We all know how paranoid the Chinese government is about information which doesn't match their view of the world. If access points start becoming common and there is no encryption (more importantly, no authentication), then people will be able to walk up to a misconfigured AP and upload whatever content they want without fear of being traced. Possibly they want to avoid this, requiring the AP owner to be liable? Of course, they could just arrest the AP owner now and have everything shut down. That would work just as well.
The chipset, however, will not include an actual Wi-Fi radio, so users will still need a wireless add-on card. Intel has said it eventually intends build a Wi-Fi radio into its microprocessors.
Why put in a chipset without a radio? Maybe one could argue an attempt to get market share by making their add-on card cheaper than the others (just radio, no chipset), but this card will have a more limited market, since it wouldn't be compatible with older or non-intel mobos.
Now if the were to put a software radio on board, *that* would be cool! Think of upgrading to future standards with just a flash rom upgrade...
strong enough jolt of power it becomes permanently non-conducting
The only way a new form of permanent media can become popular is if it is much cheaper, faster, and more durable than CD-ROMs.
Even then, a gig in a block the size of a sugar cube (plus supporting electronics). Already this takes up more space-per-gig than a DVD. What's the advantage?
I'm waiting for the tax on all people with ears. Those people with ears are untrustworthy! They could be walking along one day and hear music created by starving artists just trying to get by. They should pay royalties to be able to listen to other people's music!
The only problem with this is the time to delivery. Even the several weeks necessary to cross take the last leg (assuming it was dropped off as close as one can get to the enemy) could be unacceptible.
If someone were to launch a bunch of them now, program them to quietly sit on the bottom near the shore, just in case there's a war.....
The article states that the average life for a website is 100 days, but wouldn't journals and formal publications (the most often cited documents in research) last longer than the average? Also, is the average skewed because websites are more likely to contain 'current information'? "Average lifetime" is misleading, does this mean the average time the page stays the same, or the average time before the information in the page is unavailable?
This is the same company that said, under oath, that reveling the windows source code would harm the National Security of the United States, then they gave the source code to China.
Isn't that perjury?
Not only that, but enhanced security as well. If a central repository exists which stores user information in a well documented format (as opposed to the registry, which every program uses differently), then a trojan/virus/malware might be able to access all your contact information. I believe such a thing should be treated similar to some proposed electronic ID cards, where the system prompts the user as to what information a program needs (at least the first time), and the user has to give permission somehow....
When you sign up for an account, you can put in a secondary email address for notifications, forgetten password emails, etc. Foolishly, I put one in, and now they're spamming it.
Yes, you'd think that once the account was deleted, they'd stop with the spam, but they haven't.
I still receive spam from Yahoo under an account name I deleted several years ago. The email informs me that I may login under the userid listed in the email and change my preferences. When I go to login, it tells me that the account doesn't exist and asks if I would like to sign up under that name.
Since Yahoo spams tend to be more legitimate than the usual penis extension mailings, I find that I feel better after going to the advertisers website, making a list of all the email addresses, and writing to them to inform them that I will be signing up for free pencams, PDAs drawings, and porn-a-day lists.
No matter how great the software is, it will still be running on a platform which can have problems (no matter what OS). I'm surprised that nobody is manufacturing small wireless devices solely for taking such tests. Make them cheap enough that the school could afford to buy them for everyone and hand them out before each exam. Student logs in, registers answers. Wouldn't be difficult to transmit results as you go, so in the event of a hardware or network failure, no information would be lost. Grab another one, log in, continue.
How long until a PDA becomes cheap enough to do this? Install a customized open source OS which doesn't support anything but this app, you'd be set. Most of them already have the tools, UI, encryption, networking, etc. You could do this today with ~$100 PocketPCs. If someone could find a way to do this on old PalmPilots or Visors.....
we will target the content of the phone conversations as a potential revenue source or provide it as medium for advertisers
I read this as "we will listen in on your conversation for keywords and then but in with targeted advertising", am I wrong?
I can just see it now, I pick up the phone to make a call after my housemate gets off and hear "We've heard you're interested in herpes, would you like to try the new medication wart-b-gone?"
What I'd like to see is a WiFi memory stick which emulates local storage. Allows you to connect to and store your photos on a PC in range. If the power consumption and security concerns were addressed, professional photographers could transmit their photos to a nearby laptop, eliminating the need for a bulky storage device on the waist or frequently swapping memory cards.
I wonder what such a thing would do for write times? I've been told that the delay between pictures on high-end digital cameras was due to solid state memory write times, would an 11mbit link solve this?
Some people have told me that it is possible to modify the hardware or purchase hardware from outside the US which uses different frequencies to get around this. Yes, it's illegal, but with this much RF pollution, would to be possible for the FCC to triangulate your location (say, inside an apartment building), and would they even care (assuming you weren't interferring with anything local).
OTOH, that happens when everyone starts doing this? God forbid when software radios become popular and people start trashing the entire usable spectrum?
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If they make a decision you don't like, you ignore it.
Why not? It worked for Bush....
We all know how paranoid the Chinese government is about information which doesn't match their view of the world. If access points start becoming common and there is no encryption (more importantly, no authentication), then people will be able to walk up to a misconfigured AP and upload whatever content they want without fear of being traced. Possibly they want to avoid this, requiring the AP owner to be liable? Of course, they could just arrest the AP owner now and have everything shut down. That would work just as well.
