Here's another thought: what if twitter.com gets hacked? I'm sure there's lots of other juicy stuff there, but why would anyone encourage you to post your financial details on a 3rd party server? Whoever had this idea should be shot and then hanged alive as an example for other "bright" marketers.
I'm a Firefox / Chrome fan and I just installed the Google Chrome Frame to see how it behaves. I installed Windows XP SP2 less than 24 hours ago and since then I've only installed my drivers, Firefox and the Google Chrome Frame; I went to a couple of innocent websites with IE6 and they both crashed the browser.
PS: Web developer here - Yes, IE6 sucks but it is not THAT unstable.
The title of the original article says that these exoskeletons may soon become like bicycles. I doubt that and I'm sure that most governments will outlaw them. Whoever wears them could pose a serious threat to the people around him/her and why would anyone wear one for show if not for work (like construction) or fighting (which is illegal) ?
Well, someone finally someone is doing something about it. I can't even remember how many hacked computers I got my hands on and I could clearly see the spam bots / irc bots processes, who controls them, how they are controlled, etc, but nobody would help me bring down the whole network. I've sent countless emails to companies who had their computer hacked, their ISPs and about 90% of them got replies from postmaster@ and the other 10% didn't get any reply. I sent logs and all the information they needed to track down the "mastermind" behind the bots but nothing ever happened.
DO IT, I use chrome for the UI, and love FF for the plugins, if they go with the tabs on top and no titlebar, if only as an option, I am back on board with them...
DON'T do it, seriously, I hate having the tabs on the titlebar. If they go with the tabs on top and no titlebar, I'll switch to Opera.
As it will be for the ID card database. The government will not be able to resist selling access to it, and every business that can pay will know your criminal history.
Do you have anything at all to sustain that statement?
What about calling from another country? I'm from Europe, but I've heard that the telemarketers solved most of their "problems" by simply using call centers from other countries. They haven't done anything, except outlawing robocalls from US telemarketers to US residents. One country down, 202 to go.
I've recently heard about a concept called single point of failure, maybe you should look into it. If anything goes wrong and Google goes down with its malware list or they simply choose to block IE, we'll be completely defenseless.
AFAIK, it's considered parking if it takes longer than 5 minutes. At least in my country: If you stop the car, it's considered a stop. If you keep it in the same place for more than 5 minutes, it's considered a halt and if you halt in a parking place, it's considered parking. We have the same situation here, you have to buy tickets and put them in your window and if the police wants to prove you've parked, they have to have at least 5 minutes of footage of your car not moving while other things are moving around it. The question is: what do you do if it takes you more than 5 minutes? Now, in that case, you can object by proving that you didn't have enough time and you should win the case and that would get you rid of the fine... so the actual question is: who pays you for the time you spent proving you were innocent? The classic question in democracy.
Replying to myself, with additional information for the OP: And how long have we heard about this? We're already so used to Windows exploits that we don't even care much about them...
Of course we'd never hear the end of it, because we paid a shitload of money for a system that would be vulnerable for months until MS would decide to release a patch that wouldn't conflict with the rest of the bloat. That wasn't always the case, but it's what happened most of the time when Windows (as an operating system) got pwned with an exploit like this. There are still tons of unpatched Windows computers infected with Blaster... as long as you still hear about Blaster, you'll still hear about the vulnerability. That's why you'd never hear the end of it.
Of course their "elite" editors stayed the same, because their contributions are accepted... because they are the are part of the "elite". Yup, I just gave a circular argument there.
OTOH, editing Wikipedia is nearly impossible for "one-timers" because it's getting more and more features so it's becoming more and more difficult to just add a freakin' row in a table. This may be keeping new people from entering the group of "elite" editors, because they give up only a few seconds after they try to edit something. There is much information I would gladly contribute with, I would have the time to write about it, but I don't have the nerves to learn Wikipedia's special features.
