Seeing as bluetooth isn't made for copying hundreds of megs of data across it, I'm not surprised it doesn't do it very well:)
Bluetooth is great for low-bandwidth devices, as it uses little power and is incredibly cheap to add to a device. WUSB will be considerably cheaper, larger and consume more power. Your PDA would be a lot larger if it had WUSB instead of bluetooth. Oh, and the batteries wouldn't last as long and it'd cost you more.
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You don't know what bluetooth is, do you? It's to replace small, low-bandwidth wires that clutter desktops, and cheap enough to integrate into almost any electronics, without raising prices much. Mice and keyboards are two of devices bluetooth was made for. Headphones and microphones are two more. All the wires for those devices can be replaced by a small adapter that costs just a few dollars.
Just because it's wireless, don't think it's the same as other wireless busses. Just the same that wireless LANs != bluetooth, wireless USB != bluetooth.
If you're gonna bag on a technology, at least figure out what it does first. Oh, and it'll still work when WUSB hits the shelves, funnily enough.
One example we won't be seeing with WUSB any time soon - when I sit at my desk with my phone in my pocket, I can get my voicemail through my headphones without getting the phone out of my pocket. I can send SMSs the same way. Even if WUSB could do that, we're not going to see it for years (and certainly not at that price). Bluetooth is here, it's in nearly every phone you can buy, and in most notebooks.
In short, no. NAT, tunnelling and VPNs all hide the original source of packets very well. If you start to discriminate via address, you run the risk of denying service to those Americans who legitimately need it, but whose internet access is somehow appearing as "dubious" to whatever code someone pulled out of their ass to determine someone's geographical location from their IP address.
Yes, but the IP address you see might not be their final address. For example, I worked in London and used to route all my internet traffic through a web server I had in Colorado. I was sitting in my london office, but to everyone I interacted with on the net (including ip-to-country services), I was in Colorado. That's an innacuracy of 4,000+ miles. If I can do it, I'm absolutely positive the scammers can do it, too. It's not even as if you need a lot of bandwidth to route a TTY conversation, so they'd not need much.
If they enacted the IP banning thing, you'd see a sharp increase of people selling proxies/tunnel endpoints located in the US to scammers.
On your website, you worked out what country their last IP was in, not where they actually are. Sure, it looks like you've got a perfect match, but as you can't trace the bit of wire with their packets in all the way back to their PC, you can never tell where they are.
So you don't discriminate against deaf people, but Nigerians are fair game? Jesus.
Maybe you should discriminate against people who are obviously trying to defraud you, as opposed to an entire country of predominantly innocent people.
Proxies, tunneling, VPNs? These all hide your IPs, and are legitimate to use for IP relay access. True, raw IP addresses can be very roughly whittled down to their country of origin, but that's not necessarily the real IP of the caller.
Oh, and what about deaf Americans on holiday? No love for them?
Don't forget the outcry at google's filesystem not properly deleting old emails. That wasn't even intentional, and google got slammed. I'd call the attitude selfish, but I'd end up sleeping with the trolls.
What about the mountains of spam that comes from the US? I suppose you want a data embargo for the US, too? American authorities should be busting those rings up, or admitting that they can't and seeking help in doing so. Bagging on Nigeria (a poorer country) for something the US is equally guilty of is narrow-minded at best.
I wrote a PHP script to do just that. It sits on my iPod and works on windows, linux and macs. It parses the iTunesDB file on the iPod to find the location of the songs (and their associated metadata). It then copies the files that match your query (artist/track/album/whatever) to your PC, re-tagging them to ID3v2 using their iTunesDB entry, so you can drop them back on a mac or ipod and they'll have all the right info in the tags.
From my experience (I've had an ipod since they first came out), PCs have been in front of macs with regards to getting music off the iPod. XPlay, the de-facto iPod software on windows for a while supported the dragging-and-dropping of music off the ipod onto your computer from an early version. Apple don't want to do this, as it actively encourages people to do silly things with copyrighted music. That's why iTunes doesn't have this functionality, and we won't see iPod->iPod transfers (without a computer in between)
One good advert amongst thousands of crappy ones doesn't validate marketing at all. Let me quote Bill Hicks on the subject:
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags!
Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet!
"Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that." God, I'm just caught in a fucking web! "Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..." How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?"
Oh, and it's "Saatchi & Saatchi", which you should know if you're in advertising/marketing:)
Your comparison is slightly skewed... Apple makes a tiny, miniscule proportion of its earnings from Quicktime players. Real, on the other hand, gets most of its revenue from them. Apple makes its money charging creative prices for hardware, so pissing people off buying a media player is not a good idea at all, as it serves no purpose.
And I suppose the 'native American' Indians just went on holiday for a couple hundred years...
I'd call sending the cavalry into someone's home town and killing everyone terrorism. Killing women and children isn't warfare.
