Two browsers... or two Firefox profiles. In Linux [I don't know about Windows] when you install a plugin, it goes into your profile and not to all profiles [except for Flash:(]. You can create completely separate profiles easily and switch in between them whenever you want. Even create shortcuts so you're not prompted and just do "firefox.exe -P ProfileName"
I use multiple profiles depending on what I am getting online for:
-Banking uses the NoScript plugin, session cookies, and all those other securities.
-Scary Interweb Surfing I allow some cookies and have a relaxed noscript configuration
-Anonymous surfing I have a completely separate install of Firefox with the TorButton plugin and javascript, flash, cookies, java, et al disabled.
I'm sorry but security can be annoying...
I'm glad to see that this is on/. and that people are starting to think about the subject matter a little more but this will never go anywhere I'm afraid.
I live in Rochester, NY which has the highest amount of deaf people per capita in the country. I work for a company that provides video remote interpreting services to deaf people and run into this bandwidth issue on a daily basis.
The problem with this technology is that it is only a Band-Aid for the already mentioned 3G technology that eventually will be coming. Even if they get this to work perfectly, companies would be stupid to invest money in this developing technology that will become outdated in less than a year. When we start being able use 3G, 4G, [and whatever the next technology will be] to major cities across the country, the deaf community will finally have the ability to communicate without restrictions.
Until there is more of a demand to stream person recordings of their wedding day, you're not going to see 3G come for a long time.
From the article :.... eBay is also attracted by the idea of letting its buyers and sellers talk to each other via their computers...
This whole time I was really hoping to see what google was going to do with this technology with the rumors around the buyout. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/24/121625 8&from=rss
I don't think that you're realizing that/. is not the demographic this system is going for. You are analyzing it like it would be your home laptop or comparing it to your gaming rig. You have to compare it to null. Third world countries have nothing. For a user to be able to be mobile with a simple system in an effort to remove the line of computing from the bourgeoisie to the proletariat is something companies usually don't want to try [which is why it's a government funded program] because it doesn't make them any money. I'm sure there will be some kind of money making scheme in the end or at least when the US gets it's paws on it some more.
Unless someone actually knows how this technology works, why not try and be unbiased. It's a good idea that Cisco is trying to stop the ongoing virus problem. You don't know that it will slow it down at all. Everyone is afraid that something bad is going to happen to their precious download speed--I won't be able to talk on instant messenger--I won't be able to get my pron as fast.
Why not view these technologies as which is the greatest good for the greates amount of people? Utilitarianism is the most common ethical view of governing bodies throughout the world and that's how this is going to pan out.
There are too many people out there that just like to hear[or see in this case] themselves talk and say things because it only concerns themselves. Why not learn the facts first, and then create an opinion instead of proving your ignorance.
I think it's really great how we're pushing the capacity bench mark and we can store lots of information on a single drive now. But why not just focus on making a faster drive to get rid of the performance bottlenecks I get. Am i wrong to think that if the speed and access time is the same, it will actually take LONGER to access a certain sector of my drive because it has to search through so much? (Forgive my ignorance but it's a real question)
I'm glad we're expanding our intellectual range with artificial intellegence and have things automated for us so we have to think less. But isn't this what Microsoft is doing to the world right now with their software. Do we really want our life to be automatically configured for us by a programmer so that we sit back and burn the rest of our brain cells? (I would expect a lot of yeses)
Slashdot Mirror
Two browsers... or two Firefox profiles. In Linux [I don't know about Windows] when you install a plugin, it goes into your profile and not to all profiles [except for Flash :(]. You can create completely separate profiles easily and switch in between them whenever you want. Even create shortcuts so you're not prompted and just do "firefox.exe -P ProfileName"
I use multiple profiles depending on what I am getting online for:
-Banking uses the NoScript plugin, session cookies, and all those other securities.
-Scary Interweb Surfing I allow some cookies and have a relaxed noscript configuration
-Anonymous surfing I have a completely separate install of Firefox with the TorButton plugin and javascript, flash, cookies, java, et al disabled.
I'm sorry but security can be annoying...
I'm glad to see that this is on /. and that people are starting to think about the subject matter a little more but this will never go anywhere I'm afraid.
I live in Rochester, NY which has the highest amount of deaf people per capita in the country. I work for a company that provides video remote interpreting services to deaf people and run into this bandwidth issue on a daily basis.
The problem with this technology is that it is only a Band-Aid for the already mentioned 3G technology that eventually will be coming. Even if they get this to work perfectly, companies would be stupid to invest money in this developing technology that will become outdated in less than a year. When we start being able use 3G, 4G, [and whatever the next technology will be] to major cities across the country, the deaf community will finally have the ability to communicate without restrictions.
Until there is more of a demand to stream person recordings of their wedding day, you're not going to see 3G come for a long time.
From the article : .... eBay is also attracted by the idea of letting its buyers and sellers talk to each other via their computers ...
This whole time I was really hoping to see what google was going to do with this technology with the rumors around the buyout. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/24/121625 8&from=rss
I don't think that you're realizing that /. is not the demographic this system is going for. You are analyzing it like it would be your home laptop or comparing it to your gaming rig. You have to compare it to null. Third world countries have nothing. For a user to be able to be mobile with a simple system in an effort to remove the line of computing from the bourgeoisie to the proletariat is something companies usually don't want to try [which is why it's a government funded program] because it doesn't make them any money. I'm sure there will be some kind of money making scheme in the end or at least when the US gets it's paws on it some more.
Unless someone actually knows how this technology works, why not try and be unbiased. It's a good idea that Cisco is trying to stop the ongoing virus problem. You don't know that it will slow it down at all. Everyone is afraid that something bad is going to happen to their precious download speed--I won't be able to talk on instant messenger--I won't be able to get my pron as fast.
Why not view these technologies as which is the greatest good for the greates amount of people? Utilitarianism is the most common ethical view of governing bodies throughout the world and that's how this is going to pan out.
There are too many people out there that just like to hear[or see in this case] themselves talk and say things because it only concerns themselves. Why not learn the facts first, and then create an opinion instead of proving your ignorance.
Longhorn Torrent
This looks liek the torrent to the new alpha. http://msbetas.net/Longhorn-4051-PDC.xBetas.rar.to rrent
I think it's really great how we're pushing the capacity bench mark and we can store lots of information on a single drive now. But why not just focus on making a faster drive to get rid of the performance bottlenecks I get. Am i wrong to think that if the speed and access time is the same, it will actually take LONGER to access a certain sector of my drive because it has to search through so much? (Forgive my ignorance but it's a real question)
I'm glad we're expanding our intellectual range with artificial intellegence and have things automated for us so we have to think less. But isn't this what Microsoft is doing to the world right now with their software. Do we really want our life to be automatically configured for us by a programmer so that we sit back and burn the rest of our brain cells? (I would expect a lot of yeses)