But really this is Quid pro quo, HP give you access to "free" services - in this case the web elements and in return you have to put up with a few adverts. It is in no way different from how GMail or HotMail operate. Will it cost you ink and make HP money, yes, but will you get the ability to e-mail printed documents to your printer and to automate printing web-content, also - yes.
If you want an honest printer than invest in a Kodak already -- or better yet a laser printer for B&W documents.
The recent privacy controversy was never about Google detecting and recording the names, unique IDs, and signal strength of local WiFi hotspots -- It was about Google mistakenly recording traffic, including unencrypted information that anyone could easily utilise.
In addition to that, there are only four ways to locate someone connected to the Internet:
- GeoIP which can perhaps pin you down to a city, perhaps even a town,
- WiFi triangulation which can pin you down to within a few metres
- Latency triangulation which is frankly uncompletely unworkable on something as complex as the internet
- IP->Postal Address Mapping (Read: ISP's database)
Obviously only two of these are workable for someone like Google and GoeIP is completely inaccurate. No ISP is going to give Google access to their address database.
When I first read the title my mind thought about a really kick butt cache drive that allowed you to throw in a DVD/Blu-Ray disc, read in its entire contents in one pass - saving power, increasing performance, and that annoying buzzing sound. Shame what they've created here is nothing remotely that interesting or creative. In fact I'd even go as far as to say the Optical / SSD combo drive is a useless concept on the face of it. As if USB slots are hard to come by or laptops lack SSD/MMC card slots?
It is great that people who create content might get paid for doing so (*genuinely). The real issue here is the publishers who's 1980s business models cannot adapt to the 2000s with high speed internet in every home and multiple mobile devices per person. In the long term these publishers will go out of business but not without dragging their feet ruining it for everyone else in the mean time.
Why can't I buy online instead of a DVD and get all the extra features? Why does online content cost more than a physical disc? Why when I buy online content can't I put it on my iPad, Google Phone, Laptop, and PC? Why can't I watch Hulu and YouTube in another country? What's this international border junk doing on the internet? Why is content priced unfairly between different countries (*even taking into account taxes, duty, and cost of living)?
Publishers claim they can't compete with free/"stolen" and while for the poor that is often true, there is a large percentage of people who would LOVE to pay for content but literally cannot. For example if I slept through last week's episode of a TV show, and cannot watch it online in my country -- what other options do I have? Wait for the DVD a year from now?
I think if the iPad had a competitive price point it might be an interesting battle, one in which the iPad might win... But right now the iPad is priced like a laptop. If you look at the typical Netbook price and the cheapest iPad then we are talking above 100% price increase.
ePC - £199 iPad - £429 "Full" Laptop - £400
However what you might see happen is the iPad gets bundled with 3G mobile services and winds up costing a fair bit less in relative terms... Netbooks have tried to bundle with 3G but I think it is safe to say it has been fairly unsuccessful.
So that is two men the US Government accused of the Anthrax attacks, one of which killed himself and the second almost did. Neither with any real evidence other than vague coincidences. Just goes to show that when the pressure to solve an investigation goes to such extremes mistakes are bound to happen.
I think we should ask about the state's method. In one case they intentionally harassed a suspect by releasing his name to the media, conducting multiple searches, and following him around 24/7 and even having local law enforcement arrest him multiple times on silly charges.
In any other country that has some kind of independent police watchdog you would have consequences but in the US where law enforcement seem to be above the law and "investigate" (ha ha) themselves they just get worse and worse year after year.
Which name would you like me to use? And would anyone else know what I was talking about?
- "Printer Cable"
- "Parallel cable" (which could be one of dozens of things!)
- 25 pin D-SUB
- 36-Cen cable
- "serial cable" (very vague - and inaccurate)
Pre-USB Printer cable makes sense, everyone knows what I mean, and it doesn't allow people to think I don't know what a USB cable is...
I'm sorry but that G5 PowerMac tower is still one of the most attractive towers ever built. I still find it amazing looking and I wouldn't bin it either.
I too hoard wires, but they often come in handy. I just recently needed an old-style pre-USB printer cable... Which I had... Four of...
Perhaps North Carolina and Amazon could come to a compromise and instead of getting the details of exactly what a customer purchased they could instead get a broad category.
So for example - Bob Smith 123 Fake Street 5x Books Total Cost $50
But I don't know how a usage tax works so you might get a tax break if it was for example a school book instead of a "fun" book (e.g. Women's Porn/"Romance").
