Without any regulation, a VoIP system that functions like e-mail (peer-to-peer push) will invite VoIP spam that's nearly impossible to filter, much like our e-mail spam crisis today.
While the technical side of VoIP seems rather solid, traditional telcos are making VoIP startups face stiff regulation. As the article says about the technical hurdles being a necessity to overcome for widespread adoption, I see the potential regulatory mess as just as significant of a hurdle, yet the article largely ignores this pitfall for many markets. I don't want to sign up for service today that may face steep service charge increases due to successful lobbying by traditional telcos. I'm keeping my exclusively mobile line.
Was that the sound of the personal firewall market dying?
To take an objective perspective, firewalls seem best if they are part of the operating system, not wedged in, but I'm surprised they aren't taking the licensing path that they chose with CD burning and disk defragmenting (both are not written by Microsoft and licensed). The XP firewall, however, does lack outgoing connection control, which shouldn't be enabled by default but should be an option (how hard is it to use the same engine for outgoing connections too?).
I think this is more interesting. Is Roxio going to get StaXored?
Great pun, but no. The CD burning technology in Windows XP is licensed from Roxio. The same applies to Windows Media Player. Microsoft has a similar scheme set up with the defragmenter in Windows 2000 and XP. The defragmenter is actually an automation-limited limited version of Executive Software's Diskeeper.
They make some amazing laptops. Not only do they make 90% of the parts they remind me of Apple on the eligance of their laptops.. The new 359 series laptops are slick 15.4 inch wide screen monsters, for a grand it gives you a 1.4ghz centrino (1mb cache) geforce fx 5200, 40gb hd, 15.4 wide screen, 512mb ddr, and all inside a incredible 5lbs machine!
That sounds exactly like my ThinkPad, but does yours have gigabit ethernet, integrated bluetooth, integrated 802.11b and 802.11a, a 7200RPM 60GB HDD, a modular bay (normally DVD/CD-RW), trackpoint and touchpad, an integrated encryption/security chip, and a keyboard light, all in a 1"-thick case? My laptop may be ugly, but it's what's inside that counts.
On-topic part: the HDD actually uses a glass-based compound to achieve its small size and speed, rather than the metallic platters in most units.
Emulation seems completely the opposite direction I would want to take data storage, especially since performance and reliability are top concerns. How does adding an emulation layer enable the data environment?
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I would be very curious about the implications on aging. I mean, is the physical age of one's body related to the solar cycle?
I know that pet owners of iguanas often accelerate the "solar cycle" to end shedding earlier. I have no idea if it affects humans the same way.
And have you ever tried to order out for pizza at 9am (Earth time)? Not even Stephen Hawking has a fix for that one.:)
There's always DiGiorno. Also, don't forget that other scientists, namely astronomers, have displaced sleep schedules, even though they keep a 24-hour day. Pizza is hard to order at 05:00 also.
Re:25-26 Hour Sleep Cycle (Clarification)
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25-26 hours
Yes, I'm award the BBC report says 24 hours and 11 minutes. Still, it seems like as much of an adjustment living on strictly 24-hours as slightly more than 24 hours, 11 minutes.
I don't see how this would be a problem. Severalcrediblereports exist that say our natural body clock cycle is 25-26 hours, making the adjustment to "Mars time" rather painless.
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Spam is commercial speech and as such does not enjoy unfettered First Amendment protection. This is a property rights issue no matter how you slice it, and the First Amendment does not apply to spam any more than it does to spray painted graffiti.
I may not be a lawyer, but you're dead wrong on this. Journalism is almost universally commercial in purpose, yet it enjoys some of the strongest protections available. Furthermore, the U.S. legal structure does not officially distiguish between corporations and individuals. In fact, corporations are actually considered individuals with rights and liabilities. Of course, libelous and fraudulent writings (like spam) are not protected, but that's uniform across humans and corporations.
A sexual malester lost his rights the minute he commited a perverted act, because his right to privacy would infringe on others rights to safety.
First, like another reply, the guarantee of rights is lost on conviction, not commission. That standard allows us to prevent convictions of murders in self-defense and other murky offenses. Second, the nature of something being a "perverted act" (by anyone's definition) is not a constitutionally-sound basis for a law (see Lawrence v. Texas). The basis for molestation laws is the harm to the molested person, not the act of molestation itself. Thus, what would otherwise be molestation in a consentual situation where both people are after the age of consent is just normal sexual contact. (Disclaimer: IANAL.)
Hmm... conspiracy theory is looking a little better.
Based on the "your search" return, I do not think Google parsed it in the same way you think it did. I think it literally searched for the "link:" text and the words. See how it parses this similar syntax in a notably different way, highlighing that it didn't treat it as standard search syntax: Google Groups Search. Google returns a lack of results with obvious parsing of the "group:" portion.
...allowing over-horny people (I suspect mainly gays) to find each other simply by tapping on their phone.
SMS and MMS are old school. We use the new gaydar profile for Bluetooth.
Along the other line of your comment, I don't see gay people putting burdens on child welfare and education systems like the equally-frequent, over-horny straight people. How can conservatives simultaneously whine about gay people being more promiscuous than straights and the prevalence of teenage pregnencies and welfare moms?
Personally, the most promiscuous thing I have is my network card, and my switched network really hurts its options.
