You get spam, charge them for network use, ban them from your network, filter it, do whatever you have to, but do NOT make a governing body for the internet!
This is not *technically* just a firmware upgrade. This is circumventing/reverse engineering of their intellectual property, and in violation of the DMCA.
Imagine what would happen to the world markets if you were to do this. Just sit back and watch all that nothing spread like wildfire!
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Just like my opinion, my sarcasm's free! Just remember: You get what you pay for!
What applications will drive this demand? What providers are ensuring sufficient access to make all of this capacity worthwhile?
.NET anyone? But seriously, The demand would be there if three criteria were met: Pricing, Vision and Diversity. If companies were to expand to multiple locations with minimal obstacles, this would fill the need for a large telecommunications market.
Common taxation and corporate laws throughout the states would allow ALL businesses to expand (Read: Allow, not ensure) and the IT sector would be sitting there ready to wire it all up!
It reminds me of the Southpark with th "IT". If you remember, the government outlawed the it to prevent the airline industry from crumbling from it's own ineffiencies.
I think that it's time for these telecommunications to seriously look at revamping their current technology to meet future needs.
Circuit switched networks are dying, and for good reason!
I had the same thing happen with Suse 6.2 and a Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA (hard reboot). Interestingly enough, I could do the same thing on Slackware. Swiching to a generic pci sound card solved the problem in short order. I thought that it was my sound card, but this certainly will change my thinking.
Re:Greetings programs!
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Tron 2.0 Game
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And in another 20 years who knows? Perhaps the first true VR world will be modelled after Tron. Flat colors, black/neon color scheme I for one would go for the functional yet apparently bland world where you could interact with other people rather than a small room where you alone could interact with such amazingly modelled items like a desk, a lamp, a vase, and the dust which collects on everything. Use the mips for something fun, rather than a useless, yet realistically rendered, 10 by 12 room!
The only problem with the increased security of VPN clients is the decreased processing power due to the need of encrypting everything. This should be done on the hardware level, right before transmission. Perhaps a flashable module to handle new encryption algorithms would suffice.
The people that want to watch me watch porn, those are the crazy ones...
I also understand Microsoft's stance, but when your product is supposed to work with everything on the net, make sure it works both ways. If you add extra features that make your product better, make sure they don't hinder the original function of the program.
Exchange/outlook is an impressive piece of software for business, and Outlook can work with other mail servers, but Exchange bends the rules to make all this happen, and my IMAP client doesn't like it.
Would I buy Exchange for our business again? Definately. Would I still complain that my Linux clients don't work 100% with the mail server? Again, Definately. Would I want to punch Bill Gates in the stomach for this abhorrent behavior? Yes, but I'd shake his hand right after, because no matter how much I know about Unix or Linux, it's because of Microsoft that I have a job.
The only thing that is compatible with Office is Office. I tried using StarOffice, Koffice, and almost any other program that says it is compatible, and if it reads the files in correctly, they get mangled when ported back to office, or vice versa. Exchange is supposed to have full IMAP capabilities, but it doesn't allow me to delete e-mails in netscape, except for when it wants to.
It seems that even though Microsoft claims to follow the RFC's their "embrace and extend" policy seems to place them in a market position where their software is compatible with everything else on the market, but everyone else's product is incompatible with Microsoft.
In short, if everyone used StarOffice, then I would use StarOffice. But the question seems to be, "If StarOffice had marketshare, would MS be complaining about how Sun interpreted the RFC's?"
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Embrace and Extend or Steal and Corrupt? You decide, because the courts couldn't.
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P2P in 2001
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p2p is good technology, but from a management standpoint, p2p is missing one major portion that the client-server model isn't: Control
Even if authentication is there, if logging is there, management ( at least the ones I have run into) like the idea of a central, impenetrable bastion of information, with big pretty accounting graphs. It is a large firewall to bringing about change in anything other than a pure technology-oriented business.
Exchange is horrible for the Internet, but an absolute godsend for inter-office and intra-office communications. Honestly, I would not give up internal exchange servers for anything (except for a free, open source *NIX variant with all the functionality). The shared calendars alone are worth the liscencing fees.
Being as a fully functional office suite which is completley compatible to Microsoft version and is as user friendly, is the only thing keeping me from rolling out unix on the desktop at my office.
I had to go to Ford World Headquarters to train on their new platform-independant Ford Supplier Network website. I was amazed at the money Ford dumped into the oracle backend, ie/netscape compatibility, and commitment Ford had made to making their site OS independant. That was until I found out it was a big OS independant site used to download excel and Word documents.
