Tomorrow's headline will no doubt read, "First 'Behind the Stick' Review of Production Model Flying Car!" What the hey, here's a quote from the article that's not yet been written; "The SuperFlyer 6000 rides smooth as silk and corners like it's on rails. At 144 miles per gallon, you couldn't ask for more, save for the stereo which is a little bit lacking with it's 5.1 surround (we'd prefer 7.1)."
...because it NEEDS TO BE. If you are using public wireless without a VPN, YOUR ARE A FOOL. If you can't setup your own, use a cheap, public provider such as Witopia (I've had outstanding experience with them in the past).
I must agree. I was a serious X-10 junkie for years. INSTEON has already displaced X-10 amongst the nerdier of users (really, were there many non-nerds using X-10 anyway). It's reliable, easy, and dare I say nearly ubiquitous (amongst most serious hobbyists) even at this early stage. ZigBee??? Sorry, I gave at the office.
If they integrated all of the cool functionality (multi-touch screen, etc.) from the iPhone as well as the full OS X base (iChat w/video, real app support, etc.); I'd be all over it. I don't want an iPhone for this kind of stuff, nor do I want to carry around my MacBook (as I do now out of necessity). A tablet would be the perfect compromise for my needs.
Wow, so Slashdot is trying to be snarky like Fark these days. It's kind of like that one kids dad who picks him up at school wearing baggy pants and a hoodie. It not only doesn't work, it's embarrassing for those who have to see it.
Actually, their enterprise class stuff is outstanding. I don't use any of their "home user" level stuff, but for my money, McAfee beats the pants off of other high-end offerings. Their IDS, mail filtering, etc. (much of it acquired over the years) is outstanding product.
I'm a Charter cable customer in the St. Louis area. As many probably know, Charter recently filed bankruptcy recently. I have read rumors that Charter is preparing a similar move to what is described by the OP, though I have options. ATT recently established decent service where I'm at ($30/mo buys me 3Mb DSL vs $46/mo for my current 6Mb cable) and to my knowledge has no monthly transfer limits. Given that we use our connection for a LOT of Netflix streaming, this is important to me. There are some decent options in St. Louis between ATT and a few others, so I hope that Charter doesn't get stupid with their pricing. I've been pleased with their service thus far, but I would drop them immediately if they start capping.
He discovered her identity fair and square. Would you propose that one must pretend not to know who someone behind a publication is based on some arbitrary set of circumstances. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" and whatnot.
The approach is simple: Any time you have a problem watching a Netflix Instant View movie, contrive a grand and complex reason as to how Netflix is secretly (insert devious deed here) your (insert desired activity here). Sprinkle it with important sounding numbers, straw men and kittens and your done.
Even thinking that this is reasonable is amazingly foolish. If you are concerned that Internet snooping is a problem, then the solution isn't to demand that it not take place. The solution is to nullify it. You can only be assured that it won't happen if it cannot (technically) reasonably happen.
I am not being glib, but based on your question you lack a fundamental understanding of *nix computing environments and as such it is probably unwise of you to migrate. The basic premise in the *nix world divests the environment from the desktop hardware. The box on/under your desk is nothing more than an engine which will run anything you throw at it (within reason of course). The idea that your physical computer maintains anything in terms of your desktop environment, settings, policies, etc. is flawed. Just where this is maintained is entirely up to you and to the extent that you can, it should be centralized. While you'll get several opinions as to the most prudent way to accomplish this, none of them, if done properly, should in any way mimic a Windows AD environment. What Windows has in terms of AD, SMS/SCCM and the like is an artifact of a poorly designed network computing environment from the get-go. I speak from experience having the SMS/SCCM division of a very large entity (30K+ desktops and servers) under my organizational purview. Interestingly, the *nix platforms are left alone to be all but self-managed because the entire organization knows only how to manage Windows hosts. *nix (not part of my responsibility) seem to be an enigma to most. The nix sysadmins are happy to be misunderstood in this case as they are well aware that if management gets involved, they'll try to manage in the same way as Windows hosts.
Caveat: I'm a staunch conservative. Thoughts: Is it acceptable if my logging and retention is at the same level of reliability as the Bush administration? If I secure my WiFi, can I assume that there is no service provided and therefor no retention or logging needed, or is this in fact a requirement to self-monitor and self-incriminate should something 'happen'? If I do choose to monitor and keep logs (which I do, 365 days worth on my IPCop box), should I now assume that the Fed stakes their claim to rights to my historical logs? I have an answer to all of this: Kiss my butt. Everyone, conservative, liberal, moderate, whatever, needs to collectively stand up and tell the government not only to kiss off, but go home. Replace every last one of these morons from Obama and Bush's administrations and everyone in between. Clean house. I WILL NOT under any circumstances provide my log files. Period. Feel free to jail me.
