Sure, it's still rough on the edges (text and textbox inputs on the right are overlapping the map image), but it's amazing improvement over the others, and decent for a beta release.
First and foremost, I find the click-and-drag function on the map so much more appealing than the "click north" of mapquest and yahoo maps. Many minor yet significant factors like clearer indication of highway on/off ramps (mapquest doesn't even have ramps), actual width dimensions of the roads (as opposed to thick/thin lines), more pleasant color schemes (less contrast...mapquest's red highways hurt the eyes!), and very smooth integration with Google Local.
The directions seem to work well, and I think the most important improvement in the directions is the ability to zoom and pan in to any portion of the route to see it clearer (as opposed to the standard origin and destination zoomed maps provided by competitors
Google Maps has just won over the heart of one more customer!
"Charges could still be brought. This just allows us to talk to defense attorneys and negotiate things before having to bring an indictment against a particular individual," said Alikhan.
Title is misleading. This kind of thing happens quite often to negotiate with said criminals to see if they can use them as bait to hook on bigger fish.
I really don't get how being paid to play MMORPGs constitutes as sweatshop labor. Here in the U.S., people pay money to online services to play MMORPGs. Besides sweating in an unairconditioned room, I don't see how such would violate any human rights laws. In fact, it creates more jobs in a new industry to aid third-world citizens who otherwise might be unemployed. There really is no case there.
Seems like more than one/.er has reported spyware being bundled (specifically Grokster), contrary to the PC Mag reports. Whether or not the spyware was intentionally bundled, this type of technology creates many security issues.
Desktop search apps have recently been under much scrutiny for privacy issues, such that the content read by the apps could be revealed to outside sources. However, desktop searches could theoretically operate without a connection to the internet, which means that a simple block of the program's access to external IPs should be able to prevent this from happening.
The whole basis of Mercora, on the other hand, is that it automatically searches the hard drive and streams the content to a public network. First off, I don't understand the business model of distributing free software to the public and then offering to pay royalties on every song broadcasted. No revenues & high costs = doom. Therefore, it appears likely that the company is operating on the premises of bundled spyware, as reported by some users. Needless to say, spyware itself creates enough privacy and security issues, but that is not even the worst of it.
Say some kiddie hacker reverse-engineers the technology and uses it to create a worm that searches computers for sensitive document formats (e.g. *.doc, *.xls, *.pdf come to mind) and broadcasts them to the public domain? Will Mercora's parent company pay for the damages done with this kind of scenario?
I am deeply disappointed that a reputable source like PC Mag gave this a 4/5 rating without alerting the public of the possible security issues with this technology.
I've got a T610, and I'm very happy with it..why? Because it was free to me. In fact, I got $100 cash back from "buying" it. It's a cell phone where i can make calls flawlessly AND has those "snazzy" features that i didn't pay for but can still use.
Of course, you can argue that the cost of the phones is built into the ultra expensive plans in the US(compared to a $6/mo 500 anytime unltd. night/weekend I had in Taiwan), but I am a lowly consumer with no control over those factors, so I might as well be satisfied with what I have.
One of the biggest problems with this arbitrary deleting of accounts is that they are also deleting the accounts which represent groups/institutions people may belong to. For example, I added a "friend" which represented the college I attend, and it had been deleted recently due to this cleanup. I have met several people from my own school whom I would otherwise not have known existed due to this connection, and that account was deleted because it did not represent a real-live human being. My friend was also pissed off because by "friending" an account named after a celebrity, she was able to connect with many other fans of that celebrity, yet now that account may soon be deleted as well because it is "fake". Since friendster advertises itself as a system to connect to people of similar interests (as opposed to a dating service), it should continue to allow such accounts
meanwhile, since it will soon charge, my friends and I are switching over to Ringo, another similar free service which seems to be the most popular alternative.
