Hello, I live in an area outside of a small town in Pennslyvania, and i am about 1/2 mile away from two way cable modem, i got stuck with one way. With the lovely technology known as one-way i have to go through verizon for the upload (local phone company). When i talked to a tech support person at Verizon, i was told "28.8 is an acceptable speed" . I am in area where I can not get two-way cable or dsl, so whoever gets to my area first will gain 47 new customers, and I have the petition to prove it. My tax dollars are NOT getting spent well at all in my opinion. That money that was given to Verizon could of probably been used for the public library funds they are trying to cut in this state....
With this move from a propiertary software vendor to an Open Source vendor is a great move, and I hope they go through with it. Maybe with some help of the local LUG maybe they can cordinate something with the users to help them make the transistion easier? Hav the groups have a special day that can be posted through out the company for employees to goto to learn more things, or even have the people come in and help people in the spare time? or even get paid?
Nothing wrong with taking the Open Source mentality of taking a large group of people and making great products.
This could help out a lot of people who have problems remembering things. I remember when I was first learning the elements on the periodic table I would use computer terms, and sex to memorize things. This just makes it more generic and not as "dirty".
Just becuase you do not like the idea doesn't mean it could not help a lot of children around the world and even some older people remember the periodic table elements.
This is a very neat idea that utilitizes machines that seem to be already in place and it is great for tourist. They can insert wireless cards in rental cars, then the people driving around the city could listen to the music in the car. Good way to get the night life broadcasted all over. Have different "stations" with different types of music for people to find something they like, while waiting for that parking spot.
My question is would the RIAA be involved in this? If the artists they are broadcasting on this station give them permission to do this. Wouldn't it be out of the RIAA's hands, since the artist gave them permission?
I know there are bands like the Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews, and Phish who allowed live recording at their shows fre of charge. You just have to bring your own recording equipment.
nothing like government trying to do the work of the people.....Once the government starts making regulations on what you can and can not see on the internet. Next thing you know there will be your own personal government employee typing in urls for you and reading your email BEFORE you to make sure it is not of an unsolicated fashion....
What next popup-ad are going to need to say Unsoliciated popup ad in big bold letters then show the ad?
i don't see how the US government can even think of taking credit for this patch. From what I have read about it, it has been around since circa. 1987.
Giving Sendmail Inc. the proper "mask" so terrorists wouldn't find this problem is ridicilious. Anyone can look through the source and find these exploits if they do exist. Just DHS got to it first.
Scares me that they are running Sendmail though on their mail servers, since it has more holes then a wiffle ball and they are suppose to be about security and defense.
waiting for the day...
Caption: "Soldier send an email to the liuetent"
Soldier: "I can't sir I am getting terrorist spam....scary looking at a naked bin laden....ewwwww"
Caption: "mmmmm spam!"
Why not use jabber, it is free and open. I think there is an ability to set ips and certain people to only connect to the services. This is just another thing AOL is going to try and stay a float. then one thing leads to another and they end up lossing more customers.
From these two articles I personally thing the author is doing a big trolling here. Isn't the whole point of variety is picking what you like and using it? I run gnome 2.2 on my slackware box and I love it. I also have a powerful machine to enable eye-candy and other nice features that comes with nautilus and other programs in the gnome suite.
Nothing is perfect, so how does this article actually _help_ anyone. It just seems lik a waste of bandwidth. I know that KDE is more consistant in its look, but I still stick with gnome. Because frankly I can. If you want to run KDE run KDE. If you want to run ratpoison run that. It is your desktop you can do what you want and when you want.
If you don't like the state of some project instead of complaining about it and anaylzing more then the United States is with Iraq right now, join a group and help out. Something as simple as running the software will improve both. If any software crashes that is associated with gnome or kde. Each project has a database for bug reports. Just filling out one new bug report makes the software one step closer to perfection.
Complaining about things is less productive then doing something about it....
What happens if you get a scratch on your eye, since this "tear" they are talking about happens at an early age, what if something gets in your eyes. I just see this as another way for people to track EXACTLY what you do. With a form of paper identification you give it to someone and they record on paper. The key point here _paper_, if someone is really looking for you, they have to go through written records. With the eye technology once you are "verified" with the system they know exactly where you are. There would have to be some form of tracking involved in the database for records.
This sounds like a very neat and secure idea, but sometimes stepping back and finding problems with it, will give you a better understanding of the technology.
This is the problem that everyone was talking about before AOL and Time Warner merged. Using the powers of music, tv, and other electronic transmissions to pipe information. Now they are taking all those services that use to be seperate and trying to intermingle with other services.
Doing the math it is more expensive to have an AOL account (dial-up) + another phone line + service to get "burnable" tracks (which with some time someone or some group will figure out how to make them all burnable.) equals at about 60 dollars in my area. Where i can get a cable modem connection for 40 dollars.
I would hate to be the person or committee who thought of this service, because I have a strong feeling it is going to kill AOL subscription rates. People will start to realize it is cheaper to get broadband + limewire.
This seems like this has been done before. The article mentions that this research was done after 9/11. I have seen a few shows on discovery channel about avalanches and using transmitters to find people. What is the difference between those devices and this one done by Penn State?
They mention in the article that GSM was developed in the late 80s and then implemented around the world through out the years. It is obvious they couldn't think of all these new technologies..
progress costs something...