I'm not a Boxee user, but I happily watch Hulu content on my Mac, via Front Row no less, using the Understudy plug-in. It works perfectly well, and gives me Mac remote access to my playlists and the updated RSS streams for my favorite shows. Works great with Netflix too. Boxee? Meh.
...I've always asked those I know who are FB'ers; why? I can see the curiosity factor in looking for people that you know who have put their lives on Facebook for the viewing pleasure (i.e. to get laughed at) of others, but what in God's name goes through a person's mind when they rationalize this being a good idea? We are a very mixed up society where we'll scream bloody murder about our privacy rights being violated only to turn right around and willfully divulge our entire lives on FB and sites like it. I firmly believe that it's only a matter of time until someone writes a FB plug-in for the new Google Maps mobile locator function so that your FB 'friends' can know where you're at every minute of the day. The human condition is apparently hell-bent on suicide.
Not true. We watch several Netflix On Demand per day between my wife, kids and I. My daily average is 1.34GB as measured by Net-traffic. My highest ever was yesterday because both kids and wife were home sick and watched Netflix the entire day non-stop. Total for the 24hr period was 7713.176. Net-traffic is running on my IPCop box through which 100% of Internet bound traffic passes.
Netflix (and every other source that provides competition to Charter or Comcast or whomever). If not for Netflix and Hulu, my usage would be minimal. I do not have cable or satellite TV (or OTA for that matter). I pay charter for Internet only service, and I pay a premium because I only want Internet. Now I am going to pay another premium to actually make full use of that Internet. Perhaps Charter will start capping ports as well. "Ports 1 - 80 are free. With our Super Ports Family Pack, you get 81 - 443 for an additional $50 per month."
Since the EULA requires me to be hands-off, is CNN then going to assume legal responsibility for my system. In the event that a vulnerability is exposed in their P2P software, are they responsible for patch management and compliancy assurance? Should my system become compromised and, say, used as a distribution point for kiddie porn because of their EULA requirements, can I assume their legal council will represent me? How about we turn this around on them. They've removed all responsibility for security from the user, so demand it from them.
Indeed. I wrestled with this recently for my home UTM box and finally had to just move it all to a low end (sub $300 brand new) Dell desktop. I love my old Sun box (V100) but if one throws a "Kill-a-Watt" on it, it makes for pretty easy decision making. The fascination with being able to run whatever-nix/BSD on a box is cool and all, but I will save money wherever I can these days. Anyone wanna buy a V100 on the cheap?;)
This is timely in that I just had a 'run-in' of sorts regarding MS Word usage and its consideration as a standard. My son is in sixth grade and, of course, has to write about 2 papers a month in his English class. He had his first official type-written paper this past couple of weeks and since we have no Windows computers and no MS Office/Word at home (all Linux, Solaris and Mac OS), we could not comply with the teacher's requirement for using MS Word with a Times New Roman font. Instead I had my son use Google Documents (which is what he's used since he started typing papers of any sort) with a Verdana font. He ended up receiving a D on the paper for not following instructions. The school has a computer lab, with Windows and MS Office, but that lab is only available to him during his assigned lab hours or after school. If he wants to use it after school, I have to pay for "After School Care" program. This kind of nonsense infuriates me. It's as if he can only write a reasonable paper if done so using MS products. Anyway, I just wrote the teacher last evening regarding coming to an agreement on things so that he doesn't suffer due to the school's devotion to MS products (a recent change as the entire school used to be Linux/OOo/etc.).
DRM free Music: Again, big whoop. I dumped ITMS for Amazon a long time ago. With Amazon's tool that automatically dumps your purcahses into iTunes, the songs already being in MP3 format and no DRM it's a no-brainer.
New MacBook 17": Okay, nice, but the freakin' Mini has needed an update for how many years now? I was really hoping and expecting to see a Mini refresh with some real video. It could be such a great set-top device. Oh well.
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This is how I got in to the INFOSEC field...20 years ago. Nothing new.
For the record, the CIA triad is "Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability", which is actually more applicable in this case. Just sayin'.
