"although the key phrase here is "if the user's security settings are set low enough.""
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but havn't there also been cases of Windows "Sercurty Settings" vulerabilities being exploited so as to cause it to act as if it's in the Local Machine zone? A combination of the two and POOF... no more HDD data.
Nah, everyone and his brother has a cell phone as far as I can tell. I havn't been to a highschool campus lately, but on the streets and in the malls I even see kids that are probably as young as 11/12 with cell phones...
"suggested that filesharing would turn into from large anonymous groups to small groups of people that knew each other and were suspicious of newcomers"
Sounds not unlike what WASTE provides a setup for. To get in, you have to exchange keys with someone in the group plus, sometimes, a password on top of that. Traffic is encrypted, and there's an option to saturate, to a certain point, with "garbage" data.
If I didn't think that HL3 would topple the greatness of HL2 I'd complain about the ending too... as long as HL3 doesn't take another 5 years!
If you're completely confused about what's really going on and how HL and HL2 correlate, there's a great timeline here. Obviously there are some spoilers if you havn't played HL2.
HL2 didn't entirely live up to its hype either, though... I remember when it was first shown in summer 2003. The combine soldiers kicked down a door that had a table jammed behind it, and they claimed that it wasn't scripted. When the game was leaked, it turns out it was scripted. When they demonstrated NPC's helping Gordon, they said that they "act independantly" and not just follow you blindly. I don't know about you, but I found myself bumping into them (and not being able to get around them) quite a bit.
I thoroughly enjoyed HL2, it's one of the best games I've ever played... but people seem to be forgetting the things Valve promised and didn't deliver on.
I was speaking to someone on a forum just recently, and they mentioned how their processor had "built in virus scanning." After a bit of an argument (he was quite convinced that it was truly virus scanning) I ended up correcting him, and simply explained that it could help stop a "bad program from tricking your computer into doing something it shouldn't."
It's a shame that they couldn't come up with a better way to market this... because it's definetly misleading to those who don't understand what it does and can easily become an issue of semantics for people who might confuse "virus protection" with "antivirus software." And in a world where the blue E on grandma's desktop = The Internet(TM) this may be happening more than it's apparent.
I don't know a whole lot about tape backup, so I'm curious why you said that. Tape backup is pretty popular for large jobs, but is it common to have corrupt data on the tape? Seems to me that if it were the case, tape wouldn't be as popular. What am I missing?
Gah... didn't want to reply to my own post but I was too hasty in hitting Submit. That 40TB only applies to audio. Obviously video compression would be quite a bit larger. Somebody want to do the math?
Well... 74 minutes of stereo 16-bit 44.1khz audio is about 650MB. 8.783MB/minute. For the sake of argument, let's assume a 100 year lifespan. 100 years = 52,594,876.6 minutes. 461,982,024.189 MB (440.580 TB) for 100 years of CD-quality audio. Convert to 128 kb/s MP3 and you're looking at about 44TB, give or take. (128kbps.MP3 is about 1/10 size of a.wav).
I don't see the correlation. Were p2p be made illegal(or whatever... it's hypothetical), it wouldn't really matter whether it was 15 lines or 15 thousand lines.
If I'm using windows... and I see all these FOSS tools available for Win are also available for Linux (and written, primarily, for Linux)... then wouldn't it stand to argue that it would make me more interested in Linux? I could ditch Windows (and all the costs associated with it) if all the tools I'm using are available on Linux anyway.
From TFA: "To achieve the same computing performance, the entire population of the city of Zurich would have to multiply two eight-digit figures every four seconds for a whole year."
Does anyone have a conversion from "multiplying two eight-digit numbers" to "reading through a Library of Congress?"
Why not develop Winamp further? Extend it so that it works with their music store... God knows they could write a plugin to do that. And with the massive user base that Winamp has, they'd kill two (or three) birds with one stone. I probably wouldn't use said store... but I dunno, working with Winamp just makes so much more sense to me.
- They could push Winamp to their users... a wider userbase for Winamp could only make it more profitable.
- They could push the AOL Music Store to Winamp users, so they'd immediately have a vast potential customer base.
- They'd continue and extend development of a very mature platform that they already own.
Except that now it's ForecastFox. Apparently there was some conflict with the website www.weatherfox.com (people going to weatherfox.com looking for WeatherFox extension support 'n stuff).
Well of course... they run one of the biggest email operations out there so it'd be in their best interest to eliminate spam, since it only hurts them. It's no surprise, really.
Well, security is as much a selling point for TB as it is for FF. Outlook/OE vulnerabilities are a big reason I still get virus attachments in my inbox every now and then.
But I think a big reason a lot of people won't find the enthusiasm that FF has behind it is that a lot of people are content to use whatever web interface they've got. Most of the world uses aol/hotmal/yahoo/gmail as far as I can tell. Not only can you not [easily] use these accounts via POP3, but if you've only got one email address there's no reason to not use the web interface.
So what's stopping Senate/Congress from simply limiting the use of encryption to certain uses (financial, government, etc...), and telling ISP's that they have to block encrypted traffic that's not from known and "approved" sources?
Should I break out my tinfoil hat? Maybe... but when it comes down to the almighty dollar, people will do crazy things... especially when there are a billion alimighty dollars behind it.
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Whatever happened to playing a song live and gauging fan reaction? Then again, I guess that would require being able to play live...
"although the key phrase here is "if the user's security settings are set low enough.""
... no more HDD data.
Perhaps I'm mistaken, but havn't there also been cases of Windows "Sercurty Settings" vulerabilities being exploited so as to cause it to act as if it's in the Local Machine zone? A combination of the two and POOF
Nah, everyone and his brother has a cell phone as far as I can tell. I havn't been to a highschool campus lately, but on the streets and in the malls I even see kids that are probably as young as 11/12 with cell phones...
