It has been a while but I think a network driver on the gateway would take each IP/Ethernet pair and assign another IP address to it. That way the gateway software only ever saw unique IP addresses and the driver handled sending it back to only the correct Ethernet address.
In that case the other PC with the same IP address should ignore the packet as the Ethernet address would be wrong. If you used a switch it could further isolate things.
As I said its been over two years since I really worked on this so hopefully it makes a bit of sense.
It's been a while since I did this, but I believe the only real problem would occur if two people had the same IP address and the same Ethernet address and were on at the same time.
As to dealing with the proxy setup the software could detect a proxy request (HTTP requests for a proxy look different in the header), and then we'd proxy it.
I don't mind saying most of this now because the product was never fully finished, and the company went under a couple years ago. Plus despite a patent the ideas are not that hard to come up with once you look at them a while.
I also did work like this both for wired and wireless networks in a job I had after graduating. But I also developed a lot of the underlying ideas independently during a co-op term at a research lab, back in Fall 1998. I later found out that other people had been doing work like this as well.
I don't know enough about exact patent law to know if what I did up to that point would invalidate some or all of the patent (as the idea was not finished until much later).
TaxWiz has a product activation for the 2002 tax year just like QuickTax does. I bought TaxWiz this year specifically because of what QuickTax did last year (we've had activation for an extra year) and was disappointed when I found they had taken the same route.
Of course only in this industry can I steal software, that I will never buy at the high price, and not cost you the manufacturer any money - short of physically stealing a package off the shelves.
Actually believe him, its been a while since I did this stuff. My brain forgot about the SSID stuff. You could still run into problems if I put my access point up on the same SSID as the main network. WEP can partly solve this. But as has been said before its breakable.
Actually most wireless cards I saw will seemlessly switch channels to match a given SSID. So channel assignment usually is more based on local interference.
There are some products on the market, possibly under the name of Virtual Community Network solutions. I know my old company (before we crashed and burned) was developing a product for just this type of situation and I was coming up against most of these security concerns.
From what I know of the different solutions most were a central server that all the access points connected to, that would then proxy/forward all requests to the internet.
If you want to go for the extra evil points you could force ads to your clients with this type of solution as well.
If you have WAP's on different sides of buildings they most likely won't interfere with each other. Just keep the WAPs with the same channel as far apart as possible. If you can get your hands on some a few to test with it would be worth while to mock up a few layouts and wander around with a laptop to measure single strength and interference.
- Management of 'hitchhikers'
In addition you could run WEP, it is breakable but its another layer or security. Sorta like the car theif will go for the car without the club.
- Interference from WAP's and other devices that may be owned by tenants!
Here could be your big problem. As someone else mentioned there are lots of 2.4Ghz devices. Most would only cause a local disturbence, but if I decided to set up a WAP in my apartment you have no grounds to stop me from doing so. Some WAPs are smart enough to work nicely together though so it might not be as big a deal as microwaves and cordless phones.
I agree for writing longer things typing is way faster then writing by hand. But despite the fact I type anything of decent length, my desk is covered in post-it notes and other pieces of paper with little notes on them.
I've tried making a text file of notes but find it too much of a pain to open up and write into. And the bigger thing for me is that it is easier to ignore. A post-it note on my monitor reminds me of something a lot better then a textfile I can minimize.
I think it comes down to ease of use. When people find that handhelds are easier to use then a pen and paper, for all their uses, they will catch on much more. Most people I know still find handhelds nothing more then an expensive toy.
Well we can always hope that the companies that provide the best service come out on top, but that isn't always the way things work. Just look at how many small speciality shops, that know their stuff and can offer great service, run into problems when Wal-Mart moves in and starts selling the same items they do. While the small shop may be able to sell 500 items a month Wal-Mart can sell 500,000, and therefore sell them at a much cheaper price. It would be nice if people realised that paying for the extra service at the small shop is worth it, but it has been shown time and time again people will go for cheaper.
Well writing a strategy game AI isn't like writing a novel, but its no small feat either. Take the time to consider everything you think of while playing a game. Yes 95% of it is probably set ahead of time, but that last 5% is what really sets an AI opponent off from a human one, and that's where the challenge in programming an AI is. An example is when I play games there are certain things I might consider a few turns in advance, while others I ignore. Having the computer decide what to consider in depth though is hard. Does it consider the long range implications of launching an attack or for expanding. It doesn't necessarily have CPU time to do both, just as a human only has so much real time to think about the situation. It's very easy as a human to quickly judge the situation and say "I'm pretty safe I'll expand for now" but telling a computer how to do that is much harder.
The idea of the computer learning after every game is nice though. There is a problem with having the AI play against itself though. I can't remember the exact reason but it can only learn so much that way. What might be interesting is an internet site that could collect the AI's from many users games and combine them, distributing new AIs. That way every person playing against the computer is helping to train it.
