I kind of agree with you, but eventually we'll have more imput devices than just the mouse and keyboard. While this might not be useful to most of us, hopefully it's a step in the right direction towards something that WILL be useful for all of us.
Considering the "mouse and keyboard" approach has been around for a long time, it's probably time for an improvement. While I've learned to love Mr. QWERTY, it'd be nice to explore alternative input devices. Especially ones that look as cool as that one. Just think, maybe they'll actually be useful too!
Okay, this just isn't true. If every gas station did this, then you (or I) could open up a new gas station and charge "reasonable" prices. Every minute the oil prices rise everyone would raise their price 15 cents/gallon, and you could continue charging a reasonable price (that is 10 cents/gallon cheaper than everyone else). You'll get a LOT more customers (especially over time), and therefore make money. Eventually the customers will catch on and come to you more often.
Why doesn't this happen? Because gas stations already charge reasonable prices. They know if they don't, someone else will open up a station and take their profit. That's competition.
Eventually, the majority of dial-up providers are going to go out of business as new houses are built without POTS and people start ditching their old telephone service. Everyone will be switching over to broadband and cellular, if not something else, maybe VoIP.
In either case...at some point, the demand for dial-up Internet will be so small, its price will skyrocket to much higher than broadband.
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"Knowing free Internet service is available at our rest areas will get drivers to make regular stops. Since fatigue is a factor in 1.5 percent of all crashes, anything we can do to get people to pull off the road and take a break is going to make our highways safer."
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of wireless Internet at every rest area.
But what happens when truckers (and the rest of us) stay up surfing all night instead of sleeping?
First of all, there's a spot for PageRank on the toolbar but it's always blank. So this damn thing doesn't work.
Secondly, when I type some search terms and hit Enter, it assumes I want to do "I'm Feeling Lucky" and not a regular search. Can I change this somewhere?
Am I the only one confused by a "release candidate" for version 0.9? It's not even 1.0 yet, you can't rely on it to be stable (although I have found 0.8 to work better than IE, which is supposedly stable). Why not call it 0.85 if it's not 0.9?
I do not think that is a good idea from a user prespective. If everyone was using AUTH, you should be able to use any ISP's server that you have a password to use.
Agreed. I meant connecting to an ISP's incoming SMTP server to send un-authenticated mail. That is exactly the problem with blocking port 25. People can't use their own ISPs SMTP server when they're away from home. It's very annoying to have to change your laptop's SMTP server setting everytime you go to a new hotel.
Netgear reacted to the messages of a Backdoor in the firmware of their ACCESS POINT WG602 promptly with a firmware update, however the backdoor is still present -- this time only with new user name and password. With the name one was marginally creative and extended the superuser character string "super" to "superman". With the password Netgear obviously took forum contributions for the first message of the safety gap seriously and changed the number on 21241036. To whom however this telephone number is owned, Netgear Germany could not say -- there one knew nothing from the new problem and wanted only to fix it.
An again updated firmware design isn't being worked on. The question remains: are users still determined after the second patch to bring in more new software in? Michael Sims reports a large opening in his backdoor for all to use. In opinion of lawyers this problem could quite be reason of enough to return the devices to the dealer and back-demand the purchase price. The salesman can try to improve the lack however the chances stand for it for the moment obviously quite badly.
And everyone laughed at me when I put 2GB of RAM in my computer, allocated 1GB as a RAM disk, and pulled the harddrive out. None of those security issues here!
You can use any of the above SMTP servers to send all your mail, from any of the 4 organizations. That's not a problem. Clearly SMTP AUTH is required if the IP is unrecognized, otherwise you have an open relay...
The problem is when you're allowed to connect directly to my ISPs incoming SMTP server and send mail. If you allow this, there is no way (anyone can think of) to prevent these zombies from spamming like crazy.
why doesn't someone write an exploit for the vulnerability that patches the system?
1. It's illegal (in most places).
2. All the bandwidth and typical virus bullshit costs people a lot of money.
3. It will probably do more harm than good (unless ALL you're worried about is not receiving spam).
Or, if someone can figure out how these zombies are contacted to send out their spam, get them to start sending out patch reminders.
Have you ever seen the Microsoft patches in spam or on newsgroups? The "official looking" ones that are trojans themselves? How are you supposed to convince an end-user to believe some of these but not others? Especially when you can hijack the URL bar in IE?
The answer to this problem is requiring every SMTP connection to be authenticated. This can easily be supported with Sendmail (and, I'd imagine, other MTAs). The hardest part is dealing with all the customers when they're outgoing e-mail suddenly breaks.
But the first thing that needs to be done is to prevent machines from connecting directly out to another ISP's SMTP server. Hopefully this is done by one of the proposed IETF standards and not by simply blocking port 25, but we'll see.
I listen to music (usually with Shoutcast) at work everyday. Some of the best stations I have found are often small and full during the day. I've always thought it would be nice if I could lend some extra bandwidth to keep the station going. The station itself should only stream to users who will re-broadcast the stream. And whoever will rebroadcast using the most bandwidth has the highest priority. If you can't rebroadcast, you simply end up somewhere farther down the food chain, but in the end more people get to listen.
It seems like warez channels have been doing this forever. Once someone gets something, it spends a few days getting passed around all the high-bandwidth providers before it goes to the "public."
