Wireless in airports is expensive (upwards of $1 a minute in the few that I've seen it). I can't imagine what they'll charge for internet access in an in-flight airplane. It's going to be horrendous, and thus as useless to me as the wirless in the airports. Ho-Hum.
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Jeez. Get a grip. I'm not so convinced that people that are so afraid to specialize or be "pigeonholed" aren't just afraid of committing to something and committing to be good at it. Maybe it's a fear of being unsuccessful. I don't know.
Anyway, I think most things can be broken down into right/wrong, this way/that way, etc. Of course, there are complicated exceptions, but if you know what you believe and why, I don't think it's too hard to make those kind of deductions.
I always wondered about the utility of the internet in doing survaillance (sp?). The possibilities are endless. You can find stuff from googling or from reading bios or whatever. Howe cool would it be if you could crack a web-cam?
... they got really tacky watches, blue ones for the men, red ones for the ladies... the Swiss are good folks but political correctness isn't always high on their list...
Obviously...everyone knows that the women should have received pink watches, not red ones. How insensitive can they be?
I agree. Some newbie marketing drone probably came up with it. More likely, a newbie marketing drone's intern came up with it, the marketing drone stole the idea and kept the intern's christmas bonus.
I think Brin should stick to his guns, figuratively speaking. Not only is there a moral problem in compromising what you believe to be important moral principles, it's easy to see what's happening to Google as a product as a result.
Developing the equipment to identify unique scents would be costly, bulky, and probably easily confused by purfumes and other forms of distraction.
Hmm...with regards to confusing the 'sniffers' with perfumes: I have been studying for a DSP final, so this was already on my mind, but couldn't you sort of do DSP with smells? I mean, when you have a noisy communication channel, you try to approximate what that noise is and then filter it out in the receiver. Couldn't you do that with masking scents? You could try to compile a sort of list of known smells and filter out everything except what you're looking for. I realize that this idea might only be a start....but hey, the technology doesn't even exist yet.
That's a good point. Do you think that as linux becomes more viable as a commercial alternative to Windows Server and Solaris that companies like IBM, HP, RedHat will invest more money into open source desktop products? If I'm not mistaken, RedHat already offers some support of some kind to Gnome (although I don't know exactly what or how much).
I disagree. "Linux" isn't a business as you say, but it is a product, regardless of who makes it or what fees and whatnot it generates.
At any rate, my point is not to make individual developers change their interests. The point I'm trying to make is that it would be better overall for Linux if it could make more serious inroads in the server market. It's never going to catch Microsoft or even Mac in the consumer market unless it becomes more commercially driven, which is made difficult by the GPL and other non-commercial licensing. Linux stands a better chance at significant commercialization in the server market --- evidenced by IBM's (and others) support for Linux as a server.
Ok, well, if you want to get technical about it...they could make it part of their license for tech support, upgrades, certain apps, whatever. Licensing really isn't the point.
Actually, I already posted a comment about this (Linux taking the desktop), but you bring up an interesting point. If Linux could focus on the server market and grab a hefty share of the server market, DRM could easily be killed. For argument, let's pretend RedHat's server distro took 65% of the server market. At that point, it would be easy for RedHat to put in their license something to disallow their software to propagate DRM-protected media on the networks its attached to. Linux is never going to steal a very large portion of the desktop/consumer market. Focus on being the best server out there (which Linux has the potential for) and maybe then worry about the Desktop. Microsoft did it the other way around, but they only did things one thing at a time.
I'm experimenting with OpenBSD myself and finding that I like it...the/etc folder is cleaner and all the config files are there --- as you said, like it should be.
Hmm. I thought the article was sayting that there was a problem with the modem itself in that it allowed the user to put it in promiscuous mode, meaning it doesn't discard any packets it sees from the network. If a subnet is hubbed, it doesn't have to be 'misconfigured' for a user to be able to sniff the subnet.
Lots of great businesses have come to a screeching halt because they didn't define their core mission or set specific goals. The cause behind it is that the execs or whoever gets excited about doing too many things and the company gets spread too thin and doesn't excel at any one particular thing. IMHO, I think some of this is happening with the Linux community. Linux still hasn't made any really serious commercial inroads into the server market (still dominated by Sun and Microsoft). Sure, you can set up a pretty slick desktop workstation with RedHat or Debian (or whatever your favorite is), but the strengths of Linux make it a good choice for a server. I think it would be better to focus on the server marketplace over the desktop/consumer market at this point and get Linux over that last hump on its way to general acceptance at the enterprise level.
I'll never forget what our system admin said during one of my internships: "Linux is pretty nice, but it just isn't ready for the big-time yet." That company used SunOS instead.
Why aren't the *nix subnets vulnerable? If you can drop your cable modem into promiscuous mode, it seems like even in a switched environment you could perform an arpspoof and still intercept/hijack connections and so on.
Businesses aren't the problem here, just like money has never been the problem with politics. The problem is the people in politics; the solution is to elect people with character. Get politicians that won't put a company representative next to themselves in a committee meeting based on donations.
anti-leech is so stupid. There is basically no way to prevent someone from copying HTML code, preventing pop-ups and banners, etc. Why even try? Copyright laws are already sufficient to keep people from re-publishing web content (at least, if you catch them). Anyway, I checked out their retarded test page and they can't even keep built-in functionality in Mozilla from "stealing" their bandwith. Retards.
oh man....I use mine all the time. That's at least 32 MB worth of stuff that my brain doesn't have to keep track of! eBooks are definitely an application of PDA's, although tablet PC's are going to blow them away in that area. Actually, tablet PC's are going to blow pda's away in almost every area, IMHO. Anyway, yeah, I use mine all the time and I don't know what I would do without it.