And I definatly like the idea of an API to build your own AIs or expand the one currently there. It would be fun to load up Starcraft and go on BNet and start a game with someone and see if your computer program can beat them. Or even just playing your own AI to train it.
The people I work for have never been in the IT business before (except the sales manager) so I actually do have more technical experience then they all do.
I do defer to them on most business matters though as I also know that is where I lack the experience. The problem is that both business and technical experience are necessary to make smart decisions and in too many cases they don't listen to me for the technical reasoning because I also don't have the business experience. It ends up with promises being made which make sense in a business case, but are technically unreasonable, or outright impossible with the resources I am given.
Well I can attest to being overlooked even though I'm almost twenty-four, but the people I have to convince are all around forty. I easily have more years of IT background then all of them combined. It all boils down to the "old boys club" that has been around for a long time. If you aren't an older guy with business experience you'll have trouble getting in and being listened to.
And how exactly will it be legally insulated from "trademark bullies". Trademarks are based upon the laws of the country. If ICANN decided tommorow that.com is trademark free it won't stop the big companies from sueing domain holders and saying stop using our trademarks. Saying "Oh ICANN lets us use your trademark" won't stop them, they'll just go on to say how the law of the country say I have protection no matter where the trademark resides. The law on trademarks would have to be changed to have something like this happen.
Of course this gets deeply into the whole Global vs Country debate, but unless the TLD is hosted in a country without any trademark laws its going to be a problem.
Though there is a levy on blank CD-Rs it does not give you the legal right to make MP3s of music you do not own, and according to fair use you already had to right to make MP3s of songs you do own.
Morally is another question. You are already paying a levy for the CD-R so does that entitle you to copy a song you do not own onto it? But it most definatly does not grant you a legal right to do so.
From the article: On Freenet's conceptual forebears:
"The intention of the original Arpanet was... to create a decentralized system, the idea being that if there was a nuclear war, the only two things to survive would be cockroaches and the Internet.... I think that really Freenet in some ways is the realization of the original creators of the Internet."
Wasn't it proven that it is a myth that part of the design of the internet was to withstand a nuclear war. I remember hearing a quote that even the military isn't stupid enough to build a system that will be around even when there wouldn't be anyone left to use it.
I highly doubt that the computers which track trades are directly connected to the web servers. He might have been able to fool a few people into making bad trades because they think a stock is doing something its not, but it didn't sound like he ever had the power to change a stocks price.
Not to mention this information is backed up just a few times I'm sure. I don't think its as simple as changing one file to reflect the value you want the stock to have.
I don't have a link for it, but apparently NBC is trying to get the CBC here in Canada to stop updating their olympic web site as soon as the events are completed because NBC's coverage does not occur until later the next day.
There have also been reports on how many American's near the border and with satalite have actually been watching CBC coverage because they are showing events live (even at 5am), while NBC is always a day behind.
Easily, if someone defaces my webpage, and a bunch of customers see it they might not buy a product or service from me. If you want to strech it you could say that instead they buy from a competitor and end up recommending them to a friend who also doesn't then even look at my product/service.
Unfortuantly determining that cost is basically impossible.
Each server as such is just a game created on blizzards master server. All your characters abilities, and items so transfer whenever you enter a new game.
As to playing off network to advance there are two types of characters. Realms characters which are stored on blizzard's servers to prevent hacking, and open characters which are stored on your machine but you can play offline, over a lan, or on battle.net with. Realms and open characters cannot play together though.
Well Diablo 2 isn't a MMP game so its a different game experience. I think the limit is 8 players in a game.
And yes you can play it for only 30-60 min and get something out of it, unlike EQ which required you to play for 3-4 hours IMHO to get anytihng out of it.
I had to develop something very similar for a previous job, unfortuantly in MS Access though. Depending on how fancy you want to get it is a relativly simple database design. I would recommend just the basic tables for book, author, and publisher, and the relations between them to make searching/sorting, and data entry quicker. The whole project took about a week for me to finish, and as far as I know is still being used without problem today.
Remind me for a second, where does the current campaign money go. The media perchance? Do you think that CNN might get a fraction of this and might just be a little biased. "
So are you saying CNN is lying and its not illegal? Yes CNN gets money and all media is biased, but as close as I can tell you are infering that CNN said that it is illegal when it is in fact not. Or are you just saying never trust CNN?
Yes and they could make more money if they licened some internet sites to officially cover the olympics. All that will happen now is a few sites will buy tickets to events themselves, and get content that way.
And people will like it, and want it. Why should I have to wait till prime time the next night to see some event, when I'm up late the previous night when its happening live.
At least in Canada the CBC has said they will broadcast at night, but NBC is not.
