If you control your Belkin WeMo's locally like I do (Shell Script To Control Belkin WeMo’s - http://moderntoil.com/?p=839), the answer is as simple as a few firewall rules to stay safe. First, when I read this, I panicked and blocked all outgoing requests from the IP's of my WeMo's, then watched the firewall log to see what they were trying to do.
Mine were pinging my LAN default gateway, trying to connect to "184.73.174.14:3478", and trying to connect to multiple IP's on UDP port 123.
I adjusted my rules to allow them to hit the default gateway directly (but not NAT through it), since this is probably some check by the local OS on the WeMo's to see if the network is up. I also allowed them to hit anything on UDP 123 (NTP), since without the current time, they can be useless with a schedule.
Looking at my logs now, all I see blocked is the constant requests to "184.73.174.14:3478". Local control resumed normally with these changes in place.
you have to give it the URL externally to proxy it. Kind of defeats the point, but does work:
for ex:
http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/proxy?url=http://a2dp4audi.com/
Swap my site address (I know, cheap plug), for any address, and it will work.
This will force the people that actually profit from it and use it professionally to step up and buy. The casual users like myself will continue to use outdated versions happily since it does 90% of what I want to do, 100% better than anything else available
Heck, I'm still using PageMaker 6.5 for some stuff.
I work in the managed IT services space, and honestly given this is a health organization and HIPAA applies, I think they're being rather nice.
If you're able to build a box, connect it to the hospital network, and get a port opened to the outside world where you are potentially storing PHI (face it, you're going to end up with at least a peppering of health information in even just the subject entries let alone the details for the calendar). . . that's pretty lax on their part.
Does the hospital outsource their IT support? If yes, I'd jump on the opportunity to move forward with "just providing a login", because if this works it's way up the chain you'll no doubt be taking that machine how with you soon:)
If the hospital manages their own IT, you're chances are better since there's probably less worry of finger pointing in the event of a breach.
I strongly agree here regarding speed and precise control in a fast-paced FPS.
If you're a casual gamer, the difference won't matter, but if you're a seasoned, skilled competitor. . it will. The level of speed and precision available is simply higher.
I've been playing FPS games on PC since ~95, and I usually play the *same game* for ~3 years. I play for ~7 hours a week on avg. (since 95)
If you see you, you're dead. I'd say I'm near instantly on target over 90% of the time with the very first shot I fire. At the higher levels of gameplay, winning or losing is about predicting your target(s) behavior and staying REALLY attentive. Crazy-high levels of accuracy and speed and more like a pre-requisite.
Without them, it's not a fair fight. If you still think it is, find the auto-aim feature in your console game and turn it off (if it lets you).
Purchased it at Wal-Mart in 1998 for around $200, and I've got about 20 cartridges and easily a pallet of paper through it, and aside from lubing the one metal bar once when it started squeaking 3 or 4 years ago, it just works. Perfectly.
The HP multifunction i bought 2 years ago. . a TOTAL POS..DEAD.
I wonder if this station would be over-the-air or over-the-net?
Given their popularity and success of almost everything else they're launched, if they were to launch an on-line tv station with quality content I think they'd have a real shot to be in line with other major networks in a short while.
Instead of a big open garbage can, what about an insulated ice chest? This is also considerably more spill resistant.
and gee. . where would the cold he's 'losing' through the garbage can be going..
Wouldn't it go into the room???? Insulating the cold water would only increase efficiency if you stored the cold water outside the room you were trying to cool.
This is a smart and bold move on Sony's part. I think the uses of something like this are more far-reaching than first glance.
For example, imagine you're scheduled for a minor surgery and instead of 'doping you up fairly good', they simply simulate a nice walk on the beach, a fishing trip or otherwise.
Depending on how broad the patent is (I didn't read so I'm really not sure), this could net sony A LOT of income in 10-15 years.
DRM isn't a bad thing if it did what they said it does as opposed to doing what their investors want.
The ONLY thing DRM is good at right now is keeping us locked into a device or proprietary service.
I have over 8000 mp3's. Three-quarters of them are ripped from cd's I legally purchased and the last quarter was ripped from friends, downloaded from napster (way back), winmx, or some torrent.
I've been adding to this collection since 1997. Over the years I've listened to it:
-on my home computer -in my car burned as a standard audio cd -in my car on a hacked virgin webplayer I mounted to the glove box -in my car on an mp3-cd player -at friend's houses streamed with andromeda -on my archos jukebox -on my PDA -on my home stereo through a computer I had hooked up there -on my home stereo through a D-link networked media player -on my work computer -on my laptop while travelling
As far as I'm concerned, that's ALL fair use. I WILL NOT buy music if I don't have the flexibility I had with MP3's. I really love my music, and the ability to play it anywhere with little or no effort. Initial cost aside, if I threw it all away, and bought all my music DRM-protected, how much OF MY TIME do you think I would have to spend TRYING to listen to it in all those places. I'd lose my damn mind fighting with it, and probably STOP listening to music altogether for some time.