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Wireless in airports is expensive (upwards of $1 a minute in the few that I've seen it). I can't imagine what they'll charge for internet access in an in-flight airplane. It's going to be horrendous, and thus as useless to me as the wirless in the airports. Ho-Hum.
Jeez. Get a grip. I'm not so convinced that people that are so afraid to specialize or be "pigeonholed" aren't just afraid of committing to something and committing to be good at it. Maybe it's a fear of being unsuccessful. I don't know. Anyway, I think most things can be broken down into right/wrong, this way/that way, etc. Of course, there are complicated exceptions, but if you know what you believe and why, I don't think it's too hard to make those kind of deductions.
I always wondered about the utility of the internet in doing survaillance (sp?). The possibilities are endless. You can find stuff from googling or from reading bios or whatever. Howe cool would it be if you could crack a web-cam?
... they got really tacky watches, blue ones for the men, red ones for the ladies... the Swiss are good folks but political correctness isn't always high on their list...
Obviously...everyone knows that the women should have received pink watches, not red ones. How insensitive can they be?
I agree. Some newbie marketing drone probably came up with it. More likely, a newbie marketing drone's intern came up with it, the marketing drone stole the idea and kept the intern's christmas bonus.
I think Brin should stick to his guns, figuratively speaking. Not only is there a moral problem in compromising what you believe to be important moral principles, it's easy to see what's happening to Google as a product as a result.
This story has been posted before, but it's a welcome reminder of how justice is one of the ideals of our country. :-)
Developing the equipment to identify unique scents would be costly, bulky, and probably easily confused by purfumes and other forms of distraction. Hmm...with regards to confusing the 'sniffers' with perfumes: I have been studying for a DSP final, so this was already on my mind, but couldn't you sort of do DSP with smells? I mean, when you have a noisy communication channel, you try to approximate what that noise is and then filter it out in the receiver. Couldn't you do that with masking scents? You could try to compile a sort of list of known smells and filter out everything except what you're looking for. I realize that this idea might only be a start....but hey, the technology doesn't even exist yet.
That's a good point. Do you think that as linux becomes more viable as a commercial alternative to Windows Server and Solaris that companies like IBM, HP, RedHat will invest more money into open source desktop products? If I'm not mistaken, RedHat already offers some support of some kind to Gnome (although I don't know exactly what or how much).
I disagree. "Linux" isn't a business as you say, but it is a product, regardless of who makes it or what fees and whatnot it generates.
At any rate, my point is not to make individual developers change their interests. The point I'm trying to make is that it would be better overall for Linux if it could make more serious inroads in the server market. It's never going to catch Microsoft or even Mac in the consumer market unless it becomes more commercially driven, which is made difficult by the GPL and other non-commercial licensing. Linux stands a better chance at significant commercialization in the server market --- evidenced by IBM's (and others) support for Linux as a server.
Ok, well, if you want to get technical about it...they could make it part of their license for tech support, upgrades, certain apps, whatever. Licensing really isn't the point.
Actually, I already posted a comment about this (Linux taking the desktop), but you bring up an interesting point. If Linux could focus on the server market and grab a hefty share of the server market, DRM could easily be killed. For argument, let's pretend RedHat's server distro took 65% of the server market. At that point, it would be easy for RedHat to put in their license something to disallow their software to propagate DRM-protected media on the networks its attached to. Linux is never going to steal a very large portion of the desktop/consumer market. Focus on being the best server out there (which Linux has the potential for) and maybe then worry about the Desktop. Microsoft did it the other way around, but they only did things one thing at a time.
I'm experimenting with OpenBSD myself and finding that I like it...the /etc folder is cleaner and all the config files are there --- as you said, like it should be.
Hmm. I thought the article was sayting that there was a problem with the modem itself in that it allowed the user to put it in promiscuous mode, meaning it doesn't discard any packets it sees from the network. If a subnet is hubbed, it doesn't have to be 'misconfigured' for a user to be able to sniff the subnet.
Lots of great businesses have come to a screeching halt because they didn't define their core mission or set specific goals. The cause behind it is that the execs or whoever gets excited about doing too many things and the company gets spread too thin and doesn't excel at any one particular thing. IMHO, I think some of this is happening with the Linux community. Linux still hasn't made any really serious commercial inroads into the server market (still dominated by Sun and Microsoft). Sure, you can set up a pretty slick desktop workstation with RedHat or Debian (or whatever your favorite is), but the strengths of Linux make it a good choice for a server. I think it would be better to focus on the server marketplace over the desktop/consumer market at this point and get Linux over that last hump on its way to general acceptance at the enterprise level.
I'll never forget what our system admin said during one of my internships: "Linux is pretty nice, but it just isn't ready for the big-time yet." That company used SunOS instead.
Why aren't the *nix subnets vulnerable? If you can drop your cable modem into promiscuous mode, it seems like even in a switched environment you could perform an arpspoof and still intercept/hijack connections and so on.
Businesses aren't the problem here, just like money has never been the problem with politics. The problem is the people in politics; the solution is to elect people with character. Get politicians that won't put a company representative next to themselves in a committee meeting based on donations.
anti-leech is so stupid. There is basically no way to prevent someone from copying HTML code, preventing pop-ups and banners, etc. Why even try? Copyright laws are already sufficient to keep people from re-publishing web content (at least, if you catch them). Anyway, I checked out their retarded test page and they can't even keep built-in functionality in Mozilla from "stealing" their bandwith. Retards.
oh man....I use mine all the time. That's at least 32 MB worth of stuff that my brain doesn't have to keep track of! eBooks are definitely an application of PDA's, although tablet PC's are going to blow them away in that area. Actually, tablet PC's are going to blow pda's away in almost every area, IMHO. Anyway, yeah, I use mine all the time and I don't know what I would do without it.