So, you can remotely disable a system that has been stolen. This will mean criminals of opportunity will just throw the device away (and you'll never get it back) or criminals with intent to steal your data will just yank the drive.
Better solution? Discreet tracking. Keep an eye on the system and track where it goes so you can recover it when you're ready.
As for all the controversy around this, how is it any different to what Apple do with its beloved iPhone?
As a Technet subscriber I've had access to Vista for a while now. I've loaded it onto my PC, I've tried it out, and I personally won't be switching. Microsoft's stubborn belief that they know how I want to use my computer - not the other way around - has meant that I'll now sit down and spend the time to get an installation of an alternative OS working. Hopefully that means I won't have to use it at all, right?
Wrong.
Unfortunately however (and I'm sure many of you have already witnessed this) I work in a rather large org (Government, in fact) which is dominated by those who say "new is better", and are already putting into action plans to upgrade our fleets of PCs to Vista.
No matter what comparisons people make to OS' of past, Vista is here to stay. Why? Because it's a Microsoft product. And 'The Big People' want Microsoft products, whatever it means.
Maybe that'll change in five or ten years, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
Can the Mp3 player turn itself off by making it play a soundtrack saying, "Shut down"?
You're not the first smart alec to ask this.;) No, it likely can't. Why? Because voice recognition absolutely sucks for noisy environments - ie, a car where there's music playing.
It probably won't be able to understand you, let alone the music...
I don't think it gives a false sense of security, either. I for one know I'd rather have an updated AV scanner running on my machine for when the worm/virus/whatever the hell it is finally starts to propogate through MY network!
I saw one of the old Mac G4 Cubes (Or maybe it was a G3?) do this. I doubt it was the same brand of camera, but it was firewire and it was _very_ cool.
I'm not pissed off. And no, I haven't had a need for my network to give me 100mbit throughput, so I haven't been pissed off by it yet. For all my needs, every device I have gives sufficient performance. That's really all that's required.
(Yes yes, with exception to storage devices, imaging devices and so forth.. rah rah rah.)
Sure, I've heard of them.
Perhaps I should've made myself clearer in my first post. I wasn't specifically talking about all devices, only certain ones. For example, a mouse doesn't need that transfer rate. Nor a keyboard. Yes, storage devices certainly need it, but other devices don't.
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IPv6 is fully supported by several ISPs in AU. Internode is one of the more well known ones.
Domainsite.com (owned by name.com) were also affected and notified their customers accordingly this morning.
So, you can remotely disable a system that has been stolen. This will mean criminals of opportunity will just throw the device away (and you'll never get it back) or criminals with intent to steal your data will just yank the drive.
Better solution? Discreet tracking. Keep an eye on the system and track where it goes so you can recover it when you're ready.
As for all the controversy around this, how is it any different to what Apple do with its beloved iPhone?
As a Technet subscriber I've had access to Vista for a while now. I've loaded it onto my PC, I've tried it out, and I personally won't be switching. Microsoft's stubborn belief that they know how I want to use my computer - not the other way around - has meant that I'll now sit down and spend the time to get an installation of an alternative OS working. Hopefully that means I won't have to use it at all, right?
Wrong.
Unfortunately however (and I'm sure many of you have already witnessed this) I work in a rather large org (Government, in fact) which is dominated by those who say "new is better", and are already putting into action plans to upgrade our fleets of PCs to Vista.
No matter what comparisons people make to OS' of past, Vista is here to stay. Why? Because it's a Microsoft product. And 'The Big People' want Microsoft products, whatever it means.
Maybe that'll change in five or ten years, but I don't see it happening any time soon.
Can the Mp3 player turn itself off by making it play a soundtrack saying, "Shut down"?
;) No, it likely can't. Why? Because voice recognition absolutely sucks for noisy environments - ie, a car where there's music playing.
You're not the first smart alec to ask this.
It probably won't be able to understand you, let alone the music...
seriously, it will be a lot more impressive if you electrified one of those OLD manual typewriters. I have no idea how you might do that though.
First, attach your household power source to the chassis...
Interesting how Windows skipped version 4...
Never heard of Windows NT 4.0?
Enter heuristics.
I don't think it gives a false sense of security, either. I for one know I'd rather have an updated AV scanner running on my machine for when the worm/virus/whatever the hell it is finally starts to propogate through MY network!
I saw one of the old Mac G4 Cubes (Or maybe it was a G3?) do this. I doubt it was the same brand of camera, but it was firewire and it was _very_ cool.
Does the phrase, "Shut up", mean anything to you?
hype is good in some ways, but in the grand scheme of things, it's the older, better stuff that will prevail.
Yes, just like MS-DOS has prevailed...
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Hah! I hope you're not serious! Think about how much bandwidth a single keypress uses...
I'm not pissed off. And no, I haven't had a need for my network to give me 100mbit throughput, so I haven't been pissed off by it yet. For all my needs, every device I have gives sufficient performance. That's really all that's required.
(Yes yes, with exception to storage devices, imaging devices and so forth.. rah rah rah.)
Sure, I've heard of them. Perhaps I should've made myself clearer in my first post. I wasn't specifically talking about all devices, only certain ones. For example, a mouse doesn't need that transfer rate. Nor a keyboard. Yes, storage devices certainly need it, but other devices don't.
I know my printer doesn't need it either.
Do the devices need that high-speed component? Does a USB mouse need to be able to transmit data in excess of 400mbit/sec? No?