"windoze boxen" hah, yea right, when you take all the current bandwidth, cable, telephone etc, over a year, "windoze boxen" with viruses take up a small percentage.
Even if everything was perfect and no one had viruses, it would not solve the problems of bandwidth choke points.
A lot of people still use IE, not to mention the fact that probably less than 30% will acutally get this patch!
Most people I know don't get patches, and unless they have autoupdate enabled, haven't patched since they got their machine!
Most people assume that when the patch comes out it's fixed, but in reality, these security flaws will plague users for a long time to come.
Well, it could! These things kinda even out. Take manufacturing - most of it is outside of the U.S. now (just look at every toy at Toys R Us).
Companies want things made/done cheaply, and since distance isn't that much of a big deal anymore with cheap shipping and even cheaper telecommunications, why not go to a country with lenient environmental, labor and business laws?
I think the US Tech industry will continue to bleed off jobs for a while as the cost of hiring similarly qualified people overseas continues to be much less than in the us.
A person with a masters in Comp. Sci. in India costs a hellava lot less per year than a person in the US with a similar degree.
Most companies are moving tech/IT support overseas, and I think major programing will move over there soon.
People thought they would telecommute from the 'burbs to the city, but now they are telecommunting from India to the US.
First off, why wouldn't they take subways? Mass-transit is big in large cities like NY, Boston, and DC. Plus, just because they live or take a subway in one town, does not mean they are bombing that town. Nor does it mean that they aren't scouting it out before bombing. Making a nuclear weapon takes time. There is a good chance that someone involved in the creation/procurment of a weapon would go through some mass transit system, and set it off. And hopefully questioning could lead to something.
Think before you post as a coward.
While the subway/airport detectors do look for bombs, that is not their main goal. They are looking for the bomb makers.
Making nuclear weapons not in expensive laboratories with government regulations, one might be exposed to a high dose of radiation.
So, if someone is walking around with a high level of radiation, he should be questioned. Hey, it is never nice to be searched, and sometimes it sucks, but it needs to be done. If people set it off, they need to explain how and why. I'm sure that the police never thought about the radiation therapy angle. Once they understand it, and work with hospitals, it will be smoothed out. But you have to catch the bomb makers. No reason that the general public would set off radiation detectors.
What is hate speech? I hate pediophiles. If I put up a web site against having sex with little kids am I a bad person?
Right now, I think everyone in the world would agree with me. But you must realize, as early as the 1950's, anti-gay speech was just as socially acceptable as anti-pediophile speech is now.
You see that if you start banning one type of speech, or one side of an issue, where do you stop?
It is a slippery slope.
The only I don't like about TiVO and the rest of the DVR's is that they don't work well with Digital Cable settop boxes. I have AT&T Broadband, and you can only record the channel that the cable box is set to. This kinda removes all functionality of the TiVO, since it can't change channels when a show is on, and it can't record one and watch another.
I heard that the TiVO for DirectTV can do this stuff? Anyone have one and is it true?
Anyone know of a future release where the TiVO and the set-top boxes work together?
The DVR's are cool, but until they get this functionality, they are limited in use.
Just some facts about AT&T Broadband and software:
You have to run the setup program when you first get your modem now (this was not true a year ago) because their setup program now does the following things:
(1) Collects and submits your MAC address. (note to people use a router/nat/ipmasq you have to simulate this MAC address or they will know, I have heard of friends getting calls about it)
(2) Collects and submits your modems info and your location etc.
(3) Verfies your info (address, name, acount number etc)
(4) Sets up your e-mail address etc.
(5) Makes you agree to EULA.
From my experiance, you HAVE to run the setup for it to work. It seems the account is not "active" or something until you run this. I tried to use the modem as I had in the past year at a different location, but it would not work until I ran the setup.
I uninstalled everything, and it still works fine in Windows and FreeBSD.
I have no idea what else BroadJump does, I do know that it runs with a splash screen everytime you boot up when it is installed. Which is annoying.
AT&T BI ain't half bad where I am, I get good speeds. So, just uninstall it, and you will be fine.
