I don't think its the ISP's job to police file sharing, since their users pay them for service, and like telephone providers, they aren't required to monitor your calls to if your doing anything suspicious (although they sort of do, I know this first hand).
ISP's should be required to protect their own network against things that can cause service degradation, such as computers being part of botnets. As someone who worked for major ISP's for 10 years, I would LOVE to see this kind of thing applied to people who get viruses, trojans or other malware. Since most ISP's scan their network for users with suspicious behavior this would be easily done. Not withstanding the fact that most major ISP's provide free A/V software anyway, most users have no excuse. Get infected 3 times, get disconnected until you can prove you know how to use a computer.
Listen... xBox v1 has been around for almost 10 years. They stopped selling the thing 4 years ago. Look at any Microsoft support life cycle.
Windows 98 - Released June 1998 - Discontinued 2002 - Extended support ended 2006 ---Total shelf life - 8 years
Windows ME - Released December 2000 - Discontinued December 2003 - Extended support ended 2006 ---Total shelf life - 6 years
Windows 2000 - Released March 2000 - Discontinued June 2005 - Extended support ends this summer ---Total shelf life - 10 years
Microsoft is right in line with their typical support life cycle for the xBox. Even though its a different product line, Microsoft is still Microsoft. They cannot support an aging product forever (even if by support I mean maintain a server for it)
While the USB memory key (in this example) could have low level software to snoop your data, how are they going to get it? Is the USB key going to open a TCP/IP or UDP connection back to their servers without tripping my firewall that a new application is trying to connect? Is my virus scanner going to get tripped that something suspicious is coming out of the key without my interaction?
Most decent virus scanners and firewalls will pick up on this. In a lot of corporate networks USB Mass media is disabled. I'd love to see a proof of concept that can get around these common checks... If anyone has a USB key that can do this, please let me know:-) I'll happily test it.
What? Definitely not. That would be like asking Ford or GM to pay your drivers license fee's for you for your car.
I think this is a good idea, and have had the same feeling for years. I've done Internet & Computer support for 10 years and most, if not all malware, virus, adware and other nasty's on a users machine are caused by the user and the user alone. Its estimated that viruses and other malware cost about 300 billion USD annually(again, all the users fault). If people had to go through a training process to understand the consequences of their actions and how to avoid viruses then we'd have less of them. Most things can be taught in half a day, like file extensions, what an image icon should look like, and that most issues will stem from porn sites and sites to help you pirate stuff and what to do if you think you did something stupid...
One thing I tell callers on a daily basis when disable their virus scanners to do upgrades is "Virus scanners do not protect your computer form the outside world, virus scanners protect your computer from you. If you do not download anything from from e-mails, or go to fishy looking websites, you'll never get a virus".
I've been in call centers for about 10 years now... Unless the caller can prove to me without a shadow of a doubt that they know more than I do, I treat them like they know nothing. 10 years of people telling me they are MCSE's, CCNA's, and other fancy titles not being able to find the network settings on their computer have taught me to trust no one.
I'm sure it goes for these guys too, they have people telling them they are trade auto mechanics not being able to determine that yes, your car is indeed out of oil and refusing to listen to the nice person on the phone asking them to check the dip stick.
On the technology side, get SharePoint Server with Office Communication Server. Both integrate with Outlook & Exchange and provide ample collaboration and chat capabilities and would give you the internal social networking feel you want, if you design it too.
On the real world, here is what some companies I have worked for have done. -At work "olympics". Find some dumb tasks or events and have competitions for them. It may seem dumb, but people have fun. -Regular company outings. - Softball tournements, bowling, paintball, amusement parks, etc -At the company Christmas party, arrange people's seating so they are sitting at a table with people they do not work with so they are forced to mingle -Have beer day. At one company I worked at (about 50 people) we'd have beer friday's where we'd all chip in for a couple cases of beer and sit around for the last hour of the day relaxing. It was mandatory to stay. Either you stayed and worked, or you hung out with everyone else, you didn't have to drink. -Have pot lucks... Everyone brings something and everyone eats.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but if you want to run Win32 binaries, run Windows. I don't ask Microsoft to let me run Linux or OS X Apps on my Windows 7 OS. If I want to run a Linux App (Which I do occasionally) I either do it on my Linux Server or a Linux VM within my Windows OS. Trying to build Cross OS support in to an OS seems like something that would cause extensive bloating.