This. You ask for help they direct you to a generic one page man page without the information you requested. You offer a suggestion and they tell you to provide a patch, fair enough, and then when you ask for assistance with making a patch you cannot get any (even documentation).
If you are lucky enough to actually provide a patch they often don't even want to import it into the main codebase because the feature isn't useful to them or it would just take too much work. All you get is "branch it off."
Frankly and depressingly I find closed source developers to be much more helpful and even willing to accept suggestions and help than elitist open source jerks.
Perhaps it is time to split these big companies into two operations - ISPs and network operators.
After you have done that you can then mandate that the company sell back bandwidth on its network to its self as well as the competition. So for example let's say MyISP.Net own all of the cable in Texas, that network provider would have to sell bandwidth on its cable back to its self and any third parties that want to offer Internet in Texas for the same price with the same T&Cs.
That way you open up the network in that area to lot's of competition which encourages lower prices and better quality of service. Plus in addition to that you might spawn new companies who only want to built new cable without having to manage an ISP.
Since you can set the security policy on a domain to ban USB and External devices, and since you can also unplug a machine from the network this tool seems to serve little to no real world purpose. It might inform you after the fact if a device has been plugged in or heck even during, but by then you've just learned that you have configured your systems incorrectly and you will need to re-image your network either way.
Sorry if I'm being negative but Microsoft closed this "hole" a long time ago.
Wait, so the co-founder of Wikipedia is admitting that he knew Wikipedia had child porn on it when he was running the place and he failed to report it to the correct (US) authorities? That's a very interesting admission. Since the current administration only need to respond from this point forward (since we don't know if they knew previously) they have not yet committed a crime.
Why can one "small" ISP do this? I mean from a technical point of view how can they spread routing information for endpoints their network doesn't own? While they have clearly dropped the ball, I struggle to understand how they could accomplish this even if they tried, that is if everyone else's equipment is configured correctly *cough*
You have to keep in mind that a lot of systems that check people's IDs, Credit Cards, and Applications are built on top of legacy systems that were designed to work using modems and other terminals. I mean, yes, they have lovely UIs and web-sites but you rip all that stuff away and the entire process runs on the same communications channel as it did in 1990.
Credit Cards address information is often only checked in a very vague way. Since there is no encoding standards and since the address often winds up as one string you have to be very easy going about what passes and what doesn't. For example this might be the string you get in (all examples are valid/legal): "123 Fake Street TownName State Country POCODE" "123 FakeStreetTownNameStateCountryPOCODE" "POCODE" "123 Fake Street"
And this is the information you have to validate - Address Line 1, Line 2, Line 3, Line 4, Line 5 (Country), POCode (Post Code/Zip code). See the problem?
This I have to agree with. The controls and centre of the console look really silly (*even by Dr. Who standards). Plus the sonic screwdriver is no longer blue? Huh? Lore, people, lore?
While interesting it has been done before and to be honest these "portable platforms" all suffer from the same flaw: the applications they produce aren't native to ANY platform. What I mean is that while they run fine in terms of functionality they all look ugly compared to the environment and don't support typical OS features like hotkeys.
Look at GTK+. The applications work fine on Windows and OS X but you can tell within a second that they aren't native applications, they're badly ported Linux applications.
Can I incorporate myself? I was born a human and in our society we're second class citizens, let's look at some facts:
- We have to pay tax
- We have to follow the local laws
- We have to deal with issues like morality and ethnics
- We are second class citizens in terms of political power (even as a group)
Also, if I put on enough weight can I become "too big to fail?"
The US's electricity grid needs a big red button that reads - "Disconnect from the internet." This new organisation will then spend years and millions on communities and finally decide to push that button. Then the bunnies and little kids will live happily ever after.
Seriously guys, use the Internet for getting diagnostic data back but for the love of god do not hook in any control systems. We're talking both at the state and city level. If you have to send a guy down there in a van to flip a switch then frankly do that instead or alternatively telephone into it.
So let's say they have 3000 people on the terrorist watchlist... They expect security staff to know how each of these people look, their age, and travel histories? Is this just a smokescreen to say - "instead of using countries, we're going to profile terrorists." So if you're a 17-28 year old from the middle east who travelled to Pakistan ever, watch out, TSA has your number...
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But really this is Quid pro quo, HP give you access to "free" services - in this case the web elements and in return you have to put up with a few adverts. It is in no way different from how GMail or HotMail operate. Will it cost you ink and make HP money, yes, but will you get the ability to e-mail printed documents to your printer and to automate printing web-content, also - yes.
If you want an honest printer than invest in a Kodak already -- or better yet a laser printer for B&W documents.
