The software's site is very scarce on details. Assuming this app works with the built in speaker/audio system, what's to stop any halfway intelligent thief from plugging in a dummy headphone jack before touching the laptop, thus silencing the alert?
I also heard an analysis of messenger bags (and SUV's)
for professionals
Speaking as a Bike Messenger with his very own, 'authentic' 7 year old messenger
bag (which, because I happen to be a Mac head, has a large old school Apple logo
sewn onto it's flap), -- used for delivering packages way more than for looking
cool, or carrying my electronics and business papers -- I am quite offended to
hear messenger bags compared to SUVs.
SUVs happen to be to messengers what Microsoft has been to Apple -- large
lumbering beasts too concerned with themselves to care what damage they have
been inflicting on the little guy.
All the same, it's sad how things are misappropriated in that way.
Speaking as a someone who puts his spare time into a canadian based, non-profit P2P company, I wonder how long a grace period there would be before action is taken, if this new law is passed.
Surely nobody expects canadians to have to comply the minute the treaty ink is dry.
If their intention was to showcase their Java based video streaming codec then they did a bad job of it.
The video and sound quality of the intro and demo for CherryOS was less than desirable and not impressive at all, though that may be because they threw a cut down version of the videos up due to bandwidth problems. Who knows.
I've looked at other examples of their Java based video streaming and can't say I was any more impressed with those demos either.
Now that the seemingly Pacific sized wave of traffic has rolled over Hawaii
based cherryos.com, some more
information can be gleamed from it's now visible pages. Their
press release contact is stated as Jim Kartes.
Jim also happens to be the
admin and tech contact for vx30.com. A quick
Googling of his name brings up several links, including the
website for MauiGiclee, a Maui
based printing company which lists one Jim Kartes as it's president. How
many Jim Kartes can their be in Hawaii?
411.com lists only 1. Finding info online is fun.
Further Googling and whois searches show that Jim has a hand in many things
Maui.
Predictably, all these websites sport the same type of Java Applet video found on cherryos.com.
Seems like VX30 (aka MXS Inc.) has
been busy supplying Java based video steaming tech to a lot of Jim's other
businesses.
At any rate, these businesses (excluding, by nature of this thread, the
cherry in question) seem to have been operating for some time, the oldest site
being registered in 1996. They also seem quite legitimate in their desire
to provide services and products, bothering to list themselves with superpages,
register 1-800 numbers, etc. These are not signs of scam artists looking
to make a quick get-away, so that possibility can be put to rest.
The following options still remain:
1. CerryOs is a ripoff of PearPC (though the company has reportedly denied
these accusations by phone)
2. The product is real and unique, though the performance promises are
exagerated.
3. This is legit and we should all stop wasting time with such nonsense : )
As far as I know, MysterNetworks (mysternetworks.com) is the only Canadian based P2P company out there right now. If there aren't others, perhaps we can expect many new coprorate registrations in Canada by existing P2P companies.
People are starting to wonder if they can use P2P over zero knowledge
networks. This is bad as it confines the P2P traffic to their servers
and can be controlled by shutting down zero knowledge.
As a result, P2P users would have to go back to the regular, unprotected net.
The solution cannot be found by protecting those smart enough to want to be protected.
Those few that try to protect themselves will bow to preasue from large corps in the end.
The only proper resolution to this is to pass laws protecting users privicy regardless of the negative ramifications.
I wish people would wake up and start demanding privacy as the number
one feature in their online interactions. What right do companies have
to monitor my activities online just because they fear everybody?
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The software's site is very scarce on details. Assuming this app works with the built in speaker/audio system, what's to stop any halfway intelligent thief from plugging in a dummy headphone jack before touching the laptop, thus silencing the alert?
I also heard an analysis of messenger bags (and SUV's) for professionals
Speaking as a Bike Messenger with his very own, 'authentic' 7 year old messenger bag (which, because I happen to be a Mac head, has a large old school Apple logo sewn onto it's flap), -- used for delivering packages way more than for looking cool, or carrying my electronics and business papers -- I am quite offended to hear messenger bags compared to SUVs.
SUVs happen to be to messengers what Microsoft has been to Apple -- large lumbering beasts too concerned with themselves to care what damage they have been inflicting on the little guy.
All the same, it's sad how things are misappropriated in that way.
Speaking as a someone who puts his spare time into a canadian based, non-profit P2P company, I wonder how long a grace period there would be before action is taken, if this new law is passed.
Surely nobody expects canadians to have to comply the minute the treaty ink is dry.
If their intention was to showcase their Java based video streaming codec then they did a bad job of it.
The video and sound quality of the intro and demo for CherryOS was less than desirable and not impressive at all, though that may be because they threw a cut down version of the videos up due to bandwidth problems. Who knows.
I've looked at other examples of their Java based video streaming and can't say I was any more impressed with those demos either.
Now that the seemingly Pacific sized wave of traffic has rolled over Hawaii based cherryos.com, some more information can be gleamed from it's now visible pages. Their press release contact is stated as Jim Kartes.
Jim also happens to be the admin and tech contact for vx30.com. A quick Googling of his name brings up several links, including the website for MauiGiclee, a Maui based printing company which lists one Jim Kartes as it's president. How many Jim Kartes can their be in Hawaii? 411.com lists only 1. Finding info online is fun.
Further Googling and whois searches show that Jim has a hand in many things Maui.
Lets list a few of em:
http://www.mauionline.com/ (Paradise Television Network Inc)
http://www.vx30.com/ (Video Steaming Tech)
http://mauigiclee.com/ (Print Production)
http://cherryos.com/ (Emulation Software)
I'm sure the list goes on. Jim's a busy man, you see.
Predictably, all these websites sport the same type of Java Applet video found on cherryos.com. Seems like VX30 (aka MXS Inc.) has been busy supplying Java based video steaming tech to a lot of Jim's other businesses.
At any rate, these businesses (excluding, by nature of this thread, the cherry in question) seem to have been operating for some time, the oldest site being registered in 1996. They also seem quite legitimate in their desire to provide services and products, bothering to list themselves with superpages, register 1-800 numbers, etc. These are not signs of scam artists looking to make a quick get-away, so that possibility can be put to rest.
The following options still remain:
1. CerryOs is a ripoff of PearPC (though the company has reportedly denied these accusations by phone)
2. The product is real and unique, though the performance promises are exagerated.
3. This is legit and we should all stop wasting time with such nonsense : )
I hope it's the latter.
As far as I know, MysterNetworks (mysternetworks.com) is the only Canadian based P2P company out there right now. If there aren't others, perhaps we can expect many new coprorate registrations in Canada by existing P2P companies.
People are starting to wonder if they can use P2P over zero knowledge networks. This is bad as it confines the P2P traffic to their servers and can be controlled by shutting down zero knowledge. As a result, P2P users would have to go back to the regular, unprotected net. The solution cannot be found by protecting those smart enough to want to be protected. Those few that try to protect themselves will bow to preasue from large corps in the end. The only proper resolution to this is to pass laws protecting users privicy regardless of the negative ramifications. I wish people would wake up and start demanding privacy as the number one feature in their online interactions. What right do companies have to monitor my activities online just because they fear everybody?