Tomorrow's headline will no doubt read, "First 'Behind the Stick' Review of Production Model Flying Car!" What the hey, here's a quote from the article that's not yet been written; "The SuperFlyer 6000 rides smooth as silk and corners like it's on rails. At 144 miles per gallon, you couldn't ask for more, save for the stereo which is a little bit lacking with it's 5.1 surround (we'd prefer 7.1)."
...because it NEEDS TO BE. If you are using public wireless without a VPN, YOUR ARE A FOOL. If you can't setup your own, use a cheap, public provider such as Witopia (I've had outstanding experience with them in the past).
I must agree. I was a serious X-10 junkie for years. INSTEON has already displaced X-10 amongst the nerdier of users (really, were there many non-nerds using X-10 anyway). It's reliable, easy, and dare I say nearly ubiquitous (amongst most serious hobbyists) even at this early stage. ZigBee??? Sorry, I gave at the office.
If they integrated all of the cool functionality (multi-touch screen, etc.) from the iPhone as well as the full OS X base (iChat w/video, real app support, etc.); I'd be all over it. I don't want an iPhone for this kind of stuff, nor do I want to carry around my MacBook (as I do now out of necessity). A tablet would be the perfect compromise for my needs.
Wow, so Slashdot is trying to be snarky like Fark these days. It's kind of like that one kids dad who picks him up at school wearing baggy pants and a hoodie. It not only doesn't work, it's embarrassing for those who have to see it.
Actually, their enterprise class stuff is outstanding. I don't use any of their "home user" level stuff, but for my money, McAfee beats the pants off of other high-end offerings. Their IDS, mail filtering, etc. (much of it acquired over the years) is outstanding product.
I'm a Charter cable customer in the St. Louis area. As many probably know, Charter recently filed bankruptcy recently. I have read rumors that Charter is preparing a similar move to what is described by the OP, though I have options. ATT recently established decent service where I'm at ($30/mo buys me 3Mb DSL vs $46/mo for my current 6Mb cable) and to my knowledge has no monthly transfer limits. Given that we use our connection for a LOT of Netflix streaming, this is important to me. There are some decent options in St. Louis between ATT and a few others, so I hope that Charter doesn't get stupid with their pricing. I've been pleased with their service thus far, but I would drop them immediately if they start capping.
He discovered her identity fair and square. Would you propose that one must pretend not to know who someone behind a publication is based on some arbitrary set of circumstances. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain" and whatnot.
...but couldn't they just make them searchable via Google? Why reinvent the wheel?
The approach is simple: Any time you have a problem watching a Netflix Instant View movie, contrive a grand and complex reason as to how Netflix is secretly (insert devious deed here) your (insert desired activity here). Sprinkle it with important sounding numbers, straw men and kittens and your done.
Even thinking that this is reasonable is amazingly foolish. If you are concerned that Internet snooping is a problem, then the solution isn't to demand that it not take place. The solution is to nullify it. You can only be assured that it won't happen if it cannot (technically) reasonably happen.
I am not being glib, but based on your question you lack a fundamental understanding of *nix computing environments and as such it is probably unwise of you to migrate. The basic premise in the *nix world divests the environment from the desktop hardware. The box on/under your desk is nothing more than an engine which will run anything you throw at it (within reason of course). The idea that your physical computer maintains anything in terms of your desktop environment, settings, policies, etc. is flawed. Just where this is maintained is entirely up to you and to the extent that you can, it should be centralized. While you'll get several opinions as to the most prudent way to accomplish this, none of them, if done properly, should in any way mimic a Windows AD environment. What Windows has in terms of AD, SMS/SCCM and the like is an artifact of a poorly designed network computing environment from the get-go. I speak from experience having the SMS/SCCM division of a very large entity (30K+ desktops and servers) under my organizational purview. Interestingly, the *nix platforms are left alone to be all but self-managed because the entire organization knows only how to manage Windows hosts. *nix (not part of my responsibility) seem to be an enigma to most. The nix sysadmins are happy to be misunderstood in this case as they are well aware that if management gets involved, they'll try to manage in the same way as Windows hosts.
I second that. N810. Hands down. Next.
