I would suspect that in the future TiVo and Replay will be licencing their software/UI to Cable box manufacturers, TV manufacturers, etc. If you think about it this should be much more profitable than the hardware side of the business anyway. If you could directly record your digital cable using a TiVo branded receiver I suspect you would...
You and a lot of other people just don't seem to understand that CID is really a novelty service. You should not be using CID data for any real level of security. As other have mentioned the ability to write your own CID data is an important PBX function for businesses and call centers that don't want to make all their lines public. ANI data is much more reliable and accurate. I see no problem with services such as these because they should increase awareness in the public of something that has always been true, CID is convenience data and should not be trusted. get over it, if you really need to know who's calling use ANI.
As others have pointed out, while the president does not directly author bills, if he really wants one to go through he can...erm...direct a party stoolie to put it though. One might point out that every serious presidential candidate makes promises that require the passage of laws (such as tax cuts or constitutional ammendments about marriage as in the case of Bush) so your point is moot. The real point here is that the President can and DOES have a lot of influence over which bills get passed. Whether this is a good thing or the way it was designed is another discussion, the point is that the president DOES have a lot of influence in the legislative branch, especially in the House.
This is actually becoming a really common problem. I'm a senior in a four year B.S. in IT degree and at my summer job I spent almost the entire summer doing research and testing of various programs for global deployment.
In the end my recommendation and deployment was Webroot Software's SpySweeper Enterprise. After exhaustive testing it came out on top. DOn't get me wrong it has some problems too,b ut it's far and above better than anything else I could find and test.
Frankly, I would be surprised if the major corporate antivirus companies didn't jump in this market. The technology for detection and removal is quite similar and the antivirus products are much more mature than the current spyware removal products.
Remember, Ad-Aware and Spybot may be great for home, but they just don't scale well for global enterprise deployment. There is still time and a real need for a great enterprise spyware control client and server. As companies get other IT problems in order and they start talking to helpdesk employees who spend hours and hours every week removing spyware that's slowing down PCs they come to see this as a big need. It's too bad no one has magic software to fix it yet, but for my money and as of my testing this summer Webroot's SpySweeper enterprise just can't be beat. It's the most anti-virus like solution in terms of management and deployment. As an added bonus the sales and engineering teams at Webroot were more than responsive to our needs and worked with us to improve the product.
Actually, this is more on topic than you might think. Somewhere in my library I have a U.S. Secret Service (propaganda) book from the 1950s about how they track down those that threaten the president and counterfeiters. In more than one example case given in this book they used specific characteristics of typewriters to track down letter writers. This has been largely impossible since the advent of non-mechanical personal printing techniques. Although, I disagree in the strongest terms with digital watermarking of this nature (and the Adobe ani-counterfeiting code for that matter) on the basis of privacy, it is interesting to note how this has been used in the past.
I really wish people would stop thinking SPF is only a spam stopping thing. Really, it's not! As you can see if you really read about SPF for more than 30 seconds is that SPF is a way of checking to see if a server claiming to send mail from some domain is really authorized to do so.
Lots of people on/. think this isn't a problem, most of them are clueless. For those of us that run mailservers that see any kind of real traffic we know that a LOT of mail is sent with spoofed domains. Some of it is spam, some virii, some just annoying but it IS a problem and SPF solves it in a pretty easy to implement way.
Personally, I think copyrights are far too long. I think once books go out of print for some number of years they should be put in the public domain. As a collector of 1950s/60s era literature it annoys me to no end that I can't get copies of books from the period except via ebay auctions and overpriced bookstores. These are books that probably will never be reprinted and the publisher is likely to have forgotten about yet they remain protected by copyright law because Disney can't give up a stupid mouse! It would be great if Mickey became public domain like he should have, but right now I'll settle for automatic expiration of copyrights that are not renewed every X years (with a hefty fee that increases each year to discourage publishers from renewing things that aren't making them a bunch of money)
Seems to me that someone has been mixing a lot of stories to come up with this! I actually listened to the press conferences and X Prize coverage. Let me explain what they really said:
First, the check hasn't even been handed over that I've heard. This ceremony will take place in St. Louis, it did not take place at Mojave, that was just the announcement of a winner.
Second, yes Virgin has licenced some of the technology and has asked Scaled to build 5 ships carrying 5 passengers, note these are not built or tested! It will still be a few years until they are ready.
Next, 7UP did announce they will be giving away a trip on one of those Virgin flights. Of course the ships still need to be built and tested as noted above. They were non-committal as to if it will be one of the first flights so this could be even longer off, so don't start looking under those caps yet.
