My understanding of why the PC cards don't support cable HD is that the cable providers encrypt their HD signals. It's really a way for them to get more money. If you want their HD, you either have to rent their digital cable box, or a CableCard. These let you plug your signal right into a CableCard supported TV with no box. I've heard mixed stuff about the cablecards - but it seems to me that one of the video card companies should come up with a tuner that takes the CableCard. You'd still have to rent it from the provider, but it would give us what we're looking for!
are you going to see this in a home theater setup anytime soon? NO! of course not! this seems to me like it would be more practical for use in the movie theaters. it'd be like the DLP theaters, of which there are only a few dozen around the country.
Maybe many years from now we'll see it in a home setup... of course it was about 8 years ago when i bought a 1 gig hdd for 200 or 300 bucks (don't remember specifically now) that someone told me "what are you going to use that for? you'll never be able to use all that space!"
Who's laughing now?
I'd love to see this in an excel sheet or something of the sorts... take this hypothetical scenario:
I have a big meeting tomorrow at 2 in the afternoon. I have a party to go to tonight. With something like this by playing with the data, I could plan out how many drinks I can have and what time I should theoretically leave the party.
Then, the next morning I realize I didn't stick to my plan, i can quickly calculate how screwed I am.
Isn't science and technology wonderful! How did geeks ever party before???
As has already been pointed out, this is a bonding service - not a straight for profit medium for Microsoft.
My biggest questions is When a company breaks the rules, where does the bonded money go??
My other problem is that this in an opt-out service. I would prefer to see an opt-in only service, but that would pretty much invalidate the idea of a global whitelist, wouldn't it.
I just hope that microsoft doesn't think this is the end all answer to spam filtering. Bill Gates stated in the Washington Post back in November that MS would eliminate spam within I think the next 2 or 5 years (something like that). This certainly is NOT the answer.
Ok - so despite anyone's feelings on the war in Iraq, let's face it - the military has to use SOMETHING in it's systems. Shouldn't our brave men and women at least have something reliable like linux? You'd think the linux community would be proud that linux is so reliable that the military uses it.
Would you rather they use windows?
I can see it now. Watch it be a practical joke on someone. All of a sudden, hundreds of/.ers start homing in on his location and a massive chase through the streets. It would be grand.
The/. is coming! The/. is coming!
wow... i never realized how cheap the addresses were. i had always hoped my address would be like worth $1. I guess I should have hoped for a penny for my address. I feel so used.
With no doubt - I agree that administrators should be held responsible to some degree for not having their systems secure.
However - if you penalize that administrator and only them, you aren't really getting to the source of the problem. There is still a spammer out there who is just going to exploit another exploitable system.
Give naive administrators a slap on the wrist... but don't get wrapped up in persecuting them. Get to the real source of the problem - the actual spammers!
I should point out the article I reference with that 7%... Written by Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow at Pew Internet & American Life project. "SPAM: How it is Hurting Email and Degrading Life on the Internet". Available here.
Another point is that the 7% statistic may be skewed, because some of the people surveyed didn't consider all mail to be SPAM (ie, they requested the special offers / catalogs / etc by email)
That's a good point. If you read the text of the CAN-SPAM Act you will see that any reference to relaying mail states that it is illegal to relay through a protected computer or network. It also states it is illegal to relay through a computer to which you do not have access to. So the question is - how does that apply to open relays? Does the responsibility of abuse lie on the administrator who configures the security, or on the spammer who abuses the security mistakes of the administrator?
If you leave your keys in your open car, and someone else takes it, who is at fault?
I have been doing a lot of research on SPAM lately for some of my undergrad work. One of the biggest reasons that SPAM exists is because the spammers actually make money! As reported on Slashdot back in November, I beleive, aproximately 7% of people actually buy things from SPAM messages. Given the extremely low cost to the spammers, this is a GREAT profit margin.
I will applaud this effort, if they are actually able to accurately trace the people responsible. By suing the spammers responsible, their cost of advertising will increase. Less profit. Less motivation to continue spamming.
GOOD LUCK to Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink, and Yahoo in this action!
sounds like something made by swiss army. all it needs now is a magnifying glass and a toothpick. on a serious note, the perfect addition to the features on this would be cell phone. and wifi. i decided i'm going to wait out on getting a new cell phone until it does absolutely everything i want (no, not need - want).