The British rulers of the US decided on a system of partition, allowing the indians to exist as they had done, seperated by land from the brits. The Americans, however, decided that wasn't good enough and promptly started killing anyone who was an Indian. They wanted annihilation, not seperation. That's why in the war of 1812, the Pawnee (amongst others) were very delighted to fight alongside the Brits and Canadians in whooping the US's ass.
So, by your very criteria, the first Americans were terrorists.
So by your logic, an American citizen arrested somewhere with fewer intrinsic rights shouldn't be let go? Hardly. That's what being a soldier is about. It's not that hard to go through life not committing war crimes. The only reason someone would not sign up to an agreement like that is if they anticipate their soldiers doing something that will attract such outrage.
Also, ending your argument with an attack on Islam and the entire muslim world is not a good way to get more support. Maybe from the KKK and NRA, but not normal people.
"but thinking we are destroying the environment is not only scientifically invalid, it's almost unspeakably arrogant and naive"
hahaha! Right. So all the research that's been done that shows, categorically, the link between the stuff we throw out into the air and the stuff it kills was made up by the commies, was it?
You're spouting the Fox News angle. This is the sort of crap people have been spewing out to give bad ideas justification. You say his comments were "socialist rhetoric", yet you've not provided a single source for your rhetoric. In fact, the very mention of the word "socialist" shows exactly what sort of a person we're dealing with here.
Doing that gives you no legal leg to stand on whatsoever. It's like pointing a gun at someone's head, saying "duck!" then shooting them. The very act in itself is illegal, regardless of whether you gave prior warning or not, and regardless of how many meetings they had to discuss the vulnerability...
You're assuming the outsourced jobs are going to less competent people. That's not the case at all. It's ridiculously closed-minded statements like that which have caused most of the distress over this situation. It's been stated that the typical Indian IT worker, for example, is just as qualified as your average US IT worker.
If you looked at it objectively, you'd realise why the jobs are going, and who they're going to.
Seriously, that's why people use Windows. It's UI is tight. All the apps work the same and look the same. After learning one application, you can use any of them. Unfortunately that's not the same on linux. Lots of various different ways to make graphical apps means not every app looks and behaves the same. That lack of consistency turns people away.
No, I'm talking about the money-fuelled politicians who are in the oil companies' pockets, like - oh - george bush and dick cheney...
When politicians have a conflict of interest, something's horribly wrong. George is a walking conflict of interest. He's a Christian first, President second. He's a businessman first, President second. Can't you see he's not fit for office? Or, maybe you like pissing your wages up the wall supporting his hair-brained ego trips...
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Bluetooth is great for low-bandwidth devices, as it uses little power and is incredibly cheap to add to a device. WUSB will be considerably cheaper, larger and consume more power. Your PDA would be a lot larger if it had WUSB instead of bluetooth. Oh, and the batteries wouldn't last as long and it'd cost you more.
Just because it's wireless, don't think it's the same as other wireless busses. Just the same that wireless LANs != bluetooth, wireless USB != bluetooth.
If you're gonna bag on a technology, at least figure out what it does first. Oh, and it'll still work when WUSB hits the shelves, funnily enough.
One example we won't be seeing with WUSB any time soon - when I sit at my desk with my phone in my pocket, I can get my voicemail through my headphones without getting the phone out of my pocket. I can send SMSs the same way. Even if WUSB could do that, we're not going to see it for years (and certainly not at that price). Bluetooth is here, it's in nearly every phone you can buy, and in most notebooks.
In short, no. NAT, tunnelling and VPNs all hide the original source of packets very well. If you start to discriminate via address, you run the risk of denying service to those Americans who legitimately need it, but whose internet access is somehow appearing as "dubious" to whatever code someone pulled out of their ass to determine someone's geographical location from their IP address.
If they enacted the IP banning thing, you'd see a sharp increase of people selling proxies/tunnel endpoints located in the US to scammers.
On your website, you worked out what country their last IP was in, not where they actually are. Sure, it looks like you've got a perfect match, but as you can't trace the bit of wire with their packets in all the way back to their PC, you can never tell where they are.
Maybe you should discriminate against people who are obviously trying to defraud you, as opposed to an entire country of predominantly innocent people.
Oh, and what about deaf Americans on holiday? No love for them?
Don't forget the outcry at google's filesystem not properly deleting old emails. That wasn't even intentional, and google got slammed. I'd call the attitude selfish, but I'd end up sleeping with the trolls.
What about the mountains of spam that comes from the US? I suppose you want a data embargo for the US, too? American authorities should be busting those rings up, or admitting that they can't and seeking help in doing so. Bagging on Nigeria (a poorer country) for something the US is equally guilty of is narrow-minded at best.