Space adventures may indeed be collecting payments on flights. You have to be a sucker to buy one though because Virgin isn't selling tickets yet and they are the only people who have licenced the technology. It's a bit fuzzy as to what your $10K gets you from space adventures and who's providing the $100K flights.
Who said anything about $100K flights anyway? When the CEO of Virgin was asked about it he said to expect more like $250K flights.
Don't get me wrong, I'm as excited about this as the next guy. $250K is still a bargain in today's market, but mixing those stories together made it a lot more exciting sounding than it really is.
Why would Verizon, for example, provide customers with the infrastructure for free VOIP and television over IP when they'd be slicing into their own revenue source?
Because Vonage and the other VoIP providers already are slicing into their revenue source with low-cost VoIP. Verizon and the other RBOCs are already hemorrhaging customers and this is an effort to try and keep some of them. Remember most money in the utilities business is made by charging companies "business rates" which subsidize home/personal rates. Besides some people will never be comfortable giving up their landline anyway. I know lots of elderly people who still pay a phone rental charge to the phone company because they "don't trust those phones you buy in the store." These are the people the phone companies make money on.
I took interest in your post becasue I have a cousin who is a senior at WFU and an uncle who is a former instructor there. I think that the spirit of that regulation is that you cannot have an access point attached to their network which is legal for them to say. If you want to setup your own network you certainly could have an AP, and if they stopped you that would be illegal.
What concerns me more is the prohibition of non-900MHz cordless phones. This clearly IS illegal and YOU should make a stink about it. The 2.4GHz and 5.6GHz bands are degignated for part 15 devices (unlicenced) and they MUST accept interference from other part 15 and (most of all) licenced devices. You should start by contacting the student paper, send a well researched written warning to the university and contact the FCC. Of course if you really want to teach them a lesson you should become a licenced HAM radio operator. Part of the 2.4GHz spectrum is availible for high power HAM use and you could easily kill access points for miles around by turning on some of that stuff.
...I felt like a naughty schoolboy explaining to teacher why the dog ate my homework, and any company which is willing to put computing professionals through that kind of shit is really, really stupid.
The question is how long can you make your customers feel like "naughty schoolboys" before they stop buying your product? Of course once they do stop buying it for that reasion, you can blame it on piracy and use that excuse to do even nastier things.
To be fair to Microsoft(tm)(r), they have every right to protect sales of their software. To be fair to me, I have the right not to use it, not to recommend XP to anyone I know.
Exactly. Once upon a time, a time before many of those on/. owned computers and/or were born there was a massive amount of software piracy. The companies all knew about this, first it was cool, their programs were getting massive exposure to home users who were going to their bosses at work and getting the company to buy it. All was good in the land of software, then someone at the software companies decided they could make more money if they got all the home users to pay for their copies too. This was their right too. Of course the copy controls those companies imposed didn't do a whole lot (who here remembers baking up copies of floppies using special disk copy utilities that uhmm "bypassed" copy protection?) but it made them feel warm and fuzzy. Then the bomb hit. No one was even using thier software anymore, much less buying it. You see, the cheap home users weren't buying it and if they were pirating it they weren't recommending it. Many software companies with decent products who were making money (but wanted more) went right out of business! This was the end of most copy protection (except for those really really expensive programs ) until recently. Of course, some would say the invention of the CD-ROM prior to the big HDD's and CD-R's were their own form of copy protection, but that's a story for another post.
Exactly, I've worked for some companies with employees workdwide who also have company laptops they take home and hook to broadband connections. The scenario you (the grandparent) have proposed will not work for detecting VLK leaks.
Yes, but if you got it on a server that had an 802.1Q copatible NIC in it you could watch the data flow EVEN ACCROSS VLANs. Of course we know sysadmins, always keep their server fully patched so that shouldn't be a problem.
>>certainly every "home" device I've owned that was advertized as a switch, actually did switching.>routing!=switching btw...>go look at your router, does it have individual traffic lights for each port? guess what, it's switching...
Well, not quite. I've got hubs with individual traffic light on ports. You really need to check the technical specs out to find out if it's a hub or a switch, the lights won't tell you. But hey, 2 out of 3 isn't so bad for a/. post.
This is incorrect information. Yes, they only route between the inside and outside, that's normal behavior. However, the four ports on the inside could be a hub, but are more likely an unmanaged switch. All the manufacturers advertising switches in their routers (dlink, linksys, smc, belkin, etc.) DO SWITCH. As others have mentioned switch!=hub!=router.
