AWESOME! My CI is about 34 at the moment (between the wife and I. That's two Ve8ttes, a crate motor, a Saturn, a PT cruiser, a Weedwhacker, lawnmower and spare briggs'n'stratton. ah, 3_5_.
I've got more disposable income now than I ever had before...but I've PURCHASED all of the consumer techno-gadgets to be had. I last felt that 'smell of the hunt' feeling when I bought a RUG Shampooer fer chrissakes.
It puts me in a serious funk to walk into Circuit City/Best Buy/Soundtrack and realise that there ARE NO consumer electronics left for me to purchase. My pda's perking along fine, as is my cellphone, Digital Camera, computer, Xbox, home theatre, TV, blender, coffee maker, LAN, lawnmower, car lift, electric toothbrush...you get the point.
At the same time that I've got everything I want, I've got a ton of functionality I don't use. I've got an X10 touchpanel that's programmable, interrupt driven, and can literally control everything in my house. It's technically not beyond my abilities to program it. Why does it only turn on and off the Stereo tuner and control it's volume? Because I can't be _bothered_ to figure it out.
That may be the more telling issure here: Are these people stupid, or is it just not a high enough priority to learn? (OR do us midwesterners just have more dark cold winter to futz with stuff?)
Hey, my phone's a two way pager...it can surf the net, it's got an IR port to connect my pda to the internet. How many people CARE that it does more than 'look cool' and doesn't drop calls?
We've gotten to the point where more features can be crammed into a device than can be used. It it bad that I don't use EVERY feature?
'With that in mind, why should the users, particularly those that contribute to discussions, have to pay?'
Because you're paying for the ACCESS to the conversation that occurs here. Yeah, we're the contributors, but Slashdot is the facilitator. And the cost of that facilitation is non-zero.
But what about the hundreds of thousands of happy PayPal Customers?
Present company included. I've had _no_ qualms or problems with 'em. Just because a vocal minority has, doesn't mean they're evil incarnate. It means they're handling a TON of transactions, having dissatisfied customers as a result is GUARANTEED.
Okay guys. If you're really the libertarian, open source, _fair_use_ folks you claim to be, then make Slashdot the most wildly successful, profitable, FOR FEE site on the net.
You can't tell me you life hasn't been changed (for better or worse) by these guys. $5 a month is a _pittance_. You can't buy LUNCH for $5.
Generally the Seller has a Tracking number. Then they can go to the escrow folks and say "See, they _signed_ for it." negating the 'it never got here' ploy.
Also, when a deal goes bad, there's an arbitration process by which the item is judged by an impartial party to be or not be what was agreed upon on in the contracting phase. (Which means the initial 'deal' contract is REALLY important!)
"If you combine a cell phone with a PDA, you're either going to get a PDA that's a crappy cellphone or a cellphone that's a crappy PDA"
As cool as this looks, I don't think the above has been invalidated yet. I'll STILL point to the example that came up with Qualcomm's PDA/Cellphone: What happens when you want to talk to comeone and LOOK AT YOUR PDA at the same time? (Nah, I don't carry the hands free earbud everywhere I go...it's got a CABLE...it gets TANGLED.)
In retrospect, I also don't think the big issue is with the OS...it's pretty secure. When needs to be changed are the things that software is allowed to do with the OS. (Like inserting itself in the RunOnce and OnStart registry keys.)
Hoo boy, this is a good article, but these guys are spending waaay too much
time in a vacuum.
Microsoft is already moving towards signing code files. While we recommend
that Microsoft continue this practice, we also recommend that Microsoft not
rely on code signing for security. Signed code does not equal trustworthy
code, something the security community graphically demonstrated through the
many ActiveX vulnerabilities. Microsoft should drop the code-signing security
paradigm in favor of the sandbox paradigm.
While that's nice and all, it's hard for an operating system to do operating
system things from within a sandbox, and with the single exception of a guy
getting a Verisign key with the name Microsoft on it (nominally a Verisign
problem, not a Microsoft Problem) I haven't seen a problem lately with microsoft
signed code.
All other Microsoft features should be evaluated for resilience. Those that
are too risky should be removed until they can be rewritten and secured.
The NonM$ loving folks will LOVE that soundbite, unfortunately, it's got all
the likelihood of happening as having everybody shift from IIS to Apache. In any
production environment, security is balanced havily with cost of implementation.