From my experience (I've had an ipod since they first came out), PCs have been in front of macs with regards to getting music off the iPod. XPlay, the de-facto iPod software on windows for a while supported the dragging-and-dropping of music off the ipod onto your computer from an early version. Apple don't want to do this, as it actively encourages people to do silly things with copyrighted music. That's why iTunes doesn't have this functionality, and we won't see iPod->iPod transfers (without a computer in between)
"By the way if anyone here is in advertising or marketing... kill yourself. No, no, no it's just a little thought. I'm just trying to plant seeds. Maybe one day, they'll take root - I don't know. You try, you do what you can. Kill yourself. Seriously though, if you are, do. Aaah, no really, there's no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan's little helpers, Okay - kill yourself - seriously. You are the ruiner of all things good, seriously. No this is not a joke, you're going, "there's going to be a joke coming," there's no fucking joke coming. You are Satan's spawn filling the world with bile and garbage. You are fucked and you are fucking us. Kill yourself. It's the only way to save your fucking soul, kill yourself. Planting seeds. I know all the marketing people are going, "he's doing a joke... there's no joke here whatsoever. Suck a tail-pipe, fucking hang yourself, borrow a gun from a friend - I don't care how you do it. Rid the world of your evil fucking machinations. I know what all the marketing people are thinking right now too, "Oh, you know what Bill's doing, he's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market, he's very smart." Oh man, I am not doing that. You fucking evil scumbags! "Ooh, you know what Bill's doing now, he's going for the righteous indignation dollar. That's a big dollar. A lot of people are feeling that indignation. We've done research - huge market. He's doing a good thing." Godammit, I'm not doing that, you scum-bags! Quit putting a godamm dollar sign on every fucking thing on this planet! "Ooh, the anger dollar. Huge. Huge in times of recession. Giant market, Bill's very bright to do that." God, I'm just caught in a fucking web! "Ooh the trapped dollar, big dollar, huge dollar. Good market - look at our research. We see that many people feel trapped. If we play to that and then separate them into the trapped dollar..." How do you live like that? And I bet you sleep like fucking babies at night, don't you?"
Oh, and it's "Saatchi & Saatchi", which you should know if you're in advertising/marketing :)
Can't Fox do anything right?
Maybe it'll be a competition in its own right...
You have satire/parody??
But when Microsoft does it, it's EVIL!
Your comparison is slightly skewed... Apple makes a tiny, miniscule proportion of its earnings from Quicktime players. Real, on the other hand, gets most of its revenue from them. Apple makes its money charging creative prices for hardware, so pissing people off buying a media player is not a good idea at all, as it serves no purpose.
"without the need to install linux" - no, just reboot your machine every time you want to sniff packets :) there's productivity for you ;)
Having a pop at something's cool, but when you've not done your homework, it's pretty weak.
I'd call sending the cavalry into someone's home town and killing everyone terrorism. Killing women and children isn't warfare.
The British rulers of the US decided on a system of partition, allowing the indians to exist as they had done, seperated by land from the brits. The Americans, however, decided that wasn't good enough and promptly started killing anyone who was an Indian. They wanted annihilation, not seperation. That's why in the war of 1812, the Pawnee (amongst others) were very delighted to fight alongside the Brits and Canadians in whooping the US's ass.
So, by your very criteria, the first Americans were terrorists.
Also, ending your argument with an attack on Islam and the entire muslim world is not a good way to get more support. Maybe from the KKK and NRA, but not normal people.
This bit made me laugh the most:
"but thinking we are destroying the environment is not only scientifically invalid, it's almost unspeakably arrogant and naive"
hahaha! Right. So all the research that's been done that shows, categorically, the link between the stuff we throw out into the air and the stuff it kills was made up by the commies, was it?
You're spouting the Fox News angle. This is the sort of crap people have been spewing out to give bad ideas justification. You say his comments were "socialist rhetoric", yet you've not provided a single source for your rhetoric. In fact, the very mention of the word "socialist" shows exactly what sort of a person we're dealing with here.
Doing that gives you no legal leg to stand on whatsoever. It's like pointing a gun at someone's head, saying "duck!" then shooting them. The very act in itself is illegal, regardless of whether you gave prior warning or not, and regardless of how many meetings they had to discuss the vulnerability...
So what's the difference between an "American" worker and an immigrant visa worker? I don't get your logic...
If you looked at it objectively, you'd realise why the jobs are going, and who they're going to.
Seriously, that's why people use Windows. It's UI is tight. All the apps work the same and look the same. After learning one application, you can use any of them. Unfortunately that's not the same on linux. Lots of various different ways to make graphical apps means not every app looks and behaves the same. That lack of consistency turns people away.
When politicians have a conflict of interest, something's horribly wrong. George is a walking conflict of interest. He's a Christian first, President second. He's a businessman first, President second. Can't you see he's not fit for office? Or, maybe you like pissing your wages up the wall supporting his hair-brained ego trips...