I'm glad to see more legal, but free (as in beer) music available. But how long before someone writes a "MyTunes" (or something similar) that allows you to download music (illegally, I'd imagine), off of this service?
even if you turn the remote administration feature off on a Linksys WRT54G
Isn't it safe to say that if someone finds the "remote administration feature" and turns it off, they're also going to change the default password while they're in there? Or do people think oh, since you can't remotely administer this thing from outside, it doesn't matter? Sounds sketchy to me, I don't think it's going to be a big deal.
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If he would've known 1 day ago, he probably would've shut the service down 1 day ago.
It's not a matter of when he found out; it was a matter of saving his ass as soon as he did. Who can blame him?
Unfortunately, they have many suckers who have bought the console and now must buy the games.
Who cares if you're a friend or just a customer?
Have you ever called their technical support? They're not trying to make friends; they're trying to make money.
How can you filter URLs with Firefox? I've been looking to do this for a while.
And that's easy to do with what browser??
Have you tried this out and found it to be useful and not just another gimmick that looks neat?
I kind of agree with you, but eventually we'll have more imput devices than just the mouse and keyboard. While this might not be useful to most of us, hopefully it's a step in the right direction towards something that WILL be useful for all of us.
Considering the "mouse and keyboard" approach has been around for a long time, it's probably time for an improvement. While I've learned to love Mr. QWERTY, it'd be nice to explore alternative input devices. Especially ones that look as cool as that one. Just think, maybe they'll actually be useful too!
From the article: "Cameras will only observe and record that which a police officer or private citizen could legally see."
Here's how to hijack. Get yourself a nice umbrella and a backpack full of supplies. Sit next to the camera and enjoy the view.
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Why doesn't this happen? Because gas stations already charge reasonable prices. They know if they don't, someone else will open up a station and take their profit. That's competition.
Eventually, the majority of dial-up providers are going to go out of business as new houses are built without POTS and people start ditching their old telephone service. Everyone will be switching over to broadband and cellular, if not something else, maybe VoIP.
In either case...at some point, the demand for dial-up Internet will be so small, its price will skyrocket to much higher than broadband.
Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of wireless Internet at every rest area.
But what happens when truckers (and the rest of us) stay up surfing all night instead of sleeping?
Secondly, when I type some search terms and hit Enter, it assumes I want to do "I'm Feeling Lucky" and not a regular search. Can I change this somewhere?
I'm not impressed.
I've only played with a few of them and never looked for any QoS settings. My guess is you can't change them without a lot of hassle.
Am I the only one confused by a "release candidate" for version 0.9?
It's not even 1.0 yet, you can't rely on it to be stable (although I have found 0.8 to work better than IE, which is supposedly stable).
Why not call it 0.85 if it's not 0.9?
Agreed. I meant connecting to an ISP's incoming SMTP server to send un-authenticated mail. That is exactly the problem with blocking port 25. People can't use their own ISPs SMTP server when they're away from home. It's very annoying to have to change your laptop's SMTP server setting everytime you go to a new hotel.
Here's the final result.
Netgear reacted to the messages of a Backdoor in the firmware of their ACCESS POINT WG602 promptly with a firmware update, however the backdoor is still present -- this time only with new user name and password. With the name one was marginally creative and extended the superuser character string "super" to "superman". With the password Netgear obviously took forum contributions for the first message of the safety gap seriously and changed the number on 21241036. To whom however this telephone number is owned, Netgear Germany could not say -- there one knew nothing from the new problem and wanted only to fix it.
An again updated firmware design isn't being worked on. The question remains: are users still determined after the second patch to bring in more new software in? Michael Sims reports a large opening in his backdoor for all to use. In opinion of lawyers this problem could quite be reason of enough to return the devices to the dealer and back-demand the purchase price. The salesman can try to improve the lack however the chances stand for it for the moment obviously quite badly.
And everyone laughed at me when I put 2GB of RAM in my computer, allocated 1GB as a RAM disk, and pulled the harddrive out. None of those security issues here!
The problem is when you're allowed to connect directly to my ISPs incoming SMTP server and send mail. If you allow this, there is no way (anyone can think of) to prevent these zombies from spamming like crazy.
1. It's illegal (in most places).
2. All the bandwidth and typical virus bullshit costs people a lot of money.
3. It will probably do more harm than good (unless ALL you're worried about is not receiving spam).
Or, if someone can figure out how these zombies are contacted to send out their spam, get them to start sending out patch reminders.
Have you ever seen the Microsoft patches in spam or on newsgroups? The "official looking" ones that are trojans themselves? How are you supposed to convince an end-user to believe some of these but not others? Especially when you can hijack the URL bar in IE?
But the first thing that needs to be done is to prevent machines from connecting directly out to another ISP's SMTP server. Hopefully this is done by one of the proposed IETF standards and not by simply blocking port 25, but we'll see.
We've seen this before. The threat of a lawsuit from the RIAA can often shutdown an organization like this long before it gets to court.
It seems like warez channels have been doing this forever. Once someone gets something, it spends a few days getting passed around all the high-bandwidth providers before it goes to the "public."
I'm glad to see more legal, but free (as in beer) music available. But how long before someone writes a "MyTunes" (or something similar) that allows you to download music (illegally, I'd imagine), off of this service?
I agree 100%. Why can't anyone write a good defrag utility for unix?
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Isn't it safe to say that if someone finds the "remote administration feature" and turns it off, they're also going to change the default password while they're in there? Or do people think oh, since you can't remotely administer this thing from outside, it doesn't matter? Sounds sketchy to me, I don't think it's going to be a big deal.