Well there already are precedents to restrict rights online. I can't break into someones computer, DOS them, or sell child porn off my website (all depending on the country of course). So if spam is restricted it will hardly be the first online "right" to be restricted.
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It has been a while but I think a network driver on the gateway would take each IP/Ethernet pair and assign another IP address to it. That way the gateway software only ever saw unique IP addresses and the driver handled sending it back to only the correct Ethernet address.
In that case the other PC with the same IP address should ignore the packet as the Ethernet address would be wrong. If you used a switch it could further isolate things.
As I said its been over two years since I really worked on this so hopefully it makes a bit of sense.
It's been a while since I did this, but I believe the only real problem would occur if two people had the same IP address and the same Ethernet address and were on at the same time.
As to dealing with the proxy setup the software could detect a proxy request (HTTP requests for a proxy look different in the header), and then we'd proxy it.
I don't mind saying most of this now because the product was never fully finished, and the company went under a couple years ago. Plus despite a patent the ideas are not that hard to come up with once you look at them a while.
I also did work like this both for wired and wireless networks in a job I had after graduating. But I also developed a lot of the underlying ideas independently during a co-op term at a research lab, back in Fall 1998. I later found out that other people had been doing work like this as well.
I don't know enough about exact patent law to know if what I did up to that point would invalidate some or all of the patent (as the idea was not finished until much later).
TaxWiz has a product activation for the 2002 tax year just like QuickTax does. I bought TaxWiz this year specifically because of what QuickTax did last year (we've had activation for an extra year) and was disappointed when I found they had taken the same route.
Of course only in this industry can I steal software, that I will never buy at the high price, and not cost you the manufacturer any money - short of physically stealing a package off the shelves.
Actually believe him, its been a while since I did this stuff. My brain forgot about the SSID stuff. You could still run into problems if I put my access point up on the same SSID as the main network. WEP can partly solve this. But as has been said before its breakable.
Actually most wireless cards I saw will seemlessly switch channels to match a given SSID. So channel assignment usually is more based on local interference.
There are some products on the market, possibly under the name of Virtual Community Network solutions. I know my old company (before we crashed and burned) was developing a product for just this type of situation and I was coming up against most of these security concerns.
From what I know of the different solutions most were a central server that all the access points connected to, that would then proxy/forward all requests to the internet.
If you want to go for the extra evil points you could force ads to your clients with this type of solution as well.
- Interference between WAP's
If you have WAP's on different sides of buildings they most likely won't interfere with each other. Just keep the WAPs with the same channel as far apart as possible. If you can get your hands on some a few to test with it would be worth while to mock up a few layouts and wander around with a laptop to measure single strength and interference.
- Management of 'hitchhikers'
In addition you could run WEP, it is breakable but its another layer or security. Sorta like the car theif will go for the car without the club.
- Interference from WAP's and other devices that may be owned by tenants!
Here could be your big problem. As someone else mentioned there are lots of 2.4Ghz devices. Most would only cause a local disturbence, but if I decided to set up a WAP in my apartment you have no grounds to stop me from doing so. Some WAPs are smart enough to work nicely together though so it might not be as big a deal as microwaves and cordless phones.
I agree for writing longer things typing is way faster then writing by hand. But despite the fact I type anything of decent length, my desk is covered in post-it notes and other pieces of paper with little notes on them.
I've tried making a text file of notes but find it too much of a pain to open up and write into. And the bigger thing for me is that it is easier to ignore. A post-it note on my monitor reminds me of something a lot better then a textfile I can minimize.
I think it comes down to ease of use. When people find that handhelds are easier to use then a pen and paper, for all their uses, they will catch on much more. Most people I know still find handhelds nothing more then an expensive toy.
Well we can always hope that the companies that provide the best service come out on top, but that isn't always the way things work. Just look at how many small speciality shops, that know their stuff and can offer great service, run into problems when Wal-Mart moves in and starts selling the same items they do. While the small shop may be able to sell 500 items a month Wal-Mart can sell 500,000, and therefore sell them at a much cheaper price. It would be nice if people realised that paying for the extra service at the small shop is worth it, but it has been shown time and time again people will go for cheaper.
Well writing a strategy game AI isn't like writing a novel, but its no small feat either. Take the time to consider everything you think of while playing a game. Yes 95% of it is probably set ahead of time, but that last 5% is what really sets an AI opponent off from a human one, and that's where the challenge in programming an AI is. An example is when I play games there are certain things I might consider a few turns in advance, while others I ignore. Having the computer decide what to consider in depth though is hard. Does it consider the long range implications of launching an attack or for expanding. It doesn't necessarily have CPU time to do both, just as a human only has so much real time to think about the situation. It's very easy as a human to quickly judge the situation and say "I'm pretty safe I'll expand for now" but telling a computer how to do that is much harder.