"suggested that filesharing would turn into from large anonymous groups to small groups of people that knew each other and were suspicious of newcomers"
Sounds not unlike what WASTE provides a setup for. To get in, you have to exchange keys with someone in the group plus, sometimes, a password on top of that. Traffic is encrypted, and there's an option to saturate, to a certain point, with "garbage" data.
If I didn't think that HL3 would topple the greatness of HL2 I'd complain about the ending too... as long as HL3 doesn't take another 5 years!
If you're completely confused about what's really going on and how HL and HL2 correlate, there's a great timeline here. Obviously there are some spoilers if you havn't played HL2.
HL2 didn't entirely live up to its hype either, though ... I remember when it was first shown in summer 2003. The combine soldiers kicked down a door that had a table jammed behind it, and they claimed that it wasn't scripted. When the game was leaked, it turns out it was scripted. When they demonstrated NPC's helping Gordon, they said that they "act independantly" and not just follow you blindly. I don't know about you, but I found myself bumping into them (and not being able to get around them) quite a bit.
I thoroughly enjoyed HL2, it's one of the best games I've ever played... but people seem to be forgetting the things Valve promised and didn't deliver on.
It doesn't remove copy protection, it just removes the CD check. You still have to have a valid key to play online...
Yes, because one company with crappy marketing justifies another. That works well for consumers.
I was speaking to someone on a forum just recently, and they mentioned how their processor had "built in virus scanning." After a bit of an argument (he was quite convinced that it was truly virus scanning) I ended up correcting him, and simply explained that it could help stop a "bad program from tricking your computer into doing something it shouldn't."
... because it's definetly misleading to those who don't understand what it does and can easily become an issue of semantics for people who might confuse "virus protection" with "antivirus software." And in a world where the blue E on grandma's desktop = The Internet(TM) this may be happening more than it's apparent.
It's a shame that they couldn't come up with a better way to market this
I don't know a whole lot about tape backup, so I'm curious why you said that. Tape backup is pretty popular for large jobs, but is it common to have corrupt data on the tape? Seems to me that if it were the case, tape wouldn't be as popular. What am I missing?
Gah ... didn't want to reply to my own post but I was too hasty in hitting Submit. That 40TB only applies to audio. Obviously video compression would be quite a bit larger. Somebody want to do the math?
Well ... 74 minutes of stereo 16-bit 44.1khz audio is about 650MB. 8.783MB/minute. For the sake of argument, let's assume a 100 year lifespan. 100 years = 52,594,876.6 minutes. 461,982,024.189 MB (440.580 TB) for 100 years of CD-quality audio. Convert to 128 kb/s MP3 and you're looking at about 44TB, give or take. (128kbps .MP3 is about 1/10 size of a .wav).
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So in a sense you are quite right!
I don't see the correlation. Were p2p be made illegal(or whatever ... it's hypothetical), it wouldn't really matter whether it was 15 lines or 15 thousand lines.
If I'm using windows ... and I see all these FOSS tools available for Win are also available for Linux (and written, primarily, for Linux) ... then wouldn't it stand to argue that it would make me more interested in Linux? I could ditch Windows (and all the costs associated with it) if all the tools I'm using are available on Linux anyway.
From TFA: "To achieve the same computing performance, the entire population of the city of Zurich would have to multiply two eight-digit figures every four seconds for a whole year."
Does anyone have a conversion from "multiplying two eight-digit numbers" to "reading through a Library of Congress?"
Why not develop Winamp further? Extend it so that it works with their music store ... God knows they could write a plugin to do that. And with the massive user base that Winamp has, they'd kill two (or three) birds with one stone. I probably wouldn't use said store ... but I dunno, working with Winamp just makes so much more sense to me.
... a wider userbase for Winamp could only make it more profitable.
- They could push Winamp to their users
- They could push the AOL Music Store to Winamp users, so they'd immediately have a vast potential customer base.
- They'd continue and extend development of a very mature platform that they already own.
C'mon, AOL...
No, you'll get a job because you're fresh ... thus easier to pay. A Famous Programmer will want twice what a college grad will get...
"There are whole torrent sites devoted to it."
Do you have links to these sites? I'm always looking for ways to distribute my band's stuff...
Except that now it's ForecastFox. Apparently there was some conflict with the website www.weatherfox.com (people going to weatherfox.com looking for WeatherFox extension support 'n stuff).
Finally, a *AA action we can be happy about!
Well of course ... they run one of the biggest email operations out there so it'd be in their best interest to eliminate spam, since it only hurts them. It's no surprise, really.
"So, how would you convince someone to use it?"
Well, security is as much a selling point for TB as it is for FF. Outlook/OE vulnerabilities are a big reason I still get virus attachments in my inbox every now and then.
But I think a big reason a lot of people won't find the enthusiasm that FF has behind it is that a lot of people are content to use whatever web interface they've got. Most of the world uses aol/hotmal/yahoo/gmail as far as I can tell. Not only can you not [easily] use these accounts via POP3, but if you've only got one email address there's no reason to not use the web interface.
So what's stopping Senate/Congress from simply limiting the use of encryption to certain uses (financial, government, etc...), and telling ISP's that they have to block encrypted traffic that's not from known and "approved" sources?
... but when it comes down to the almighty dollar, people will do crazy things ... especially when there are a billion alimighty dollars behind it.
Should I break out my tinfoil hat? Maybe
Sure we're pounding spammer sites, but does replacing one form of useless traffic with another really accomplish anything?