Caveat: I'm a staunch conservative. Thoughts: Is it acceptable if my logging and retention is at the same level of reliability as the Bush administration? If I secure my WiFi, can I assume that there is no service provided and therefor no retention or logging needed, or is this in fact a requirement to self-monitor and self-incriminate should something 'happen'? If I do choose to monitor and keep logs (which I do, 365 days worth on my IPCop box), should I now assume that the Fed stakes their claim to rights to my historical logs? I have an answer to all of this: Kiss my butt. Everyone, conservative, liberal, moderate, whatever, needs to collectively stand up and tell the government not only to kiss off, but go home. Replace every last one of these morons from Obama and Bush's administrations and everyone in between. Clean house. I WILL NOT under any circumstances provide my log files. Period. Feel free to jail me.
I'm not a Boxee user, but I happily watch Hulu content on my Mac, via Front Row no less, using the Understudy plug-in. It works perfectly well, and gives me Mac remote access to my playlists and the updated RSS streams for my favorite shows. Works great with Netflix too. Boxee? Meh.
...I've always asked those I know who are FB'ers; why? I can see the curiosity factor in looking for people that you know who have put their lives on Facebook for the viewing pleasure (i.e. to get laughed at) of others, but what in God's name goes through a person's mind when they rationalize this being a good idea? We are a very mixed up society where we'll scream bloody murder about our privacy rights being violated only to turn right around and willfully divulge our entire lives on FB and sites like it. I firmly believe that it's only a matter of time until someone writes a FB plug-in for the new Google Maps mobile locator function so that your FB 'friends' can know where you're at every minute of the day. The human condition is apparently hell-bent on suicide.
Might I add, that's 7713.176 of the original Knight Rider series. So that's like 20GB of regular TV viewing when adjusted for cheese-factor.
Not true. We watch several Netflix On Demand per day between my wife, kids and I. My daily average is 1.34GB as measured by Net-traffic. My highest ever was yesterday because both kids and wife were home sick and watched Netflix the entire day non-stop. Total for the 24hr period was 7713.176. Net-traffic is running on my IPCop box through which 100% of Internet bound traffic passes.
Netflix (and every other source that provides competition to Charter or Comcast or whomever). If not for Netflix and Hulu, my usage would be minimal. I do not have cable or satellite TV (or OTA for that matter). I pay charter for Internet only service, and I pay a premium because I only want Internet. Now I am going to pay another premium to actually make full use of that Internet. Perhaps Charter will start capping ports as well. "Ports 1 - 80 are free. With our Super Ports Family Pack, you get 81 - 443 for an additional $50 per month."
Since the EULA requires me to be hands-off, is CNN then going to assume legal responsibility for my system. In the event that a vulnerability is exposed in their P2P software, are they responsible for patch management and compliancy assurance? Should my system become compromised and, say, used as a distribution point for kiddie porn because of their EULA requirements, can I assume their legal council will represent me? How about we turn this around on them. They've removed all responsibility for security from the user, so demand it from them.
Indeed. I wrestled with this recently for my home UTM box and finally had to just move it all to a low end (sub $300 brand new) Dell desktop. I love my old Sun box (V100) but if one throws a "Kill-a-Watt" on it, it makes for pretty easy decision making. The fascination with being able to run whatever-nix/BSD on a box is cool and all, but I will save money wherever I can these days. Anyone wanna buy a V100 on the cheap? ;)
This is timely in that I just had a 'run-in' of sorts regarding MS Word usage and its consideration as a standard. My son is in sixth grade and, of course, has to write about 2 papers a month in his English class. He had his first official type-written paper this past couple of weeks and since we have no Windows computers and no MS Office/Word at home (all Linux, Solaris and Mac OS), we could not comply with the teacher's requirement for using MS Word with a Times New Roman font. Instead I had my son use Google Documents (which is what he's used since he started typing papers of any sort) with a Verdana font. He ended up receiving a D on the paper for not following instructions. The school has a computer lab, with Windows and MS Office, but that lab is only available to him during his assigned lab hours or after school. If he wants to use it after school, I have to pay for "After School Care" program. This kind of nonsense infuriates me. It's as if he can only write a reasonable paper if done so using MS products. Anyway, I just wrote the teacher last evening regarding coming to an agreement on things so that he doesn't suffer due to the school's devotion to MS products (a recent change as the entire school used to be Linux/OOo/etc.).
New iLife: Big whoop.
DRM free Music: Again, big whoop. I dumped ITMS for Amazon a long time ago. With Amazon's tool that automatically dumps your purcahses into iTunes, the songs already being in MP3 format and no DRM it's a no-brainer.
New MacBook 17": Okay, nice, but the freakin' Mini has needed an update for how many years now? I was really hoping and expecting to see a Mini refresh with some real video. It could be such a great set-top device. Oh well.