Mod the parent down and find something really informative to mod up.
This is pretty common. My University which has some very inept IT people has a similar policy forbiding access points in the dorms. Of course their "campus-wide" wireless doesn't cover much of campus much less the dorms. I'm just glad I don't live in the dorms anymore.
Actual Policy:
There is currently no support for private wireless networking in any of the residence halls. Students are not allowed to install or use wireless stations in any part of the Residence halls. Unauthorized use of such devices may result in the loss of your network connection.
That solution is not really as nice as DynDNS. I for one would really like to see a piece of OSS that lets you operate using the (documented) DynDNS protocol so that the standard update scripts widely availible for that would work. Running a nameserver on a system that doesn't require one seems counterproductive. Plus, you could use existing software to keep Windows boxes up to date as well. The DynDNS update protocol is availible here
I have one of the older Panasonic DMR-E30s (no HDD) and it works pretty well the way I use it. There are some drawbacks but it does what I need it to and it was cheap long before any other standalone DVD recorders were. I use it mostly to capture TV and VHS tapes to MPEG2 on DVD-RAM discs (these are really great for this, much better than DVD+/-RW) which I put in my PC's DVD-RAM drive and offload the MPEG2, I then can do basic editing of the MPEG2 and burn it to a DVD-R with a nice clean menu.
Slashdot Mirror
You don't usually insert media into a DVD-RAM caddy, the caddy's usually come sealed on the disks just like ZIP disks and 3.5 inch disks.
Get to CxO's.
I would suspect that in the future TiVo and Replay will be licencing their software/UI to Cable box manufacturers, TV manufacturers, etc. If you think about it this should be much more profitable than the hardware side of the business anyway. If you could directly record your digital cable using a TiVo branded receiver I suspect you would...
You and a lot of other people just don't seem to understand that CID is really a novelty service. You should not be using CID data for any real level of security. As other have mentioned the ability to write your own CID data is an important PBX function for businesses and call centers that don't want to make all their lines public. ANI data is much more reliable and accurate. I see no problem with services such as these because they should increase awareness in the public of something that has always been true, CID is convenience data and should not be trusted. get over it, if you really need to know who's calling use ANI.
Are there any mirrors? The site is already dead...
As others have pointed out, while the president does not directly author bills, if he really wants one to go through he can...erm...direct a party stoolie to put it though. One might point out that every serious presidential candidate makes promises that require the passage of laws (such as tax cuts or constitutional ammendments about marriage as in the case of Bush) so your point is moot. The real point here is that the President can and DOES have a lot of influence over which bills get passed. Whether this is a good thing or the way it was designed is another discussion, the point is that the president DOES have a lot of influence in the legislative branch, especially in the House.
This is actually becoming a really common problem. I'm a senior in a four year B.S. in IT degree and at my summer job I spent almost the entire summer doing research and testing of various programs for global deployment.
In the end my recommendation and deployment was Webroot Software's SpySweeper Enterprise. After exhaustive testing it came out on top. DOn't get me wrong it has some problems too,b ut it's far and above better than anything else I could find and test.
Frankly, I would be surprised if the major corporate antivirus companies didn't jump in this market. The technology for detection and removal is quite similar and the antivirus products are much more mature than the current spyware removal products.
Remember, Ad-Aware and Spybot may be great for home, but they just don't scale well for global enterprise deployment. There is still time and a real need for a great enterprise spyware control client and server. As companies get other IT problems in order and they start talking to helpdesk employees who spend hours and hours every week removing spyware that's slowing down PCs they come to see this as a big need. It's too bad no one has magic software to fix it yet, but for my money and as of my testing this summer Webroot's SpySweeper enterprise just can't be beat. It's the most anti-virus like solution in terms of management and deployment. As an added bonus the sales and engineering teams at Webroot were more than responsive to our needs and worked with us to improve the product.
Actually, this is more on topic than you might think. Somewhere in my library I have a U.S. Secret Service (propaganda) book from the 1950s about how they track down those that threaten the president and counterfeiters. In more than one example case given in this book they used specific characteristics of typewriters to track down letter writers. This has been largely impossible since the advent of non-mechanical personal printing techniques. Although, I disagree in the strongest terms with digital watermarking of this nature (and the Adobe ani-counterfeiting code for that matter) on the basis of privacy, it is interesting to note how this has been used in the past.
