If someone buys enough shares of Gator, or Claria as they're now calling themselves, could they force the company to shut down? Sure, that would hurt your wallet but it sure would make a lot of people happy.
"Hey Microsoft, you guys have funded studies for us before. I know Linux is being a problem for you and we just so happen to be doing a study to see which OS is better, yours or theirs. Would you be interested in funding us once more? -nudge nudge, wink wink-"
From the article:
"In 2003, Microsoft Corporation commissioned Forrester Research, Inc., to conduct a study to measure the potential market of people in the United States who are most likely to benefit from the use of accessible technology for computers."
Any box in the wrong hands can become unbelievably secure, regardless of the OS. What would be a very interesting read would be to have sys admins lock down the box (perhaps those do consulting for corporations) and then test how well they're set up. Granted, it's up to the admin at that point so have many admins on different boxes.
"The lens camera records hours of high-quality video at 20 images per second onto either a very large compact flash card or a 1.8-inch hard drive."
It's probably taking pictures at a max of 640x480 considering the frequency of the pictures and the continuous nature of the camera. Those pictures would be a nice backup for a real camera but not a very good replacement.
Then again, it would be great if you happen to witness a crime or car accident which didn't take place in your peripheral vision.
Google is of course known for its simple interface and accurate results. Now they're expanding into becoming more of a portal by providing more services. It's nice to see they don't make their pages clunky and overloaded.
Also, interestingly enough, Google has released their new web API. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
With the discovery of this new moon, I'm offering you the opportunity to get in on the action! Just like the original moon, you can now own your own section of the new moon.
Actually, this might be a fun solution for off-site data backup. Go hide one outside somewhere (preferrably in a locked, powered container) and mount a pringles can off of the antenna. Assuming no one walks off with your new drive, you've got offsite storage!
What's next? I hope they never try to "Add more RAM over WiFi!" Imagine the nightmare with bandwidth dropping from Gbps to 54mbps.
On a related note, imagine combining this with the recently mentioned WiFi backpack. "A warwalker walked down the street with me and copied all my data!"
riaa.com was down the past couple days. Now they released news of the lawsuits just as their website came back up online. ..as if they haven't gotten enough (ddos) traffic already.
MP3s themselves != illegal. The question comes into play when copyrights get involved. MP3s are an audio compression format, nothing more. Let's not get this mixed up though I'm sure the RIAA is trying to give the term 'MP3' a negative connotation.
Next step: sue people for talking about illegal MP3s. For well all know that this leads to curiousity, interest, and then intent on downloading. Stop it at the source!
Yeah, it sounds like a great idea in theory, but most people wouldn't want some obtrusive intro getting in the way. I for one find the bubble that hovers over the start button that says "Click here to start." incredibly annoying.
Well Microsoft is making a big point saying that security is their top priority. The closest they came to anything security related was "addressing problems with viruses and worms." Hopefully it will be something more than a half-assed virus scanner. If it isn't halfway decent, people will blindly believe that it will be enough.
Let's hope Microsoft also does things we have been suggesting for who knows how long: firewall enabled by default, etc. Oh, and go through your OS and disable useless things such as Windows Messenger! Yes, it might hurt Microsoft's feelings if they read Slashdot for 5 minutes but who knows, they might actually get something useful out of it!
I'd like to see the results of some wifi-crazed person setting up pringles cans and pointing them in all sorts of directions and sitting in front of the cans for hours on end.
Not only do other forms of media cost more to produce, but they wear down and can naturally deteriorate over time. Just like with cars, the older the media gets, the cheaper it gets (unless it's extraordinarily old but that's another issue). With digital media on the otherhand, as long as it's never edited, it will likely be exactly the same 100 years from now as it is today. There is no price decrease due to a decrease in quality.
If the exact same (insert favorite audio file here) can be purchased online from an official retailer or from a previous owner willing to send you the exact same set of bits for less money, which would you choose?
For us, that may be the best idea. But the majority of computer users are not savvy enough to keep up with keeping their firewalls up to date. At most, they'll install ZoneAlarm.
My university not only blocks certain ports from the internet, such as the dcom ports, but also blocks them across subnets so it even keeps worms from spreading across our network. Is this useful? Absolutely. On the other hand, last year they tried to block IRC traffic by simply blocking port 6667. They wound up lifting the ban after many people started ssh tunneling out and getting access anyways. Like you said, if we want to use port X, we will.
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If someone buys enough shares of Gator, or Claria as they're now calling themselves, could they force the company to shut down? Sure, that would hurt your wallet but it sure would make a lot of people happy.