NO company with any amount of entrenched custom code is going to pitch it
because a security guy say they oughta. The fact that you cannot overwrite
a system DLL in XP seems to be ignored. (There's a Key library, a backup
directory of DLL's and the DLL in the system folder, if any of those are mucked
with, the OS reacts trying to restore a safe version of the DLL, if a safe
version isn't available, it prompts for a CD.)
We recommend that Microsoft add strong auditing capabilities to all
products, both operating systems and applications software. We recommend that
Microsoft provide configuration tools along with its operating system, as well
as tools for an IT department to manage the configurations of its computers.
Granular auditing exists now! The problem with enhanced auditing is
the storage requirements for that auditing. I get 'the application log is full'
messages NOW, what happens when every bit written generates five bits of log?
Are YOU going to have a Terabyte server to store 200 mb of data and 800 mb of
granular logs?
We recommend that all protocols and interfaces used in Microsoft software
be immediately published, and a one-year moratorium be placed on all
non-security modifications to those protocols. We also recommend that
Microsoft publish any new protocols or interfaces at least one year before
implementing them in products.
Microsoft's been in bed for YEARS with the W3C. The protocols are generated
there, and Microsoft is often the first to market to implement them. Asking them
to hold off a year before using a new protocol is business suicide and not
something they'll be willing to do.
Try to give THAT to a reporter over the phone and not get it screwed up in the news clipping!
(www.coworkforce.com/uib works MUCH better)
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Sure, you'll have a device to be able to do all this, but people won't use them for one of two reasons:
1) They'll be paranoid of having all that info available
2) There will just be too many friggen features for folks to care.
I don't know about you, but I programmed the addressbook for my FIRST phone. Three phones later, I pick the thing up and use it to dial numbers. I don't use the IR, I don't have it sync with my palm pilot, and I don't send two way messages, I just use it as a digital 'can and string' to talk to people.
Us Slashdot folks are pretty savvy gadget freaky people. That doen't mean my Mom's going to program her favorite MP#^H^H^HWMA's to play on Tuesday when the humidity is high and she's the only person at home.
shite, I used the AC so I wouldn't lose KARMA, not because I was particularly afraid for my identity. What I'm being a prig about is listening to the endless libertarian 'WE'RE GIVING UP OUR RIGHTS!' schtick.
It's getting just about as old and repetitive as the people trying to tell me it's time to re-finance my House!
The sky ISN'T falling, our rights AREN'T being voilated, and the truly stupid stuff doesn't get passed.
Don't talk to me about the DMCA, just buy the friggin record. Don't whine that you can't use DeCSS on your linux box, you resigned yourself to additional hardship by not using the more popular operating system (Which people as a whole write to first because they want to _make_ _a_ _living_ and a _profit_.)
There are people being shot at by dictators. There are people that get less than 150 calories worth of food a day. There are places where infant mortality is 80%. You're worried the AC priviledge on Slashdot?
Sigh. The sad thing it, I'm blowing off steam about Standard Slashdot responce #7 (They're taking away my rights, what'd Ben Franklin say about that?) and I'll get slammed by Responce #6 (You said somthing not nice about Linux) and Responce #5 (You mentioned that people work for a living.)
Iiiinteresting. Well, truth be known, we're state government (Dept of Labor). The content becomes public knowledge in short order _anyway_. While we CAN specify VPN, that means I won't be able to surf using my ipaq.;)
Linksys (and other folks) have a flag that disables the SSID broadcast 'feature' of their basestations.
According to netstumbler.com:
"Linksys' latest firmware update for WAP11 includes closed network support. It disables the SSID beacon broadcast and as a result no longer shows up on either the Boingo or CyberPixie roaming clients, nor on Apsniff or NetStumbler network discovery tools. "
Is this REALLY a security 'adder' or can folks discover the network in other ways?
Our.11b network has 128wep, MAC list restriction, and SSID broadcast turned off. I realise that someone can sniff the traffic and decrypt the packets by cracking WEP, but this would otherwise prevent them from doing something ON the network, right?
We're investigating adding our VPN to the mix, but it's a non-trivial network topology change for a group that really doesn't have sensitive data.
One of the nice side-benefits of a digital camera is a) the instant feedback, leading to b) color adjustment on the fly. There's no need to burn a roll of film pushed a stop, and you can do nifty things like take a picture outside on a sunny day, then walk inside and take pictures of cars under Tungsten-halogen lamps with nothing more than a reset of the white balance.