The recent privacy controversy was never about Google detecting and recording the names, unique IDs, and signal strength of local WiFi hotspots -- It was about Google mistakenly recording traffic, including unencrypted information that anyone could easily utilise.
In addition to that, there are only four ways to locate someone connected to the Internet:
- GeoIP which can perhaps pin you down to a city, perhaps even a town,
- WiFi triangulation which can pin you down to within a few metres
- Latency triangulation which is frankly uncompletely unworkable on something as complex as the internet
- IP->Postal Address Mapping (Read: ISP's database)
Obviously only two of these are workable for someone like Google and GoeIP is completely inaccurate. No ISP is going to give Google access to their address database.
When I first read the title my mind thought about a really kick butt cache drive that allowed you to throw in a DVD/Blu-Ray disc, read in its entire contents in one pass - saving power, increasing performance, and that annoying buzzing sound. Shame what they've created here is nothing remotely that interesting or creative. In fact I'd even go as far as to say the Optical / SSD combo drive is a useless concept on the face of it. As if USB slots are hard to come by or laptops lack SSD/MMC card slots?
It is great that people who create content might get paid for doing so (*genuinely). The real issue here is the publishers who's 1980s business models cannot adapt to the 2000s with high speed internet in every home and multiple mobile devices per person. In the long term these publishers will go out of business but not without dragging their feet ruining it for everyone else in the mean time.
Why can't I buy online instead of a DVD and get all the extra features?
Why does online content cost more than a physical disc?
Why when I buy online content can't I put it on my iPad, Google Phone, Laptop, and PC?
Why can't I watch Hulu and YouTube in another country? What's this international border junk doing on the internet?
Why is content priced unfairly between different countries (*even taking into account taxes, duty, and cost of living)?
Publishers claim they can't compete with free/"stolen" and while for the poor that is often true, there is a large percentage of people who would LOVE to pay for content but literally cannot. For example if I slept through last week's episode of a TV show, and cannot watch it online in my country -- what other options do I have? Wait for the DVD a year from now?
I think if the iPad had a competitive price point it might be an interesting battle, one in which the iPad might win... But right now the iPad is priced like a laptop. If you look at the typical Netbook price and the cheapest iPad then we are talking above 100% price increase.
ePC - £199
iPad - £429
"Full" Laptop - £400
However what you might see happen is the iPad gets bundled with 3G mobile services and winds up costing a fair bit less in relative terms... Netbooks have tried to bundle with 3G but I think it is safe to say it has been fairly unsuccessful.
Just to put the cheapest one into context:
* iPod Touch - £189
* Dell Laptop (Outlet) - £300
* Acer / Dell Laptops (Retail) - £400-450
* ePC "Netbook" - £200
* Dell "Netbook" - £139
* Sony "Netbook" - £399
So you could get two iPod Touches, or a Dell Laptop AND Dell Netbook, Sony Netbook, or two ePC Netbooks for this money?
So what happens when a long legged angel in a summer dress walks past? Is she going to get run over?
So that is two men the US Government accused of the Anthrax attacks, one of which killed himself and the second almost did. Neither with any real evidence other than vague coincidences. Just goes to show that when the pressure to solve an investigation goes to such extremes mistakes are bound to happen.
I think we should ask about the state's method. In one case they intentionally harassed a suspect by releasing his name to the media, conducting multiple searches, and following him around 24/7 and even having local law enforcement arrest him multiple times on silly charges.
In any other country that has some kind of independent police watchdog you would have consequences but in the US where law enforcement seem to be above the law and "investigate" (ha ha) themselves they just get worse and worse year after year.
Since games now ship without a manual I am sure all of those savings will be passed on to the end consumer, right?
Which name would you like me to use? And would anyone else know what I was talking about?
- "Printer Cable"
- "Parallel cable" (which could be one of dozens of things!)
- 25 pin D-SUB
- 36-Cen cable
- "serial cable" (very vague - and inaccurate)
Pre-USB Printer cable makes sense, everyone knows what I mean, and it doesn't allow people to think I don't know what a USB cable is...
I'm sorry but that G5 PowerMac tower is still one of the most attractive towers ever built. I still find it amazing looking and I wouldn't bin it either.
I too hoard wires, but they often come in handy. I just recently needed an old-style pre-USB printer cable ... Which I had... Four of...
Perhaps North Carolina and Amazon could come to a compromise and instead of getting the details of exactly what a customer purchased they could instead get a broad category.
So for example -
Bob Smith
123 Fake Street
5x Books
Total Cost $50
But I don't know how a usage tax works so you might get a tax break if it was for example a school book instead of a "fun" book (e.g. Women's Porn/"Romance").