From the other side of the fence, I can understand the record companies position. I'm sure those money-grubbing bastards can't sleep at night knowing ppl are listening to music they own for free. I can sympathize with this as I like to protect my own business interests as well, but I think they're going about it the wrong way.
Music is easily traded because there's essentially no difference between the cd I buy in the store, and well encoded mp3's of the album I can download freely. Give us added-value. Start bundling cool stuff in with the cd's we want. Some labels do this to some extent, but not enough. The last 5 cd's I bought retail were purchased because they came with bonus dvd's, booklets, or were some special edition release. I opened up my wallet and gladly dished out the 20 bucks every time.
lol, I love when ppl score stuff as redundant when it's one of the first 50 msgs. Obviously whatever post that makes this one 'redundant' wasn't there when I authored mine. Craks me up.
Like I REALLY want something running windows ANYTHING controlling my brushless R/C doing 60+ mph. This is one of those areas of tech where the item CANNOT fail. It's not acceptable for a lockup or restart to occur when you're R/C plane is in the middle of a stall or you're car/truck is doin 60mph str8 into a wall.
I hope they have success with it, but I'd prefer one of the simpler computerized transmitters already on the market personally.
with boxes checked by default, and programs scanning ur hd's for stuff to share, how do they determine just where the thin line of knowingly and willingly is???
Slashdot Mirror
If you control your Belkin WeMo's locally like I do (Shell Script To Control Belkin WeMo’s - http://moderntoil.com/?p=839), the answer is as simple as a few firewall rules to stay safe. First, when I read this, I panicked and blocked all outgoing requests from the IP's of my WeMo's, then watched the firewall log to see what they were trying to do. Mine were pinging my LAN default gateway, trying to connect to "184.73.174.14:3478", and trying to connect to multiple IP's on UDP port 123. I adjusted my rules to allow them to hit the default gateway directly (but not NAT through it), since this is probably some check by the local OS on the WeMo's to see if the network is up. I also allowed them to hit anything on UDP 123 (NTP), since without the current time, they can be useless with a schedule. Looking at my logs now, all I see blocked is the constant requests to "184.73.174.14:3478". Local control resumed normally with these changes in place.
you have to give it the URL externally to proxy it. Kind of defeats the point, but does work: for ex: http://line-mode.cern.ch/www/proxy?url=http://a2dp4audi.com/ Swap my site address (I know, cheap plug), for any address, and it will work.
This will force the people that actually profit from it and use it professionally to step up and buy. The casual users like myself will continue to use outdated versions happily since it does 90% of what I want to do, 100% better than anything else available Heck, I'm still using PageMaker 6.5 for some stuff.
I work in the managed IT services space, and honestly given this is a health organization and HIPAA applies, I think they're being rather nice. If you're able to build a box, connect it to the hospital network, and get a port opened to the outside world where you are potentially storing PHI (face it, you're going to end up with at least a peppering of health information in even just the subject entries let alone the details for the calendar). . . that's pretty lax on their part. Does the hospital outsource their IT support? If yes, I'd jump on the opportunity to move forward with "just providing a login", because if this works it's way up the chain you'll no doubt be taking that machine how with you soon :)
If the hospital manages their own IT, you're chances are better since there's probably less worry of finger pointing in the event of a breach.
I strongly agree here regarding speed and precise control in a fast-paced FPS. If you're a casual gamer, the difference won't matter, but if you're a seasoned, skilled competitor. . it will. The level of speed and precision available is simply higher. I've been playing FPS games on PC since ~95, and I usually play the *same game* for ~3 years. I play for ~7 hours a week on avg. (since 95) If you see you, you're dead. I'd say I'm near instantly on target over 90% of the time with the very first shot I fire. At the higher levels of gameplay, winning or losing is about predicting your target(s) behavior and staying REALLY attentive. Crazy-high levels of accuracy and speed and more like a pre-requisite. Without them, it's not a fair fight. If you still think it is, find the auto-aim feature in your console game and turn it off (if it lets you).
Wait, doesn't GM already have a whole bunch of driverless cars with Toyota pushing into the lead for sales this year? :P
I got the last good printer HP made I think
.DEAD.
Deskjet 832C
Purchased it at Wal-Mart in 1998 for around $200, and I've got about 20 cartridges and easily a pallet of paper through it, and aside from lubing the one metal bar once when it started squeaking 3 or 4 years ago, it just works. Perfectly.
The HP multifunction i bought 2 years ago. . a TOTAL POS.
karma, that's all there is to say
I honestly love when ppl's stupidity overrules their lack of honesty and it bites them.
thats what they get for takin Mr. Wizard off the air
cucking focksuckers
I wonder if this station would be over-the-air or over-the-net?