_I_ work for state government, I'm a pretty bright bulb, and choose to do so for less pay because I LIKE the environment. I LIKE making change in a large governmental system, and I LIKE having a stable paycheck with a good retirement.
Yeah, there's a bunch of F*ck-ups in the Public sector, but they're just as prevalent in the Private Sector.
I thought the same thing til I spent time with Halo. IMHO they did a GREAT job of using what they had. Circle strafeing was something I never got the hang of with a mouse and keyboard, it's trivial in Halo.
While the HD is an asset, it's not the only one. The console is HDTV capabile, and has broadband in the box. But you already knew that. The graphics quality is really really good, and easy to dismiss in the 'heat of battle'.
Actually the Xbox was a great stabilising factor in my gameing purchasing. a) I don't feel the need to upgrade from my Geforce 2 MX 400 (like I did with the Geforce 256,Viper 330 and stb128 before that), b) I'll actually end up buying MORE games for the Xbox than I did for the PC because it's just that much more comfortable and entertaining playing a game on the big screen, sitting on the couch. and c) I got a whole console for the price of a Geforce 3. (rather than spending that $300 for a GF3 card only.)
Dude, I've been waiting _2_Years_ for something that warps anything more than a GeForce256. You're talking about _a_ game that _may_ be out soon. Right now the only thing that tasks your Nvidia card are the demos released by Nvidia!
My point was: The Console games are taking advantage of the capabilities _now_.
It's got a videoport that you use to attach the xbox to whatever you've got. (From ch3 on crappy TVs to 1920xmumble-whatever componend out on high end HDTV's) I'm using the S-video Home theatre connection kit and it looks as good as anything can on a 6 year old big screen TV.
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AWESOME! My CI is about 34 at the moment (between the wife and I. That's two Ve8ttes, a crate motor, a Saturn, a PT cruiser, a Weedwhacker, lawnmower and spare briggs'n'stratton. ah, 3_5_.
I've got more disposable income now than I ever had before...but I've PURCHASED all of the consumer techno-gadgets to be had. I last felt that 'smell of the hunt' feeling when I bought a RUG Shampooer fer chrissakes.
It puts me in a serious funk to walk into Circuit City/Best Buy/Soundtrack and realise that there ARE NO consumer electronics left for me to purchase. My pda's perking along fine, as is my cellphone, Digital Camera, computer, Xbox, home theatre, TV, blender, coffee maker, LAN, lawnmower, car lift, electric toothbrush...you get the point.
At the same time that I've got everything I want, I've got a ton of functionality I don't use. I've got an X10 touchpanel that's programmable, interrupt driven, and can literally control everything in my house. It's technically not beyond my abilities to program it. Why does it only turn on and off the Stereo tuner and control it's volume? Because I can't be _bothered_ to figure it out.
That may be the more telling issure here: Are these people stupid, or is it just not a high enough priority to learn? (OR do us midwesterners just have more dark cold winter to futz with stuff?)
Hey, my phone's a two way pager...it can surf the net, it's got an IR port to connect my pda to the internet. How many people CARE that it does more than 'look cool' and doesn't drop calls?
We've gotten to the point where more features can be crammed into a device than can be used. It it bad that I don't use EVERY feature?
'With that in mind, why should the users, particularly those that contribute to discussions, have to pay?'
Because you're paying for the ACCESS to the conversation that occurs here. Yeah, we're the contributors, but Slashdot is the facilitator. And the cost of that facilitation is non-zero.
But what about the hundreds of thousands of happy PayPal Customers?
Present company included. I've had _no_ qualms or problems with 'em. Just because a vocal minority has, doesn't mean they're evil incarnate. It means they're handling a TON of transactions, having dissatisfied customers as a result is GUARANTEED.
Okay guys. If you're really the libertarian, open source, _fair_use_ folks you claim to be, then make Slashdot the most wildly successful, profitable, FOR FEE site on the net.
You can't tell me you life hasn't been changed (for better or worse) by these guys. $5 a month is a _pittance_. You can't buy LUNCH for $5.
_MY_ 'checks in the mail'
Anybody notice the cool 'aqua' look Slashdot logo and banner on this thread?
A) Cool Guys!