"Hey Microsoft, you guys have funded studies for us before. I know Linux is being a problem for you and we just so happen to be doing a study to see which OS is better, yours or theirs. Would you be interested in funding us once more? -nudge nudge, wink wink-"
Probably another Microsoft funded event.
you would be correct
From the article:
"In 2003, Microsoft Corporation commissioned Forrester Research, Inc., to conduct a study to measure the potential market of people in the United States who are most likely to benefit from the use of accessible technology for computers."
Any box in the wrong hands can become unbelievably secure, regardless of the OS.
What would be a very interesting read would be to have sys admins lock down the box (perhaps those do consulting for corporations) and then test how well they're set up.
Granted, it's up to the admin at that point so have many admins on different boxes.
"The lens camera records hours of high-quality video at 20 images per second onto either a very large compact flash card or a 1.8-inch hard drive."
It's probably taking pictures at a max of 640x480 considering the frequency of the pictures and the continuous nature of the camera. Those pictures would be a nice backup for a real camera but not a very good replacement.
Then again, it would be great if you happen to witness a crime or car accident which didn't take place in your peripheral vision.
Click on download in step 1 and download the zip file in which you'll find the API.
I've put up a mirror of Google's front page. Old Google
Google is of course known for its simple interface and accurate results. Now they're expanding into becoming more of a portal by providing more services. It's nice to see they don't make their pages clunky and overloaded.
Also, interestingly enough, Google has released their new web API. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
With the discovery of this new moon, I'm offering you the opportunity to get in on the action! Just like the original moon, you can now own your own section of the new moon.
Actually, this might be a fun solution for off-site data backup. Go hide one outside somewhere (preferrably in a locked, powered container) and mount a pringles can off of the antenna. Assuming no one walks off with your new drive, you've got offsite storage!
What's next? I hope they never try to "Add more RAM over WiFi!"
Imagine the nightmare with bandwidth dropping from Gbps to 54mbps.
On a related note, imagine combining this with the recently mentioned WiFi backpack. "A warwalker walked down the street with me and copied all my data!"
riaa.com was down the past couple days. Now they released news of the lawsuits just as their website came back up online.
..as if they haven't gotten enough (ddos) traffic already.
Avril Lavigne came in 10th in Canada. Oh the irony!
MP3s themselves != illegal. The question comes into play when copyrights get involved. MP3s are an audio compression format, nothing more. Let's not get this mixed up though I'm sure the RIAA is trying to give the term 'MP3' a negative connotation.
Next step: sue people for talking about illegal MP3s. For well all know that this leads to curiousity, interest, and then intent on downloading. Stop it at the source!
Yeah, it sounds like a great idea in theory, but most people wouldn't want some obtrusive intro getting in the way. I for one find the bubble that hovers over the start button that says "Click here to start." incredibly annoying.
Well Microsoft is making a big point saying that security is their top priority. The closest they came to anything security related was "addressing problems with viruses and worms." Hopefully it will be something more than a half-assed virus scanner. If it isn't halfway decent, people will blindly believe that it will be enough.
Let's hope Microsoft also does things we have been suggesting for who knows how long: firewall enabled by default, etc. Oh, and go through your OS and disable useless things such as Windows Messenger! Yes, it might hurt Microsoft's feelings if they read Slashdot for 5 minutes but who knows, they might actually get something useful out of it!
Yes, he said that Windows Server 2003 was the Most Secure Windows ever. Then blaster showed up. So much for that..
I'd like to see the results of some wifi-crazed person setting up pringles cans and pointing them in all sorts of directions and sitting in front of the cans for hours on end.
In other news, pirated versions of fdisk seem to be running rampant on kazaa to fix this sudden increase in windows installs.
Remember: when you pirate MP3s..
Not only do other forms of media cost more to produce, but they wear down and can naturally deteriorate over time. Just like with cars, the older the media gets, the cheaper it gets (unless it's extraordinarily old but that's another issue). With digital media on the otherhand, as long as it's never edited, it will likely be exactly the same 100 years from now as it is today. There is no price decrease due to a decrease in quality.
If the exact same (insert favorite audio file here) can be purchased online from an official retailer or from a previous owner willing to send you the exact same set of bits for less money, which would you choose?
For us, that may be the best idea. But the majority of computer users are not savvy enough to keep up with keeping their firewalls up to date. At most, they'll install ZoneAlarm.
My university not only blocks certain ports from the internet, such as the dcom ports, but also blocks them across subnets so it even keeps worms from spreading across our network. Is this useful? Absolutely. On the other hand, last year they tried to block IRC traffic by simply blocking port 6667. They wound up lifting the ban after many people started ssh tunneling out and getting access anyways. Like you said, if we want to use port X, we will.
An Apple for the teacher? Not anymore! Now they get oranges and bananas.
LavaRnd releases the next version of its random number generator. Now its random numbers are produced by animals banging on a keyboard in a zoo!