Just imagine, in our day and age of intellectual property, copyrights and trademarks...if Jim had only protected his copyright to that little emoticon... He'd be a wealthy man, now wouldn't he?:-)
However, since he had the forethought not to do so, he has created something that has much a part of our daily lives as the air we breath and the cola we guzzle.
While you state that you can't have an external antenna, how closely can you skirt the rules, and place a small, (6-inch by 6-inch), directional antenna in an upper corner of a window, pointing from one building to the next? Then you could simply have a reciprocating pannel to catch the signal in the next building.
3Com's Access Point 8000 would likely do what you want, or they have a point-to-point modual that's made for just this. And frankly, depending on the distance involved, you might be able to push it through the stone wall and catch it on the other side in a similar manner, then your antenna could be mounted in a closet where no one would ever see them, save the janitor and the IT guy.
That sounds contradictory. There's no EULA to cover the EULA. The EULA covers the software, not itself.
What if I didn't agree the the EULA of the product, and never opened it? Would I be in trouble for reproducing it? Are EULA's copyrighted? (I'll have to go look at a few now..)
Yeah, it's likely an unfounded thing in the back of my head. But, at least payphones are stationary, and their numbers, which shouldn't change, can be identified more quickly than a disposable phone that's been recycled 12 times.
One of the original markets for these was you could by a phone for $40 and stick it in your [car | first aid kit | boat | lake house] or anywhere you might like to have a phone in case of emergencies.
Oh, I'm hip to uses like this. I'd certainly be interested in picking one up to leave in the car, or even stick one in my traveling briefcase, in case my cell dies, or I forget it. There are lots of good reasons to market a product like this; absolutely.
While I have to admit, this does appeal to my 'nifty-keen-go-go-gadget-toy' senses, I am curious what sort of ramifications this has for less than legal uses. This is the sort of thing a kidnapper could pick up to make a ransome call on, or any number of things where it would be useful for someone to be able to track down whose calling.
Yes, yes, I know...anyone worth half a grain of salt could clone a cell phone. I suppose it's just that 'security' sense in me. Otherwise, this wouldn't be such a bad thing for adults to get for kids, so you can call little Johnnie and find out where he is, when he should be home doing his homework, huh?
Not as much experience with that, just as most front-end users don't have as much hands-on with that, but you could very well be right. I've not heard bad things about it.
.NET (the Framework) and ASP.NET
Hasn't there been some huh-bub lately about the.NET framework?
Exchange Server 2000
Enh...I'm not totally sold on it yet, but you're right, it's certainly far better than a sharp stick in the eye.
VS.NET IE 6.0.2600 (gotta love that build number!)
Fair enough...I haven't really seen or had much complaint about IE 6.0.2600, I'll certainly buy that.
IIS 6.0 (okay, this isn't fair because it isn't even out - but _I_ know that it rocks from experience:-)
Well, then...how about a review of some flavor, if you're not under a NDS?
Hardware: MS IntelliMouse XBox and peripherals (incredibly high quality, regardless of your console preference) MS Joysticks (all of them) OK... pretty much all MS hardware.
Hmm...I wonder...are these products out-sourced? (I certainly hope they're not made in China, considering all the trouble MicroSoft has with events that unfold for them there.)
Let's all get in our good old Way-Back Machines, and travel back in time... Does anyone remember that joint venture product IBM was putting out? OS/2, version 1.3...then later version 2...and Warp, etc..? For anyone whose been fortunate enough to really work with any of the old OS/2 products, you'll remember that when correctly installed and configured, they're still a very rock solid product. Not much the same can be said for most of the current M$ products, save perhaps Win 2k.
The difference between these two corporate giants is that they really are opposites of one another. You see, IBM -can- make good, rock-solid products...however, they couldn't market themselves out of a wet paper bag.:- While our "friends" and M$ could sell sand to a man stranded in the desert, sometimes the products they rush out aren't as solid as we'd like them to be.
I can see how M$ would be threatened. If IBM learned how to market things, they could be a formidable player.
I don't think a pacemaker would -EVER- be hooked up to the internet -- not only is there no point, but it's just extra risk for something to go wrong.
Actually, some devices like the pacemaker, have short-range radio transmitters in them. They're high-tech enough now that they collect data on the patient, and can then be transmitted via wireless to a modual on the belt that records things. Some pacemakers are sophisticated enough to be able to deterimine if you're going into v-fib and enact a form of de-fibulation.