B) How you don't get Look'n'FeelSued!
Agreed. I came up short once when somebody asked my what my Telco budget was. Not my Office budget, my personal telco budget.
I stopped counting when it crested $200 a month. (Analog line, ISDN, Cellphone, Longdistance at the time)
How many things do we pay for that we'd be hard pressed to give up if finances required it? would you give up your Tivo? Your Cable?
Your Slashdot?
Generally the Seller has a Tracking number. Then they can go to the escrow folks and say "See, they _signed_ for it." negating the 'it never got here' ploy.
Also, when a deal goes bad, there's an arbitration process by which the item is judged by an impartial party to be or not be what was agreed upon on in the contracting phase. (Which means the initial 'deal' contract is REALLY important!)
If it's worth spending $40 for shipping, it's worth spending a little more to ensure you're getting what you're _expecting_!
If the seller won't use an online escrow service (www.tradenable.com has worked well for me in the past) then DON'T BUY THE PRODUCT!
You're not from here are ya? )/me looks at email address.) See, you're from _over_there_. You've had better phone stuff your YEARS! :P
"If you combine a cell phone with a PDA, you're either going to get a PDA that's a crappy cellphone or a cellphone that's a crappy PDA"
As cool as this looks, I don't think the above has been invalidated yet. I'll STILL point to the example that came up with Qualcomm's PDA/Cellphone: What happens when you want to talk to comeone and LOOK AT YOUR PDA at the same time? (Nah, I don't carry the hands free earbud everywhere I go...it's got a CABLE...it gets TANGLED.)
In retrospect, I also don't think the big issue is with the OS...it's pretty secure. When needs to be changed are the things that software is allowed to do with the OS. (Like inserting itself in the RunOnce and OnStart registry keys.)
Hoo boy, this is a good article, but these guys are spending waaay too much time in a vacuum.
While that's nice and all, it's hard for an operating system to do operating system things from within a sandbox, and with the single exception of a guy getting a Verisign key with the name Microsoft on it (nominally a Verisign problem, not a Microsoft Problem) I haven't seen a problem lately with microsoft signed code.
The NonM$ loving folks will LOVE that soundbite, unfortunately, it's got all the likelihood of happening as having everybody shift from IIS to Apache. In any production environment, security is balanced havily with cost of implementation. NO company with any amount of entrenched custom code is going to pitch it because a security guy say they oughta. The fact that you cannot overwrite a system DLL in XP seems to be ignored. (There's a Key library, a backup directory of DLL's and the DLL in the system folder, if any of those are mucked with, the OS reacts trying to restore a safe version of the DLL, if a safe version isn't available, it prompts for a CD.)
Granular auditing exists now! The problem with enhanced auditing is the storage requirements for that auditing. I get 'the application log is full' messages NOW, what happens when every bit written generates five bits of log? Are YOU going to have a Terabyte server to store 200 mb of data and 800 mb of granular logs?
Microsoft's been in bed for YEARS with the W3C. The protocols are generated there, and Microsoft is often the first to market to implement them. Asking them to hold off a year before using a new protocol is business suicide and not something they'll be willing to do.
If the rules are too strict, you're left with:
http://unemploymentBenefits.cdle.state.co.us
Try to give THAT to a reporter over the phone and not get it screwed up in the news clipping!
(www.coworkforce.com/uib works MUCH better)
Sure, you'll have a device to be able to do all this, but people won't use them for one of two reasons:
1) They'll be paranoid of having all that info available
2) There will just be too many friggen features for folks to care.
I don't know about you, but I programmed the addressbook for my FIRST phone. Three phones later, I pick the thing up and use it to dial numbers. I don't use the IR, I don't have it sync with my palm pilot, and I don't send two way messages, I just use it as a digital 'can and string' to talk to people.
Us Slashdot folks are pretty savvy gadget freaky people. That doen't mean my Mom's going to program her favorite MP#^H^H^HWMA's to play on Tuesday when the humidity is high and she's the only person at home.
But then...wouldn't it be a movie? waitaminit.
shite, I used the AC so I wouldn't lose KARMA, not because I was particularly afraid for my identity. What I'm being a prig about is listening to the endless libertarian 'WE'RE GIVING UP OUR RIGHTS!' schtick.
It's getting just about as old and repetitive as the people trying to tell me it's time to re-finance my House!