How often do you back up everything and where are the backup servers? What percentage of the time will i be spending on fixing bugs in legacy code? Will I be consulted before software/hardware architecture changes?
No backups = don't take the job No legacy code = ask why they aren't considering integration with something that already exists as open-source (if, as often, it's the case) Definitely be consulted before major decisions = bullshit / bulljob (they're either lying or you'll be doing a lot more than just software development)
Of course if they put servers in close ping proximity to every user, this can work. But that means a lot of servers, spread all around the world, which they need to set up and maintain.
That's just it... They don't need to have many servers, just a few connected to ISPs with low latency, because this way they already have low-latency access to the whole country. Those "a lot" of servers already exist in some places and they're already maintained by some ISPs. All they needed to figure out was how to get low latency between their own servers. I agree, it's still speculation, but the risk of hardware failure is very low so if their software is good enough, this might actually lead to a gaming revolution.
Latency isn't a problem for my country. There are two major ISPs and one is dedicated in high bandwidth while the other in low latency. They're so cheap that just for on-line gaming and for on-line streaming at once, I would gladly subscribe to both (I don't play a lot of games so it's not my case, but I have some friends who are subscribed to both). This is a killer for your whole post, since the 50-100ms is considered "a lot" if you're subscribed to one of the ISPs and it's probably the fault of your own hardware. You get ping replies like 15-25ms between any of their subscribers. They move quick enough for a whole on-line gaming industry as described in the article so they may not be able to couple the whole world, but they can do it country-by-country where it's possible and in many countries it is possible., believe me.
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Here's another thought: what if twitter.com gets hacked? I'm sure there's lots of other juicy stuff there, but why would anyone encourage you to post your financial details on a 3rd party server? Whoever had this idea should be shot and then hanged alive as an example for other "bright" marketers.
You're going to commit wire fraud just to piss someone off?
Yes. Maybe you're not worried if someone finds out the details of your bank accounts, but I am!
This sounds to me like "another hole in the wall".
I guess IE6 is THAT unstable. Thanks :)
I'm a Firefox / Chrome fan and I just installed the Google Chrome Frame to see how it behaves. I installed Windows XP SP2 less than 24 hours ago and since then I've only installed my drivers, Firefox and the Google Chrome Frame; I went to a couple of innocent websites with IE6 and they both crashed the browser.
PS: Web developer here - Yes, IE6 sucks but it is not THAT unstable.
The title of the original article says that these exoskeletons may soon become like bicycles. I doubt that and I'm sure that most governments will outlaw them. Whoever wears them could pose a serious threat to the people around him/her and why would anyone wear one for show if not for work (like construction) or fighting (which is illegal) ?
Well, someone finally someone is doing something about it. I can't even remember how many hacked computers I got my hands on and I could clearly see the spam bots / irc bots processes, who controls them, how they are controlled, etc, but nobody would help me bring down the whole network. I've sent countless emails to companies who had their computer hacked, their ISPs and about 90% of them got replies from postmaster@ and the other 10% didn't get any reply. I sent logs and all the information they needed to track down the "mastermind" behind the bots but nothing ever happened.
DO IT, I use chrome for the UI, and love FF for the plugins, if they go with the tabs on top and no titlebar, if only as an option, I am back on board with them...
DON'T do it, seriously, I hate having the tabs on the titlebar. If they go with the tabs on top and no titlebar, I'll switch to Opera.
As it will be for the ID card database. The government will not be able to resist selling access to it, and every business that can pay will know your criminal history.
Do you have anything at all to sustain that statement?
What about calling from another country? I'm from Europe, but I've heard that the telemarketers solved most of their "problems" by simply using call centers from other countries. They haven't done anything, except outlawing robocalls from US telemarketers to US residents. One country down, 202 to go.
I'm confused how this got modded insightful.
That's easy: I didn't RTFA and neither did the mods :)
I've recently heard about a concept called single point of failure, maybe you should look into it. If anything goes wrong and Google goes down with its malware list or they simply choose to block IE, we'll be completely defenseless.