IANAL but this could be considered "Corporate Espionage" which could be illegal because depending on how you look at it the fact they are offering cash for trade secrets, corporate secrets and otherwise proprietary information may be considered bribery (although bribery is rarely made public like this)
The only thing I disagree with is the serif vs san-serif thing both looking good in programming. I own a domain name that specifically plays on the fact that most browsers use a san-serif font for displaying URL's... the url ends up looking like this when typed in upper case letters : lllllllllll.com because I's 1's and lower case L's all look the same or very very similar in a san-serif environment.
I prefer a fixed width font serif font for any coding because tabs/spacing line up better and its easier to follow rows/columns of code
I'll stick with my phone... $200 early termination fee..
That's $200 for the phone, $200 termination = $400, which is still cheaper then the retail $699.
The most intriguing part about boxee is the box by d-link... Such an awesome case. I've never used Boxee, but have used XBMC(What Boxee is based on)... I wonder how easy it would be to install XBMC-Live on it:)
True, but I don't have to spend a thousand dollars on a decent tv, a few hundred dollars on an xbox 360(Or a thousand on a good PC), then a monthly XBL subscription to go to the movies:-)
Did not read the article, but as long as they finally fixed the memory leaks I'll be happy.
What memory leaks you ask?
I have 1 tab open(This slashdot article)... my only add on is the Google Toolbar.
Firefox 3.5.7 is using a whopping 174Mb of ram.
Firefox doesn't properly clear out memory of closed tabs.
Supporting Apache 1.3 is like Microsoft supporting Windows 98. Apache 1.x is almost 15 years and Apache 2.x has been out for 10 years. People have had plenty of time to upgrade. It's time to move on.
It would work just fine in an evacuation providing they install modern turnstiles. A company I used to work for had turnstiles at all entrances and exits. By law, they had to do two building evacuation drills per year. On an emergency signal (ie, fire alarm) the turn style doors would collapse automatically so the glass dividers where flat in the middle of the turnstile to allow people to exit the turnstile two at a time in a continuous fashion.
There is a company based out of Winnipeg, Canada named Acumen Corporate Development Inc. that is quite good at this sort of thing. They do Acquisition Management/Support and other corporate services for this sort of thing.
Grand Total of $10.00 I had my PC hooked up to my HDTV in the living room loaded with media. it was BYOB, I bought some munchies and pop. People were welcome to screw with my system since there was NOTHING on it other then what I wanted people to see(Brand new build). The rest of the party was having a bonfire drinking.
Hey, works for me... Microsoft gave me a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit for hosting a Windows 7 party... I am influencial, I get free software!
Here is the biggest problem for consumers... Support Most Cable Companies already refuse support for anything out of their core product offering. Examples include mail clients(Outlook Express Only), no third party routers, no linux/unix, or other operating systems, cable card ready devices aren't supported...
If you have 100 different makes/models of HD PVR's your cable co will only support the ones they sell. Consumers will get frustrated with the lack of support, and the whole idea of an open network will come toppling down.
Agreed.
Cars are safe until PEOPLE get in them. Guns are safe until PEOPLE shoot them. Computers are secure until the USER uses them.
Windows is a very secure OS if the sys admins know what they are doing... Hell, Windows will let you restrict the names of executables you want being run. Mix that with some tight permissions (ie, no saving on the c:\ drive, have a seperate partition for swap/temp/paging/user docs, etc) and you have a secure system. Its wierd... I had Vista on my laptop for 3 years without ever formatting or getting a virus(formatted to upgrade to Win7), because I know what I'm doing. I haven't got in a car accident since I was a teenager, because I know what I am doing. I've never shot anyone, because I don't own a gun(I know what I'm doing)
Microsoft isn't to blame for all the viruses on windows (They were back in the 98/ME days), idiot users who download crap they don't understand are.
This is the one thing I wish linux had... Windows style file/directory permissions.
The 3 bit file permissions of RWX is so... 20 years ago
Not all the permissions in Windows are useful but here are a couple that I would love to see in *NIX systems -List directory contents -Create new files/folders -Delete
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I don't know about most people on /. but I build outside the case.
CPU, RAM and cables are installed before attaching the mobo to the case.
Then its a simple step of attaching power and HDD cables and Im done.