This PC even has two PCMCIA sockets good for wireless communication
I'd be impressed if a moving car can hold a signal on 802.11x networks. And if it's meant to be for parked car office-ing, then why not just pull out the laptop or the PEG-UX50 and surf away?
yea, can't wait for those commercials to roll out with a guy in a black suit walking a couple of steps, then typing "can you read me now" into his Clie...
Sony already owns a big chunk of the Asian ISP market, with ventures for broadband services in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other markets. With their financial leverage, I would not be surprised if they are able to deploy ubiquitous 802.11 (b/g) access in those same markets, where the dense metropolitan population and high demand for tech fads would make it feasible to carry out this project.
And then, maybe 20 years down the road, ubiquitous wi-fi will finally be "feasible" and make its debut the United States...
I don't understand all the heat against ICQ...I've been using it since the beginning, proudly maintaining a 6-digit UIN. It's been the most popular and dominating IM client outside the US for years, due to its ability to send offline messages, appear invisible (so as to be able to talk to only those contacts that you need to without being disturbed by others), talk to someone while away (same reason), change screennames all the time (so that you won't be stuck with hUnniEaZnrIceRbabIEqTypiE14 after you graduate), successfully search for other users (to find that long-lost high school friend of yours), participate in random chat with users of the same interest(instead of randomly typing sn's), send/receive messages through other systems such as SMS/email/web pages, unicode support (ungarbled foreign languages), birthday reminders (forgot the birthday of that cute girl you met in the dining hall?), game/external program support, and many other features. If it wasn't for the fact that all my American friends are too lazy to change their AIM, I wouldn't even have it on my computer.
I take that back...actually I don't...I'm loyal to my trillian, which works wonders across all (IM) systems!
Slashdot Mirror
Dude...switch off the sarcasm. Before google, we were getting a measly 4MB from Yahoo. Google pushed the bar and made large mailboxes a standard.
Sure, it's still rough on the edges (text and textbox inputs on the right are overlapping the map image), but it's amazing improvement over the others, and decent for a beta release.
First and foremost, I find the click-and-drag function on the map so much more appealing than the "click north" of mapquest and yahoo maps. Many minor yet significant factors like clearer indication of highway on/off ramps (mapquest doesn't even have ramps), actual width dimensions of the roads (as opposed to thick/thin lines), more pleasant color schemes (less contrast...mapquest's red highways hurt the eyes!), and very smooth integration with Google Local.
The directions seem to work well, and I think the most important improvement in the directions is the ability to zoom and pan in to any portion of the route to see it clearer (as opposed to the standard origin and destination zoomed maps provided by competitors
Google Maps has just won over the heart of one more customer!
I really don't get how being paid to play MMORPGs constitutes as sweatshop labor. Here in the U.S., people pay money to online services to play MMORPGs. Besides sweating in an unairconditioned room, I don't see how such would violate any human rights laws. In fact, it creates more jobs in a new industry to aid third-world citizens who otherwise might be unemployed. There really is no case there.
Seems like more than one /.er has reported spyware being bundled (specifically Grokster), contrary to the PC Mag reports. Whether or not the spyware was intentionally bundled, this type of technology creates many security issues.
Desktop search apps have recently been under much scrutiny for privacy issues, such that the content read by the apps could be revealed to outside sources. However, desktop searches could theoretically operate without a connection to the internet, which means that a simple block of the program's access to external IPs should be able to prevent this from happening.
The whole basis of Mercora, on the other hand, is that it automatically searches the hard drive and streams the content to a public network. First off, I don't understand the business model of distributing free software to the public and then offering to pay royalties on every song broadcasted. No revenues & high costs = doom. Therefore, it appears likely that the company is operating on the premises of bundled spyware, as reported by some users. Needless to say, spyware itself creates enough privacy and security issues, but that is not even the worst of it.
Say some kiddie hacker reverse-engineers the technology and uses it to create a worm that searches computers for sensitive document formats (e.g. *.doc, *.xls, *.pdf come to mind) and broadcasts them to the public domain? Will Mercora's parent company pay for the damages done with this kind of scenario?