I really wish people would stop thinking SPF is only a spam stopping thing. Really, it's not! As you can see if you really read about SPF for more than 30 seconds is that SPF is a way of checking to see if a server claiming to send mail from some domain is really authorized to do so.
Lots of people on /. think this isn't a problem, most of them are clueless. For those of us that run mailservers that see any kind of real traffic we know that a LOT of mail is sent with spoofed domains. Some of it is spam, some virii, some just annoying but it IS a problem and SPF solves it in a pretty easy to implement way.
Personally, I think copyrights are far too long. I think once books go out of print for some number of years they should be put in the public domain. As a collector of 1950s/60s era literature it annoys me to no end that I can't get copies of books from the period except via ebay auctions and overpriced bookstores. These are books that probably will never be reprinted and the publisher is likely to have forgotten about yet they remain protected by copyright law because Disney can't give up a stupid mouse! It would be great if Mickey became public domain like he should have, but right now I'll settle for automatic expiration of copyrights that are not renewed every X years (with a hefty fee that increases each year to discourage publishers from renewing things that aren't making them a bunch of money)
Seems to me that someone has been mixing a lot of stories to come up with this! I actually listened to the press conferences and X Prize coverage. Let me explain what they really said:
Don't get me wrong, I'm as excited about this as the next guy. $250K is still a bargain in today's market, but mixing those stories together made it a lot more exciting sounding than it really is.
Where I go to school we have an even more dangerous mix. We have idiots who attempt to intimidate the student body. Talk about a disaster!
I took interest in your post becasue I have a cousin who is a senior at WFU and an uncle who is a former instructor there. I think that the spirit of that regulation is that you cannot have an access point attached to their network which is legal for them to say. If you want to setup your own network you certainly could have an AP, and if they stopped you that would be illegal.
What concerns me more is the prohibition of non-900MHz cordless phones. This clearly IS illegal and YOU should make a stink about it. The 2.4GHz and 5.6GHz bands are degignated for part 15 devices (unlicenced) and they MUST accept interference from other part 15 and (most of all) licenced devices. You should start by contacting the student paper, send a well researched written warning to the university and contact the FCC. Of course if you really want to teach them a lesson you should become a licenced HAM radio operator. Part of the 2.4GHz spectrum is availible for high power HAM use and you could easily kill access points for miles around by turning on some of that stuff.
The grandparent has already pointed out you can't use FF for WU. The question is will they also block downloads from the "Microsoft Download Center"
Exactly, I've worked for some companies with employees workdwide who also have company laptops they take home and hook to broadband connections. The scenario you (the grandparent) have proposed will not work for detecting VLK leaks.
Since the site seems to be down, how about someone who has it putting up a BitTorrent link?
This is correct information, the GRANDPARENT is INCORRRECT.
Yes, but if you got it on a server that had an 802.1Q copatible NIC in it you could watch the data flow EVEN ACCROSS VLANs. Of course we know sysadmins, always keep their server fully patched so that shouldn't be a problem.
>>certainly every "home" device I've owned that was advertized as a switch, actually did switching.>routing!=switching btw...>go look at your router, does it have individual traffic lights for each port? guess what, it's switching... Well, not quite. I've got hubs with individual traffic light on ports. You really need to check the technical specs out to find out if it's a hub or a switch, the lights won't tell you. But hey, 2 out of 3 isn't so bad for a /. post.
This is incorrect information. Yes, they only route between the inside and outside, that's normal behavior. However, the four ports on the inside could be a hub, but are more likely an unmanaged switch. All the manufacturers advertising switches in their routers (dlink, linksys, smc, belkin, etc.) DO SWITCH. As others have mentioned switch!=hub!=router.
Mod the parent down and find something really informative to mod up.
Actual Policy:
That solution is not really as nice as DynDNS. I for one would really like to see a piece of OSS that lets you operate using the (documented) DynDNS protocol so that the standard update scripts widely availible for that would work. Running a nameserver on a system that doesn't require one seems counterproductive. Plus, you could use existing software to keep Windows boxes up to date as well. The DynDNS update protocol is availible here
I have one of the older Panasonic DMR-E30s (no HDD) and it works pretty well the way I use it. There are some drawbacks but it does what I need it to and it was cheap long before any other standalone DVD recorders were. I use it mostly to capture TV and VHS tapes to MPEG2 on DVD-RAM discs (these are really great for this, much better than DVD+/-RW) which I put in my PC's DVD-RAM drive and offload the MPEG2, I then can do basic editing of the MPEG2 and burn it to a DVD-R with a nice clean menu.