There will always be people that will try to break into something, so just work on ways to make it more secure.
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Hello, I live in an area outside of a small town in Pennslyvania, and i am about 1/2 mile away from two way cable modem, i got stuck with one way. With the lovely technology known as one-way i have to go through verizon for the upload (local phone company). When i talked to a tech support person at Verizon, i was told "28.8 is an acceptable speed" . I am in area where I can not get two-way cable or dsl, so whoever gets to my area first will gain 47 new customers, and I have the petition to prove it. My tax dollars are NOT getting spent well at all in my opinion. That money that was given to Verizon could of probably been used for the public library funds they are trying to cut in this state....
With this move from a propiertary software vendor to an Open Source vendor is a great move, and I hope they go through with it. Maybe with some help of the local LUG maybe they can cordinate something with the users to help them make the transistion easier? Hav the groups have a special day that can be posted through out the company for employees to goto to learn more things, or even have the people come in and help people in the spare time? or even get paid? Nothing wrong with taking the Open Source mentality of taking a large group of people and making great products.
This could help out a lot of people who have problems remembering things. I remember when I was first learning the elements on the periodic table I would use computer terms, and sex to memorize things. This just makes it more generic and not as "dirty". Just becuase you do not like the idea doesn't mean it could not help a lot of children around the world and even some older people remember the periodic table elements.
My question is would the RIAA be involved in this? If the artists they are broadcasting on this station give them permission to do this. Wouldn't it be out of the RIAA's hands, since the artist gave them permission? I know there are bands like the Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews, and Phish who allowed live recording at their shows fre of charge. You just have to bring your own recording equipment.
nothing like government trying to do the work of the people.....Once the government starts making regulations on what you can and can not see on the internet. Next thing you know there will be your own personal government employee typing in urls for you and reading your email BEFORE you to make sure it is not of an unsolicated fashion....
What next popup-ad are going to need to say Unsoliciated popup ad in big bold letters then show the ad?
i don't see how the US government can even think of taking credit for this patch. From what I have read about it, it has been around since circa. 1987.
Giving Sendmail Inc. the proper "mask" so terrorists wouldn't find this problem is ridicilious. Anyone can look through the source and find these exploits if they do exist. Just DHS got to it first.
Scares me that they are running Sendmail though on their mail servers, since it has more holes then a wiffle ball and they are suppose to be about security and defense.
waiting for the day...
Caption: "Soldier send an email to the liuetent"
Soldier: "I can't sir I am getting terrorist spam....scary looking at a naked bin laden....ewwwww"
Caption: "mmmmm spam!"
Why not use jabber, it is free and open. I think there is an ability to set ips and certain people to only connect to the services. This is just another thing AOL is going to try and stay a float. then one thing leads to another and they end up lossing more customers.
From these two articles I personally thing the author is doing a big trolling here. Isn't the whole point of variety is picking what you like and using it? I run gnome 2.2 on my slackware box and I love it. I also have a powerful machine to enable eye-candy and other nice features that comes with nautilus and other programs in the gnome suite.
Nothing is perfect, so how does this article actually _help_ anyone. It just seems lik a waste of bandwidth. I know that KDE is more consistant in its look, but I still stick with gnome. Because frankly I can. If you want to run KDE run KDE. If you want to run ratpoison run that. It is your desktop you can do what you want and when you want.
If you don't like the state of some project instead of complaining about it and anaylzing more then the United States is with Iraq right now, join a group and help out. Something as simple as running the software will improve both. If any software crashes that is associated with gnome or kde. Each project has a database for bug reports. Just filling out one new bug report makes the software one step closer to perfection.
Complaining about things is less productive then doing something about it....
What happens if you get a scratch on your eye, since this "tear" they are talking about happens at an early age, what if something gets in your eyes. I just see this as another way for people to track EXACTLY what you do. With a form of paper identification you give it to someone and they record on paper. The key point here _paper_, if someone is really looking for you, they have to go through written records. With the eye technology once you are "verified" with the system they know exactly where you are. There would have to be some form of tracking involved in the database for records. This sounds like a very neat and secure idea, but sometimes stepping back and finding problems with it, will give you a better understanding of the technology.
Thank you for the update and finding out all that information. Makes a lot more sense now.. Thank you again
This is the problem that everyone was talking about before AOL and Time Warner merged. Using the powers of music, tv, and other electronic transmissions to pipe information. Now they are taking all those services that use to be seperate and trying to intermingle with other services.
Doing the math it is more expensive to have an AOL account (dial-up) + another phone line + service to get "burnable" tracks (which with some time someone or some group will figure out how to make them all burnable.) equals at about 60 dollars in my area. Where i can get a cable modem connection for 40 dollars.
I would hate to be the person or committee who thought of this service, because I have a strong feeling it is going to kill AOL subscription rates. People will start to realize it is cheaper to get broadband + limewire.
This seems like this has been done before. The article mentions that this research was done after 9/11. I have seen a few shows on discovery channel about avalanches and using transmitters to find people. What is the difference between those devices and this one done by Penn State?
They mention in the article that GSM was developed in the late 80s and then implemented around the world through out the years. It is obvious they couldn't think of all these new technologies.. progress costs something...
There will always be people that will try to break into something, so just work on ways to make it more secure.
Step 1.) Remove all Microsoft products