Anyone else see and ponder the advertising campaign on Slashdot by MS claiming in the end Windows server software is cheaper than *nix. Uh, sure, Bill, we believe you...
I tried logging into a random account, just out of curiosity you understand, and got a CAPTCHA style image and form along with the second user and password fields. My guess is to defeat brute force attacks.
We have at least 2 of them in Pittsburgh, though I don't think the company is Clear Channel. They display a color slideshow of pretty regular billboard images with a slightly grainy look. Every X seconds (where X is ~3) the image changes. It's interesting because there's not much variety in who advertises, 90% of the ads are for either Toyota ("Get The Feeling") or a bank ("Throwing Darts Is Not An Investment Strategy"), I'm wondering if other advertisers are afraid of this medium. Haven't noticed any customization as far as time of day, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. What would be interesting to see would be a multi-slide presentation for one company, customized to the medium. As far as connection goes it looks to be a phone type (dialup, possibly DSL, possibly something proprietary), based on the wires emanating from it.
Nothing is worse than trying to mow wet grass. For the record I do not posess a robotic lawnmower, sprinkler system, nor SUV. I simply couldn't find another example that didn't somehow involve a toaster. I think you'll agree we've all had enough of that futuristic premise.
Let business Darwinism takes its course: those that implement effective countermeasures survive and thrive in a competitive marketplace, those that don't...
This is something I'd love to see happen in my lifetime, sort of a life goal if you will. The idea here is like Bluetooth but infinitely scaleable, extendable in all directions, peer to peer, and so drop dead simple grandmother could use it without a manual.
In a perfect system like this each node has about a 10 or so foot wireless range, each node extends the network like a repeater, and these babies are embedded in absolutely everything. Your robotic lawnmower needs to talk to your irrigation system but is 20 feet from it? Simple enough, both devices understand the network physical topology intimately and just route the communication through your SUV. And nobody should have to configure a thing for this to work.
SMS in a way has made that world very possible. SMS is incredibly cheap, data oriented, and web interoperable. It has already been abused and if we let it could very well become as spammed as e-mail.
It can't be long before e-mail becomes so suspect that self-mailing viruses simply won't spread because everybody is so afraid of their inbox. It will be interesting to see where viruses go then. IM would be my first bet, as well as P2P networks, vulnerabilities in certain *cough* OSes we've already seen, and network shares but there has got to be other methods I'm not thinking of. This could be really interesting to watch. I've never taken the hard line view towards viruses that I see here, I see them as massive experiments with data and as kind of a spectator sport. Of course that could be because I've never really had a problem with them...
Agreed. Seems a pretty environmentally friendly method versus, say, damming lakes. When will environmental groups realize that Americans (disclosure: I am an American) are by very nature consumerist and demanding. Conservation will never catch on in the numbers needed to make it worth anything. They'd get a lot further if they focused on creating cleaner versions of existing technologies instead of trying to modify american nature. They have tuppence compared to the retail and service industries that benefit from a consumerist populace.
Your WEP 64 wireless has plenty of problems of its own without borrowing new ones. I only continue to implement WEP on my network because it provides some barrier, same reason I turned of SSID broadcasts and am MAC filtering. All of those, however, are trivially circumvented. A little Googling finds about two Linksys products boast LEAP support, and both are 802.11 notebook cards.
"Bill Gates will again turn his corporate supertanker and add full power, but this time the competing ship will not only have a head start, it will be able to accelerate faster than Microsoft."
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Anyone else see and ponder the advertising campaign on Slashdot by MS claiming in the end Windows server software is cheaper than *nix. Uh, sure, Bill, we believe you...
I think it's a given here that physically impaired people will only be about 30% of the market once this becomes perfected. Let's put the facts together:t ml t ml?pagewanted=2 ? pid=70&step=4
"or even to operate lights and other devices through a kind of neural remote control."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/health/13BRAI.h
"would be fully implanted in the brain, transmitting information without wires."
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/health/13BRAI.h
"Our 12" disco ball is made hundreds of highly reflective tiny glass mirror squares."
https://ssl.adhost.com/noveltylights/merchant.cfm
I have nothing more to say.
I tried logging into a random account, just out of curiosity you understand, and got a CAPTCHA style image and form along with the second user and password fields. My guess is to defeat brute force attacks.
