerging. This *should* help to bring the cost of NG down, due to supply and demand and all that.
The most important thing to note, however, is that we are developing realistic alternatives to some of the monopolistic providers.
Of course, it won't be much longer and we'll be able to tell the power companies to piss off. Remember this story from a while back? I'll be the first on my block to live "off the grid".
Joined FIDOnet, DementedNet
Remember InfiNet and CyberCrime? Lots of useful info in there... Who was it that ran those? Nigel something from Florida?
Damn... It's been a long time...
I never could figure out why anyone would ever want to stop using a shell account and Lynx and start using some RAM hogging *graphical* web browser.
I ran a BBS as well back in the day... Speaking of graphical memory-hogging stuff, remember Robo-board with the Windoze term software and simplistic graphics support?
Yeah... Them were the days...
What will Linux NOT run on these days?
Linux won't run on the new breadmaker I bought. I was kinda disappointed, I was looking forward to a weekly crontab for BananaNut Bread.
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!!! That would be kewl, then multiplayer gaming would be kick-ass. I hear there is also a SETI@Home card for the dreamcast that interfaces to an espresso machine!
I've seen undergrad business students write a business plan that has a better chance of succeeding than this crap from mp3.com
Of course, we have to ask ourselves, do they *really* want this to succeed? If it works out, great, they're screwing people to pay to listen to music that they already paid too much for in the first place. If it fails, then the record labels will say that this proves that MP3's have little "value" to people.
Even if I wanted this, it's not worth the trouble, even for free, for me to go to my CD jukebox everytime it prompts me too, especially when I'm away from home. As others have pointed out, the whole scheme is just too prone to being hacked/duped anyway.
It would be nearly impossible, but the record labels need to wake up and re-evaluate their market and their target audience. People *liked* MP3.com because you could get music fast and free. CDs are a huge ripoff. $15 for 12 songs, only 2 of which I've previously heard (on the radio) is a gamble for someone who doesn't have a lot of disposable income. I've been "behind the scenes" in parts of th music industry and have heard labels utter things like "give us at least 10 songs, 3 of which are good". Knowing things like this go on makes it *really* hard for me to want to plunk down my money on the unknown.
If a song is getting continuous airplay, is it really so wrong for me to get it off of Napster? I've already heard the damn song 100+ times without paying for it, so what is the problem? What about the single that's going to be released next month? That'll get played to death also, so I might as well just get it now.
Of course, if CDs were priced appropriately at about $4.99/disc then Napster would never have taken off in the first place. It would be easier for me to buy 10 discs, than to go through the trouble of downloading them.
The record companies are using end-to-end flawed logic and bad assumptions in trying to deal with the Internet and digital music distribution. New bands come along every month, and we're getting more and more clips, albums and whatnot via the Internet. Record companies and record stores are becoming a middleman, desperately trying to keep their hooks in our wallets.
In 10 years, the Olympics may find that trying to squeeze out the last dollar has put them behind re-runs of Silver Spoons in terms of viewership and popularity.
As we all know, the Internet is the ideal media upon which to broadcast or publish Olympic data. So it is only fitting that they would choose to ignore the Internet as a valid media outlet.
To take this further... He didn't try to publish this book as some underground how-to: manual, nor did he continue on this path after he had matured enough to realize that this wasn't the best route through life. Passing bad check is _is_ a Bad Thing, but he later went on the advise banks and financial companies on how to spot others' trying to follow in his footsteps.
Personally, I think that without the White Hats, or maybe even the Grey Hats, the world would be worse off...
The only way anything gets fixed is when Big Corp has egg on it's face. If this guy would've simply identified the weaknesses he found in these companies, they would've just said "Thanks, now go away", and continued to operate, while putting YOU and I at risk. Risk of losing our money in the banks, risk of airport security, etc.
You really can't compare some psycho murdering twit with a guy who learns how to beat "The System".
why should I spend $200 more to make sure the DVD player has those features?
The idea is that if you're buying a DVD player today, to watch movies (ie: not to watch "Purty Pictures") then you will most likely have an upgrade path in mind that will eventually get you a DD/Surround Sound audio system, as well as a better quality TV. You _could_ move the cheapie DVD player to the bedroom, or you could get a channel modulator so that you can watch the DVD, Tivo, VCR, Security Cams, etc from ANY TV in the house...
I don't anticipate being able to afford an HDTV in the next five years,
5 years ago, you probably didn't anticipate being able to afford an 80G HDD, either...
I first read this one about 10 years ago, and keep a paperback copy for "reference". One recurring theme in the book is one that any Social Engineer learns early on: Act like you're supposed to be there/doing that.
The author of the book spent time spoofing as an airline pilot, doctor, lawyer, and other trades. In each case he managed to fool people in these trades into believing that he belonged. There are a lot of good Think On Your Feet examples in the book as well.
Excellent book, a must read, IMO.
I think one of the first questions you have to ask yourself is: Do you want to watch pretty pictures on the Tee-Vee, or do you want a real DVD player?
The world is moving toward HDTV, or at the very least, higher quality outputs. A Good DVD player should support DTS and DD outputs, have optical and coaxial digital outputs, and have component outputs. This unit should cost less than $250. Additional features (the ability to play MP3s, CD's, etc) are nice, but not required. A higher quality DVD player will have progressive scan outputs. Personally, I wouldn't recommend anything less than a progressive scan DVD player (I use a Panasonic DVDH1000 with a Panasonic PT56WXF95 Tv). Seeing the difference between 480i and 480p makes all the other gizmo features moot.
However, if all you want to do is watch pretty pictures, then a $150 DVD player will do you just fine. You'd be better off buying a half-way decent DVD player AND a decent CD/MP3 player for just a little more cash outlay (in the $300-$400 range).