Nokia and Cisco are competitors to a degree. Both sell firewall (with straightVPN) and SSL VPN products; the Nokia firewall products being based on Checkpoint's firewall software platform in the main.
Which is where the real competition lies, Cisco PIX versus Checkpoint Firewall-1 (on a variety of hardware platforms).
So if this merger/buyout actually went ahead, it would alter the landscape significantly, and it would be interesting to see how Cisco would spin it.
It is dumb. Oh yes. The only remotely sensible directory structure is one that gets more specialised "up" the tree and more generalised toward the root, with a smattering of roots.
All these new TLDs are extending a domain namespace in both directions. Forget the hassle of having to register so many domains, it isn't relevent - it is just the way it is priced.
Either do it one way or the other. If you are going to have a presence on the internet for mobile user with its own name under your namespace, then fine.
But either our namespace extends in one direction or the other.
Right now, I have zencore.co.uk, zencore.com and zencore.biz, all pointing to the same place. And I have mail. and ftp. and whatever. dot prefixed to them all.
In the context of the way I purchased those domains and the way that domain names work these days, it makes sense for me to have them. In a context that approaches anything like sensibleness, it doesn't begin to make sense.
The "top" level should be the namespace: 'zencore'. Any specialisation should happen lower down. Whether that be mobi.zencore or zencore.mobi doesn't matter, as long as it is consistent.
Now I can see some sense in being able to distibute load on the top level servers, but surely the vast percentage of sites are.com anyway, so it becomes irrelevent.
And the idea of people sharing namespace through ".net" or ".com" or ".org" has proven not to work anyway, phishing being a small example.
To understand this latest nonsense, it is as usual, a case of following the money combined with short-sighted stupidity.
This is the process that drives most of the activity of humans as far as I can see.
The amount of pleasure that Slashdotters appear to get out of jumping on every dupe suggests that they would be missed if they weren't present.
An element of/. culture.
Here is an idea, if you are really that disappointed that a dupe appears, then *don't* contribute any thing to its comment threads. Stick to your guns and stick with the original.
From now on, any one any posting "its a dupe" comments should be considered to be in support of dupes, and villified for it.
Yes, the primary goal would be to keep spyware out in the first place, but if it were contained to the point it was useless, then it wouldn't happen in the first instance.
So layered protection is required as usual. An application firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware.
Of course you are right, you end up with an arms escalation.
Please everyone ignore my recommendation for using a application firewall.
I don't see a reason for a spyware program to be given permission to do http or any other requests to machines outside of my PC.
I use a application firewall right now to achieve this. This is why MS Help and Winword and Search and all the other MS phone home applications do not get to access the internet.
It is the permissioning system that is flawed. Rather than treat all applications executed in user space as having the same rights to folders and network access as the user, each application should have a defined permission set.
The point of any traffic control system is to make sure traffic flows efficiently through the network, not through a particular intersection.
So taking the instance of a crossroads. If there was more traffic through the north south part of the intersection than the east west, then you would think it logical to allow more flow on the more congested arm.
But that only makes sense in a local context. If the north-south arm fed directly into a zone of even higher congestion, then it would make sense to hold the traffic longer to prevent gridlock further along.
Just like you would with any network.
Though I guess minimising road rage is important, and perhaps more people would get frustrated waiting at a red light for extended periods than crawling bumper-to-bumber at zero speed, even if the red-light hold would get them to their destination quicker in the long run...
I have been reading the majority of my fiction through ebooks on Pocket PC (using the Peanut Press / ereader reader) for several years now.
I was much the same as many people, in that I thought that losing paper would also take something else away from the experience, and balked at the idea.
But I gave it a go. Originally on a Palm PC many years back, and I now struggle to get through a book on paper. Quite simply, it is too inconvenient.
My book has its own light source. It is lighter than most books. I find that turning a page on an ebook is actually less intrusive than paper. By the time my eyes have scanned back up to the top of the page, the new page is there ready to read, with seemingly no physical action on my part, as the mechanics of changing to the next page become more subconcious than with paper.
I also almost always have my pda with me, so gone are the days where I would have to carry a pda and a book somehow. Gone are the days where I would have an unexpected boring wait to get through without any stimulus. I can read almost anywhere, at any time. Standing in a queue. Waiting for the bus.
Now I am using ebooks, I find I am reading significantly more than I possibly could with paper books.