We have at least 2 of them in Pittsburgh, though I don't think the company is Clear Channel. They display a color slideshow of pretty regular billboard images with a slightly grainy look. Every X seconds (where X is ~3) the image changes. It's interesting because there's not much variety in who advertises, 90% of the ads are for either Toyota ("Get The Feeling") or a bank ("Throwing Darts Is Not An Investment Strategy"), I'm wondering if other advertisers are afraid of this medium. Haven't noticed any customization as far as time of day, but that doesn't mean it isn't there. What would be interesting to see would be a multi-slide presentation for one company, customized to the medium. As far as connection goes it looks to be a phone type (dialup, possibly DSL, possibly something proprietary), based on the wires emanating from it.
...I'm sure I can find something to sue Microsoft on.
Nothing is worse than trying to mow wet grass. For the record I do not posess a robotic lawnmower, sprinkler system, nor SUV. I simply couldn't find another example that didn't somehow involve a toaster. I think you'll agree we've all had enough of that futuristic premise.
Let business Darwinism takes its course: those that implement effective countermeasures survive and thrive in a competitive marketplace, those that don't...
Either you're kidding, a grammar troll, or you honestly can't make the inference. In case of the latter, virii is the plural form of virus.
This is something I'd love to see happen in my lifetime, sort of a life goal if you will. The idea here is like Bluetooth but infinitely scaleable, extendable in all directions, peer to peer, and so drop dead simple grandmother could use it without a manual.
In a perfect system like this each node has about a 10 or so foot wireless range, each node extends the network like a repeater, and these babies are embedded in absolutely everything. Your robotic lawnmower needs to talk to your irrigation system but is 20 feet from it? Simple enough, both devices understand the network physical topology intimately and just route the communication through your SUV. And nobody should have to configure a thing for this to work.
The way I circumvented it was to do an I'm feeling lucky on the URL at Google.
SMS in a way has made that world very possible. SMS is incredibly cheap, data oriented, and web interoperable. It has already been abused and if we let it could very well become as spammed as e-mail.
I'll grant you the e-mail will never die point, but sooner or later attachments should. Even if it means stripping them from mail by default.
It can't be long before e-mail becomes so suspect that self-mailing viruses simply won't spread because everybody is so afraid of their inbox. It will be interesting to see where viruses go then. IM would be my first bet, as well as P2P networks, vulnerabilities in certain *cough* OSes we've already seen, and network shares but there has got to be other methods I'm not thinking of. This could be really interesting to watch. I've never taken the hard line view towards viruses that I see here, I see them as massive experiments with data and as kind of a spectator sport. Of course that could be because I've never really had a problem with them...
Should be just about as feasible as the Bush space plan.
Oh wait...
Note for anyone as gullible as myself: The DNS record is forged, gpony.com is not registered.
Hmm, where have I seen Green Hills before.
Let's make decisions on the quality of CNN based on remarks made by Fox news.
Not everyone thinks so.
Agreed. Seems a pretty environmentally friendly method versus, say, damming lakes. When will environmental groups realize that Americans (disclosure: I am an American) are by very nature consumerist and demanding. Conservation will never catch on in the numbers needed to make it worth anything. They'd get a lot further if they focused on creating cleaner versions of existing technologies instead of trying to modify american nature. They have tuppence compared to the retail and service industries that benefit from a consumerist populace.
"The bid opens with $6 million which will enable the highest bidder to stuff up to 10kg worth of stuff on a space craft and lob it to the moon."
Darnit, 10kg (~22 pounds) is not nearly enough for what I'm envisioning.
No, I used something slightly stronger.
"In addition, Claria said it has 43 million active users and 425 advertisers."
Don't forget the 71 million ticked off ex-users.
Your WEP 64 wireless has plenty of problems of its own without borrowing new ones. I only continue to implement WEP on my network because it provides some barrier, same reason I turned of SSID broadcasts and am MAC filtering. All of those, however, are trivially circumvented. A little Googling finds about two Linksys products boast LEAP support, and both are 802.11 notebook cards.
"Bill Gates will again turn his corporate supertanker and add full power, but this time the competing ship will not only have a head start, it will be able to accelerate faster than Microsoft."
At that point Microsoft buys the other ship.
...electronics bend YOU!