I'll agree with that. In fact, lots of people (myself included) live in San Francisco but work further down the Peninsula. I really can't point to any significant technological innovation going on in San Francisco right now - but it's still a great place to live.
Going through browser history on your disk is old news. The interesting question here is, what happens when they want something that is not on your disk?
The A9 toolbar does log your history - on the server side. You can turn this off, of course, but if you don't, A9 has that information, and it can be subpoenaed by law enforcement. Even this is old news to an extent - law enforcement does routinely subpoena ISPs and email providers to root through suspected criminals' email (including Gmail accounts). Just go read some indictments against (formerly) l33t h4x0rz and piracy rings.
They did it for an intangible, yet valuable, thing called goodwill. Google had $122 million of it as of the end of 2004. (See note 6 to the financials in Google's 2004 annual report)
Sounds like a good reason to me.:)
That doesn't make sense. Not only does Safari charge a fee, they have explicit license agreements with the rights owners (i.e. the dead tree publishers) which allow them to offer the service. This is not like the AG v. Google Print situation at all.
Like it or not, copyright gives the Authors Guild the right complain about Google Print... whether they stand to make or lose money is an entirely separate issue.
Parent is completely incorrect. I am a paralegal in an IP litigation law firm in Palo Alto, and we are actually very tech savvy. We use WP, the opposing lawyers use WP, the judges use WP... I would say 90% of the legal docs I see (and I see a lot) are written in WP.
"Open platform." These two words instill fear and dread in telcos and handset manufacturers. I've worked in the mobile phone industry, and we asked these kinds of questions. When we asked a major handset manufacturer how to develop software for their phones, their eyes got all big and they said, "You can't really do that." Why do people buy PCs? To run applications of their own choosing. Would you be happy running only the software that Dell packaged with your PC? Hell no, you'd go buy something else. If the handset manufacturers could grok this, they would sell more high end phones!
As for the telcos, they're just as bad. They'd be a hell of a lot better off having an open system and just taking a tax on access, rather than trying to sell all this lame garbage. (Anyone remember Prodigy? GEnie? I didn't think so.) They fundamentally don't understand that people don't want to pay $5 to download a movie trailer. They don't get that people might want to download apps other than the five they offer on their lame portal site. People want choices, lots of choices.
But Microsoft does get it. Windows Mobile isn't the most open system in the world, but it is a hell of a lot better than anything else out there for mobile phone software development. If Nokia/Siemens/etc don't get off their asses soon, people will start developing Windows Mobile apps, people will like them, and Microsoft will very rapidly dominate the smartphone market and leverage that into the rest of the mobile phone market.
Telcos and handset manufactuers, get a clue before it's too late!
Not like it's going to stop suicide bombers anyway - I don't think they're going to care if some cameras watch them drive up to a building and explode themselves. In fact it would probably be good for their propaganda if the pictures get out.
Ugh.
Here's an idea:
For blind voters, there could be a verification station with a devices that uses OCR and text-to-speech software to read the paper ballot to them on headphones. That way they get to "hear" the same paper receipt everyone else gets. Even if the speech wasn't perfect it should be good enough to verify their votes. You would need one of these per polling place.
It's voting - not rocket science.
It's just a simplified form of multi-factor authentication. It combines stuff you know (username/password) with stuff you have (the one-time passwords).
Granted it is not perfect for the reason you give -- someone can steal your OTP card. However, if they do so they only have half of the equation - they still should not have your username/password.
Also, you should be able to revoke your unused OTPs with a quick phone call if you lose the card.
Try Vazu Contacts - I work there! Seriously though, the service can push your contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express, Ximian Evolution, Apple Mail, or Mozilla to just about any Nokia or Sony Ericsson phone without installing any software. We are in a free public beta right now so go check it out...
There's an outfit here in Silicon Valley called Vazu that just launched their service.. it pushes contacts from either their website or your email app (Outlook, Apple Mail, Ximian Evolution, etc) to your phone. My friend works there and he says it works on Nokias & Sony-Ericssons so far, and that they're doing a free public beta right now. www.vazu.com
China could develop anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons and use them to knock out US military and spy satellites before an attack on Taiwan, thereby leaving Taiwan in the dark, intelligence-wise. We have ASATs, why shouldn't they? And if amateur astronomers can locate US spysats, I'm sure they Chinese can too.