The sky ISN'T falling, our rights AREN'T being voilated, and the truly stupid stuff doesn't get passed.
Don't talk to me about the DMCA, just buy the friggin record. Don't whine that you can't use DeCSS on your linux box, you resigned yourself to additional hardship by not using the more popular operating system (Which people as a whole write to first because they want to _make_ _a_ _living_ and a _profit_.)
There are people being shot at by dictators. There are people that get less than 150 calories worth of food a day. There are places where infant mortality is 80%. You're worried the AC priviledge on Slashdot?
Sigh. The sad thing it, I'm blowing off steam about Standard Slashdot responce #7 (They're taking away my rights, what'd Ben Franklin say about that?) and I'll get slammed by Responce #6 (You said somthing not nice about Linux) and Responce #5 (You mentioned that people work for a living.)
Iiiinteresting. Well, truth be known, we're state government (Dept of Labor). The content becomes public knowledge in short order _anyway_. While we CAN specify VPN, that means I won't be able to surf using my ipaq. ;)
(Can PPC2002 connect to a CicsoVPN concentrator?)
Can anybody comment on the following:
.11b network has 128wep, MAC list restriction, and SSID broadcast turned off. I realise that someone can sniff the traffic and decrypt the packets by cracking WEP, but this would otherwise prevent them from doing something ON the network, right?
Linksys (and other folks) have a flag that disables the SSID broadcast 'feature' of their basestations.
According to netstumbler.com:
"Linksys' latest firmware update for WAP11 includes closed network support. It disables the SSID beacon broadcast and as a result no longer shows up on either the Boingo or CyberPixie roaming clients, nor on Apsniff or NetStumbler network discovery tools. "
Is this REALLY a security 'adder' or can folks discover the network in other ways?
Our
We're investigating adding our VPN to the mix, but it's a non-trivial network topology change for a group that really doesn't have sensitive data.
One of the nice side-benefits of a digital camera is a) the instant feedback, leading to b) color adjustment on the fly. There's no need to burn a roll of film pushed a stop, and you can do nifty things like take a picture outside on a sunny day, then walk inside and take pictures of cars under Tungsten-halogen lamps with nothing more than a reset of the white balance.
You're neatly thrashing the resolution limitatations and missing it's benefits.
I'll direct you to Philip 'Ex-Ars Digita' Greenspun's more balanced review here: http://www.photo.net/photo/digital/choosing.html
(Barring the fact he's talking about older digicams, there's newer stuff on photo.net, and the theory on colorspace is valid.
Further, having dont both film scanning and digital, there's NO DUST ISSUES in a picture that starts it's life out as a digital picture!
May I be the first to say Bull$hit!
_I_ work for state government, I'm a pretty bright bulb, and choose to do so for less pay because I LIKE the environment. I LIKE making change in a large governmental system, and I LIKE having a stable paycheck with a good retirement.
Yeah, there's a bunch of F*ck-ups in the Public sector, but they're just as prevalent in the Private Sector.
I thought the same thing til I spent time with Halo. IMHO they did a GREAT job of using what they had. Circle strafeing was something I never got the hang of with a mouse and keyboard, it's trivial in Halo.
While the HD is an asset, it's not the only one. The console is HDTV capabile, and has broadband in the box. But you already knew that. The graphics quality is really really good, and easy to dismiss in the 'heat of battle'.
Actually the Xbox was a great stabilising factor in my gameing purchasing. a) I don't feel the need to upgrade from my Geforce 2 MX 400 (like I did with the Geforce 256,Viper 330 and stb128 before that), b) I'll actually end up buying MORE games for the Xbox than I did for the PC because it's just that much more comfortable and entertaining playing a game on the big screen, sitting on the couch. and c) I got a whole console for the price of a Geforce 3. (rather than spending that $300 for a GF3 card only.)
Dude, I've been waiting _2_Years_ for something that warps anything more than a GeForce256. You're talking about _a_ game that _may_ be out soon. Right now the only thing that tasks your Nvidia card are the demos released by Nvidia! My point was: The Console games are taking advantage of the capabilities _now_.
It's got a videoport that you use to attach the xbox to whatever you've got. (From ch3 on crappy TVs to 1920xmumble-whatever componend out on high end HDTV's) I'm using the S-video Home theatre connection kit and it looks as good as anything can on a 6 year old big screen TV.