The "call home" functionality is not hardware, to my knowledge. In contrast, IBM's Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0 is hardware, firmware, and usually software. I could use ESS 2.0 to make my laptop useless if stolen, but ESS 2.0 doesn't have a phone-home feature itself. (I'm a T40p user.)
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Did anyone else read this and think about the Macintosh G4 Cube?
Without any regulation, a VoIP system that functions like e-mail (peer-to-peer push) will invite VoIP spam that's nearly impossible to filter, much like our e-mail spam crisis today.
While the technical side of VoIP seems rather solid, traditional telcos are making VoIP startups face stiff regulation. As the article says about the technical hurdles being a necessity to overcome for widespread adoption, I see the potential regulatory mess as just as significant of a hurdle, yet the article largely ignores this pitfall for many markets. I don't want to sign up for service today that may face steep service charge increases due to successful lobbying by traditional telcos. I'm keeping my exclusively mobile line.
Didn't we just begin the fourth age a few days ago? We should have awhile.
To take an objective perspective, firewalls seem best if they are part of the operating system, not wedged in, but I'm surprised they aren't taking the licensing path that they chose with CD burning and disk defragmenting (both are not written by Microsoft and licensed). The XP firewall, however, does lack outgoing connection control, which shouldn't be enabled by default but should be an option (how hard is it to use the same engine for outgoing connections too?).
Palestinian officials respond by rejecting Mandrake in favor of *BSD.
Great pun, but no. The CD burning technology in Windows XP is licensed from Roxio. The same applies to Windows Media Player. Microsoft has a similar scheme set up with the defragmenter in Windows 2000 and XP. The defragmenter is actually an automation-limited limited version of Executive Software's Diskeeper.
When are people going to realize that hackers just care about computers and the crackers are the bad guys? Oh wait...
I don't care how much power it takes if I get 5-6 hours of use on a charge.
This has nothing to do with serious use in a datacenter unless you're actively reverse-engineering hardware on a production server.
That sounds exactly like my ThinkPad, but does yours have gigabit ethernet, integrated bluetooth, integrated 802.11b and 802.11a, a 7200RPM 60GB HDD, a modular bay (normally DVD/CD-RW), trackpoint and touchpad, an integrated encryption/security chip, and a keyboard light, all in a 1"-thick case? My laptop may be ugly, but it's what's inside that counts.
On-topic part: the HDD actually uses a glass-based compound to achieve its small size and speed, rather than the metallic platters in most units.
Why? To access different file systems? You should be able to mount the volumes all under one OS.
Off-topic: A desktop Pentium-M would be great. I love my Pentium-M notebook.
Emulation seems completely the opposite direction I would want to take data storage, especially since performance and reliability are top concerns. How does adding an emulation layer enable the data environment?
I know that pet owners of iguanas often accelerate the "solar cycle" to end shedding earlier. I have no idea if it affects humans the same way.
I can see it now: special edition TiVo for people on "Mars time."
There's always DiGiorno. Also, don't forget that other scientists, namely astronomers, have displaced sleep schedules, even though they keep a 24-hour day. Pizza is hard to order at 05:00 also.
Yes, I'm award the BBC report says 24 hours and 11 minutes. Still, it seems like as much of an adjustment living on strictly 24-hours as slightly more than 24 hours, 11 minutes.
I don't see how this would be a problem. Several credible reports exist that say our natural body clock cycle is 25-26 hours, making the adjustment to "Mars time" rather painless.
I may not be a lawyer, but you're dead wrong on this. Journalism is almost universally commercial in purpose, yet it enjoys some of the strongest protections available. Furthermore, the U.S. legal structure does not officially distiguish between corporations and individuals. In fact, corporations are actually considered individuals with rights and liabilities. Of course, libelous and fraudulent writings (like spam) are not protected, but that's uniform across humans and corporations.
As long as by "these" you mean old-fashioned ones. The TI-89, TI-92, and Voyage calculators use the 68K.
First, like another reply, the guarantee of rights is lost on conviction, not commission. That standard allows us to prevent convictions of murders in self-defense and other murky offenses. Second, the nature of something being a "perverted act" (by anyone's definition) is not a constitutionally-sound basis for a law (see Lawrence v. Texas). The basis for molestation laws is the harm to the molested person, not the act of molestation itself. Thus, what would otherwise be molestation in a consentual situation where both people are after the age of consent is just normal sexual contact. (Disclaimer: IANAL.)
Based on the "your search" return, I do not think Google parsed it in the same way you think it did. I think it literally searched for the "link:" text and the words. See how it parses this similar syntax in a notably different way, highlighing that it didn't treat it as standard search syntax: Google Groups Search. Google returns a lack of results with obvious parsing of the "group:" portion.
Dr. Pepper is not a Pepsi product. !Coke != Pepsi.
SMS and MMS are old school. We use the new gaydar profile for Bluetooth.
Along the other line of your comment, I don't see gay people putting burdens on child welfare and education systems like the equally-frequent, over-horny straight people. How can conservatives simultaneously whine about gay people being more promiscuous than straights and the prevalence of teenage pregnencies and welfare moms?
Personally, the most promiscuous thing I have is my network card, and my switched network really hurts its options.
The "call home" functionality is not hardware, to my knowledge. In contrast, IBM's Embedded Security Subsystem 2.0 is hardware, firmware, and usually software. I could use ESS 2.0 to make my laptop useless if stolen, but ESS 2.0 doesn't have a phone-home feature itself. (I'm a T40p user.)