The chipset, however, will not include an actual Wi-Fi radio, so users will still need a wireless add-on card. Intel has said it eventually intends build a Wi-Fi radio into its microprocessors.
Why put in a chipset without a radio? Maybe one could argue an attempt to get market share by making their add-on card cheaper than the others (just radio, no chipset), but this card will have a more limited market, since it wouldn't be compatible with older or non-intel mobos.
Now if the were to put a software radio on board, *that* would be cool! Think of upgrading to future standards with just a flash rom upgrade...
strong enough jolt of power it becomes permanently non-conducting
The only way a new form of permanent media can become popular is if it is much cheaper, faster, and more durable than CD-ROMs.
Even then, a gig in a block the size of a sugar cube (plus supporting electronics). Already this takes up more space-per-gig than a DVD. What's the advantage?
I'm waiting for the tax on all people with ears. Those people with ears are untrustworthy! They could be walking along one day and hear music created by starving artists just trying to get by. They should pay royalties to be able to listen to other people's music!
The real question is, who on earth exposed a bureaucrat to technical terms? Seriously, I don't explain beyond "press this button to turn it on".
Sexual connotations aside...argh!
The only problem with this is the time to delivery. Even the several weeks necessary to cross take the last leg (assuming it was dropped off as close as one can get to the enemy) could be unacceptible.
If someone were to launch a bunch of them now, program them to quietly sit on the bottom near the shore, just in case there's a war.....
The article states that the average life for a website is 100 days, but wouldn't journals and formal publications (the most often cited documents in research) last longer than the average? Also, is the average skewed because websites are more likely to contain 'current information'? "Average lifetime" is misleading, does this mean the average time the page stays the same, or the average time before the information in the page is unavailable?
This is the same company that said, under oath, that reveling the windows source code would harm the National Security of the United States, then they gave the source code to China. Isn't that perjury?
Nah, let's call it treason instead.
Not only that, but enhanced security as well. If a central repository exists which stores user information in a well documented format (as opposed to the registry, which every program uses differently), then a trojan/virus/malware might be able to access all your contact information. I believe such a thing should be treated similar to some proposed electronic ID cards, where the system prompts the user as to what information a program needs (at least the first time), and the user has to give permission somehow....
Hmmm.... maybe we could call it a "registry"?
God forbid that during those two months the company might just stop spamming him.
When you sign up for an account, you can put in a secondary email address for notifications, forgetten password emails, etc. Foolishly, I put one in, and now they're spamming it.
Yes, you'd think that once the account was deleted, they'd stop with the spam, but they haven't.
I still receive spam from Yahoo under an account name I deleted several years ago. The email informs me that I may login under the userid listed in the email and change my preferences. When I go to login, it tells me that the account doesn't exist and asks if I would like to sign up under that name.
Since Yahoo spams tend to be more legitimate than the usual penis extension mailings, I find that I feel better after going to the advertisers website, making a list of all the email addresses, and writing to them to inform them that I will be signing up for free pencams, PDAs drawings, and porn-a-day lists.
Wait, no, red!
I want to link up a biometric fingerprint scanner to a script which DDoSes all the links provided in the email I am currently reading.
Spammers? Give `em the finger!
I can see it now...:
Pssst, hey, you wanna buy a cracked version of Linux for only $2.88
No matter how great the software is, it will still be running on a platform which can have problems (no matter what OS). I'm surprised that nobody is manufacturing small wireless devices solely for taking such tests. Make them cheap enough that the school could afford to buy them for everyone and hand them out before each exam. Student logs in, registers answers. Wouldn't be difficult to transmit results as you go, so in the event of a hardware or network failure, no information would be lost. Grab another one, log in, continue.
How long until a PDA becomes cheap enough to do this? Install a customized open source OS which doesn't support anything but this app, you'd be set. Most of them already have the tools, UI, encryption, networking, etc. You could do this today with ~$100 PocketPCs. If someone could find a way to do this on old PalmPilots or Visors.....
No, as this card doesn't emulate a local storage device. Rather it is a communication device, which most cameras don't know how to talk to.
Well then, it should be awfully easy to follow the T&Cs!
we will target the content of the phone conversations as a potential revenue source or provide it as medium for advertisers
I read this as "we will listen in on your conversation for keywords and then but in with targeted advertising", am I wrong?
I can just see it now, I pick up the phone to make a call after my housemate gets off and hear "We've heard you're interested in herpes, would you like to try the new medication wart-b-gone?"
What I'd like to see is a WiFi memory stick which emulates local storage. Allows you to connect to and store your photos on a PC in range. If the power consumption and security concerns were addressed, professional photographers could transmit their photos to a nearby laptop, eliminating the need for a bulky storage device on the waist or frequently swapping memory cards.
I wonder what such a thing would do for write times? I've been told that the delay between pictures on high-end digital cameras was due to solid state memory write times, would an 11mbit link solve this?
Some people have told me that it is possible to modify the hardware or purchase hardware from outside the US which uses different frequencies to get around this. Yes, it's illegal, but with this much RF pollution, would to be possible for the FCC to triangulate your location (say, inside an apartment building), and would they even care (assuming you weren't interferring with anything local).
OTOH, that happens when everyone starts doing this? God forbid when software radios become popular and people start trashing the entire usable spectrum?
I'm just waiting for GNUSCO.com to be registered by Stallman.
... and the clash of the lawyers continues...
IBM sending subpoenas to large SCO investors in an effort to compel discovery
IBM is going to subpoena Microsoft? Wow.