Great response!
I believe you hit it on the head about trusting the government. Here in the states we have 2 main political parties. Many people don't vote just because you can only vote for the lesser of the evils. You don't get a "warm fuzzy" feeling for voting for the good guy, because they are all pretty much a bag of liars.
Lawers and politicans.... can't live with them and can't live with out them
I started to use grub, but then questions started cropping up. First we are using this to further a commercial organization. This is not research such as SETI or Folding At Home; this is doing the dirty work of a large commercial search engine. There is not even any potential reward such as with distributed.net.
Also the grub engine crawls everything, including adult content and other questionable content. They have a setting to turn it off, but it does not block it. With the current questioning of international law relating to accessing illegal websites this could have major consequences for the average user.
So for the time being I have stopped using the grub client until some serious questions are answered. It's an interesting concept and if it was being used in more of an academic setting it could be interesting. However I believe that search engines like Google are doing pretty good themselves.
I realize there are many great uses for these Java cards, but I'm not sure if making it a national ID card is the best idea. The government can easily use this against the people and the privacy concerns are enormous. I believe a better implementation would be for banks to issue such as with credit cards and such, not as a device that every citizen may be required to ware.
Those dry pairs sound very interesting. I know of many remoting monitering solutions that can save a lot of costs using this. Do you just call the telco and ask them for a "dry pair" ? I wonder if they are avaiable for everybody?
This seems to be another example of politicians trying to double talk. When they are talking to a medical group they say how all the grants are going to AIDS research, but then when they are talking to anti research people they can go back and say the opposite. It seems like anything that is fine for medical terminology should be fine. Of course a lot of the grant process is subjective rather then objective so it may be the little things that get the application passed up, but this is just one of the many problems a grant request can face.
It seems this had more to do with client setup, rather then a server, but http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 has a great index of their articles and some of them look interesting.
As a self-proclaimed "new age" geek, it's nice to be able to see these comics from the past. Hopefully Michael alerted them so they can try to be prepared for the/dot effect. With all of those large graphics they are going to probably be hit hard.
As a self-proclaimed "new age" geek, it's nice to be able to see these comics from the past. Hopefully Michael alerted them so they can try to be prepared for the/dot effect. With all of those large graphics they are going to probably be hit hard.
However a POTS line is about $15-$25 a month and depending on how the cell phone service they sell with the camera that can be more expensive, although of course you can move it too.
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I'm not sure where this camera would be practical. It seems the best use would be for remote monitoring, such as for weather stations or remote pipelines, but it can't be so remote so the cell phone network is not established. I believe this is walking a very fine line between a location that can not have a regular POTS line and a location that is out of range from the cellular network. The Cnet article does not say rather or not the camera also records the images. If it does not record then this seems like a pretty expensive toy.
Now if it can be programmed to call a cell phone and send images when a sensor goes off then it becomes more interesting, because I don't think people are going to be watching these things on the phone all the time. Also, at $400 a pop if multiple cameras are needed it would be cheaper to use a PC with 4/8/16/32 port CCTV inputs and cameras that only cost around $100. The PC could still connect to a network using a cell phone device and be able to transmit data and images. It will also in all likelihood provide much more flexibility then this camera solution.
I was able to go to it and it basicly just had a picture of this white DVD player, which I guess is their clone. However most of the site just says under construction.
This is probably the most important reason for military grade equipment. Much like some of the newer guns in WWII, the infantry would take the axis guns because their's would always jam.
It seems like this is a moot point when you consider how you can use 800# services that will forward your calls whereever you go. If these services became more popular then it wouldn't matter what your cell phone number is.
This seems more then anything to be nothing but open-source politics. People should spend more time coding better software then arguing about the names of that software.
Reminds me of the debate in highschool where I made a graph and used it to win. We then had to switch and debate the other side and my team one that too using the same graph. I had messed with the scales and used a low amount of data points though and they didn't realize it because it looked "right".
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Great response! I believe you hit it on the head about trusting the government. Here in the states we have 2 main political parties. Many people don't vote just because you can only vote for the lesser of the evils. You don't get a "warm fuzzy" feeling for voting for the good guy, because they are all pretty much a bag of liars. Lawers and politicans.... can't live with them and can't live with out them
That 8080 info you have on your site is interesting. Something like this would be good for some powerfull remote data logging applications.
Also the grub engine crawls everything, including adult content and other questionable content. They have a setting to turn it off, but it does not block it. With the current questioning of international law relating to accessing illegal websites this could have major consequences for the average user.
So for the time being I have stopped using the grub client until some serious questions are answered. It's an interesting concept and if it was being used in more of an academic setting it could be interesting. However I believe that search engines like Google are doing pretty good themselves.
Go calculate something
With all of the .net security holes we could choose to be anybody....
Go calculate something!
If it can run a linux distro then I'm sure someone will port a tetris clone to it.
I don't think this is really news, they are just getting more advanced like everything else is. It still is basiclly a numbers game though.
Those dry pairs sound very interesting. I know of many remoting monitering solutions that can save a lot of costs using this. Do you just call the telco and ask them for a "dry pair" ? I wonder if they are avaiable for everybody?
Go calculate something.
Go calculate something.
And I always thought moving to Oregon was the " thing " to do!
Perhaps they are worried that people will not use as much paper and thus save trees. This would then lead to the demise of their jobs.
Well its good to see /. back up at least for now. I hope they are hosted on something better then the TS-80s in those comics.
As a self-proclaimed "new age" geek, it's nice to be able to see these comics from the past. Hopefully Michael alerted them so they can try to be prepared for the /dot effect. With all of those large graphics they are going to probably be hit hard.
Go calculate something.
However a POTS line is about $15-$25 a month and depending on how the cell phone service they sell with the camera that can be more expensive, although of course you can move it too.
Now if it can be programmed to call a cell phone and send images when a sensor goes off then it becomes more interesting, because I don't think people are going to be watching these things on the phone all the time. Also, at $400 a pop if multiple cameras are needed it would be cheaper to use a PC with 4/8/16/32 port CCTV inputs and cameras that only cost around $100. The PC could still connect to a network using a cell phone device and be able to transmit data and images. It will also in all likelihood provide much more flexibility then this camera solution.
Go calculate something!
I was able to go to it and it basicly just had a picture of this white DVD player, which I guess is their clone. However most of the site just says under construction.
This is probably the most important reason for military grade equipment. Much like some of the newer guns in WWII, the infantry would take the axis guns because their's would always jam.
This is a good point, but if I choose that I don't want a "portable number", will I still be paying monthly surcharges for it?
Although they thought that when it was IPv4 too. First people had 1 line, now people have 2 voice lines, a fax line, a data line, cable modem....
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This post has been modded as "flamebait", but what do they expect from posting this so called "article"? Can people mod the initial post?
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Reminds me of the debate in highschool where I made a graph and used it to win. We then had to switch and debate the other side and my team one that too using the same graph. I had messed with the scales and used a low amount of data points though and they didn't realize it because it looked "right".