I dislike working inside a case, get too many cuts
The USPO is getting lazy. There is quite a few examples of prior art which would extinguish this useless patent, namely Google News.
I don't think its the ISP's job to police file sharing, since their users pay them for service, and like telephone providers, they aren't required to monitor your calls to if your doing anything suspicious (although they sort of do, I know this first hand).
ISP's should be required to protect their own network against things that can cause service degradation, such as computers being part of botnets. As someone who worked for major ISP's for 10 years, I would LOVE to see this kind of thing applied to people who get viruses, trojans or other malware. Since most ISP's scan their network for users with suspicious behavior this would be easily done. Not withstanding the fact that most major ISP's provide free A/V software anyway, most users have no excuse. Get infected 3 times, get disconnected until you can prove you know how to use a computer.
Listen... xBox v1 has been around for almost 10 years. They stopped selling the thing 4 years ago. Look at any Microsoft support life cycle.
Windows 98
- Released June 1998
- Discontinued 2002
- Extended support ended 2006
---Total shelf life - 8 years
Windows ME
- Released December 2000
- Discontinued December 2003
- Extended support ended 2006
---Total shelf life - 6 years
Windows 2000
- Released March 2000
- Discontinued June 2005
- Extended support ends this summer
---Total shelf life - 10 years
Microsoft is right in line with their typical support life cycle for the xBox. Even though its a different product line, Microsoft is still Microsoft. They cannot support an aging product forever (even if by support I mean maintain a server for it)
While the USB memory key (in this example) could have low level software to snoop your data, how are they going to get it? Is the USB key going to open a TCP/IP or UDP connection back to their servers without tripping my firewall that a new application is trying to connect? Is my virus scanner going to get tripped that something suspicious is coming out of the key without my interaction?
Most decent virus scanners and firewalls will pick up on this. In a lot of corporate networks USB Mass media is disabled. I'd love to see a proof of concept that can get around these common checks... If anyone has a USB key that can do this, please let me know :-) I'll happily test it.
What? Definitely not. That would be like asking Ford or GM to pay your drivers license fee's for you for your car.
I think this is a good idea, and have had the same feeling for years. I've done Internet & Computer support for 10 years and most, if not all malware, virus, adware and other nasty's on a users machine are caused by the user and the user alone. Its estimated that viruses and other malware cost about 300 billion USD annually(again, all the users fault). If people had to go through a training process to understand the consequences of their actions and how to avoid viruses then we'd have less of them. Most things can be taught in half a day, like file extensions, what an image icon should look like, and that most issues will stem from porn sites and sites to help you pirate stuff and what to do if you think you did something stupid...
One thing I tell callers on a daily basis when disable their virus scanners to do upgrades is "Virus scanners do not protect your computer form the outside world, virus scanners protect your computer from you. If you do not download anything from from e-mails, or go to fishy looking websites, you'll never get a virus".
I've been in call centers for about 10 years now... Unless the caller can prove to me without a shadow of a doubt that they know more than I do, I treat them like they know nothing. 10 years of people telling me they are MCSE's, CCNA's, and other fancy titles not being able to find the network settings on their computer have taught me to trust no one.
I'm sure it goes for these guys too, they have people telling them they are trade auto mechanics not being able to determine that yes, your car is indeed out of oil and refusing to listen to the nice person on the phone asking them to check the dip stick.
On the technology side, get SharePoint Server with Office Communication Server. Both integrate with Outlook & Exchange and provide ample collaboration and chat capabilities and would give you the internal social networking feel you want, if you design it too.
On the real world, here is what some companies I have worked for have done.
-At work "olympics". Find some dumb tasks or events and have competitions for them. It may seem dumb, but people have fun.
-Regular company outings. - Softball tournements, bowling, paintball, amusement parks, etc
-At the company Christmas party, arrange people's seating so they are sitting at a table with people they do not work with so they are forced to mingle
-Have beer day. At one company I worked at (about 50 people) we'd have beer friday's where we'd all chip in for a couple cases of beer and sit around for the last hour of the day relaxing. It was mandatory to stay. Either you stayed and worked, or you hung out with everyone else, you didn't have to drink.
-Have pot lucks... Everyone brings something and everyone eats.
I'll probably get modded down for this, but if you want to run Win32 binaries, run Windows. I don't ask Microsoft to let me run Linux or OS X Apps on my Windows 7 OS. If I want to run a Linux App (Which I do occasionally) I either do it on my Linux Server or a Linux VM within my Windows OS. Trying to build Cross OS support in to an OS seems like something that would cause extensive bloating.