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"windoze boxen" hah, yea right, when you take all the current bandwidth, cable, telephone etc, over a year, "windoze boxen" with viruses take up a small percentage. Even if everything was perfect and no one had viruses, it would not solve the problems of bandwidth choke points.
A lot of people still use IE, not to mention the fact that probably less than 30% will acutally get this patch! Most people I know don't get patches, and unless they have autoupdate enabled, haven't patched since they got their machine! Most people assume that when the patch comes out it's fixed, but in reality, these security flaws will plague users for a long time to come.
All I could think about while watching it and hearing them talk was the Swedish Chef
Well, it could! These things kinda even out. Take manufacturing - most of it is outside of the U.S. now (just look at every toy at Toys R Us). Companies want things made/done cheaply, and since distance isn't that much of a big deal anymore with cheap shipping and even cheaper telecommunications, why not go to a country with lenient environmental, labor and business laws?
I think the US Tech industry will continue to bleed off jobs for a while as the cost of hiring similarly qualified people overseas continues to be much less than in the us. A person with a masters in Comp. Sci. in India costs a hellava lot less per year than a person in the US with a similar degree. Most companies are moving tech/IT support overseas, and I think major programing will move over there soon. People thought they would telecommute from the 'burbs to the city, but now they are telecommunting from India to the US.
First off, why wouldn't they take subways? Mass-transit is big in large cities like NY, Boston, and DC.
Plus, just because they live or take a subway in one town, does not mean they are bombing that town.
Nor does it mean that they aren't scouting it out before bombing.
Making a nuclear weapon takes time. There is a good chance that someone involved in the creation/procurment of a weapon would go through some mass transit system, and set it off. And hopefully questioning could lead to something.
Think before you post as a coward.
While the subway/airport detectors do look for bombs, that is not their main goal. They are looking for the bomb makers.
Making nuclear weapons not in expensive laboratories with government regulations, one might be exposed to a high dose of radiation. So, if someone is walking around with a high level of radiation, he should be questioned. Hey, it is never nice to be searched, and sometimes it sucks, but it needs to be done. If people set it off, they need to explain how and why. I'm sure that the police never thought about the radiation therapy angle. Once they understand it, and work with hospitals, it will be smoothed out. But you have to catch the bomb makers. No reason that the general public would set off radiation detectors.
What is hate speech? I hate pediophiles. If I put up a web site against having sex with little kids am I a bad person?
Right now, I think everyone in the world would agree with me. But you must realize, as early as the 1950's, anti-gay speech was just as socially acceptable as anti-pediophile speech is now.
You see that if you start banning one type of speech, or one side of an issue, where do you stop?
It is a slippery slope.
The only I don't like about TiVO and the rest of the DVR's is that they don't work well with Digital Cable settop boxes. I have AT&T Broadband, and you can only record the channel that the cable box is set to. This kinda removes all functionality of the TiVO, since it can't change channels when a show is on, and it can't record one and watch another.
I heard that the TiVO for DirectTV can do this stuff? Anyone have one and is it true?
Anyone know of a future release where the TiVO and the set-top boxes work together?
The DVR's are cool, but until they get this functionality, they are limited in use.
Just some facts about AT&T Broadband and software:
You have to run the setup program when you first get your modem now (this was not true a year ago) because their setup program now does the following things:
(1) Collects and submits your MAC address. (note to people use a router/nat/ipmasq you have to simulate this MAC address or they will know, I have heard of friends getting calls about it)
(2) Collects and submits your modems info and your location etc.
(3) Verfies your info (address, name, acount number etc)
(4) Sets up your e-mail address etc.
(5) Makes you agree to EULA.
From my experiance, you HAVE to run the setup for it to work. It seems the account is not "active" or something until you run this. I tried to use the modem as I had in the past year at a different location, but it would not work until I ran the setup.
I uninstalled everything, and it still works fine in Windows and FreeBSD.
I have no idea what else BroadJump does, I do know that it runs with a splash screen everytime you boot up when it is installed. Which is annoying.
AT&T BI ain't half bad where I am, I get good speeds. So, just uninstall it, and you will be fine.