It's only a short step away for the pacemaker to then relay to the interface modual on your belt that you just had a heart attack, then it tells your cell phone to call for an ambulance, and gives your GPS location. It's technology that we're near to implimenting. It's part of us getting our older Americans the freedom to stay at home instead of being placed in a home so they can be watched over in case they should have a heart attack, or some other condition come on them. Think of it as an automated "panic" button that summons help.
However, since it would be classifed as "hacking" under recent anti-terrorist laws, it may fall under Federal jurisdiction. While this might not apply to anti-terrorism law, I'm not sure the laws actually differentiate the two.
Can Italian law authorize the Italian Police to access a resource owned by a person in Italy (who is probably a citzen), when that resource is located outside the country?
Let's change the data in the scenerio. Let's say that the files in question belonged to a company, or even a political group. Would it be legal for the Italian Police to change/move/delete files from another organization, because they consider it a violation of their laws?
It seems to me, that the twist here is that, for the US-based ISP, it seems that the users account has been effectively hacked. An unauthorized user (the Italian Police) have acquired the password and defaced the pages being hosted by the user. Simply because they did it from the proper uses own PC, doesn't mean it's not a hack, nonetheless, does it?
Does that mean that the US-based ISP can fire charges against, and request extradition of, the offending hacker from Italy?
If Spam didn't work, why do I get a hundred pieces of it every morning? Someone is buying.
That's not necessarily the case. How many of those spam-messages are from a repeat offender? The company who spams once, spending their market budget to some slick willy whose convinced them that spam works, got rich. They lost their marketing budget, and because they didn't get enough replies to their spam-campaign, they don't have any more income to spam with!
Thus the viscious cycle ends, and our slick willy finds another company foolish enough to give him money to help them send out spam and use up their marketing budget. Hmm...does that make him a public servant for helping companies go out of business faster?
At least they'll have little lag issues with Quake, and one can really find out who the fastest gun in the west is. Or at least the Case Western! (I'm just not sure how Cleveland, OH is considered part of the west....)
And if you thought you were leaking oil before, now you have to identify if it's veggie oil, or if it's motor oil.
I suppose you could try tasting it..you might get to know your fuel by taste! Bob's Burger Stand and his unmistakable motor fuel..er, deep fat frier grease!
I can see it now: You drive into your local Drive-Thru and order a burger, fries, shake and 5 gallons of their day-old fryer grease!
I believe it's Cray/SGI that uses an interesting liquid for cooling their "water cooled" style of systems. It's a liquid that's completely inert, and doesn't react with metals, plastics, rubber, etc. And being non-conductive, you could likely pour it over the system and see absolutely nothing adverse happen.
While I tend to agree, the sensationalism of a leak springing from your laptop in the midst of a high-level confrence in some plush board room with a teak wood table isn't terribly likely. However, as noted, the coolant system runs up behind the LCD. That means that somewhere between the system board and the LCD, there's some flexing happening as you open and close the LCD on your laptop. Moving parts are potential failure points.
Let's all admit, how often have you picked up your laptop and held it by the LCD? For Joe User, it happens. Or how many times have you seen a User stacking reports and books on their laptop? More pressure on that LCD that's got the cooling system in it.
Apple had problems with their good looking Titaniums loosing connections when their cases flexed. If engineers don't look closely a real-world instances where users are going to flex things that really weren't meant to be flexed...you're going to find the wear will cause a leak. Maybe not during your warranty period..but, say a couple months after it's over? Of course then, you'll need to go buy a new laptop, eh?
IMHO: If we really need to "secure insecure windows installations" then why doesn't someone put together a consortium of white-hat's to find holes and more descretely have them patched up? Hey, and image that...they could make a living do it. Get paid. That's the American way, now isn't it?
Patents do have an expiration, and when submitting patents, you have to detailed information about what you're wanting to patent. Designs, forumlas, etc.. that would be terribly useful in reproducing the item in question.
After it's submitted for patenting, it becomes Patent Pending. From that point, you're protected by law as if it were patented. However, while it's pending, the Patent Office has to see if it can find something similar or that pre-dates this request for patent. If they do, then you're rejected. If they don't, then your patent gets approved, and the clock starts ticking towards your expiration date.