Given their popularity and success of almost everything else they're launched, if they were to launch an on-line tv station with quality content I think they'd have a real shot to be in line with other major networks in a short while.
RE:
.
:P
Instead of a big open garbage can, what about an insulated ice chest? This is also considerably more spill resistant.
and gee. . where would the cold he's 'losing' through the garbage can be going.
Wouldn't it go into the room???? Insulating the cold water would only increase efficiency if you stored the cold water outside the room you were trying to cool.
Heck I didn't even go to college
This is a smart and bold move on Sony's part. I think the uses of something like this are more far-reaching than first glance.
For example, imagine you're scheduled for a minor surgery and instead of 'doping you up fairly good', they simply simulate a nice walk on the beach, a fishing trip or otherwise.
Depending on how broad the patent is (I didn't read so I'm really not sure), this could net sony A LOT of income in 10-15 years.
What's sad here is, he likely got pressured into giving up a copy or two to some friends, who probably SWORE they wouldn't share it.
They stood to lose nothing, and shared it with more of their friends and, etc, etc.
Wonder how those people feel now.
-NetMagi
DRM isn't a bad thing if it did what they said it does as opposed to doing what their investors want.
The ONLY thing DRM is good at right now is keeping us locked into a device or proprietary service.
I have over 8000 mp3's. Three-quarters of them are ripped from cd's I legally purchased and the last quarter was ripped from friends, downloaded from napster (way back), winmx, or some torrent.
I've been adding to this collection since 1997. Over the years I've listened to it:
-on my home computer
-in my car burned as a standard audio cd
-in my car on a hacked virgin webplayer I mounted to the glove box
-in my car on an mp3-cd player
-at friend's houses streamed with andromeda
-on my archos jukebox
-on my PDA
-on my home stereo through a computer I had hooked up there
-on my home stereo through a D-link networked media player
-on my work computer
-on my laptop while travelling
As far as I'm concerned, that's ALL fair use. I WILL NOT buy music if I don't have the flexibility I had with MP3's. I really love my music, and the ability to play it anywhere with little or no effort. Initial cost aside, if I threw it all away, and bought all my music DRM-protected, how much OF MY TIME do you think I would have to spend TRYING to listen to it in all those places. I'd lose my damn mind fighting with it, and probably STOP listening to music altogether for some time.
From the other side of the fence, I can understand the record companies position. I'm sure those money-grubbing bastards can't sleep at night knowing ppl are listening to music they own for free. I can sympathize with this as I like to protect my own business interests as well, but I think they're going about it the wrong way.
Music is easily traded because there's essentially no difference between the cd I buy in the store, and well encoded mp3's of the album I can download freely. Give us added-value. Start bundling cool stuff in with the cd's we want. Some labels do this to some extent, but not enough. The last 5 cd's I bought retail were purchased because they came with bonus dvd's, booklets, or were some special edition release. I opened up my wallet and gladly dished out the 20 bucks every time.
from the pdf:
"Kudos to the PR exec who thought up this forum"
ken jennings was the best thing to happen to jeopardy in years. . .
:)
what a way to grab more ratings
lol, I love when ppl score stuff as redundant when it's one of the first 50 msgs. Obviously whatever post that makes this one 'redundant' wasn't there when I authored mine. Craks me up.
Like I REALLY want something running windows ANYTHING controlling my brushless R/C doing 60+ mph. This is one of those areas of tech where the item CANNOT fail. It's not acceptable for a lockup or restart to occur when you're R/C plane is in the middle of a stall or you're car/truck is doin 60mph str8 into a wall.
I hope they have success with it, but I'd prefer one of the simpler computerized transmitters already on the market personally.
with boxes checked by default, and programs scanning ur hd's for stuff to share, how do they determine just where the thin line of knowingly and willingly is???
for getting them to respond to this. . .
.com of technology type investing.
what's scary though is that it's things like this that scare ppl from any sort of
As a shareholder, I'd be mad too to find out you can defeat the copy protection by holding down the shift key. That's ABSURD!
check it out:
F -8 &q=cubicles
:P
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&ie=UT
the pic they used on their about page is on PAGE ONE of a google image search for cubicles
I love it!!
I don't drink cognac you insensitive clod!
Errors! Error! Git your FRESH HOT 5xx errors. Right here RIGHT HERE, Git your fresh HOT 5xx errors.
Once I picked up a non-functional 4mb simm from a small computer store for use on my keychain (I sware it was cool then)
When I got home, I made sure it was dead, drilled a hole in the end and placed it on my keychain.
A couple months later of travelling around in my pocket I tried it again and it worked!
ouch that sucks. . I have like 145 dvd's :(
how long till we start seeing the new stuff mainstream?