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I'll agree with that. In fact, lots of people (myself included) live in San Francisco but work further down the Peninsula. I really can't point to any significant technological innovation going on in San Francisco right now - but it's still a great place to live.
Going through browser history on your disk is old news. The interesting question here is, what happens when they want something that is not on your disk? The A9 toolbar does log your history - on the server side. You can turn this off, of course, but if you don't, A9 has that information, and it can be subpoenaed by law enforcement. Even this is old news to an extent - law enforcement does routinely subpoena ISPs and email providers to root through suspected criminals' email (including Gmail accounts). Just go read some indictments against (formerly) l33t h4x0rz and piracy rings.
They did it for an intangible, yet valuable, thing called goodwill. Google had $122 million of it as of the end of 2004. (See note 6 to the financials in Google's 2004 annual report) Sounds like a good reason to me. :)
That doesn't make sense. Not only does Safari charge a fee, they have explicit license agreements with the rights owners (i.e. the dead tree publishers) which allow them to offer the service. This is not like the AG v. Google Print situation at all.
Like it or not, copyright gives the Authors Guild the right complain about Google Print... whether they stand to make or lose money is an entirely separate issue.
Parent is completely incorrect. I am a paralegal in an IP litigation law firm in Palo Alto, and we are actually very tech savvy. We use WP, the opposing lawyers use WP, the judges use WP... I would say 90% of the legal docs I see (and I see a lot) are written in WP.
"Open platform." These two words instill fear and dread in telcos and handset manufacturers. I've worked in the mobile phone industry, and we asked these kinds of questions. When we asked a major handset manufacturer how to develop software for their phones, their eyes got all big and they said, "You can't really do that." Why do people buy PCs? To run applications of their own choosing. Would you be happy running only the software that Dell packaged with your PC? Hell no, you'd go buy something else. If the handset manufacturers could grok this, they would sell more high end phones! As for the telcos, they're just as bad. They'd be a hell of a lot better off having an open system and just taking a tax on access, rather than trying to sell all this lame garbage. (Anyone remember Prodigy? GEnie? I didn't think so.) They fundamentally don't understand that people don't want to pay $5 to download a movie trailer. They don't get that people might want to download apps other than the five they offer on their lame portal site. People want choices, lots of choices. But Microsoft does get it. Windows Mobile isn't the most open system in the world, but it is a hell of a lot better than anything else out there for mobile phone software development. If Nokia/Siemens/etc don't get off their asses soon, people will start developing Windows Mobile apps, people will like them, and Microsoft will very rapidly dominate the smartphone market and leverage that into the rest of the mobile phone market. Telcos and handset manufactuers, get a clue before it's too late!
Not like it's going to stop suicide bombers anyway - I don't think they're going to care if some cameras watch them drive up to a building and explode themselves. In fact it would probably be good for their propaganda if the pictures get out. Ugh.
Here's an idea: For blind voters, there could be a verification station with a devices that uses OCR and text-to-speech software to read the paper ballot to them on headphones. That way they get to "hear" the same paper receipt everyone else gets. Even if the speech wasn't perfect it should be good enough to verify their votes. You would need one of these per polling place. It's voting - not rocket science.
It's just a simplified form of multi-factor authentication. It combines stuff you know (username/password) with stuff you have (the one-time passwords).
Granted it is not perfect for the reason you give -- someone can steal your OTP card. However, if they do so they only have half of the equation - they still should not have your username/password.
Also, you should be able to revoke your unused OTPs with a quick phone call if you lose the card.
Try Vazu Contacts - I work there! Seriously though, the service can push your contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express, Ximian Evolution, Apple Mail, or Mozilla to just about any Nokia or Sony Ericsson phone without installing any software. We are in a free public beta right now so go check it out...
vazu.com
There's an outfit here in Silicon Valley called Vazu that just launched their service.. it pushes contacts from either their website or your email app (Outlook, Apple Mail, Ximian Evolution, etc) to your phone. My friend works there and he says it works on Nokias & Sony-Ericssons so far, and that they're doing a free public beta right now. www.vazu.com
China could develop anti-satellite (ASAT) weapons and use them to knock out US military and spy satellites before an attack on Taiwan, thereby leaving Taiwan in the dark, intelligence-wise. We have ASATs, why shouldn't they? And if amateur astronomers can locate US spysats, I'm sure they Chinese can too.
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