How does an engine stall at highway speeds? If the transmission is engaged, pure momentum should keep the wheels (and the drivetrain attached to it) rolling.
Nothing makes me more suspicious than old, recycled news pretending to be new news and released under weird circumstances. In this case, I'm referring to the recent "news" about power-line networking. This, in fact, is a technology I've been hearing about for 20 years. Its strange and sudden promotion by the government is ominous.
Old technology. It began on January 16 with an Associated Press article reporting that federal officials (the FCC) think that power-line networking "may become the next pathway into homes for high-speed Internet access." On what planet?
This piece ran in The Washington Post and on most major news outlets. Five days later, TechTV reported the same story without questioning the source or the rationale for the idea's reemergence.
This non-news is obviously being orchestrated by some of the companies involved in the technology. Who can blame them? But why is the FCC suddenly on the bandwagon?
Phony rationale. The new angle is that power lines can provide an alternative way to connect to the Internet in a national emergency. Has anyone noticed the simple fact that during most disasters, the first things to go off-line are power lines, not phone lines? Something else is going on.
I've always been baffled by the continued development of power-line networking when all network engineers know that power-line noise is not conducive to data flow. Set up a home network over power lines and see how well it operates when Betsy cranks up her 1,500-watt hair dryer or Dad turns on the blender. Filtering all this noise is difficult, which is the main reason that power-line networking has gone nowhere. There are reports of stable 1-Mbps and even 10-Mbps systems, but all the network engineers I talk to are suspicious of any such claims. We have wireless technology, mesh concepts, and Ethernet-to-the-home initiatives. Why does development continue with power-line networking?
The reality. The idea of a personal Internet connection over power lines is preposterous, since other technologies are clearly better and more stable. The real reason to promote power-line networking is so the appliances of the future can be monitored and controlled from remote locations.
Imagine that you own a Maytag washer with an LCD screen. It's got an IP address and is plugged into the electrical system where it communicates with a Maytag server on the Web. One day, the machine's LCD tells you that you can download a new spin cycle by hitting the red button on the washer. Meanwhile, the LCD also tells you that the Safeway down the street (of course, the washer knows where you live) is having a sale on Tide detergent. The washer asks you whether you want the coupon mailed to you or printed via your Canon printer right now. You tell it to print the coupon now. The Maytag server immediately contacts the Canon server, your power-line network talks to the IP-addressable printer in your home office, and the coupon is printed. Maytag pays Canon 2 cents for this service. Welcome to our new wired world.
This has always been the reason for power-line networking. Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and IBM were openly discussing idiotic Internet appliances such as a coffeemaker you can call from your car to make coffee or a washing machine that can call a repair person. How was that supposed to happen without power-line networking? Did anyone expect a coffeepot to have an Ethernet jack and wires running all over the kitchen?
Big Brother. The potential for abuse bothers me. Can you imagine every plug in the house being a TCP/IP connection? Consider how easy it would be to slip a little device with a microphone or camera inside the wall socket to spy on you or to put a camera inside any appliance, clock, or light fixture. Even without cameras and microphones, you could figure out what was going on inside a home by monitoring the ports for electrical activity. "Someone's using a crock pot in the kitchen."
antivirus is/was useless against the rpc exploit vuln, and relying on av scanners is a false sense of security. you are only as secure as the latest definition update.
besides, there are variant worms that are spreading as we speak that symantic/mcafee haven't even discovered yet.
there's a (crappy) techno "artist" that uses the name BT. his real name is Brian Transeau. it's quite ironic that he's pursuing legal threats against p2p file sharing, since p2p sorta made him famous.
Since these countries don't already have ancient, pre-existing infrastructure, they can roll out wireless faster than if they had a bunch of copper lines to every home.
look at estonia; ten years ago they were communist bloc peasants, now they're the fastest growing tech sector in eastern europe.
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jabber (RFC 3920, XMPP) hasn't missed any boat.
linguistic cancer in my opinion
the player isn't proprietary, it is open source.
Google has released a mac osx version of google earth. hooray
According to this, looks like its not a rumor.
How does an engine stall at highway speeds? If the transmission is engaged, pure momentum should keep the wheels (and the drivetrain attached to it) rolling.
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Did anyone else see that Google maps supports Satellite maps now?
and security through obscurity is so much better?