And my life is richer for it.
The benefits for me make the cons hard to see. Reading in the bath? Well, I shower, so thats a non-issue for me. But plenty of people manage to use the phone in the bath. Raining? I find pdas are relatively water resistant. Paper books don't fair too well in the rain either.
Of course there is battery to consider. If you used a pda primarily for reading, then thats 2-3 hours of reading in a day if you charge it fully each night.
I suppose when you are misunderstood in English, you can just moan on about the recipient being too stupid to understand, rather than god forbid, you didn't bother to articulate properly.
On the otherhand, if you are misunderstood when coding, you won't get the results you hope for.
So, expression of ideas is massively important, but to say that it isn't important that those ideas are understood seems to make the expression pointless.
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5. The world population doubles every 40 years. Eventually, we will have to either expand across other planets or enforce population control.
With an annual growth rate of 1.1 percent right now, for us to expand across other planets to relieve population here would require us to offload more than 65 million people a year
Apparently Burts rocketship can fit three people at a squeeze. So thats a lot of trips.
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Interestingly, neither Buffy, Xena, or Lara Croft have anything to do with Science Fiction.
Well, Lara at a push.
Pocket PC devices are perfectly able to play formats other than WMV.
The facts is that this is not a genre, it is a storyline.
The genre is first-person shooter, which has been tapped and sucked dry.
Hence the vampire cowboys.
If WinFS is just a SQL Layer of metadata over NTFS, then why should anyone wait?
Surely it is a case of MySQL, a new (file) explorer shell and dialog, and a supporting service.
Surely someone could hack together an open source WinFS in a couple of months?
Do it in python for laughs.
koan
Yeah right.
I fail to see how this PSU is going to stop me tripping over the end of my penis.
Nokia and Cisco are competitors to a degree. Both sell firewall (with straightVPN) and SSL VPN products; the Nokia firewall products being based on Checkpoint's firewall software platform in the main.
Which is where the real competition lies, Cisco PIX versus Checkpoint Firewall-1 (on a variety of hardware platforms).
So if this merger/buyout actually went ahead, it would alter the landscape significantly, and it would be interesting to see how Cisco would spin it.
I misread "move around imitating human" as "move around irritating humans".
Which I think is the shape of things to come.
It is dumb. Oh yes. The only remotely sensible directory structure is one that gets more specialised "up" the tree and more generalised toward the root, with a smattering of roots.
All these new TLDs are extending a domain namespace in both directions. Forget the hassle of having to register so many domains, it isn't relevent - it is just the way it is priced.
Either do it one way or the other. If you are going to have a presence on the internet for mobile user with its own name under your namespace, then fine.
But either our namespace extends in one direction or the other.
Right now, I have zencore.co.uk, zencore.com and zencore.biz, all pointing to the same place. And I have mail. and ftp. and whatever. dot prefixed to them all.
In the context of the way I purchased those domains and the way that domain names work these days, it makes sense for me to have them. In a context that approaches anything like sensibleness, it doesn't begin to make sense.
The "top" level should be the namespace: 'zencore'. Any specialisation should happen lower down. Whether that be mobi.zencore or zencore.mobi doesn't matter, as long as it is consistent.
Now I can see some sense in being able to distibute load on the top level servers, but surely the vast percentage of sites are
And the idea of people sharing namespace through ".net" or ".com" or ".org" has proven not to work anyway, phishing being a small example.
To understand this latest nonsense, it is as usual, a case of following the money combined with short-sighted stupidity.
This is the process that drives most of the activity of humans as far as I can see.
koan
The amount of pleasure that Slashdotters appear to get out of jumping on every dupe suggests that they would be missed if they weren't present.
An element of
Here is an idea, if you are really that disappointed that a dupe appears, then *don't* contribute any thing to its comment threads. Stick to your guns and stick with the original.
From now on, any one any posting "its a dupe" comments should be considered to be in support of dupes, and villified for it.
Same as the frist psot idiots.
Yes, and non spinning disks by having a sensor for each magnetic domain.
I would imagine this would increase the size of the hd somewhat.
Yes, the primary goal would be to keep spyware out in the first place, but if it were contained to the point it was useless, then it wouldn't happen in the first instance.
So layered protection is required as usual. An application firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware.
Of course you are right, you end up with an arms escalation.