Ever heard of genetic engineering? When they run out of species, they'll just create some more with iGod (TM).
AFAIK, it's considered parking if it takes longer than 5 minutes. At least in my country: If you stop the car, it's considered a stop. If you keep it in the same place for more than 5 minutes, it's considered a halt and if you halt in a parking place, it's considered parking. We have the same situation here, you have to buy tickets and put them in your window and if the police wants to prove you've parked, they have to have at least 5 minutes of footage of your car not moving while other things are moving around it. The question is: what do you do if it takes you more than 5 minutes? Now, in that case, you can object by proving that you didn't have enough time and you should win the case and that would get you rid of the fine... so the actual question is: who pays you for the time you spent proving you were innocent? The classic question in democracy.
We'd do the same on our road, but the government would probably object.
That's just an assumption and has no relation with the rest of the summary.
What would be the US govt reaction if some other country provides a way for US citizens to access content that is illegal in the US ?
Such as copyrighted material which is legally downloadable in some parts of the world but not in the US?
I don't want to turn this into another discussion about copyright, but what happened with TPB is the answer to your question.
Look at what happened with OpenID.
Replying to myself, with additional information for the OP: And how long have we heard about this? We're already so used to Windows exploits that we don't even care much about them...
Of course we'd never hear the end of it, because we paid a shitload of money for a system that would be vulnerable for months until MS would decide to release a patch that wouldn't conflict with the rest of the bloat. That wasn't always the case, but it's what happened most of the time when Windows (as an operating system) got pwned with an exploit like this. There are still tons of unpatched Windows computers infected with Blaster... as long as you still hear about Blaster, you'll still hear about the vulnerability. That's why you'd never hear the end of it.
Of course their "elite" editors stayed the same, because their contributions are accepted... because they are the are part of the "elite". Yup, I just gave a circular argument there.
OTOH, editing Wikipedia is nearly impossible for "one-timers" because it's getting more and more features so it's becoming more and more difficult to just add a freakin' row in a table. This may be keeping new people from entering the group of "elite" editors, because they give up only a few seconds after they try to edit something. There is much information I would gladly contribute with, I would have the time to write about it, but I don't have the nerves to learn Wikipedia's special features.
Hey, put down that chair!
How often do you back up everything and where are the backup servers?
What percentage of the time will i be spending on fixing bugs in legacy code?
Will I be consulted before software/hardware architecture changes?
No backups = don't take the job
No legacy code = ask why they aren't considering integration with something that already exists as open-source (if, as often, it's the case)
Definitely be consulted before major decisions = bullshit / bulljob (they're either lying or you'll be doing a lot more than just software development)
Of course if they put servers in close ping proximity to every user, this can work. But that means a lot of servers, spread all around the world, which they need to set up and maintain.
That's just it... They don't need to have many servers, just a few connected to ISPs with low latency, because this way they already have low-latency access to the whole country. Those "a lot" of servers already exist in some places and they're already maintained by some ISPs. All they needed to figure out was how to get low latency between their own servers. I agree, it's still speculation, but the risk of hardware failure is very low so if their software is good enough, this might actually lead to a gaming revolution.
Some people would say "Eastern Europe", but I'd say it's in the middle, politically speaking.
Latency isn't a problem for my country. There are two major ISPs and one is dedicated in high bandwidth while the other in low latency. They're so cheap that just for on-line gaming and for on-line streaming at once, I would gladly subscribe to both (I don't play a lot of games so it's not my case, but I have some friends who are subscribed to both). This is a killer for your whole post, since the 50-100ms is considered "a lot" if you're subscribed to one of the ISPs and it's probably the fault of your own hardware. You get ping replies like 15-25ms between any of their subscribers. They move quick enough for a whole on-line gaming industry as described in the article so they may not be able to couple the whole world, but they can do it country-by-country where it's possible and in many countries it is possible., believe me.