IMHO: The patent office should reject the patent, as this is simply a different spin on other forms of image compression. (However, I'm sure they have all sorts of rules about what constitutes something different for a similar-but-not-the-same patent.)
The state of Missouri has a no-call list you can get your number put on, and when they call you after that, it's a minimum $500 fine for each call.
I recently had a call on my work cell phone. I simply told the operator when she asked for the owner of the house that she had called a mobile phone, there was no house. She thanked me, appologized, and hung up.
Just remember kiddies, nifty toys like this are likely against your EULA, unless you're paying for the high-dollar package from your phone/cable company. You wouldn't want Time Warner sending you nastygrams too!
It must not have been too highly classified. If it was and some internet magazine can figure it out then you have to wonder if this data mining system was overkill.
I'm certain it was highly classified, 8-years ago, when it happened. However, over time, those people who know details of it, haven't been found and killed. And it's really kinda strange, human beings like to talk about things, share experiences, stroke their egos. Thus, over an 8-year span, data gets out.
A high school classmate of mine (12 years ago), had a brother who worked for the DEA. He was one of a couple of guys who went in on a raid in 2 choppers and got out alive. The cartel had been waiting for them, having intercepted information they were coming. He still wears a bullet proof vest every day, and when he calls to talk to family, he still doesn't tell them where he's at; just that he's okay.
You and I can get some pretty cool hardware, and we have some nifty stuff out there. These guys aren't doing things 8-years ago, that our "friends" the spammers are doing. They're just more heavy handed about where they get their info from.
Coursey writes: Don't expect to see that OS anytime soon. Palladium is a long-term project that requires not only a new operating system, but new computers as well.
And one must wonder if the reason it requires new computers, besides our special friend, the Fritz Chip, perhaps MS realizes that it will require a minimum of 2.1 GHz, 10 Gb HD space and 1 Gb RAM just to load and run their new OS?
The good Doctor is in this one? Now that, I gotta see. I didn't realize we should have been looking for the Tardis in the first movie! No I gotta go see it again!
Perhaps we underestimate Ford in this case. Perhaps they knew they didn't have a case that would hold up, and merely sought to make it clear that they had nothing to do with the website pointer in question?
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Just imagine, in our day and age of intellectual property, copyrights and trademarks...if Jim had only protected his copyright to that little emoticon... He'd be a wealthy man, now wouldn't he? :-)
However, since he had the forethought not to do so, he has created something that has much a part of our daily lives as the air we breath and the cola we guzzle.
While you state that you can't have an external antenna, how closely can you skirt the rules, and place a small, (6-inch by 6-inch), directional antenna in an upper corner of a window, pointing from one building to the next? Then you could simply have a reciprocating pannel to catch the signal in the next building.
3Com's Access Point 8000 would likely do what you want, or they have a point-to-point modual that's made for just this. And frankly, depending on the distance involved, you might be able to push it through the stone wall and catch it on the other side in a similar manner, then your antenna could be mounted in a closet where no one would ever see them, save the janitor and the IT guy.
That sounds contradictory. There's no EULA to cover the EULA. The EULA covers the software, not itself.
What if I didn't agree the the EULA of the product, and never opened it? Would I be in trouble for reproducing it? Are EULA's copyrighted? (I'll have to go look at a few now..)
I guess we should outlaw pay phones then.
Yeah, it's likely an unfounded thing in the back of my head. But, at least payphones are stationary, and their numbers, which shouldn't change, can be identified more quickly than a disposable phone that's been recycled 12 times.
One of the original markets for these was you could by a phone for $40 and stick it in your [car | first aid kit | boat | lake house] or anywhere you might like to have a phone in case of emergencies.
Oh, I'm hip to uses like this. I'd certainly be interested in picking one up to leave in the car, or even stick one in my traveling briefcase, in case my cell dies, or I forget it. There are lots of good reasons to market a product like this; absolutely.
While I have to admit, this does appeal to my 'nifty-keen-go-go-gadget-toy' senses, I am curious what sort of ramifications this has for less than legal uses. This is the sort of thing a kidnapper could pick up to make a ransome call on, or any number of things where it would be useful for someone to be able to track down whose calling.
