Um, no. Computers and networking gear are complex electronic systems. People WANT to treat them like a toaster, but then they complain when somthing goes wrong.
"Why aren't WAPs shipped with encryption turned on by default?"
Becuase it would cost the manufacturer money to have to talk people through how to get their notebook to connect to the access point with WEP enabled. However it costs them nothing to leave the security turned off be default.
"With many well-known strong encryption schemes, why was the weak WEP made standard?"
At the time the cost of dedicated ASIC systems to handel encryption where too high. An encryption system with lower system requirements was needed for consumer access points to have any form of security.
"why? because I was taught to share growing up..."
Do you share your wife, your home, your momey, your car, your cloths? Do you think nothing of getting up in the morning to find strange people sleeping in your living room? My network is my personal space, no uninvited guests allowed.
"But I'm kinda interested in the Matrix online game."
So be it. Your LAME!
Nothing can turn me off a game faster then seeing a bunch of dweebs with names like n30, The0n3 and teh1 running around chanting "whoa, dude!" over and over.
Take a look at some of the images. You can see an edge connector along one side of the PCB. Odds are this is there data is pulled from. Since they (the hackers) claim to have been able to update the firmware, I would assume that they are close to being able to pull data off as well.
"The Sandisk Wi-Fi SD card has a retail price of $109.99 and only works with the Zire 71. The Zire 71 was discontinued before the Wi-Fi card was released."
And yet you can buy it RIGHT NOW for under 70$ as a simple internet search would have revealed.
So are the pro Linux TCO studies lies or damned lies? I for one think that TCO in general is a lie. There is no way anyone can say that everyone else will save money by using any given OS. I use Linux for when I need the tools that it has. Likewise I use Windows, Solaris, IRIX and HP/UX for when I need the tools THEY provide. Saying that I dont realy need all those other tools and I can save money by just sticking to a given subset of applications and servies is like saying I'll save money on gas by switching from a car to abike. Never mind that I have a twenty mile commute. Sure, its true, but its still BS.
"Do you really think that people are going to give up the ease of ethernet when your typical broadband maxes out at 1.5Mbit/s? I predict a painfully slow death of ethernet, which will probably go the way of the floppy drive."
Eh? You seem to be very confused. Ethernet is not limited to the dinky little 10/100 network I assume you'r running. The gigabit fiber optic network I've got is also ethernet.
I thought the lasts dying gasp was when the original developers stopped trying to make a better product and decided to just start lawsuits as a means of generating revenue. Granted Microsoft wasn't playing fair, but that was no excuse to go around whining like a little kid.
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"My theory is that unlike the script-kiddies of the old days, 99% of all phishing is work of organized crime."
This is very true, not only of Phishing but also of eBay scams and the like. Most of the "Work At Home for $$$$" style of adds are buying and selling items for the Russian mafia.
"... you can still sell services based around that free software."
And so can anyone else. While you, the devloper, have to recoup your devlopment costs. Another group (say Redhat to name a company at random) can undercut the cost of your services with their own since they have zero dollars to recover. Thus the developer gets put out of buinsess and all we have are people working for free and large companies selling services. Not a utopia of software engineering in my opinion.
"We're just not physically constructed so to endure 8+ daily hours of work."
I agree, it eats into my sleep time. To quote the late great Bill Hicks, "all I need is eight hours of sleep a night, and then another eight hours during the day, and I'm good."
Can't be bothered to RTFA.
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Can't be bothered to RTFA, I've got too much slashdotting to do here at work before lunch rolls around.
"Until tablets are $500 or so, they will only be a niche market."
What are you talking about? You can get a tablet PC for under 50$ off of eBay. Granted it'll have a 386-486 CPU in it.
What I love are all these people talking about tablet PCs like the're a new thing. I still have my 486-33 tablet around some place, running Windows 3.1 for Pens off of its 40MB hard disk.
Neat, can you make any with doctype declarations? In otherwords, your HTML resume fails w3c validation.
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Ment "scrupulous". My bad. Blame it on having to code for Lotus Domino. It makes chunks of my brain shut down.
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Ever since download.com went from a free listing of free/shareware to a pay for listing service they've gotten far less scrupleless. They realy dont seem to care what they host so long as they get paid.
