I've always imagined that the rental/DVD system would reach the point that we could immediately rent or purchase the DVD (or current equivalent) of a movie, once we've seen it in the theater. Even to the extreme of taking it home with you on the way out of the lobby. (After paying the normal rental or purchase charge) Kind of like, "hey, I saw it in your theater, I proved my allegiance, now I want to watch it again without the return trip, or the x month wait to home release...please?"
Anyone else given this a thought? Is that something we can ever see happen with guys like this, running the show?
Only if those machines are sharing a LAN, from what I understand. It doesn't help me when I have my work PC behind a firewall in my office, and my home desktop at home, behind it's own firewall, and then a roaming laptop. So far, I've been forced to send to a webserver, a USB keychain, or burn a CD when I get new music
Is there something I'm missing? It would be nice if someone could create a service to move the files automatically, or just provide locked files on a webserver, somewhere, that you could access if you have a license.
Nice to release on the anniversary, and draw some attention. My one complaint with the service is that you can't download the source file multiple times. So, I may have a license to listen to it, but I have to get the file from somewhere, if I lose it. They let you listen to your music on 5 machines, but you have to transport the file itself to those machines, by yourself. A real pain in the butt. Beyond that, it's fantastic, and I recommend it to anyone shopping for a service.
It begs the question, how many workstations, for how many months, would it take to find out
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
I'm afraid the world will never know.
Whatever happened to the clowns that were essentially turning one of these into a perpertual motion machine? Something about getting hundereds of miles per gallon by harnessing brake energy? Weren't they exposed as frauds?
I thought those phones had been going away? The last couple times I flew, they were out of service, on the pretense that they were being removed/phased out.
Possibly not. You may see the big wireless companies start to offer packages with airline roaming. How hard would it be for Cingular, Verizon, Sprint, Virgin, etc to work with the airlines. Designated amounts of airline minutes with calling plans, etc. Mobile to Mobile calling is this month's gimmick, let's see what this brings around. There could be bonuses for loyalty to an airline, as well.
I'm not so much a fan of cell phone use, but I would love to see a Wi-Fi access point on the plane, to get some easy broadband access.
How does this get in the way of the story from 13 April about needing both sides to contsent to chat recordings? If the solution to that is to allow 3rd party "wiretapping" of IM sessions, this would limit it severly.
Finally, an RFID tool that is on our side. If we can't stop the spread of them, at least now we should be able to see what their purpose is. In theory, you could look up any tag you come across, and find out, via some databse some where, why it is installed, and what it wants to learn about you. For a minute, I thought maybe it was an article about RFID tags in phones, which is just as inevitable.
We do have a PCMCIA system setup, but we found out early on that when users opened the machine in an industrial environment, it was exposed to debris, mess and electrical noise that caused extreme problems. For most customers, we do recommend this method when the oppurtinity arises. Want a job?
Unless you're in an environment where opening the machine to access it, is impossible, or dangerous to the equipment. In the case of the Cisco equipment, they could all be stashed in remote locations, that are rarely visited. (I realize this is really no excuse, of course)
Reading your responses, makes me realize, I should add one thing. These devices that I work on, are for a non-Slashdot crowd. It won't spread like wildfire. More like a smoke signal on a dry day. Cisco should have calculated the popularity of such an access key.
Been there, done that. If you create any kind of formula for calculating it, then that can get out just as easily. A sales rep that uses the information to help one customer, suddenly has it for every machine. We made the mistake of using that method for enabling a pay option on one of our machines.
People read about these back doors, and they are appalled by the concept of it. I wish it was that easy. I design software for embedded devices and let me tell you, as soon as you add a password mechanism, then someone will lose the password within days. It's happened to me, and I finally had to put a global password in every machine. You hope that no one will ever find out, but once you tell a single customer, it could spread. I'm fortunate that my userbase is small and spread out, but for Cisco, this could be a disaster. If they made it so the master password could only be put in locally, that would be a big help, but may not be possible on these devices.
Does anyone have a reference that explains why the Blizzard ports where a failure? I thought they were pretty cool, and was looking forward to more.
Thanks!!
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I've always imagined that the rental/DVD system would reach the point that we could immediately rent or purchase the DVD (or current equivalent) of a movie, once we've seen it in the theater. Even to the extreme of taking it home with you on the way out of the lobby. (After paying the normal rental or purchase charge)
Kind of like, "hey, I saw it in your theater, I proved my allegiance, now I want to watch it again without the return trip, or the x month wait to home release...please?" Anyone else given this a thought? Is that something we can ever see happen with guys like this, running the show?