So I and a lot of college students are in a situation where we work a part time programming job and we're working on senior design projects. I'm not sure if there is a formal agreement with the college (among all the stupid paperwork they have me fill out), but I'm pretty sure that they want some credit when it comes to my senior project. And I have a NDA with my part time employer. So who gets to own my project? Talk about the shaft.
Ironic. This seems like it would be a big contract for Seisint. If it were any other big contract, you'd think they'd have a big press release about it on their webpage. I've only looked for a moment or two, but there doesn't seem to be anything on seisint.com about it (i assume this is the site - contact info places them in FL).
I wonder if they thought this would be a PR nightmare for them?
Gee. I wonder why they might think that.
It would seem to me that problems within the IT group should be brought to your manager / director or whoever is just above you in the chain of command before it would go to the CIO or VP. If the director sees fit to bring it to the executive level, then they should. Only if your direct supervisor is neglecting to fix problems / bring severe problems to their boss, should you have to go above their head to the executive level. I know that sounds like the Office Space problem of having 8 bosses, and that might not make sense in a business of 50-60 people as described - but it makes more sense in much larger organizations.
oh don't get me wrong, i love my x-box and all of it's wonderful capabilities - i wouldn't give it up or replace it for the world.
i'm just saying that this linksys box is meant to cater to the people who don't have the know-how or ambition to mod their x-box for similar purposes.
but how many people would want to open up their xbox and mess around with even just the pogo pin stuff, let alone solder their own mod chip.
and then to flash the chip!?! install the dashboard!?!
ok - you and I have obviously done this, but i don't know anyone in the general consumer market who would even think of doing this.
if they want to pay me to do it for them though... that's another issue:)
wow... that's not nearly as bad as what i did on my high school network. of course, the only time anyone noticed i did anything was when i filled up the hard drive on the server (only 2 gigs for 500 students) by downloading doom to my home drive.
ah... those were the days...
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So what you're saying is that now Micro$oft is going to file for the XML patent once this one gets thrown out? dAMN THEM!
My understanding of why the PC cards don't support cable HD is that the cable providers encrypt their HD signals. It's really a way for them to get more money. If you want their HD, you either have to rent their digital cable box, or a CableCard. These let you plug your signal right into a CableCard supported TV with no box. I've heard mixed stuff about the cablecards - but it seems to me that one of the video card companies should come up with a tuner that takes the CableCard. You'd still have to rent it from the provider, but it would give us what we're looking for!
are you going to see this in a home theater setup anytime soon? NO! of course not! this seems to me like it would be more practical for use in the movie theaters. it'd be like the DLP theaters, of which there are only a few dozen around the country.
Maybe many years from now we'll see it in a home setup... of course it was about 8 years ago when i bought a 1 gig hdd for 200 or 300 bucks (don't remember specifically now) that someone told me "what are you going to use that for? you'll never be able to use all that space!"
Who's laughing now?
I'd love to see this in an excel sheet or something of the sorts... take this hypothetical scenario:
I have a big meeting tomorrow at 2 in the afternoon. I have a party to go to tonight. With something like this by playing with the data, I could plan out how many drinks I can have and what time I should theoretically leave the party.
Then, the next morning I realize I didn't stick to my plan, i can quickly calculate how screwed I am.
Isn't science and technology wonderful! How did geeks ever party before???
well that's interesting. It really makes the service sound like it's run by the mafia. Or that the service is completely useless!
As has already been pointed out, this is a bonding service - not a straight for profit medium for Microsoft.
My biggest questions is When a company breaks the rules, where does the bonded money go??
My other problem is that this in an opt-out service. I would prefer to see an opt-in only service, but that would pretty much invalidate the idea of a global whitelist, wouldn't it.
I just hope that microsoft doesn't think this is the end all answer to spam filtering. Bill Gates stated in the Washington Post back in November that MS would eliminate spam within I think the next 2 or 5 years (something like that). This certainly is NOT the answer.
Ok - so despite anyone's feelings on the war in Iraq, let's face it - the military has to use SOMETHING in it's systems. Shouldn't our brave men and women at least have something reliable like linux? You'd think the linux community would be proud that linux is so reliable that the military uses it.
Would you rather they use windows?
I can see it now. Watch it be a practical joke on someone. All of a sudden, hundreds of /.ers start homing in on his location and a massive chase through the streets. It would be grand. /. is coming! The /. is coming!