IANAL but this could be considered "Corporate Espionage" which could be illegal because depending on how you look at it the fact they are offering cash for trade secrets, corporate secrets and otherwise proprietary information may be considered bribery (although bribery is rarely made public like this)
The only thing I disagree with is the serif vs san-serif thing both looking good in programming. I own a domain name that specifically plays on the fact that most browsers use a san-serif font for displaying URL's... the url ends up looking like this when typed in upper case letters : lllllllllll.com because I's 1's and lower case L's all look the same or very very similar in a san-serif environment. I prefer a fixed width font serif font for any coding because tabs/spacing line up better and its easier to follow rows/columns of code
I'll stick with my phone... $200 early termination fee.. That's $200 for the phone, $200 termination = $400, which is still cheaper then the retail $699.
The most intriguing part about boxee is the box by d-link... Such an awesome case. I've never used Boxee, but have used XBMC(What Boxee is based on)... I wonder how easy it would be to install XBMC-Live on it :)
True, but I don't have to spend a thousand dollars on a decent tv, a few hundred dollars on an xbox 360(Or a thousand on a good PC), then a monthly XBL subscription to go to the movies :-)
I love how video games cost more to make then a typical hollywood movie
Did not read the article, but as long as they finally fixed the memory leaks I'll be happy.
What memory leaks you ask?
I have 1 tab open(This slashdot article)... my only add on is the Google Toolbar.
Firefox 3.5.7 is using a whopping 174Mb of ram.
Firefox doesn't properly clear out memory of closed tabs.
Supporting Apache 1.3 is like Microsoft supporting Windows 98. Apache 1.x is almost 15 years and Apache 2.x has been out for 10 years. People have had plenty of time to upgrade. It's time to move on.
It would work just fine in an evacuation providing they install modern turnstiles. A company I used to work for had turnstiles at all entrances and exits. By law, they had to do two building evacuation drills per year. On an emergency signal (ie, fire alarm) the turn style doors would collapse automatically so the glass dividers where flat in the middle of the turnstile to allow people to exit the turnstile two at a time in a continuous fashion.
There is a company based out of Winnipeg, Canada named Acumen Corporate Development Inc. that is quite good at this sort of thing. They do Acquisition Management/Support and other corporate services for this sort of thing.
Grand Total of $10.00
I had my PC hooked up to my HDTV in the living room loaded with media.
it was BYOB, I bought some munchies and pop. People were welcome to screw with my system since there was NOTHING on it other then what I wanted people to see(Brand new build). The rest of the party was having a bonfire drinking.
Hey, works for me... Microsoft gave me a free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit for hosting a Windows 7 party... I am influencial, I get free software!
Here is the biggest problem for consumers... Support Most Cable Companies already refuse support for anything out of their core product offering. Examples include mail clients(Outlook Express Only), no third party routers, no linux/unix, or other operating systems, cable card ready devices aren't supported...
If you have 100 different makes/models of HD PVR's your cable co will only support the ones they sell. Consumers will get frustrated with the lack of support, and the whole idea of an open network will come toppling down.
Nice theory... bad idea.
Agreed.
Cars are safe until PEOPLE get in them. Guns are safe until PEOPLE shoot them. Computers are secure until the USER uses them.
Windows is a very secure OS if the sys admins know what they are doing... Hell, Windows will let you restrict the names of executables you want being run. Mix that with some tight permissions (ie, no saving on the c:\ drive, have a seperate partition for swap/temp/paging/user docs, etc) and you have a secure system. Its wierd... I had Vista on my laptop for 3 years without ever formatting or getting a virus(formatted to upgrade to Win7), because I know what I'm doing. I haven't got in a car accident since I was a teenager, because I know what I am doing. I've never shot anyone, because I don't own a gun(I know what I'm doing)
Microsoft isn't to blame for all the viruses on windows (They were back in the 98/ME days), idiot users who download crap they don't understand are.
You, good sir, just got bash.org'd
This is the one thing I wish linux had... Windows style file/directory permissions.
The 3 bit file permissions of RWX is so... 20 years ago
Not all the permissions in Windows are useful but here are a couple that I would love to see in *NIX systems
-List directory contents
-Create new files/folders
-Delete