Only if those machines are sharing a LAN, from what I understand. It doesn't help me when I have my work PC behind a firewall in my office, and my home desktop at home, behind it's own firewall, and then a roaming laptop. So far, I've been forced to send to a webserver, a USB keychain, or burn a CD when I get new music
Is there something I'm missing?
It would be nice if someone could create a service to move the files automatically, or just provide locked files on a webserver, somewhere, that you could access if you have a license.
Nice to release on the anniversary, and draw some attention.
My one complaint with the service is that you can't download the source file multiple times. So, I may have a license to listen to it, but I have to get the file from somewhere, if I lose it. They let you listen to your music on 5 machines, but you have to transport the file itself to those machines, by yourself. A real pain in the butt.
Beyond that, it's fantastic, and I recommend it to anyone shopping for a service.
It begs the question, how many workstations, for how many months, would it take to find out
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?
I'm afraid the world will never know.
The linked news story exactly describes the photos on her site. I'm begining to doubt that the reporter used anything else as a resource.
Does anyone have the URL to the list of differences from Core 1?
Thanks!
Whatever happened to the clowns that were essentially turning one of these into a perpertual motion machine? Something about getting hundereds of miles per gallon by harnessing brake energy? Weren't they exposed as frauds?
I thought those phones had been going away? The last couple times I flew, they were out of service, on the pretense that they were being removed/phased out.
Possibly not. You may see the big wireless companies start to offer packages with airline roaming. How hard would it be for Cingular, Verizon, Sprint, Virgin, etc to work with the airlines. Designated amounts of airline minutes with calling plans, etc. Mobile to Mobile calling is this month's gimmick, let's see what this brings around. There could be bonuses for loyalty to an airline, as well.
I'm not so much a fan of cell phone use, but I would love to see a Wi-Fi access point on the plane, to get some easy broadband access.
How does this get in the way of the story from 13 April about needing both sides to contsent to chat recordings? If the solution to that is to allow 3rd party "wiretapping" of IM sessions, this would limit it severly.
Finally, an RFID tool that is on our side. If we can't stop the spread of them, at least now we should be able to see what their purpose is. In theory, you could look up any tag you come across, and find out, via some databse some where, why it is installed, and what it wants to learn about you.
For a minute, I thought maybe it was an article about RFID tags in phones, which is just as inevitable.
Oh, you've been talking to my wife, eh?
We do have a PCMCIA system setup, but we found out early on that when users opened the machine in an industrial environment, it was exposed to debris, mess and electrical noise that caused extreme problems. For most customers, we do recommend this method when the oppurtinity arises.
Want a job?
Ha ha! I have defeated you by forgetting to keep my resume up to date! Oops.
Really? That's not good, better get after the IT guys to get that looked at. Works fine from this end.
Thank you for the head's up.
I hope these don't have any Cisco equipment built in to them...
Wait, if it's so hard to get into them, then why is the global password such an issue?
Nothing mainstream, or technology oriented.
Magnatech Orbital Welding Systems
I like that idea. Get the serial number from the machine, and then work from there. I'll have to work that into the next generation.
Unless you're in an environment where opening the machine to access it, is impossible, or dangerous to the equipment. In the case of the Cisco equipment, they could all be stashed in remote locations, that are rarely visited. (I realize this is really no excuse, of course)
Reading your responses, makes me realize, I should add one thing. These devices that I work on, are for a non-Slashdot crowd. It won't spread like wildfire. More like a smoke signal on a dry day.
Cisco should have calculated the popularity of such an access key.
Been there, done that. If you create any kind of formula for calculating it, then that can get out just as easily. A sales rep that uses the information to help one customer, suddenly has it for every machine. We made the mistake of using that method for enabling a pay option on one of our machines.
Can't Cisco just download it to the devices themselves? They do have the password to every box, after all.
People read about these back doors, and they are appalled by the concept of it. I wish it was that easy. I design software for embedded devices and let me tell you, as soon as you add a password mechanism, then someone will lose the password within days. It's happened to me, and I finally had to put a global password in every machine. You hope that no one will ever find out, but once you tell a single customer, it could spread. I'm fortunate that my userbase is small and spread out, but for Cisco, this could be a disaster. If they made it so the master password could only be put in locally, that would be a big help, but may not be possible on these devices.
Does anyone have a reference that explains why the Blizzard ports where a failure? I thought they were pretty cool, and was looking forward to more.
Thanks!!