I am deeply disappointed that a reputable source like PC Mag gave this a 4/5 rating without alerting the public of the possible security issues with this technology.
How about putting the big bucks to help your own people?
Now if only it could draw power from firewire so that I can get longer battery life with the Altoids battery pack!
Slashdot effect too much for some users. Some users are giving up on the Internet.
OK, so I guess that BBC just has too much $$ to waste and really don't need to keep their content secure, huh?
yay!
I've got a T610, and I'm very happy with it..why? Because it was free to me. In fact, I got $100 cash back from "buying" it. It's a cell phone where i can make calls flawlessly AND has those "snazzy" features that i didn't pay for but can still use. Of course, you can argue that the cost of the phones is built into the ultra expensive plans in the US(compared to a $6/mo 500 anytime unltd. night/weekend I had in Taiwan), but I am a lowly consumer with no control over those factors, so I might as well be satisfied with what I have.
Insightful!
"extinguish" Windows
One of the biggest problems with this arbitrary deleting of accounts is that they are also deleting the accounts which represent groups/institutions people may belong to. For example, I added a "friend" which represented the college I attend, and it had been deleted recently due to this cleanup. I have met several people from my own school whom I would otherwise not have known existed due to this connection, and that account was deleted because it did not represent a real-live human being. My friend was also pissed off because by "friending" an account named after a celebrity, she was able to connect with many other fans of that celebrity, yet now that account may soon be deleted as well because it is "fake". Since friendster advertises itself as a system to connect to people of similar interests (as opposed to a dating service), it should continue to allow such accounts
meanwhile, since it will soon charge, my friends and I are switching over to Ringo, another similar free service which seems to be the most popular alternative.
...register their free courriel accounts to the address
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington, DC 20500
then some real criminals can be apprehended =d
then will we get smarter OSs that learn to blue-screen all by themselves?
oops, i forgot to add the "on-topic" part...
yea, can't wait for those commercials to roll out with a guy in a black suit walking a couple of steps, then typing "can you read me now" into his Clie...
better yet, into his Sony PSP =D
Sony already owns a big chunk of the Asian ISP market, with ventures for broadband services in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other markets. With their financial leverage, I would not be surprised if they are able to deploy ubiquitous 802.11 (b/g) access in those same markets, where the dense metropolitan population and high demand for tech fads would make it feasible to carry out this project.
And then, maybe 20 years down the road, ubiquitous wi-fi will finally be "feasible" and make its debut the United States...
With the upcoming PS3 carrying out grid computing, there's no stopping for this technology reaching out to the masses, even those who don't know it!
Tsk tsk...what a blatant example of a violation of DMCA right here on /. This so misrepresents the law-abiding nature of the /. population ;-)
like the virtual keyboard, actually working
or you could just flip the screen around and use the real keyboard, actually working
sorry, that exists already...it's called "Then-Don't-Get-A-Cellfone-You-Idiot"
would everyone rush to point-and-zap at it?
And would subscribers get to zap it before the rest of us do?
I don't understand all the heat against ICQ...I've been using it since the beginning, proudly maintaining a 6-digit UIN. It's been the most popular and dominating IM client outside the US for years, due to its ability to send offline messages, appear invisible (so as to be able to talk to only those contacts that you need to without being disturbed by others), talk to someone while away (same reason), change screennames all the time (so that you won't be stuck with hUnniEaZnrIceRbabIEqTypiE14 after you graduate), successfully search for other users (to find that long-lost high school friend of yours), participate in random chat with users of the same interest(instead of randomly typing sn's), send/receive messages through other systems such as SMS/email/web pages, unicode support (ungarbled foreign languages), birthday reminders (forgot the birthday of that cute girl you met in the dining hall?), game/external program support, and many other features. If it wasn't for the fact that all my American friends are too lazy to change their AIM, I wouldn't even have it on my computer. I take that back...actually I don't...I'm loyal to my trillian, which works wonders across all (IM) systems!