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A nice little bonus would be if Netscape could run activeX components
Re:Wonder which LARGE retailer it could be?
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Damn, I thought that we held the record. Wanna count again, on a per capita basis this time?
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4 out of 5 dentists think that the fifth one is a real jackass!
Re:Why not just assign PINs at purchase?
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Gift Card Hacking
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The big thing going for the criminal is speed. A majority of these cards would have been cashed out by the time that they were received. If I were to pull this stunt, I would grab a bunch of cards in November, and then the last two weeks before Christmas, I would copy the numbers of the cards hanging there. Then Christmas eve and Boxing Day, I would cash in on a whole bunch of virtually untraceable consumer goods and electronics. Video games and stereo equipment would be the best bet, as it can be quickly pawned, or sold off, whereas the larger consumer goods are not as easy to dispose of. Shopping during the christmas rush is the best way to avoid being caught, gives you plenty of time beforehand to watch if the cards you copied have been sold, and get the most value for your ill-gotten dollar.
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But this is only theory, please don't accredit the author when you get busted.
Re:Wonder which LARGE retailer it could be?
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Gift Card Hacking
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They sit right out in the open at the Wal-mart in Windsor, Ontario. Just hanging there in the checkout aisle begging to be taken.
Tells you something about: A) Honesty of Canadians. B) Trusting nature of Canadians. or C) Intelligence of Canadians.
Now I can get everything on my christmas list and screw over a horde of people during the holiday season! Isn't technology great, even when it's old technology...
Due to the fact that the site is/.'ed, I couldn't find out if they found a way to combat condensation. What good is having a computer that runs at room temperature if the motherboard shorts out constantly?
Oh well, I guess i'll stick to heat sinks and fans for now.
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This is nothing more than a dynamo flashlight or disaster radio without the bulb or radio.
I'm not impressed!
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Do not even joke about Internet police!
You get spam, charge them for network use, ban them from your network, filter it, do whatever you have to, but do NOT make a governing body for the internet!
So would a CD Rom image of your web directory. Save Muchos buck$.
AWG
This is not *technically* just a firmware upgrade. This is circumventing/reverse engineering of their intellectual property, and in violation of the DMCA.
Imagine what would happen to the world markets if you were to do this. Just sit back and watch all that nothing spread like wildfire!
AWG
Just like my opinion, my sarcasm's free! Just remember: You get what you pay for!
I'll buy your old one for $20 bucks...
As long as it made the list
What applications will drive this demand? What providers are ensuring sufficient access to make all of this capacity worthwhile?
.NET anyone?
But seriously, The demand would be there if three criteria were met: Pricing, Vision and Diversity. If companies were to expand to multiple locations with minimal obstacles, this would fill the need for a large telecommunications market.
Common taxation and corporate laws throughout the states would allow ALL businesses to expand (Read: Allow, not ensure) and the IT sector would be sitting there ready to wire it all up!
It reminds me of the Southpark with th "IT". If you remember, the government outlawed the it to prevent the airline industry from crumbling from it's own ineffiencies.
I think that it's time for these telecommunications to seriously look at revamping their current technology to meet future needs.
Circuit switched networks are dying, and for good reason!
AWG
No, but IIRC, MS has agreed to ship AMD optimized versions of their OS's, as well as the tried-and-true Intel-optimized OS.
Now if I could only find the link...
I had the same thing happen with Suse 6.2 and a Sound Blaster AWE64 ISA (hard reboot). Interestingly enough, I could do the same thing on Slackware. Swiching to a generic pci sound card solved the problem in short order. I thought that it was my sound card, but this certainly will change my thinking.
And in another 20 years who knows? Perhaps the first true VR world will be modelled after Tron. Flat colors, black/neon color scheme
I for one would go for the functional yet apparently bland world where you could interact with other people rather than a small room where you alone could interact with such amazingly modelled items like a desk, a lamp, a vase, and the dust which collects on everything.
Use the mips for something fun, rather than a useless, yet realistically rendered, 10 by 12 room!
Litigation is scheduled to follow the minute that we can cheaply and reliably copy DVD's.
AWG
But I'm Tom Brokaw... If I say it, it must be Gospel. And that's not a toupee
That is a horrible, condemning and slanderous comment, and if it wasn't entirely true, I'd sue!
Any bets on if or when the olympics will again be the pillar of integrity?