Yes, yes, I know...anyone worth half a grain of salt could clone a cell phone. I suppose it's just that 'security' sense in me. Otherwise, this wouldn't be such a bad thing for adults to get for kids, so you can call little Johnnie and find out where he is, when he should be home doing his homework, huh?
Win 2K (as mentioned)
SqlServer 2000
Not as much experience with that, just as most front-end users don't have as much hands-on with that, but you could very well be right. I've not heard bad things about it.
Hasn't there been some huh-bub lately about the .NET framework?
Exchange Server 2000Enh...I'm not totally sold on it yet, but you're right, it's certainly far better than a sharp stick in the eye.
VS.NETIE 6.0.2600 (gotta love that build number!)
Fair enough...I haven't really seen or had much complaint about IE 6.0.2600, I'll certainly buy that.
IIS 6.0 (okay, this isn't fair because it isn't even out - but _I_ know that it rocks from experienceWell, then...how about a review of some flavor, if you're not under a NDS?
Hardware:MS IntelliMouse
XBox and peripherals (incredibly high quality, regardless of your console preference)
MS Joysticks (all of them)
OK... pretty much all MS hardware.
Hmm...I wonder...are these products out-sourced? (I certainly hope they're not made in China, considering all the trouble MicroSoft has with events that unfold for them there.)
Let's all get in our good old Way-Back Machines, and travel back in time... Does anyone remember that joint venture product IBM was putting out? OS/2, version 1.3...then later version 2...and Warp, etc..? For anyone whose been fortunate enough to really work with any of the old OS/2 products, you'll remember that when correctly installed and configured, they're still a very rock solid product. Not much the same can be said for most of the current M$ products, save perhaps Win 2k.
:- While our "friends" and M$ could sell sand to a man stranded in the desert, sometimes the products they rush out aren't as solid as we'd like them to be.
The difference between these two corporate giants is that they really are opposites of one another. You see, IBM -can- make good, rock-solid products...however, they couldn't market themselves out of a wet paper bag.
I can see how M$ would be threatened. If IBM learned how to market things, they could be a formidable player.
I don't think a pacemaker would -EVER- be hooked up to the internet -- not only is there no point, but it's just extra risk for something to go wrong.
Actually, some devices like the pacemaker, have short-range radio transmitters in them. They're high-tech enough now that they collect data on the patient, and can then be transmitted via wireless to a modual on the belt that records things. Some pacemakers are sophisticated enough to be able to deterimine if you're going into v-fib and enact a form of de-fibulation.
It's only a short step away for the pacemaker to then relay to the interface modual on your belt that you just had a heart attack, then it tells your cell phone to call for an ambulance, and gives your GPS location. It's technology that we're near to implimenting. It's part of us getting our older Americans the freedom to stay at home instead of being placed in a home so they can be watched over in case they should have a heart attack, or some other condition come on them. Think of it as an automated "panic" button that summons help.
However, since it would be classifed as "hacking" under recent anti-terrorist laws, it may fall under Federal jurisdiction. While this might not apply to anti-terrorism law, I'm not sure the laws actually differentiate the two.
Let's change the data in the scenerio. Let's say that the files in question belonged to a company, or even a political group. Would it be legal for the Italian Police to change/move/delete files from another organization, because they consider it a violation of their laws?
It seems to me, that the twist here is that, for the US-based ISP, it seems that the users account has been effectively hacked. An unauthorized user (the Italian Police) have acquired the password and defaced the pages being hosted by the user. Simply because they did it from the proper uses own PC, doesn't mean it's not a hack, nonetheless, does it?
Does that mean that the US-based ISP can fire charges against, and request extradition of, the offending hacker from Italy?
That's not necessarily the case. How many of those spam-messages are from a repeat offender? The company who spams once, spending their market budget to some slick willy whose convinced them that spam works, got rich. They lost their marketing budget, and because they didn't get enough replies to their spam-campaign, they don't have any more income to spam with!
Thus the viscious cycle ends, and our slick willy finds another company foolish enough to give him money to help them send out spam and use up their marketing budget. Hmm...does that make him a public servant for helping companies go out of business faster?
At least they'll have little lag issues with Quake, and one can really find out who the fastest gun in the west is. Or at least the Case Western! (I'm just not sure how Cleveland, OH is considered part of the west....)
And if you thought you were leaking oil before, now you have to identify if it's veggie oil, or if it's motor oil.