Please everyone ignore my recommendation for using a application firewall.
I don't see a reason for a spyware program to be given permission to do http or any other requests to machines outside of my PC.
I use a application firewall right now to achieve this. This is why MS Help and Winword and Search and all the other MS phone home applications do not get to access the internet.
It is the permissioning system that is flawed. Rather than treat all applications executed in user space as having the same rights to folders and network access as the user, each application should have a defined permission set.
Having a decent application firewall is a solid preventative for spyware. Spyware can only be of value if it can report back the data it collects.
XP has an "incoming" application firewall - it would be of greater value if it had outgoing controls too.
"Anything that can be refuted... will."
S1: "This statement can be refuted".
If S1 is refuted, then it is true, and therefore not refutable, and so false.
Exactly. What is a slashbot doing on the phone anyway?
Haven't they heard of email? Or IM? Or text messages?
Or any other technology that means you aren't reminded everytime that it is another human you have to talk to.
CDMA is a superior tech to GSM, and yet GSM networks seem to work so much better than CDMA.
Can anyone explain why that is?
Or just asking. Like they do right now.
Don't forget, it is also on PocketPC, so you can play it 24 hours a day, whereever you are.
And just down a potion of sleep if you get a bit tired.
What the world truly needs is a stereoscopic camera mount on an rc plane or helicopter. Or car for that matter.
Two cameras, spaced apart by the seperation distance of your eyes scaled down to whatever your headsize would be if you were actually RC sized.
Then feed that back to stereoscopic video goggles.
Then you no longer need to fly the plane by looking at it, but instead, you fly the plane by looking *out* of it.
Mount them on swivel platforms so that you can turn your "head" a bit too.
The point of any traffic control system is to make sure traffic flows efficiently through the network, not through a particular intersection.
So taking the instance of a crossroads. If there was more traffic through the north south part of the intersection than the east west, then you would think it logical to allow more flow on the more congested arm.
But that only makes sense in a local context. If the north-south arm fed directly into a zone of even higher congestion, then it would make sense to hold the traffic longer to prevent gridlock further along.
Just like you would with any network.
Though I guess minimising road rage is important, and perhaps more people would get frustrated waiting at a red light for extended periods than crawling bumper-to-bumber at zero speed, even if the red-light hold would get them to their destination quicker in the long run...
I have been reading the majority of my fiction through ebooks on Pocket PC (using the Peanut Press / ereader reader) for several years now.
I was much the same as many people, in that I thought that losing paper would also take something else away from the experience, and balked at the idea.
But I gave it a go. Originally on a Palm PC many years back, and I now struggle to get through a book on paper. Quite simply, it is too inconvenient.
My book has its own light source. It is lighter than most books. I find that turning a page on an ebook is actually less intrusive than paper. By the time my eyes have scanned back up to the top of the page, the new page is there ready to read, with seemingly no physical action on my part, as the mechanics of changing to the next page become more subconcious than with paper.
I also almost always have my pda with me, so gone are the days where I would have to carry a pda and a book somehow. Gone are the days where I would have an unexpected boring wait to get through without any stimulus. I can read almost anywhere, at any time. Standing in a queue. Waiting for the bus.
Now I am using ebooks, I find I am reading significantly more than I possibly could with paper books.
And my life is richer for it.
The benefits for me make the cons hard to see. Reading in the bath? Well, I shower, so thats a non-issue for me. But plenty of people manage to use the phone in the bath. Raining? I find pdas are relatively water resistant. Paper books don't fair too well in the rain either.
Of course there is battery to consider. If you used a pda primarily for reading, then thats 2-3 hours of reading in a day if you charge it fully each night.
Which is good going.
I was surprised. Now I don't want to go back.
And invade, don't forget.
Of course, that is just to enable further consumption, so you were right first time.
I suppose when you are misunderstood in English, you can just moan on about the recipient being too stupid to understand, rather than god forbid, you didn't bother to articulate properly.
On the otherhand, if you are misunderstood when coding, you won't get the results you hope for.
So, expression of ideas is massively important, but to say that it isn't important that those ideas are understood seems to make the expression pointless.
With an annual growth rate of 1.1 percent right now, for us to expand across other planets to relieve population here would require us to offload more than 65 million people a year
Apparently Burts rocketship can fit three people at a squeeze. So thats a lot of trips.