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Um, no. Computers and networking gear are complex electronic systems. People WANT to treat them like a toaster, but then they complain when somthing goes wrong.
Becuase it would cost the manufacturer money to have to talk people through how to get their notebook to connect to the access point with WEP enabled. However it costs them nothing to leave the security turned off be default.
"With many well-known strong encryption schemes, why was the weak WEP made standard?"
At the time the cost of dedicated ASIC systems to handel encryption where too high. An encryption system with lower system requirements was needed for consumer access points to have any form of security.
Do you share your wife, your home, your momey, your car, your cloths? Do you think nothing of getting up in the morning to find strange people sleeping in your living room? My network is my personal space, no uninvited guests allowed.
So be it. Your LAME!
Nothing can turn me off a game faster then seeing a bunch of dweebs with names like n30, The0n3 and teh1 running around chanting "whoa, dude!" over and over.
Take a look at some of the images. You can see an edge connector along one side of the PCB. Odds are this is there data is pulled from. Since they (the hackers) claim to have been able to update the firmware, I would assume that they are close to being able to pull data off as well.
Read it, unlike you it seems. No hack there, just hardware/software information.
How long before "disposable" becomes "free" with a simple hardware/software hack?
And yet you can buy it RIGHT NOW for under 70$ as a simple internet search would have revealed.
You must have REALY big pants if you can fit an iBook in your pocket.
So its just like the ones from say Sandisk, but twice as expensive? With inovation like this its no wonder Palm is at the top of the PDA market.
So are the pro Linux TCO studies lies or damned lies? I for one think that TCO in general is a lie. There is no way anyone can say that everyone else will save money by using any given OS. I use Linux for when I need the tools that it has. Likewise I use Windows, Solaris, IRIX and HP/UX for when I need the tools THEY provide. Saying that I dont realy need all those other tools and I can save money by just sticking to a given subset of applications and servies is like saying I'll save money on gas by switching from a car to abike. Never mind that I have a twenty mile commute. Sure, its true, but its still BS.
Eh? You seem to be very confused. Ethernet is not limited to the dinky little 10/100 network I assume you'r running. The gigabit fiber optic network I've got is also ethernet.
I thought the lasts dying gasp was when the original developers stopped trying to make a better product and decided to just start lawsuits as a means of generating revenue. Granted Microsoft wasn't playing fair, but that was no excuse to go around whining like a little kid.
This is very true, not only of Phishing but also of eBay scams and the like. Most of the "Work At Home for $$$$" style of adds are buying and selling items for the Russian mafia.
So... does the guy wear it? or does the girl put it... wait, I'm confused.
And so can anyone else. While you, the devloper, have to recoup your devlopment costs. Another group (say Redhat to name a company at random) can undercut the cost of your services with their own since they have zero dollars to recover. Thus the developer gets put out of buinsess and all we have are people working for free and large companies selling services. Not a utopia of software engineering in my opinion.
I agree, it eats into my sleep time. To quote the late great Bill Hicks, "all I need is eight hours of sleep a night, and then another eight hours during the day, and I'm good."
Can't be bothered to RTFA, I've got too much slashdotting to do here at work before lunch rolls around.
As with notebooks, if you are unable to hold onto to it, get a ruggedized one.
What are you talking about? You can get a tablet PC for under 50$ off of eBay. Granted it'll have a 386-486 CPU in it.
What I love are all these people talking about tablet PCs like the're a new thing. I still have my 486-33 tablet around some place, running Windows 3.1 for Pens off of its 40MB hard disk.
You see that you hippies? Solar power is DANGEROUS! So just go back to filling your tank with dead dinosaurs like good little consumers.
Neat, can you make any with doctype declarations? In otherwords, your HTML resume fails w3c validation.
Ment "scrupulous". My bad. Blame it on having to code for Lotus Domino. It makes chunks of my brain shut down.
Ever since download.com went from a free listing of free/shareware to a pay for listing service they've gotten far less scrupleless. They realy dont seem to care what they host so long as they get paid.
No, a medical analogy would be giving away mutated anthrax for "testing purposes".