AWG
My money is on 3018. See my 10th-great grandchild to collect.
The only problem with the increased security of VPN clients is the decreased processing power due to the need of encrypting everything. This should be done on the hardware level, right before transmission. Perhaps a flashable module to handle new encryption algorithms would suffice.
The people that want to watch me watch porn, those are the crazy ones...
I also understand Microsoft's stance, but when your product is supposed to work with everything on the net, make sure it works both ways. If you add extra features that make your product better, make sure they don't hinder the original function of the program.
Exchange/outlook is an impressive piece of software for business, and Outlook can work with other mail servers, but Exchange bends the rules to make all this happen, and my IMAP client doesn't like it.
Would I buy Exchange for our business again? Definately. Would I still complain that my Linux clients don't work 100% with the mail server? Again, Definately. Would I want to punch Bill Gates in the stomach for this abhorrent behavior? Yes, but I'd shake his hand right after, because no matter how much I know about Unix or Linux, it's because of Microsoft that I have a job.
AWG
But I'd hate to run an entire system through emacs.
The only thing that is compatible with Office is Office. I tried using StarOffice, Koffice, and almost any other program that says it is compatible, and if it reads the files in correctly, they get mangled when ported back to office, or vice versa.
Exchange is supposed to have full IMAP capabilities, but it doesn't allow me to delete e-mails in netscape, except for when it wants to.
It seems that even though Microsoft claims to follow the RFC's their "embrace and extend" policy seems to place them in a market position where their software is compatible with everything else on the market, but everyone else's product is incompatible with Microsoft.
In short, if everyone used StarOffice, then I would use StarOffice. But the question seems to be, "If StarOffice had marketshare, would MS be complaining about how Sun interpreted the RFC's?"
AWG
Embrace and Extend or Steal and Corrupt? You decide, because the courts couldn't.
p2p is good technology, but from a management standpoint, p2p is missing one major portion that the client-server model isn't: Control
Even if authentication is there, if logging is there, management ( at least the ones I have run into) like the idea of a central, impenetrable bastion of information, with big pretty accounting graphs. It is a large firewall to bringing about change in anything other than a pure technology-oriented business.
AWG
4 out of 5 doctors think that the 5th one smells.
Exchange is horrible for the Internet, but an absolute godsend for inter-office and intra-office communications. Honestly, I would not give up internal exchange servers for anything (except for a free, open source *NIX variant with all the functionality). The shared calendars alone are worth the liscencing fees.
AWG
Being as a fully functional office suite which is completley compatible to Microsoft version and is as user friendly, is the only thing keeping me from rolling out unix on the desktop at my office.
I had to go to Ford World Headquarters to train on their new platform-independant Ford Supplier Network website. I was amazed at the money Ford dumped into the oracle backend, ie/netscape compatibility, and commitment Ford had made to making their site OS independant. That was until I found out it was a big OS independant site used to download excel and Word documents.
AWG
A nice little bonus would be if Netscape could run activeX components
Damn, I thought that we held the record. Wanna count again, on a per capita basis this time?
AWG
4 out of 5 dentists think that the fifth one is a real jackass!
The big thing going for the criminal is speed. A majority of these cards would have been cashed out by the time that they were received. If I were to pull this stunt, I would grab a bunch of cards in November, and then the last two weeks before Christmas, I would copy the numbers of the cards hanging there. Then Christmas eve and Boxing Day, I would cash in on a whole bunch of virtually untraceable consumer goods and electronics. Video games and stereo equipment would be the best bet, as it can be quickly pawned, or sold off, whereas the larger consumer goods are not as easy to dispose of.
Shopping during the christmas rush is the best way to avoid being caught, gives you plenty of time beforehand to watch if the cards you copied have been sold, and get the most value for your ill-gotten dollar.
AWG
But this is only theory, please don't accredit the author when you get busted.
They sit right out in the open at the Wal-mart in Windsor, Ontario. Just hanging there in the checkout aisle begging to be taken.
Tells you something about:
A) Honesty of Canadians.
B) Trusting nature of Canadians.
or C) Intelligence of Canadians.
I'll let you pick
AWG
Why didn't I think of that?
Now I can get everything on my christmas list and screw over a horde of people during the holiday season! Isn't technology great, even when it's old technology...
Due to the fact that the site is /.'ed, I couldn't find out if they found a way to combat condensation. What good is having a computer that runs at room temperature if the motherboard shorts out constantly?
Oh well, I guess i'll stick to heat sinks and fans for now.