I suppose you could try tasting it..you might get to know your fuel by taste! Bob's Burger Stand and his unmistakable motor fuel..er, deep fat frier grease!
I can see it now: You drive into your local Drive-Thru and order a burger, fries, shake and 5 gallons of their day-old fryer grease!
I believe it's Cray/SGI that uses an interesting liquid for cooling their "water cooled" style of systems. It's a liquid that's completely inert, and doesn't react with metals, plastics, rubber, etc. And being non-conductive, you could likely pour it over the system and see absolutely nothing adverse happen.
Can someone share any more details on this stuff?
Is Flourinert what Cray uses inside their big dogs for "water cooling" purposes? It's totally inert, and doesn't react or corrode, etc..
While I tend to agree, the sensationalism of a leak springing from your laptop in the midst of a high-level confrence in some plush board room with a teak wood table isn't terribly likely. However, as noted, the coolant system runs up behind the LCD. That means that somewhere between the system board and the LCD, there's some flexing happening as you open and close the LCD on your laptop. Moving parts are potential failure points.
Let's all admit, how often have you picked up your laptop and held it by the LCD? For Joe User, it happens. Or how many times have you seen a User stacking reports and books on their laptop? More pressure on that LCD that's got the cooling system in it.
Apple had problems with their good looking Titaniums loosing connections when their cases flexed. If engineers don't look closely a real-world instances where users are going to flex things that really weren't meant to be flexed...you're going to find the wear will cause a leak. Maybe not during your warranty period..but, say a couple months after it's over? Of course then, you'll need to go buy a new laptop, eh?
There's a gimmick.
IMHO: If we really need to "secure insecure windows installations" then why doesn't someone put together a consortium of white-hat's to find holes and more descretely have them patched up? Hey, and image that...they could make a living do it. Get paid. That's the American way, now isn't it?
Patents do have an expiration, and when submitting patents, you have to detailed information about what you're wanting to patent. Designs, forumlas, etc.. that would be terribly useful in reproducing the item in question.
After it's submitted for patenting, it becomes Patent Pending. From that point, you're protected by law as if it were patented. However, while it's pending, the Patent Office has to see if it can find something similar or that pre-dates this request for patent. If they do, then you're rejected. If they don't, then your patent gets approved, and the clock starts ticking towards your expiration date.
IMHO: The patent office should reject the patent, as this is simply a different spin on other forms of image compression. (However, I'm sure they have all sorts of rules about what constitutes something different for a similar-but-not-the-same patent.)
The state of Missouri has a no-call list you can get your number put on, and when they call you after that, it's a minimum $500 fine for each call.
I recently had a call on my work cell phone. I simply told the operator when she asked for the owner of the house that she had called a mobile phone, there was no house. She thanked me, appologized, and hung up.
Just remember kiddies, nifty toys like this are likely against your EULA, unless you're paying for the high-dollar package from your phone/cable company. You wouldn't want Time Warner sending you nastygrams too!
I'm certain it was highly classified, 8-years ago, when it happened. However, over time, those people who know details of it, haven't been found and killed. And it's really kinda strange, human beings like to talk about things, share experiences, stroke their egos. Thus, over an 8-year span, data gets out.
A high school classmate of mine (12 years ago), had a brother who worked for the DEA. He was one of a couple of guys who went in on a raid in 2 choppers and got out alive. The cartel had been waiting for them, having intercepted information they were coming. He still wears a bullet proof vest every day, and when he calls to talk to family, he still doesn't tell them where he's at; just that he's okay.
You and I can get some pretty cool hardware, and we have some nifty stuff out there. These guys aren't doing things 8-years ago, that our "friends" the spammers are doing. They're just more heavy handed about where they get their info from.
Coursey writes: Don't expect to see that OS anytime soon. Palladium is a long-term project that requires not only a new operating system, but new computers as well.
And one must wonder if the reason it requires new computers, besides our special friend, the Fritz Chip, perhaps MS realizes that it will require a minimum of 2.1 GHz, 10 Gb HD space and 1 Gb RAM just to load and run their new OS?
The good Doctor is in this one? Now that, I gotta see. I didn't realize we should have been looking for the Tardis in the first movie! No I gotta go see it again!
Perhaps we underestimate Ford in this case. Perhaps they knew they didn't have a case that would hold up, and merely sought to make it clear that they had nothing to do with the website pointer in question?