This. You ask for help they direct you to a generic one page man page without the information you requested. You offer a suggestion and they tell you to provide a patch, fair enough, and then when you ask for assistance with making a patch you cannot get any (even documentation).
If you are lucky enough to actually provide a patch they often don't even want to import it into the main codebase because the feature isn't useful to them or it would just take too much work. All you get is "branch it off."
Frankly and depressingly I find closed source developers to be much more helpful and even willing to accept suggestions and help than elitist open source jerks.
I think that might be overkill. Texas is always talking about succeeding from the US anyway, I say we just let them and all live happily ever after...
Perhaps it is time to split these big companies into two operations - ISPs and network operators.
After you have done that you can then mandate that the company sell back bandwidth on its network to its self as well as the competition. So for example let's say MyISP.Net own all of the cable in Texas, that network provider would have to sell bandwidth on its cable back to its self and any third parties that want to offer Internet in Texas for the same price with the same T&Cs.
That way you open up the network in that area to lot's of competition which encourages lower prices and better quality of service. Plus in addition to that you might spawn new companies who only want to built new cable without having to manage an ISP.
Since you can set the security policy on a domain to ban USB and External devices, and since you can also unplug a machine from the network this tool seems to serve little to no real world purpose. It might inform you after the fact if a device has been plugged in or heck even during, but by then you've just learned that you have configured your systems incorrectly and you will need to re-image your network either way.
Sorry if I'm being negative but Microsoft closed this "hole" a long time ago.
Let's hope these don't spread into the ocean turning it into a toxic gas that will wipe out most life on earth...
Wait, so the co-founder of Wikipedia is admitting that he knew Wikipedia had child porn on it when he was running the place and he failed to report it to the correct (US) authorities? That's a very interesting admission. Since the current administration only need to respond from this point forward (since we don't know if they knew previously) they have not yet committed a crime.
Why can one "small" ISP do this? I mean from a technical point of view how can they spread routing information for endpoints their network doesn't own? While they have clearly dropped the ball, I struggle to understand how they could accomplish this even if they tried, that is if everyone else's equipment is configured correctly *cough*
You have to keep in mind that a lot of systems that check people's IDs, Credit Cards, and Applications are built on top of legacy systems that were designed to work using modems and other terminals. I mean, yes, they have lovely UIs and web-sites but you rip all that stuff away and the entire process runs on the same communications channel as it did in 1990.
Credit Cards address information is often only checked in a very vague way. Since there is no encoding standards and since the address often winds up as one string you have to be very easy going about what passes and what doesn't. For example this might be the string you get in (all examples are valid/legal):
"123 Fake Street TownName State Country POCODE"
"123 FakeStreetTownNameStateCountryPOCODE"
"POCODE"
"123 Fake Street"
And this is the information you have to validate - Address Line 1, Line 2, Line 3, Line 4, Line 5 (Country), POCode (Post Code/Zip code). See the problem?
This I have to agree with. The controls and centre of the console look really silly (*even by Dr. Who standards). Plus the sonic screwdriver is no longer blue? Huh? Lore, people, lore?
While interesting it has been done before and to be honest these "portable platforms" all suffer from the same flaw: the applications they produce aren't native to ANY platform. What I mean is that while they run fine in terms of functionality they all look ugly compared to the environment and don't support typical OS features like hotkeys.
Look at GTK+. The applications work fine on Windows and OS X but you can tell within a second that they aren't native applications, they're badly ported Linux applications.
Can I incorporate myself? I was born a human and in our society we're second class citizens, let's look at some facts:
- We have to pay tax
- We have to follow the local laws
- We have to deal with issues like morality and ethnics
- We are second class citizens in terms of political power (even as a group)
Also, if I put on enough weight can I become "too big to fail?"
The US's electricity grid needs a big red button that reads - "Disconnect from the internet." This new organisation will then spend years and millions on communities and finally decide to push that button. Then the bunnies and little kids will live happily ever after.
Seriously guys, use the Internet for getting diagnostic data back but for the love of god do not hook in any control systems. We're talking both at the state and city level. If you have to send a guy down there in a van to flip a switch then frankly do that instead or alternatively telephone into it.
So let's say they have 3000 people on the terrorist watchlist... They expect security staff to know how each of these people look, their age, and travel histories? Is this just a smokescreen to say - "instead of using countries, we're going to profile terrorists." So if you're a 17-28 year old from the middle east who travelled to Pakistan ever, watch out, TSA has your number...