The
Yes. We should all go back to 300 baud modems. /. thread by tomorrow.
You should be able to download this whole
I'm not a consumer whore!
I'm NOT a consumer whore!
I'M NOT A CONSUMER WHORE!
My therapist has me do similar exercises...
wow... i never realized how cheap the addresses were. i had always hoped my address would be like worth $1. I guess I should have hoped for a penny for my address. I feel so used.
With no doubt - I agree that administrators should be held responsible to some degree for not having their systems secure.
However - if you penalize that administrator and only them, you aren't really getting to the source of the problem. There is still a spammer out there who is just going to exploit another exploitable system.
Give naive administrators a slap on the wrist... but don't get wrapped up in persecuting them. Get to the real source of the problem - the actual spammers!
I should point out the article I reference with that 7%... Written by Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow at Pew Internet & American Life project. "SPAM: How it is Hurting Email and Degrading Life on the Internet". Available here.
Another point is that the 7% statistic may be skewed, because some of the people surveyed didn't consider all mail to be SPAM (ie, they requested the special offers / catalogs / etc by email)
That's a good point. If you read the text of the CAN-SPAM Act you will see that any reference to relaying mail states that it is illegal to relay through a protected computer or network. It also states it is illegal to relay through a computer to which you do not have access to. So the question is - how does that apply to open relays? Does the responsibility of abuse lie on the administrator who configures the security, or on the spammer who abuses the security mistakes of the administrator?
If you leave your keys in your open car, and someone else takes it, who is at fault?
I have been doing a lot of research on SPAM lately for some of my undergrad work. One of the biggest reasons that SPAM exists is because the spammers actually make money! As reported on Slashdot back in November, I beleive, aproximately 7% of people actually buy things from SPAM messages. Given the extremely low cost to the spammers, this is a GREAT profit margin.
I will applaud this effort, if they are actually able to accurately trace the people responsible. By suing the spammers responsible, their cost of advertising will increase. Less profit. Less motivation to continue spamming.
GOOD LUCK to Microsoft, AOL, Earthlink, and Yahoo in this action!
DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!! Now if only the robot would come and kick the crap out of the guy taking the laptop... that would be great.
sounds like something made by swiss army. all it needs now is a magnifying glass and a toothpick.
on a serious note, the perfect addition to the features on this would be cell phone. and wifi. i decided i'm going to wait out on getting a new cell phone until it does absolutely everything i want (no, not need - want).
So I and a lot of college students are in a situation where we work a part time programming job and we're working on senior design projects. I'm not sure if there is a formal agreement with the college (among all the stupid paperwork they have me fill out), but I'm pretty sure that they want some credit when it comes to my senior project. And I have a NDA with my part time employer. So who gets to own my project? Talk about the shaft.
Ironic. This seems like it would be a big contract for Seisint. If it were any other big contract, you'd think they'd have a big press release about it on their webpage. I've only looked for a moment or two, but there doesn't seem to be anything on seisint.com about it (i assume this is the site - contact info places them in FL). I wonder if they thought this would be a PR nightmare for them? Gee. I wonder why they might think that.
i guess it's not such a bad thing that i almost failed parallel parking on my drivers test! whew! :)
It would seem to me that problems within the IT group should be brought to your manager / director or whoever is just above you in the chain of command before it would go to the CIO or VP. If the director sees fit to bring it to the executive level, then they should. Only if your direct supervisor is neglecting to fix problems / bring severe problems to their boss, should you have to go above their head to the executive level. I know that sounds like the Office Space problem of having 8 bosses, and that might not make sense in a business of 50-60 people as described - but it makes more sense in much larger organizations.
oh don't get me wrong, i love my x-box and all of it's wonderful capabilities - i wouldn't give it up or replace it for the world.
i'm just saying that this linksys box is meant to cater to the people who don't have the know-how or ambition to mod their x-box for similar purposes.
but how many people would want to open up their xbox and mess around with even just the pogo pin stuff, let alone solder their own mod chip. and then to flash the chip!?! install the dashboard!?! :)
ok - you and I have obviously done this, but i don't know anyone in the general consumer market who would even think of doing this.
if they want to pay me to do it for them though... that's another issue
wow... that's not nearly as bad as what i did on my high school network. of course, the only time anyone noticed i did anything was when i filled up the hard drive on the server (only 2 gigs for 500 students) by downloading doom to my home drive. ah... those were the days...