The idea of the computer learning after every game is nice though. There is a problem with having the AI play against itself though. I can't remember the exact reason but it can only learn so much that way. What might be interesting is an internet site that could collect the AI's from many users games and combine them, distributing new AIs. That way every person playing against the computer is helping to train it.
And I definatly like the idea of an API to build your own AIs or expand the one currently there. It would be fun to load up Starcraft and go on BNet and start a game with someone and see if your computer program can beat them. Or even just playing your own AI to train it.
The people I work for have never been in the IT business before (except the sales manager) so I actually do have more technical experience then they all do.
I do defer to them on most business matters though as I also know that is where I lack the experience. The problem is that both business and technical experience are necessary to make smart decisions and in too many cases they don't listen to me for the technical reasoning because I also don't have the business experience. It ends up with promises being made which make sense in a business case, but are technically unreasonable, or outright impossible with the resources I am given.
Well I can attest to being overlooked even though I'm almost twenty-four, but the people I have to convince are all around forty. I easily have more years of IT background then all of them combined. It all boils down to the "old boys club" that has been around for a long time. If you aren't an older guy with business experience you'll have trouble getting in and being listened to.
And how exactly will it be legally insulated from "trademark bullies". Trademarks are based upon the laws of the country. If ICANN decided tommorow that .com is trademark free it won't stop the big companies from sueing domain holders and saying stop using our trademarks. Saying "Oh ICANN lets us use your trademark" won't stop them, they'll just go on to say how the law of the country say I have protection no matter where the trademark resides. The law on trademarks would have to be changed to have something like this happen.
Of course this gets deeply into the whole Global vs Country debate, but unless the TLD is hosted in a country without any trademark laws its going to be a problem.
Though there is a levy on blank CD-Rs it does not give you the legal right to make MP3s of music you do not own, and according to fair use you already had to right to make MP3s of songs you do own.
Morally is another question. You are already paying a levy for the CD-R so does that entitle you to copy a song you do not own onto it? But it most definatly does not grant you a legal right to do so.
On Freenet's conceptual forebears: "The intention of the original Arpanet was
Wasn't it proven that it is a myth that part of the design of the internet was to withstand a nuclear war. I remember hearing a quote that even the military isn't stupid enough to build a system that will be around even when there wouldn't be anyone left to use it.
I highly doubt that the computers which track trades are directly connected to the web servers. He might have been able to fool a few people into making bad trades because they think a stock is doing something its not, but it didn't sound like he ever had the power to change a stocks price.
Not to mention this information is backed up just a few times I'm sure. I don't think its as simple as changing one file to reflect the value you want the stock to have.
There have also been reports on how many American's near the border and with satalite have actually been watching CBC coverage because they are showing events live (even at 5am), while NBC is always a day behind.
Easily, if someone defaces my webpage, and a bunch of customers see it they might not buy a product or service from me. If you want to strech it you could say that instead they buy from a competitor and end up recommending them to a friend who also doesn't then even look at my product/service.
Unfortuantly determining that cost is basically impossible.
Each server as such is just a game created on blizzards master server. All your characters abilities, and items so transfer whenever you enter a new game.
As to playing off network to advance there are two types of characters. Realms characters which are stored on blizzard's servers to prevent hacking, and open characters which are stored on your machine but you can play offline, over a lan, or on battle.net with. Realms and open characters cannot play together though.
Well Diablo 2 isn't a MMP game so its a different game experience. I think the limit is 8 players in a game.
And yes you can play it for only 30-60 min and get something out of it, unlike EQ which required you to play for 3-4 hours IMHO to get anytihng out of it.
I had to develop something very similar for a previous job, unfortuantly in MS Access though. Depending on how fancy you want to get it is a relativly simple database design. I would recommend just the basic tables for book, author, and publisher, and the relations between them to make searching/sorting, and data entry quicker. The whole project took about a week for me to finish, and as far as I know is still being used without problem today.
Remind me for a second, where does the current campaign money go. The media perchance? Do you think that CNN might get a fraction of this and might just be a little biased. "
So are you saying CNN is lying and its not illegal? Yes CNN gets money and all media is biased, but as close as I can tell you are infering that CNN said that it is illegal when it is in fact not. Or are you just saying never trust CNN?
Yes and they could make more money if they licened some internet sites to officially cover the olympics. All that will happen now is a few sites will buy tickets to events themselves, and get content that way.
And people will like it, and want it. Why should I have to wait till prime time the next night to see some event, when I'm up late the previous night when its happening live.
At least in Canada the CBC has said they will broadcast at night, but NBC is not.
Well there already are precedents to restrict rights online. I can't break into someones computer, DOS them, or sell child porn off my website (all depending on the country of course). So if spam is restricted it will hardly be the first online "right" to be restricted.