February 18, 2003
Nothing makes me more suspicious than old, recycled news pretending to be new news and released under weird circumstances. In this case, I'm referring to the recent "news" about power-line networking. This, in fact, is a technology I've been hearing about for 20 years. Its strange and sudden promotion by the government is ominous.
Old technology. It began on January 16 with an Associated Press article reporting that federal officials (the FCC) think that power-line networking "may become the next pathway into homes for high-speed Internet access." On what planet?
This piece ran in The Washington Post and on most major news outlets. Five days later, TechTV reported the same story without questioning the source or the rationale for the idea's reemergence.
This non-news is obviously being orchestrated by some of the companies involved in the technology. Who can blame them? But why is the FCC suddenly on the bandwagon?
Phony rationale. The new angle is that power lines can provide an alternative way to connect to the Internet in a national emergency. Has anyone noticed the simple fact that during most disasters, the first things to go off-line are power lines, not phone lines? Something else is going on.
I've always been baffled by the continued development of power-line networking when all network engineers know that power-line noise is not conducive to data flow. Set up a home network over power lines and see how well it operates when Betsy cranks up her 1,500-watt hair dryer or Dad turns on the blender. Filtering all this noise is difficult, which is the main reason that power-line networking has gone nowhere. There are reports of stable 1-Mbps and even 10-Mbps systems, but all the network engineers I talk to are suspicious of any such claims. We have wireless technology, mesh concepts, and Ethernet-to-the-home initiatives. Why does development continue with power-line networking?
The reality. The idea of a personal Internet connection over power lines is preposterous, since other technologies are clearly better and more stable. The real reason to promote power-line networking is so the appliances of the future can be monitored and controlled from remote locations.
Imagine that you own a Maytag washer with an LCD screen. It's got an IP address and is plugged into the electrical system where it communicates with a Maytag server on the Web. One day, the machine's LCD tells you that you can download a new spin cycle by hitting the red button on the washer. Meanwhile, the LCD also tells you that the Safeway down the street (of course, the washer knows where you live) is having a sale on Tide detergent. The washer asks you whether you want the coupon mailed to you or printed via your Canon printer right now. You tell it to print the coupon now. The Maytag server immediately contacts the Canon server, your power-line network talks to the IP-addressable printer in your home office, and the coupon is printed. Maytag pays Canon 2 cents for this service. Welcome to our new wired world.
This has always been the reason for power-line networking. Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy and IBM were openly discussing idiotic Internet appliances such as a coffeemaker you can call from your car to make coffee or a washing machine that can call a repair person. How was that supposed to happen without power-line networking? Did anyone expect a coffeepot to have an Ethernet jack and wires running all over the kitchen?
Big Brother. The potential for abuse bothers me. Can you imagine every plug in the house being a TCP/IP connection? Consider how easy it would be to slip a little device with a microphone or camera inside the wall socket to spy on you or to put a camera inside any appliance, clock, or light fixture. Even without cameras and microphones, you could figure out what was going on inside a home by monitoring the ports for electrical activity. "Someone's using a crock pot in the kitchen."
The possibility for snooping here seems a lot
skype is proprietary, not open source
i remember when this was called WASTE
oh boy, another bannable catchphrase from SA that migrated to fark and finally caught on at slashdot only to be overused until forever
thats ok, it's a mirror
antivirus is/was useless against the rpc exploit vuln, and relying on av scanners is a false sense of security. you are only as secure as the latest definition update.
besides, there are variant worms that are spreading as we speak that symantic/mcafee haven't even discovered yet.
there is no RPC in win9x
win9x is not affected by this vuln
read -> comprehend -> post
9x does not run RPC. 9x is not affected by this exploit.
there's a (crappy) techno "artist" that uses the name BT. his real name is Brian Transeau. it's quite ironic that he's pursuing legal threats against p2p file sharing, since p2p sorta made him famous.
here's an allmusic link: BT
everyone's seen goatse before.
wow. whoop dee doo. it doesn't even phaze me anymore.
you have discriminitory issues with the residents of christmas island and their interweb domains?
you really think USATODAY.com is going to be slashdotted?
wasn't AlohaNet the origin of Collision detection, and the forerunner to ethernet?
Since these countries don't already have ancient, pre-existing infrastructure, they can roll out wireless faster than if they had a bunch of copper lines to every home.
look at estonia; ten years ago they were communist bloc peasants, now they're the fastest growing tech sector in eastern europe.
Boeing moved from Seattle to Chicago in 2000.
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